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Investors are particularly buoyed by last year's 13% rise in pretax corporate profits and expectations that earnings will increase this year by 15% or so. More than 70 major companies raised their dividends in the past three months, including American Brands, Avon Products, Colgate-Palmolive, Xerox and Federated Department Stores. Brokers are also cheered by evidence that more small investors are trailing back into the market after staying out for several years. Board rooms across the country are again crowded with tape watchers, and margin debt rose by a substantial $480 million in February, to $6.2 billion, indicating...
...discrimination does not stop at the executive suite. Indeed, the lack of women in skilled jobs and middle management almost guarantees that few will make it to the peak. At California's Pacific Gas & Electric, for example, 94% of women employees are clerks and secretaries. Manhattan's Avon Products Inc., which employs women for half of its 10,000 jobs in North America, has promoted only 14 of them to managerial ranks and none to vice presidents or higher. Boston's Raytheon Co. has been engaged in a two-year federal court action over charges by eight...
Married. Brian Priestman, 45, English-born conductor of the Denver Symphony Orchestra and former musical director of the Royal Shakespeare Theater at Stratford-on-Avon; and Mary-Ford Stockton McClave; both for the first time; in Berkeley, Calif...