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...Modesto, Calif., inspiration for hometown boy George Lucas' film American Graffiti, is putting the brakes on the weekend rite of cruising. Last week the city council voted to slap fines of $75 to $250 on teenage cruisers when traffic on the main drag, McHenry Avenue, goes into gridlock...
...with less than $5,000. One reason: because many of the companies are service firms, their founders usually have few hard assets to pledge as collateral for loans. In 1979, when Kathleen Fay Jensen and Angela Franklin were raising money to set up the Professional Reliable Nursing Service in Modesto, Calif., they had nothing but a 1936 Pontiac and a silver tea set for collateral. They managed to get a $9,000 loan, but most women entrepreneurs are not so fortunate. A surprising number of bankers remain skeptical that women can successfully run any kind of company, regardless of experience...
...Modesto, Calif...
...Sacramento to ask C.K. McClatchy, whose chain of newspapers now numbers a dozen, for a tide-over investment. Instead, McClatchy bought the News by assuming its debts, while letting Fanning retain a 20% interest. Then McClatchy dispatched a 21-member team of business and editorial pros from his Modesto Bee to spend four months trying to pump life into his new purchase...
...with 3,000 acres near Madera, was also gloomy. "I never thought things would drop this far," he said. "I put away a dollar for a rainy day--and that rainy day is here." "We're pretty close to the bottom," conceded Jan Ennenga, 25, program director for the Modesto Farm Bureau. Reflecting the area's optimism, however, Ennenga predicted, "Things should begin to get better soon...