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...income economy as by its strengths. Thirty years ago, Ed Kunzelman was a Chillicothe schoolteacher who started a pet shop on Paint Street with a $1,600 loan from the teachers' credit union. Last year his company did $100 million in sales, with 152 franchises worldwide. Jim Whitman, the executive vice president in charge of recruiting franchisers, finds his best clients are refugees of the old order: the middle-aged managers and blue-collar workers laid off by corporations obsessed with efficiency. He scoops them up (as long as they "love pets and like people--in that order") and turns...
...TIME travelers had barely buckled up before they got their first assignment: to find out whether the economic boom that sent the stock market to a new high last week was filtering down to the grass roots. In Chillicothe, Ohio, Chicago bureau chief James Graff found Jim Whitman, an executive vice president of the Petland retail chain, in high spirits; customers were buying his tropical fish, Dalmatians and flying squirrels in record numbers. In Aurora, W.Va., however, the mood was less sweet. Dale Pase, a park ranger, told staff writer Adam Cohen that 85% of his neighbors could be classified...
Instead, the former defensive lineman likens himself to more progressive Republicans such as Sen. Connie Mack (R-Fla), former Vice-Presidential Candidate Jack Kemp and New Jersey Gov. Christie Todd Whitman...
...CANDIDATE] CHRISTINE WHITMAN NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR [SIGN OF RUNNING] Her husband is telling everybody she is [PLAUSIBILITY FACTOR] She'll get the women's vote but not Ralph Reed's [WANTS TO REMIND US OF:] Princess Diana [ACTUALLY REMINDS US OF:] Princess Anne...
...Europe, he is recognized as the American poet, along with Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson," Solano said. "Everyone else is seen as British...