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...proliferation of Yellow Pages has transformed a quiet business that had changed little since the New Haven (Conn.) District Telephone Co. published the first such directory in 1878: a one-page roster of eleven residences and 39 doctors, factories and other commercial listings. Since neither the name Yellow Pages nor the walking-fingers symbol is a protected trademark (they passed into generic use long before AT&T's divestiture), anyone can employ them. Many consumers no longer know whose directories they are using. Southern Bell calls its 242 editions the "Real Yellow Pages," while other publishers have adopted distinctive names...
Fewer than half their players on the active roster and on the injured reserve list attended. Two players who have been outspoken against NFLPA executive director Gene Upshaw and against the strike--offensive guard Ron Wooten and cornerback Raymond Clayborn--left the meeting quickly without answering reporters' questions...
Unlike the FORTUNE 500 or Standard & Poor's 400, there is a roster of U.S. corporations to which no self-respecting chief executive aspires: the dishonor roll of companies charged by the Federal Government with failing to monitor adequately the safety of their workplaces. The list has swollen every month or so in the past year, as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has imposed unprecedented penalties on some of the nation's biggest and best-known companies. Among them: Ford Motor and Chrysler (the No. 2 and No. 3 U.S. automakers), Caterpillar (No. 1 among makers of construction equipment...
...declining quality of schooling that children receive, says Education Secretary William Bennett, "is arguably the No. 1 domestic concern of the American people." Presidential candidates have taken note. Last Friday, a few days after school bells called students to class around the country, a roster of White House hopefuls gathered at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for earnest seminars on the subject. In separate forums, all seven active Democratic campaigners and Republicans Jack Kemp and Pete du Pont debated the single topic of how to boost the failing grades being given to American education...
...takes considerable nerve to name the ten worst-managed publicly traded firms in America, but FinancialWorld obviously has that. The Manhattan-based biweekly issued its first roster of corporate clunkers this week, based on such factors as stock performance, earnings and management errors. BankAmerica was criticized for bringing back Chief Executive A.W. Clausen, who had been accused of mismanaging the troubled bank before he retired. MCI Communications was named for taking on too much debt. Others mentioned: Wang Laboratories and Bally Manufacturing...