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Until recently, corporate America would never consider cutting the salaries of many to avoid cutting the jobs of a few. But these days, a wide range of businesses, from San Francisco ad agencies and high-tech outfits like Agilent to steelmakers in Pittsburgh, are breaking the taboo. "We did a 7% layoff that probably would have been 15% had we not done some creative things," says Charles Morgan, 58, CEO of the database-management firm Acxiom, of Conway, Ark. In April the company made a 5% reduction in salaries for people earning more than $25,000, then gave stock options...
...creams and potions that regularly appear on the last few pages of every Glamour, but ordering a product featured fewer than two inches away from Ms. Cleo’s Tarot Card Reading is just too sketchy. In the still readable section of Glamour, there is an ad for the “all-natural” Bloussant that caught my eye. Miss “no-I-don’t-have-a-face-just-all-natural-copious-cleavage” has opened her shirt to show the world what a 60-day trial bottle of Bloussant...
Most Amusing Section: I was told that I had to give a lecture 15 minutes before class started. I had to ad-lib for an hour and a half
...story on how the makers of attention-deficit/hyperactivity-disorder medications are advertising their products direct to consumers [HEALTH, Sept. 10] bore the headline "New Ritalin Ad Blitz Makes Parents Jumpy." While a number of pharmaceutical companies are running consumer ads, contrary to what the headline states, Novartis, the maker of Ritalin, has never had a direct-to-consumer advertising campaign for its medication. TIME regrets the error...
...Collegiate Game Scoring (CGS) should make the tournament even more exciting. Under CGS, or One-Ad, games are won when four points are reached by a margin of two. At 3-3, a team can win at 5-3 or 5-4. The receiver of the ninth point can choose the side...