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...Koreans' experience is echoed in New York City by the Indians and Pakistanis who dominate the city's newsstand business. An estimated 70% of New York's 5,000 kiosks are under their control. One of the largest operators is Bhawnesh Kapoor, 43, president of Kapoor Bros., which has more than 200 outlets and about $17 million in annual revenues...
...native of the Punjab, Kapoor came to the U.S. in 1972 with $68 in his pocket and experience as a certified accountant. He started with one newsstand on Wall Street, but by 1983 he had built his business to the point where he was able to win a 15-year license to run all the stands in the New York City subway system. When some 70 rival operators refused to give up their locations, Kapoor obtained eviction orders against them...
...head and pulled the trigger several times. The gun would not fire. "I wasn't going to stand there and let him kill me without doing anything," Davis explained. In another New York subway clash, Andrew Frederick, 25, saw two men trying to steal candy from an underground newsstand and intervened. When they turned on him, he pulled out a pocketknife and stabbed one of them, Felix McCord, 28, to death. After deliberating last week, a grand jury in Manhattan decided not to indict Frederick...
Sheldon Cohen, owner of the Out of Town News newsstand and ticket agency. predicted that the development would increase business in the Square by attracting more people to the area "I think the community has come together in seeing that it is a viable project. It's better for the community," Cohen added...
...across France's wide political spectrum were equally excited. Read the front page of Paris' conservative Le Figaro: OVER 10 FRANCS, THE DOLLAR HAS GONE THROUGH THE CEILING. One edition of the Socialist tabloid Le Matin included a replica of a $1 bill. By buying a copy for the newsstand price of 4 francs, the newspaper proclaimed, readers could get a "dollar" at a 60% discount...