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From a tangle of 3,000 mostly ma-and-pa firms, three ambulance leaders, all based in the West, have emerged to seize 25% of the national market. American Medical Response has devoured 75 competitors Pac-Man style in four years, and now operates 1,760 ambulances in 28 states. MedTrans, which last year swallowed another giant, CareLine Inc., is just as large and has grown tenfold, into a $500 million operation with 12,000 employees. In fiscal 1995-96, MedTrans, a division of Canada's Laidlaw Inc., an environmental and transportation company, posted a 180% jump in profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMBULANCE CHASING | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

...merged with Time Warner. ("You're toast," dad said over dinner.) Teddy has two new jobs: one at his own company, which is developing an enhanced form of cable delivery; another with Forest Hills Cos., a nascent entertainment concern. He may one day even offer his pa some competition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 18, 1996 | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

BORN: Jan. 22, 1943, Nicholson, Pa. EDUCATION: East Stroudsburg State College, B.A., 1965 FAMILY: Divorced; two children RELIGION: Methodist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Real estate broker; elementary school teacher POLITICAL CAREER: New Jersey Assembly, 1976-82; New Jersey Senate, 1982-84; U.S. House, 1984- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 795, Mount Holly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: NEW JERSEY | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

BORN: Aug. 20, 1935, Pittsburgh, Pa. EDUCATION: Gettysburg College, B.S., 1957; Duke U, M.D., 1961 FAMILY: Wife, Carol; five children RELIGION: Protestant MILITARY: Air Force, 1963-65; Air National Guard, 1965-68 OCCUPATION: Physician POLITICAL CAREER: U.S. House, 1976-84; sought Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, 1984; Libertarian candidate for U.S. President, 1988 ADDRESS: 837 West Plantation, Clute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: TEXAS | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

Wayne Allard, R-Colo. (District 4) Anthony C. Beilenson, D-Calif. (24) Tom Bevill, D-Ala. (4) Bill Brewster, D-Okla. (3) Glen Browder, D-Ala. (3) Sam Brownback, R-Kans. (2) John Bryant, D-Texas (5) Jim Chapman, D-Texas (1) William F. Clinger, R-Pa. (5) Ronald D. Coleman, D-Texas (16) Barbara-Rose Collins, D-Mich. (15)* Cardiss Collins, D-Ill. (7) Wes Cooley R-Ore. (2) Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill. (20) E. ("Kika") de la Garza, D-Texas (15) Cleo Fields D-La. (4) Jack Fields, R-Texas (8) Harold E. Ford, D-Tenn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEY CAME, THEY VOTED...THEY QUIT | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

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