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BOSTON--Thirteen picketers were arrested after blocking entrances to a NYNEX Corp. building and customers began to reach tape recordings instead of operators yesterday as the 62,000-worker strike against the company headed into its third...
Many Washington jobs raise conflict-of-interest questions. When Barbara Morris Lent took a job as a lobbyist for NYNEX, her husband, Congressman Norman Lent, sought approval of the ethics committee to vote on telephone legislation. Lawyer Marc Miller, author of Politicians and their Spouses' Careers, says, "Full disclosure and making sure the spouse got the job for her own talents help resolve the conflict." When Debbie Dingell, a lobbyist for General Motors, married Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell in 1981, she switched to an administrative job. "I'm sensitive to conflicts," says Dingell. "Fortunately, GM is large...
...field that holds megafirms of 800 plus. The largest, Chicago-based Baker & McKenzie, just broke the 1,000 mark. Many of the behemoths are run by nonattorney managers who operate like corporate chiefs, drumming up sales and plotting growth strategies. Says Richard Santagati, the onetime head of NYNEX who now oversees Boston's Gaston Snow & Ely Bartlett: "Everything has accelerated -- salaries, overhead, client fees, the stakes and the risks...
...largest and most aggressive directory publishers is St. Louis- based Southwestern Bell. The company puts out 1,100 Yellow Pages editions in 48 states and has launched major invasions of the Manhattan, Baltimore, Washington and Chicago markets. In Manhattan, Southwestern Bell has taken on NYNEX, the giant holding company for the New York and New England telephone companies. Since last year, more than 1 million copies of Southwestern's New York Yellow Pages have been distributed. The 816-page book is a more compact alternative to the listings contained in two separate NYNEX Yellow Pages directories -- the consumer version...
...Week, local service and repair are now fairly inconsistent across the U.S. The trade publication gave the top grade of A-minus to Ameritech, which serves Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan. The lowest grade of C-plus went to Southwestern Bell (Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas) and NYNEX (New York and New England...