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...might be called a boycott handbook. The Council on Economic Priorities, a liberal research organization based in New York City, has put out an unusual 500-page tome titled Rating America's Corporate Conscience (Addison-Wesley; $14.95). It grades 130 major companies according to such "social" criteria as hiring minorities and avoiding investments in South Africa...
Several members of our staff have devised criteria for judging how nervous they ought to be. Among them are Washington Correspondent Patricia Delaney and Jerry Hannifin, who both contributed to the cover. "My first rule for comfort and safety is to fly when the smallest number of people do," says Delaney. "I'd rather get up at 5 a.m. on a weekend, when the capital is most romantic in the dawn blush along the Potomac, than face the mobbed 8 a.m. weekday flights." Hannifin, a longtime pilot who has covered the aviation industry for TIME for more than three decades...
...these must conform to a "Request for Proposal" (RFP) issued by St. Paul's building committee. The RFP, which only recently became public, specifies that "the criteria for selection [among the proposals] will be mainly price. Some attention, however, will be given to the type of development proposed, experience and qualifications of the developer, and to the developer's financial strength...
...second basic problem is that the proposal simply ignores the need for clearly mandated procedures of due process; the right to an open hearing is but a minor sop in this direction. Standards of evidence, standards of punishment, criteria for calling witnesses and cross-examining them must all be explicitly stated in the new committee's charter. To say, as the University has suggested, that the committee will make such decisions according to an evolving body of common law is to say that it will function like the CRR. The new body must guarantee an opportunity for cross-examination...
...called flight to quality kept the blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average rising last week, as investors bought shares of such traditional giants as AT&T, General Electric and Du Pont. Investors were picking stocks based on old-fashioned criteria like healthy profits and steady growth. The Dow went up 20.67 points during the week, to close...