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...Paradise, on Common wealth Ave off the Green Line, is the top club in town, just short of the Orpheun and the Boston garden Covers are often steep, and shows tend to end rather promptly at midnight. Drinks, needless to say, are even more expensive then elsewhere. Since you can often see the same band at Swift's a day or two before or after the Paradise date, it pays to stay home in Cambridge...
...within the next year or two he will have to sell or take in a partner, or else see CNN go bankrupt (the total value of his holdings: $250 million to $300 million, says a top-rank video executive). Turner's financing includes $50 million in loans at steep interest from Citicorp and Manufacturers Hanover Trust. In borrowing from them, he estimated losses of $32 million from CNN's start through the first half of this year; he is $6 million over that total...
American bankers, already worried about steep interest rates and shaky loans, had yet another reason to feel edgy last week. Sears, Roebuck and Co., the largest U.S. retailer, launched a new offensive in its campaign to become a major force in the financial services business. In eight stores, from Atlanta to Los Angeles, the company opened the first branches of its Sears Financial Network, a kind of supermarket where shoppers can buy stocks, bonds, insurance and houses, or even open up Individual Retirement Accounts...
Owner Philip Lovell was a health columnist, an exponent of water cures, open-air sleeping and vegetarianism. Neutra, more enthusiastically than scientifically, designed for him what he called a Health House. It consists of a steel frame, somewhat like a huge bird cage, daringly jutting out of a steep slope. Without sacrificing its airy appearance, the frame is enclosed in a dynamic pattern formed by window bands, metal panels sprayed with a coating of stucco and cantilevered balconies. The entrance to the house is at the top of the hill on the level of the living rooms and sleeping porches...
Over the past decade, heavy tax and wage burdens, along with sluggish growth, have cut deeply into business profits. Confronted by lagging profits and steep interest rates, Western companies have been forced to slash their spending for capital investment. In 1970, the U.S. and Western Europe devoted about 4% of their national income to buying new equipment and building factories that would add to industrial capacity. By 1982, that ratio had fallen to less than...