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Hungary is another Communist state where profit can be a virtue. The country's thriving cooperative system leaves some 650,000 farm workers relatively free to make business decisions and to absorb losses or pocket gains. Leader Janos Kadar encourages small private ventures, with results that can be seen across the country. Virtually every Hungarian town boasts restaurants with tempting food and smooth service, clothes stores with high- fashion wear and bustling streets filled with numerous shops...
...suddenly resigned last week as chairman of Lotus Development, the largest independent U.S. software firm. Though he will not start a new firm that would compete with Lotus, Kapor said, he is not sure what he will do next: "I'm not leaving with a business plan in my pocket or any intention to write one tomorrow...
...driver named Andres Garcia idly furled and unfurled a tiny American flag that he had been given while making a delivery to the U.S. embassy. A passing policeman, seeing the flag, pulled Garcia, 45, over to the curb and searched him. He discovered U.S. dollars in the driver's pocket and promptly threw him in jail...
Financial pressures can be formidable for anyone, of course. Free-lance Saxophonist Art Bressler, who has worked a number of weddings in the New York City area, remembers best the one where the bride's father reached into his pocket to pay the bill and came up empty. Later, watching a videotape of their reception, the newlyweds discovered what had happened: they could see the bridegroom's father reaching into the bride's father's pocket and lifting his roll of cash. The debts eventually got paid but, Bressler reports, the marriage lasted only a month...
...host of competitors of the original Fuzzbuster have since roared onto the market. Some of the best-selling detectors are made by Cincinnati Microwave, whose latest PASSPORT edition is small enough to fit in a shirt pocket and sells for $295. Thanks to his attentive little black boxes, Cincinnati Microwave Chairman and Co-Founder James Jaeger, 38, is a multimillionaire who owns a fleet of Ferraris and says that, of course, he never gets speeding tickets...