The road to a 'smart' parking meter has been a bumpy one

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Intelligent Devices Inc. (Harleysville, PA) hopes to soon take its 'smart" parking meter with chip-and-sensor capability to track parking patterns, into mass production. There have been many cities expressing interest in the computerized meter, but few have actually done more. Recently, the company completed one of two transactions. One is for selling 350 meters ordered, but have not been installed yet in Doylestown and the other is to rent 55 smart meters in New Hope. On January 20, 1999, owner Vincent G. Yost signed a worldwide licensing deal with Capital Transportation Co., a Washington company which manages on- and off-street parking facilities. Aerolink International manages parking areas at Philadelphia International Airport for the Philadelphiaa Parking Authority and is one of Capital Transportation's affiliates.

Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing, Marketing procedures, Totalizing Fluid Meter and Counting Device Manufacturing, ICs by Function NEC, Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing, Parking Meters, Misc Civil Detection Eqp, Integrated circuits, Abstract, Detection equipment, Coprocessors, Intelligent Devices Inc.

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Amish company thrives amid child-labor dispute

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Smucker's Harness Shop Inc. owner Moses B. Smucker, is charged of violating child-labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act by the US Department of Labor. Smucker has also been fined $8,300 for employing four of his eight children under 16 at his shop, while the case in under appeal. Acting administrator of the Labor Department Wage and Hour Division in Washington, John Fraser, said children below 16 years of age are not allowed to operate power driven equipment in a manufacturing facility. Smucker's business in Lancaster County, PA, sells farm items such as harnesses, buggy whips, strirrups and horse collars to customers that range from Arab sheiks to Budweiser Clydesdales.

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Owner is charged of violating child-labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act by the US Department of Labor

Government regulation (cont), Other Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing, Leather Goods NEC, Leather clothing, Smucker's Harness Shop Inc.

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New chief has a cure for ailing TeleSpectrum

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TeleSpectrum Worldwide Inc. of King of Prussia, PA, is trekking a new road to recovery with newly-appointed chairman, CEO and president Keith E. Alessi. Since replacing company founder J. Brian O'Neill on April 14, 1998, turnaround specialist Alessi has launched measures to close 12 of 25 call centers and downsize the company's work force to about 5,000. Alessi also vowed to build a business that is not reliant on a single client. The company's problems partly stemmed from MBNA America Bank's decision to move its telemarketing operations in-house. MBNA was the company's biggest account, accounting for $30% of TeleSpectrum's 1997 second quarter revenues of $48 million.

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Is trekking a new road to recovery with newly-appointed chairman, CEO and president Keith E. Alessi

Strategy & planning, Telemarketing Services, Telemarketing Bureaus, Telemarketing, TeleSpectrum Worldwide Inc.

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