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Look for some blue-chip companies to step up next. Who might make the bold move? Among the giants, companies like Wal-Mart, Disney and Home Depot are good candidates. They are fast growing and pay woefully small dividends anyway. Disney, for example, has the lowest dividend yield of the 30 companies in the Dow, at 0.55%. You couldn't feed a mouse on that...
...tile floor of his room all day, not sitting up except for meals and bathroom breaks. And parents sign a contract allowing the school to use handcuffs, mace and stun guns on their children. "Restraints are rare," says Jay Kay, a former San Diego gas-station and mini-mart manager who owns and operates Tranquility Bay. "But we take them seriously, and we train for them...
Christopher Kennedy, 34, has bucked two second-generation Kennedy trends, becoming a businessman and a Midwesterner. Today he helps run the Merchandise Mart, the Kennedys' downtown-Chicago trade center started by grandfather Joe. Max Kennedy, 32, a University of Virginia law school graduate, was an assistant district attorney in Philadelphia for three years. Last fall he began business school at UCLA. Douglas Kennedy, 30, has switched over to what some Kennedys must consider the Other Side. He is a New York City-based reporter for the Fox News Channel. Youngest child Rory Kennedy, 29, is a documentary filmmaker...
...going to get," says Wilmington Mayor Nick Eveland, "we might not have been so welcoming." As Airborne grew, so did Rombach Avenue, the commercial strip that links the overnight-mail complex to downtown. Rombach became "Hamburger Alley," a neon riot of fast-food outlets and discount retailers like Wal-Mart. Eveland, who has held the part-time mayoral post since 1984, now says he wishes Wilmington had imposed design standards on Hamburger Alley to limit the blight, but at the time he feared doing so would slow the town's progress. By 1995, as the Alley spread west into Wilmington...
...Didn't Die: Smart planning kept rapid commercial and industrial growth from choking off the town's charm. When Wal-Mart wanted in, Danville made the discounter downsize its signs and plant screens of trees around...