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Continued from page 6
Published on November 02, 2000
After 39 years, Gorczyca is saddened by the changes he's seen, and not just in the gas business. Before, a man was only as good as his word. Relationships were built to last, with customers as well as suppliers, and loyalty was rewarded in kind. All the institutions that gave meaning to the word community -- florists, funeral parlors, hardware stores -- operated on the same principles. Those principles, Gorczyca laments, seem as distant today as the dealers he's seen driven away.
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Deron Neblett
Bad gas: Shell is on Houston attorney Robert Steinberg's hit list.
"What they built this country on, the small people, they're going to eliminate 'em."
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