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...surprisingly, given those results, a growing number of corporations???including Deutsche Bank, Google and Hughes Aircraft?offer meditation classes to their workers. Jeffrey Abramson, CEO of Tower Co., a Washington-based development firm, says 75% of his staff attend free classes in transcendental meditation. Making employees sharper is only one benefit; studies say meditation also improves productivity, in large part by preventing stress-related illness and reducing absenteeism...
...Barbara Boyle Sullivan, 42, criticizes the affirmative-action policies of corporations???and they pay her for it. Her consulting firm, Boyle/Kirkman Associates, which she founded with Colleague Sharon Kirkman Donegan in 1972, originally specialized in locating patterns of discrimination
...difficult as fine-tuning a color TV set while wearing boxing gloves. The Federal Reserve controls money by the indirect method of buying or selling Government securities. When it buys, it creates money out of thin air; it pays with its own checks, which the sellers?individuals and corporations???deposit in their bank accounts. The checks become new money, available to be loaned out. When the Fed sells Government securities, it withdraws money from circulation; the buyers pay with checks that disappear into Federal Reserve vaults, never more to be seen. The less money that banks have to lend...
...A.C.L.U. reports job discrimination against gays is eroding. Some major corporations???including AT&T, the Bank of America, IBM and NBC?have declared themselves equal-opportunity employers with regard to homosexuals. Honeywell, which publicly refused to hire gays in 1970, lifted the ban seven months before Minneapolis, where its home office is located, passed an antidiscrimination ordinance in 1974. Most
...press when he brought in a Dutch clairvoyant, who applied his "radar brain" to the case and reeled off a minutely detailed description of the wrong man. Brooke's most celebrated accomplishment was winning a series of grand-jury indictments against more than 100 public officials, private citizens, and corporations???on charges involving graft and bribery connected with state government...