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CONTENTS
February 17, 1995
No Business Like Clothes Business
B7
Clothiers battle assimilation, discount stores.
Cy Llsnov: Still at It after
four decades.
Road Work
The car can be an office, too
B13
B10
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So, How's Business?
The owners of four local firms speak out.
Transformation
Israeli products here: Less food, more high-tech.
Dollars And Sense
"Nast thou been honorable in business?"
B17
B21
Relative Ease
B23
How to make a family-owned business work.
What I Do On My Lunch Hour
We eat, we walk, we read
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Don't Worry, Be Happy
What do we like about our jobs?
The Incredible Shrinking Business
Rising interest rates end refinancing boom
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B29
B33
Ronda Lepsetz: Lunch-time treat.
B38
FEBRUARY
Associate Publisher
Arthur M. Horwitz
Editor
Phil Jacobs
Associate Editors
Elizabeth Applebaum
Alan Hitsky
Staff Writers
Jennifer Finer
Ruth Littmann
Jill Davidson Sklar
Steve Stein
Photographer
Glenn Triest
Local Columnists
Danny Raskin
Carla Jean Schwartz
Business Manager
Marianne Taylor
Production Manager
Curtis DeLoye
Production
Gayle Baldi
Donald Cheshure
Cathy Ciccone
Marla Cooper
Kris Morgan
Ralph Orme
Debbie Schultz
Office Manager
Linda McCarthy
Office Staff
Cheryl Grant
Dena Jacobs
Tobie Kuppe
Seymour Manello
Dharlene Norris
Proofreader/Copy Editor
Gail Zimmerman
Marketing Director
Andrew A. Buerger
Circulation Manager
Mary McMahon
Circulation
Paula Smith
Carolyn Stankiewicz
Senior Account Executive
Danny Raskin
Account Executives
Ann G. Abrams
Kathy Johnson
Betsy Leemon
Lisa Marshall
Patricia McMurray
Rick Nessel
Art Shafer
Susan Wachsberg
Account Associate
Danny Samson
Advertising Coordinator
Robin E. Magness
CORPORATE STAFF
Publisher
Charles A. Buerger
General Manager
Sylvia Stafford
Art Director
Robyn Katz
Section Editor: Steve Stein
On Our Cover illustration done by Kathy Cordes