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...argues that more than half the 22,000 U.S. garment contractors pay less than the minimum wage; working conditions are often appalling. He has about 800 inspectors to police them all, which is why public outrage comes in handy. "Consumer pressure is vitally important," he says. "We have also begun naming names." Every three months the department lists the manufacturers that are dealing with sweatshops. Some, like J.C. Penney last week, have finally agreed to start policing themselves, after being warned four times by the Labor Department. Others, like the Gap, Levi Strauss and Sears, have pledged to fight exploitative...
Cybertalk of this kind has begun to have an identifiable impact on stock prices. "In an informal study we did of about half a dozen stocks, we've seen a close correlation between messages, stock volume and prices," says Marc Beauchamp, a spokesman for the National Association of Securities Dealers...
...known as wedge issues--issues involving social concerns--have tempted politicians since the creation of Reagan Democrats in 1980. There is a particular appeal to wedge issues that affect few voters or (until a court in Hawaii rules on gay marriage, for instance) no voters at all. I've begun to think of those as wedge hypotheticals...
...despite--or because of--this stellar performance, Washington suspects that something must be rancid at Frito-Lay. In a move that caught even antitrust experts by surprise, the Justice Department confirmed last week that it has begun a probe of the salty-snacks industry; insiders say it is focusing on Frito-Lay. The action was all the more unexpected because other companies have amassed even larger shares of their respective markets without government eyebrows being raised (see chart). But Justice is said to be looking hard at Frito-Lay's use of shelf allowances, a common retailing practice in which...
...BOOKS . . . NIGHTLINE: HISTORY IN THE MAKING AND THE MAKING OF TELEVISION: Begun as a late-night news show that was only supposed to last for the duration of the Iran hostage crisis, Nightline has become, 16 years later, the most important news broadcast on American television. Ted Koppel, the show's masterly anchorman, is certainly entitled to toot his own horn, and 'Nightline: History in the Making and the Making of Television,' which he has co-authored with former Nightline producer Kyle Gibson (Times Books; 477 pages; $25), has its self-indulgent excesses. It is essentially a scrapbook...