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...Stony Brook 27, Bentley...
...families who have watched a child grow and flower, the effect is devastating. "At 15 my son returned to the day of his birth," says a father in Brook Park, Ohio. "He crawled on the floor, and his mother had to diaper him. He withdrew to his room and wouldn't come out except to eat. Once, his voices told him to grab a little girl in a store and undress her. Many times I saw my wife with bruises. I've learned a lot about schizophrenia since she died. I think living with my son killed...
...spawning ground for many of the new ideas and programs designed to integrate the franchises into neighborhoods in which they operate has been the company's moral and intellectual McCenter, Hamburger University, set in its own 80-acre nature preserve near Oak Brook, Ill. Since 1979 the company has held affirmative-action seminars for its executives and managers there, as well as in many of the company's 40 regional offices, on such topics as how to manage the changing work force and handle career development for women, blacks and Hispanics. Each year 3,000 employees complete affirmative-action training...
...Island stores. One of them, Joe King, trains new employees. Kaufman says the key to his success with the disabled is "to try not to treat them differently." McDonald's has used Braille and its own kind of sign language as aids for impaired employees. At McDonald's Oak Brook headquarters, staff workers are sought from specialized schools, such as Gallaudet University and the Rochester Institute for Technology, which has an educational center for the deaf...
Soon even this partial sanctuary will be lost. In-Flight Phone Corp. of Oak Brook, Ill., a newcomer to the field, has begun installing advanced digital telephone systems in each and every seat, complete with video screens and ground data links that will revolutionize service in the sky. Each passenger will have a handset stowed in the armrest and a 4.5-in. by 6-in. screen mounted in the seat ahead, just above the tray table...