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The Lynching Rope. Rather than risk more calumny, says Hansberger, "we'll never go to a spot of natural beauty again. The situation is just too emotional." Well-intentioned conservationists-and some groups that merely want to bar entry to all newcomers-may force other big corporations to avoid...
Nothing fails like success. Example: The Weekender, a shoestring weekly in Traverse City, Mich., that was mildly successful at reporting offbeat stories and doing a bit of gentle muckraking until last Aug. 11 at 6:30 a.m.
Full-length feature films make up by far the most profitable and fastest growing segment of the porn business. There can be big money in the shoestring "sexploitation" flicks, which are ground out in backyards and garages by youngsters with hand-held cameras. Man and Wife, produced in Los Angeles...
Such technical improvements often fall at the bottom of the financial ladder, however, because Tonis' emphasis has always been on personnel over equipment. "Except for wages, we run on a shoestring," he said.
Stein entered the securities business in a roundabout way. Born in Brooklyn to parents in what he calls "less than affluent circumstances," he moved to Manhattan as a child and grew up in a flat over the Stage Delicatessen on Seventh Avenue. At the age of five he began to...