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...plans to build another yard at Portland, about 40 miles down the Maine coast. With its frigate project 99 weeks ahead of schedule and $44 million under budget, the Iron Works is eyeing the Navy's new destroyer program. That could be its biggest contract ever. Congoleum, the proud parent company, has now moved its headquarters from Milwaukee to nearby Portsmouth, N.H. Construction of its new building, though, is slightly over budge and three months behind schedule. Maybe Congoleum should have had the Bath Iron Works build it. -By John S. DeMott Reported by Barry Hillenbrand/Bath
...concept is known as a Woonerf, a Dutch word that might loosely be translated as "protected precinct." Right now, the Woonerf is spreading through Western Europe, and the concept, in whole or in part, is in use in Boulder, Colo., and Seattle, Wash., and under consideration in Washington, B.C., Portland, Ore., and New York City. "My own feeling is that we should slow down traffic, not keep it out of residential streets," says Donald Appleyard, professor of urban design at the University of California at Berkeley and author of Livable Streets. "And the Woonerfhas proved a great success in European...
...restrict or divert automobile traffic from shopping streets, or to ban autos altogether from certain areas, or at certain times. Pedestrian malls that are well-served by public transportation and parking often prove to be profitable delights. The best of them, such as the pedestrian shopping districts in Portland, Ore., or the old city of Munich, Germany, are continuous festivals...
...months, 50% of the managers had quit. And then the lawsuits began. Former managers claimed that the Fraction of the Action was actually a pyramid scheme that indirectly paid off top corporate officials with money put in by the restaurant managers. Charles P. Cattin, a former manager in Portland, Ore., sued Sambo's, charging fraud. Last month an Oregon court awarded him $925,000 in damages. The company paid settlements to resolve ten cases last year, and 15 similar ones are pending. Former managers have set up an organization called S.A.P.S. (Sambo's Association for Partnership Survival...
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