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Chicago has no city hospitals, no extensive city college system, no share of the welfare burden. The city is fortunate, since unlike New York it shoulders none of these costs. But the fact remains that much of Daley's success stems from his ability to hide the trade-offs he made: high wages and benefits to keep labor happy, tax breaks for businesses, large-scale downtown construction, patronage jobs for the faithful, instead of better education, health care, housing...
...patronage Machine preceeded him and will continue--strong--after his death, but Daley's success was a personal success. Few under 30 can remember anyone else being mayor. Chicagoans worshipped the man. He received over 70 per cent of the vote in four of his six elections; he carried every one of the city's 50 wards in the '75 primary, except the liberal-chic University of Chicago neighborhood and the professionally liberal 43rd ward. Many wept in the streets when the end came, and all citizens, whatever their views, felt a sense of loss. The mayor touched the lives...
Bright Outlook. Not all has been success. Radio Shack stores in big cities have done less well than those in small towns?perhaps because Tandy's locations, shopping malls, are rarely found in large cities?and the company's outlets in Europe and Japan are faring so poorly that Tandy has put a freeze on expansion there. But overall, the outlook is bright. Electronics buffs say Radio Shack's products are reasonably priced and of good quality. As CBers clamor for new 40-channel "ears," Tandy can relish his own CB "handle": Mr. Lucky...
DESPITE THESE self-imposed restrictions, during twenty years the company has increased its sales from $625,000 to $5 million in a highly competitive market. This commercial success does not prove worker ownership superior to stockholder-owned companies: conventional firms have had equal or greater successes. The merit of the Commonwealth idea lies in its accomplishment of human objectives which ordinarily are given second place or ignored entirely in commercial practice...