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...local living-wage laws have been enacted in the U.S., most apply just to city workers or contractors. Union leaders say the Chicago rule means a long-overdue raise for the working poor. In real terms, wages for nonmanagerial retail workers have fallen 18% since 1975. But David Vite, president of the Illinois Retail Merchants Association, says the law could deter inner-city economic development. "Companies affected by this ordinance have capital budgets they can spend anywhere in the U.S.," Vite says, "and they'll now go elsewhere." Target, for one, has announced its postponement of plans for a previously...
...president of the Entertainment Software Association, a trade group representing 25 major gaming companies. "The state of Illinois should not dictate the choices parents make," says Lowenstein, who believes that the industry should continue to regulate itself. In fact, some retailers are making an effort to crack down. David Vite, president of the Illinois Retail Merchants Association, says big stores like Target have locking registers that do not permit video-game transactions until a buyer's date of birth is punched in. Proof of age isn't always requested, however. And compliance among retailers is voluntary and often spotty...
Geddes is doing more in America than getting mentioned in magazines. In 1995 he engineered the first Italian-American joint venture with California's Mondavi, a fifty-fifty partnership in which the two companies jointly hold the Luce della Vite corporation, which owns two Tuscan estates. A shared board develops marketing and distribution strategies, and winemakers from each company collaborate on the wines. The resulting lines are designed to compete at three different price levels, an essential for mass competition in the global market. Luce is made from a blend of Sangiovese and Merlot grapes grown entirely in Montalcino...
...soldier, Kerry could never have dreamed that he would later call his boss, then thousands of miles away from the Vietnam's jungles and in the comfort of the "Vite House," into a senatorial hearing to explain the greatest, strangest irony of the war: That we had to continue the war in order...
...Great Neck. Now the positions are reversed. Barney, after his combat training, has become the manic aggressor; Jeanette Fisher is the coward, full of fear and un certainty. Barney finally bundles Jea nette into a cab, then goes to a phone booth to call his wife Thelma and in vite her down to Mom's for a romantic afternoon...