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...Porter Square merchants say the extension will probably improve their business. "The Red Line has created a focus on the area that didn't exist before," says Simon E. Shapiro, chairman of Mercants on the Line, a businessman's association formed through the MBTA two years ago. The increased public transportation to the square will ease the ongoing expansion of North Cambridge, Shapiro says, adding, "This market is really an expansion of Harvard Square and the congestion there." In fact, Tags True Value Hardware, Shapiro's workplace, is eventually planning to expand to three times its present size, he adds...
...response from business was irritation, self-defense and what amusement it could afford. Du Pont Chairman Irving S. Shapiro called Big Business Day "an ideological Woodstock." Mobil Vice President Herb Schmertz said it was "demonstration by press release." The U.S. Chamber of Commerce covered the front of its Washington office with gigantic American flags and probusiness signs. "This is obviously a self-serving day by Ralph Nader and some labor leaders," said President Richard Lesher. The conservative Heritage Foundation declared April 17 "Growth...
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...that would promote jobs for deprived minorities and investment for capital-starved companies. They often recruit each other for public interest projects, major and modest. When Manhattan College, a Catholic institution, needed money recently, its fund-raising load was carried by GM's Thomas Aquinas Murphy, DeButts and Shapiro. A few months earlier the same three men, a neatly balanced ticket, did the same thing for Yeshiva University, a Jewish institution. They and others are prime movers of the Business Roundtable, which has replaced some more regressive groups as the premier public policy arm of corporate America...
While managing a $12.6 billion-a-year U.S. firm, Shapiro appears to spend almost as much time in Washington as in Wilmington, Del. He persuaded business chiefs and the B'nai B'rith to accept a sensible compromise U.S. policy for dealing with the Arab boycott of Israel. He travels the country making speeches laden with proposals to stimulate U.S. technology by giving inventors more patent protection and to improve the judicial system by increasing the number of judges and more closely scrutinizing their performance...