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...tensions between old-timers and new arrivals remain. George Karafilidis, a tailor whose Greek family has owned a business in Lowell for 35 years, complains that newcomers are ruining his neighborhood. When a reporter reminds him that his relatives were immigrants, Karafilidis flies into a rage and bellows, "Don't come in here and talk to me about immigrants...
...People don't remember that [Lalich] hadsuffered a concussion a week before and had doublevision," Crim says. "Champi came into a situationthat was tailor-made...
...reason is simple: not only should liberal-arts students be exposed to a wide variety of disciplines, but they should also have the freedom to tailor plans of study best suited to their individual interests and needs...
Railroad baron William Henry Vanderbilt's scornful dismissal of rail patrons ("The public be damned"), which has shadowed the industry for more than a century, at last seems laid to rest. "We are customer driven; we tailor-make our service for our customers," says James Hagen, chairman of Conrail, a firm that was fabricated out of the bankrupt remains of dozens of lines, including the legendary New York Central and the Pennsylvania. Conrail lost $412 million in 1977, the first full year after it was birthed. Last year it made $282 million. Hagen and his cohorts in the rail business...
...script, written by Chuck Pfarrer, is tailor-made for Van Damme. Set in New Orleans its hero is Chance Boudreaux, a Cajun longshore worker in need of cash...