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...Coss founded Green Tree in 1975 to finance trailers and recreational vehicles. Mobile homes remain its biggest business--the company claims 28% of the market--as it diversifies into leasing office products and secured credit cards. Most mobile-home customers are first-time home buyers or retirees with annual incomes of about $26,000; the trailers cost an average of $34,000. Green Tree's break came in the 1980s, when the savings-and-loan crisis drove many thrifts out of the mobile-home market. The company moved quickly into the vacuum. The gamble paid off big when the mobile...
...prime continues, it will attract enough new competitors to act as a brake on interest charges. By that time, however, Green Tree's Coss won't be making $100 million. Shareholders recently voted to calculate Coss's pay using a new formula. If the company's performance continues at its current level, that would limit his salary and bonus to the $7 million range. Even at that, he seems like a good credit risk...
...serve the purpose. Companies can further lessen the unsightliness by clustering their antennas at a common site. When a tower must be built, it can often be camouflaged so that it looks like a silo on a barn, a bell tower on a church, even a palm or pine tree. In fact, insists Lowell McAdam, PrimeCo's chief operating officer, a free-standing tower in an open field, like the field bordering my home, is the last thing his company wants to build...
Maine is still mostly rural, and its people--from the potato farmers of Aroostook County to the lobstermen of the choppy Atlantic--retain a well-developed delight in the American gift of independence. Once the barometer of the country--"As Maine goes, so goes the nation"--the Pine Tree State has become a bit of a political aberration: there are more minor-party or unaffiliated voters there than either registered Republicans or Democrats. In 1992 a third of Maine's voters opted for third-party presidential candidate Ross Perot, and in 1994 each of its congressional districts switched parties...
Taylor is a three-term incumbent in a district that changed party hands five times between 1980 and 1992. This millionaire tree farmer earned kudos by donating his salary hikes to district charities, though frugality hasn't stopped him from snagging federal largesse via his seat on the Appropriations Committee...