Big business deemed hostile to entrepreneurial spirit
In New York and Kentucky prospects for would be founders grow as leaders at KHIC and the Entrepreneurship Institute offer two weekend seminars. KHIC plans to invest 50 000 to 500 000 in up to 30 selected ideas from nearly 300 interviews. Proponents argue big corporations lack room for creative risk while independent ventures already create jobs across Appalachia and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
UPI
Lexington
Kentucky Highlands Investment Corp
Appalachia
London
William McCrea
Worthington
Ohio
McCrea
MIT
McCrea’s Institute
Ford
General Motors
Office of Economic Opportunity
KHIC
Outdoor Venture Corp
Possum Trot Corp
Phoenix Products
Kirby Steel
American Bag Corp
Thomas F. Miller
Arrest former TV weatherman in North Side drug raid
CHICAGO Police arrested former television weatherman Thomas Alderman and two others in a North Side drug raid. Alderman and Thomas Haban leader of Wilderness Road, were charged with possession of cocaine and marijuana. Haban’s wife Audry faced disorderly conduct charges as police seized marijuana, cocaine, cash and four handguns.
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North Side
Chicago
UPI
Thomas Alderman
Alderman
Thomas Haban
Wilderness Road Band
Haban
Robin Steele
Audry
Carl R. Edenfield
Gang Crimes South Unit
South Side
Edenfield
Wbbm-Tv
Daniel Walker
RTA board member ponders breaking study contract
Chicago region news reports board member Jerry Boose of St. Charles expressing illness at the prospect after Urban Market Research Inc. released a 288 page feasibility study on monthly pass plans. The firm had spent 70 000 of 100 000 allocated for the first phase of a four phase study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
UPI
Regional Transportation Authority Board
Jerry Boose
St. Charles
Urban Market Research Inc
RTA
Transportation Committee
Argentine labor seeks unity under Peron legacy
In Buenos Aires on Peron’s death anniversary, about 3000 labor figures gathered outside a church, chanting pro-Peronist slogans before police dispersed them with tear gas. The movement seeks renewed unity amid military rule that has restricted strikes and wage growth since 1976, with factions divided and the government claiming control over labor progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Reichertz
Buenos Aires
Argentina
UPI
Juan Peron
Peron
Viva Peron
Latin America
Isabel Peron
Jorge Videla
General Labor Confederation
Peronist Labor Confederation
International Labor Organization
Geneva
Commission of 25
Horacio Tomas Liendo
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
Jose Hipolito Nunez
Elmhurst man held on murder charges in mother's death
Robert Nelson, 22, is ordered held in DuPage County in lieu of 350000 bond after being charged with two counts of murder for pushing his 51-year-old mother Dorothy Nelson from a 12th floor hotel window at the Sheraton Oakbrook aided by hitting her with a baseball bat. A preliminary hearing is set for Aug. 2. police found a blood stained bat and a hand injury during the investigation.
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Sheraton-Oakbrook
Oak Brook
du Page County
J. Michael Fitzsimmons
Nelson
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