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...building their own facilities proves impractical, many firms pay workers part or all of the cost of enrolling in independent health clinics. Among them are Los Angeles' Atlantic Richfield Plaza Fitness Center, with twelve corporate clients, and Manhattan's Cardio-Fitness Center, which has Celanese Corp., Dun & Bradstreet Co., Time Inc. and the National Hockey League among its 35 company supporters. The centers offer the latest in rowing, cycling, jogging and weight-lifting gadgets. They provide members with freshly laundered exercise clothing, private lockers and hairdryers...
...futures options has been banned in America since 1936, but dealers can offer options based on the London market. Carr's firm did this and prospered; it grew to employ 1,000 salesmen, and got the blessings of the Boston Better Business Bureau as well as a Dun & Bradstreet "triple A" credit rating...
...Nearly two-thirds of 1,000 think tanks operating eight years ago are moribund. For the first time in 15 years, both the University of California and California State enrollments are slipping. California's housing market is strong, but most businessmen remain skittish because of a 1975 Dunn & Bradstreet Fantus report that ranked the state's business climate 47th among the 48 states surveyed. For the first time in two decades, industrial investors, put off by bureaucratic red tape and environmental lobbyists, are bypassing California to relocate in other Sunbelt states. Statewide per capita income is still above...
...Properties, a company that administers the depaitment-store family's fortune, was recently watching a TV movie about a bank robbery. Suddenly his wife pointed at one of the robbers and asked, "Isn't that the man you're in business with in California?" By Dun & Bradstreet! The 6-ft.-plus, curly-haired crook on the screen was in fact the same fellow with whom Lyons had just concluded a six-figure real estate deal. "It was the first I knew he was an actor," says Lyons stoutly. "He had a proposition, and when...
...Peace Corps in the first place because they did not feel ready to commit themselves to a semi-permanent job or professional school. Some volunteers had joined the system and realized that it was too restrictive for them. One volunteer in Guatemala had been an executive for Dun and Bradstreet, another had been an executive for an advertising firm in Manhattan, another had been an insurance salesman...