Oil baron bets olives to fuel Calaveras wine country dining
In Calaveras County Ed Rich dreams of a culinary olive oil boom. He left Oakland for 220 acres near Copperopolis in 1990 seeking a slower life and a new industry. He envisions a regional olive oil scene with oils from Manzanillo Frantoio and Mission blends, elevating dining to wine-country levels.
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Copperopolis
Calif
Ed Rich
Calaveras County
Napa
Sonoma
Italy
Greece
Mother Lode
Sierra Nevada Foothills
Rich
San Francisco East Bay
East Bay
Oakland
Mark
Riches
Pg&e
Pacific Gas & Electric
Safeway
Phone Company
Apple Hill
el Dorado County
Here
Jeremy Rich
Akron couple rents RunFree hosiery repair for runs
Akron pharmacist Suzanne Nesbit and Akron general entrepreneurs created RunFree Instant Hosiery Repair a colorless odor free liquid in a brush on tube. The product, tested after 400 compounds, launched in 1994 and is sold mainly by mail with some stores stocking it. It promises quick fixes for runs and snags, helps save stockings and costs, and is favored by dancers for non scent non sticky use.
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Akron
Suzanne Nesbit
Nesbit
Akron General Hospital
Robert Hornung
Deborah Vollmer
Ms. Vollmer
Bob
Hornung
Horning
RunFree
Fashion Sophisticates Inc
Ann Coburn
Whiteville
N.C
Susan Stromberg
Capezio
Cleveland
Lyndhurst
Pye
New York
Dallas
Boston
Antitrust Push In Merger Mania Across Industries
Washington AP reports regulators led by Joel Klein and a team of 341 antitrust lawyers at the Justice Department scrutinize a wave of mergers across banks utilities cable drug rail and toy sectors. Debates focus on market concentration consumer impact and enforcement willingness with high profile cases involving Staples Office Depot and Microsoft illustrating ongoing tensions.
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Washington
Joel Klein
Klein
Justice Department
Justice
Federal Trade Commission
Staples
Office Depot
Microsoft
Maine
North Carolina
Antitrust
Associated Press
Gene Kimmelman
Consumers Union
Study Links Workplace Stress To Home and Job Decline
A 1997 Families and Work Institute study shows a vicious cycle where job demands cause home spillover, lowering performance and worsening home life. It highlights work life quality as key to employee satisfaction and notes managers see personal guilt affecting the workplace.
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Families and Work Institute
New York
Jo- Anne Mullen
Ceridian Performance Partners
Blue Bell
Philadelphia
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Calaveras Olive Oil and Land Co
Vollmer
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