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Blind or visually impaired individuals--in the U.S. more than half a million people are blind, 2.9 million are visually impaired--will want to check out a new portable reading machine. Xerox Imaging Systems introduced its original Reading Edge in 1992.

Dick's Sporting Goods Inc. has purchased a privately held California chain with 14 stores. Dick's, based in the Pittsburgh suburb of Findlay Township, said it bought Covina-based Chick's Sporting Goods for $71 million in cash and assumed debt. Dick's has about 340 stores in 36 states.

The move is toward bigness, says Jim Chick as he plans to open one of Orange County's largest sporting goods stores in the Tustin Market Place on Aug. 3. Market Place managers originally tried to get Chick's Sporting Goods to take a smaller space--35,000 square feet instead of 50,000 square feet--but Chick convinced them that they would be making a mistake to opt for a mid-size store.

Blind or visually impaired individuals--in the U.S. more than half a million people are blind, 2.9 million are visually impaired--will want to check out a new portable reading machine. Xerox Imaging Systems introduced its original Reading Edge in 1992.

Dick's Sporting Goods Inc. has purchased a privately held California chain with 14 stores. Dick's, based in the Pittsburgh suburb of Findlay Township, said it bought Covina-based Chick's Sporting Goods for $71 million in cash and assumed debt. Dick's has about 340 stores in 36 states.

The move is toward bigness, says Jim Chick as he plans to open one of Orange County's largest sporting goods stores in the Tustin Market Place on Aug. 3. Market Place managers originally tried to get Chick's Sporting Goods to take a smaller space--35,000 square feet instead of 50,000 square feet--but Chick convinced them that they would be making a mistake to opt for a mid-size store.