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California's Williams-Sonoma, the chic pot and pan company, last June moved its national distribution center to Memphis, Federal's headquarters, in part to provide faster access to the air service. Customers quickly become spoiled, notes Patrick Connolly, mailorder vice president. Says he: "Once you've gotten a package right away, you don't want to wait the next time...
During the 1970s, the California wine boom seemed like a party that would never end. In the past ten years, growers boosted wine-grape acreage by 26%, to 363,000. Nearly 100 new wineries took root between 1978 and 1982 in the Napa Valley and adjoining Sonoma County. But sales, which had grown by an average 6% annually during the 1970s, suddenly flattened in 1982 at about 360 million gal., and have grown only marginally since then. Growers who planted their vines in anticipation of blossoming demand are finding a market that has shriveled like a raisin. Thompson seedless grapes...
...FIST operation was also cost effective. The Federal Government paid $1.7 million for the program, or about $800 per fugitive captured. Most of that expense might be made up by the arrest in Sonoma County of accused Drug Trafficker Rexford Andrew Ramsey, 42. Agents confiscated his Sonoma ranch, valued at $1.5 million, two properties in Miami, three Formula One race cars and $500,000 in cash. If Ramsey is convicted, the Marshals Service auctions off the booty and hangs on to the proceeds...
...make a decision]. He took a stand and stayed with the community the people of good will." Wall says. "Once we developed a relation of trust we were able to keep the information within ourselves--and avoid the leaks Now we have virtually arrested the drug traffic on Sonoma Street," he adds. According to Wall. as recently as last summer "there were stores. that everyone knew about. where owners were selling drugs across the counter in broad daylight to children. as bold as can be" Such stores have virtually disappeared. he says...
William Hambrecht: Green Thumb. Hambrecht feels a great sense of accomplishment when he picks a bunch of ripe, juicy Zinfandel grapes from his 140-acre vineyard in Sonoma County, Calif., or clips a dazzling orchid in his San Francisco greenhouse. "I like to grow things," he says...