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...They all want charts of the fault lines in our area," explains Karen Lind, deputy director of Colorado's business-development office in Denver. "We decided to get out right after the earthquake," says Dubi Friedman, 47, owner of a clothing-design firm in the northern L.A. suburb of Valencia, who is moving to Las Vegas with his wife Irit and two children. "The damage is nothing. It's the scare. You go to bed downstairs with your shoes on. You don't sleep. You just sit there waiting for it every night...
Heckendorn, a native of Valencia, Spain, lost the CEO race last spring during a management shakeup at National Medical, a troubled behemoth that faces $750 million in lawsuits for allegedly overbilling insurance companies. While Heckendorn claims to have been the handpicked successor of Richard Eamer, a co-founder of the firm who stepped aside in the shuffle, the top job went instead to Jeffrey Barbakow, a National Medical director and former executive of the securities firm Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. According to Heckendorn's suit, influential board members rebelled at the thought of a female CEO and called the idea crazy...
...transition period will be over, and the country will be forced to compete full throttle in a 340 million consumer market. For every businessman concerned that this will mean a foreign takeover of Spanish industry, another argues that Spain can muscle its way into the big leagues. In his Valencia porcelain factory, Jose Lladro offers his 2,300 employees, 85% of them women, an Olympic-size swimming pool, tennis courts and Friday afternoons off. But the atmosphere is far from relaxed. Quality is rigidly controlled, and any worker who arrives six minutes late loses half an hour...
...warm night in Valencia, 300 citizens gather in the streets of Malvarrosa, a beachfront neighborhood. Passing a megaphone back and forth, they snake through the streets, shaking their fists at apartments where, they claim, heroin traffickers live. "Drug dealers out! Out! Out!" they shout. For seven years, the barrio was besieged by addicts. "Our children couldn't go to buy a loaf of bread without having their coins stolen," said Maria Jose Fuentes, who was marching with her nine-year-old son. "Old ladies were ! attacked. Prostitutes were everywhere, and addicts walked around with needles in their arms." Last September...
...nation is impatient: Spain may be willing to celebrate how far it has come, but not without railing at how long lies the road ahead. Democracy and prosperity boosted expectations beyond what an Expo or an Olympics can satisfy. In Seville, the graffiti read EXPO '92: UNEMPLOYMENT '93. In Valencia, a large scrawl on a concrete wall declares NO MORE PROMISES. SOLUTIONS NOW! The time for fiestas may be running...