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...improve that sorry performance, an unlikely coalition of ecologists and businessmen, nature lovers and profit seekers, has embarked on a campaign to give plastic foam and other plastics a second life. About 130 companies, ranging from blue-chip behemoths such as Du Pont and Dow Chemical to smaller firms like Wisconsin's Midwest Plastic Materials and Iowa-based Hammer's Plastic Recycling, are involved in reincarnating used plastics. Some 20 new firms are entering the business each year, according to the Council for Solid Waste Solutions, a Washington-based trade association...
...past March, with a photograph of Lear gracing the anniversary issue, Lear's went monthly, with a circulation of 350,000. The average age of her readers is 51, the average yearly household income a startling $95,600. New issues are fat with glossy ads aimed at this blue-chip audience. Lear, a lifetime liberal committed to democratic causes, had qualms about going so far upmarket but did so "to sell the idea to advertisers, which would ensure success." Failure was not in the cards...
...employees who worked in the U.S. securities industry before the collapse. And despite the cost cutting, a fresh wave of gloom rolled through investment houses last week. Even as the Dow Jones industrial average surged 72.40 points to a post-crash high of 2409.46, blue- chip firms announced setbacks that ranged from layoffs to plunging profits. Says Perrin Long, who follows the securities industry for Lipper Analytical Services in Manhattan: "A new reality...
They all had misgivings about working somewhat within the system, because they so desperately wanted to change it. The important thing is they didn't use their education to enrich the rich or to entrench corporate monopolies. The didn't embrace the system; they worked to chip away at its faults. They realized that their talents, if devoted to the right causes, could indeed make a difference, even if it was only a little...
...Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Spencer S. Hsu '90 Emily Mieras '90 Joseph R. Palmore '91 Editorial Editor: Katherine E. Bliss '90 Feature Editor: Ross G. Forman '90 Sports Editor: Jennifer M. Frey '90 Photo Editor: Terry R. R. Roopnaraine '90 Business Editor: Andrew R. Jassy '91 Copy Editor: Chip Cummins...