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...past two years. All the states report that the largest number of newcomers are former Californians. "There is a push-pull effect at work," observes Lamm. "The push is the businesspeople of Los Angeles saying, 'The workers' compensation system is prohibitive, I have to spend an hour on the freeway, and I can't attract good staff anymore because of the cost of housing.' And you've got the pull here, which is visitors saying, 'My God, Colorado Springs! You can look up every morning and see Pikes Peak.' That's a strong combination." Lamm goes further, venturing that...
Barry Diller inspecting hubcaps: it's a sight strange enough to cause a pileup of rubberneckers on the Santa Monica Freeway. Last February he resigned from one of Hollywood's most powerful posts -- chairman of 20th Century Fox and mastermind of the Fox network -- because he wanted to run his own company rather than continue as a hired hand in Rupert Murdoch's media empire. Hollywood assumed he would return as the head of another studio or perhaps a network, and he did have some exploratory discussions about buying NBC. But when he announced his new venture in early December...
...buzz of boardrooms, power lunches and anxious phone calls from the freeway. It was debated by stockbrokers, real estate agents, Hollywood producers and media Bigfeet. Mid-level executives who wouldn't leave home without a phone in their pocket -- or at their ear -- were putting off calls or finding other ways to make them. Sales of cellular radio telephones -- which had been growing at a sizzling 20% to 70% a year for the past decade -- were temporarily put on hold...
...money by itself will not prevent the collapse of megacities. The troubles of a Karachi or a Jakarta will not disappear if planners from the World Bank rush in to build housing projects and a freeway system. Humanitarian aid in the form of food and medicine can be a godsend, but it will not give a city prosperity...
Barney was born five years ago when former schoolteacher Leach could not find a video to hold her two-year-old son's attention for more than five minutes. One day, as she drove along a freeway, she got the idea for her own videos. "The thought was, How hard could it be? I could do that," Leach recalls. With her knowledge of kids, and with help from a father-in-law who owned a video-production facility, she joined with a friend, Kathy Parker, to develop Barney. He started out as a cuddly teddy bear but evolved ultimately into...