Word: mesas
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...PRTM operates 14 offices around the world. U.S. offices are in Costa Mesa, Calif; Mountain View, Calif; Irving, Tex.; Rosemont, Ill.; Southfield, Mich...
Nuevo Laredo is a prescription Mecca for many in the Southwest. That's what brought Marvin Bryan here. A feisty 73-year-old long-distance trucker and former reading teacher from Mesa, Ariz., he had heard about Nuevo Laredo's prescription-drug bonanza from his trucker pals. Clutching a plastic bag, he is pleased with his purchases, which include Augmentin, Proscar and that modern elixir, Viagra. Nearby, Bill Gibson picks up Tagamet, the stomach medication, for a mere $7.50--far less than the $62 he says he would pay back in Oklahoma City, Okla., "even though it's made...
Citing suffocating competition in the "eater-tainment" business and its own overaggressive expansion, Planet Hollywood is closing nine U.S. locations ahead of a planned filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Gone are its glittering towers of sterno in Chicago, Houston, Miami, Phoenix, Fort Lauderdale, Indianapolis, Maui, Gurnee, Ill., and Costa Mesa, Calif.; the chain will also upgrade several of its 70-plus remaining restaurants worldwide and revamp its menus, according to CEO Robert Earl. (No more Ramburgers?) The chain is digging deep for the extra cash ? its two largest shareholders and a trust for Earl's own children have agreed...
...investment needs are different, and the way employees are paid and promoted is different. Also, most of its business is in California, while Rockwell's other plants and customers are mainly in the Midwest. After the split-up last December, Rockwell began moving its corporate headquarters from Costa Mesa, Calif., to Milwaukee, Wis. It has also moved back into the black. For fiscal 1999, Davis predicts a profit of $570 million on revenues of $7 billion...
...these schools have been largely successful. In Los Angeles, it typically takes local school districts a year to buy computers for its classrooms. But in San Fernando Valley's Vaughn Next Century Charter School, it took only six days-and the school paid less. In Mesa, Ariz., 2,000 students attend 50 charter schools, with phenomenal results. In Detroit, charter schools have been implemented to improve the poor results of inner city schools. According to Superintendent David Snead, "The charter idea is helping encourage other schools in our district to examine what they are doing." Polices such as these have...