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...motto for potential defendants today is "Be prepared." Some corporations are setting up million-dollar escrow funds to pay damage claims. Others are increasing their insurance coverage. One worried potential defendant upped its coverage last year from $5 million to $25.5 million. The prudent possessor of the deeper pocket: the Brentwood, N.Y., school district...
...industry's future. Sales are growing incredibly fast: from $4.7 billion last year to $7.7 billion this year and to a projected $21.6 billion by 1987. As the industry gets bigger, the risks get bigger too. No longer can someone launch a company from a garage with pocket money. A new firm like Compaq Computer, which makes a portable IBM work-alike computer, spent $30 million getting started. Carving out a piece of the market is also expensive. Advertising used to consist of just a few homemade ads in electronic hobby magazines. This year some companies will spend tens...
...Harvard should not have to be out of pocket in any way at all," said Alan I. Rothenberg, the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee's commissioner of soccer. Rothenberg refused to give the specific terms of the agreement, but he indicated that the lease grants Harvard a percentage of revenues accrued from tickets and concession sales along with certain guarantees...
...amused and appalled by your story on the popularity of pocket paging devices [April 11]. As the wife of a medical intern, I have come to regard this machine as a tiny, tyrannical Santa Claus. It knows when you are sleeping; it knows when you are awake. It also knows when you are about to eat or make love and goes off at the least opportune moment...
...money. Each carries a yellow plaque warning players that they can win only free games. The restriction, however, is roundly ignored. Winners need merely wink at barmen to collect their jackpots from the cash register. "All the café owners give money," asserts one player, who says he can pocket nearly $30 on a good day. Adds a proprietor: "That's true, but I don't give money to just anybody, only to people I know...