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...agency's increasing reliance on self-regulation by companies has obvious shortcomings. At a John Morrell meat-packing plant in Sioux Falls, S. Dak., inspectors found 69 record-keeping infractions in a company log. On a list of injuries that supposedly resulted in no lost workdays: an amputation and a chemical burn. OSHA proposed a $690,000 fine on Morrell in April. After meat-packer IBP learned that its records would be inspected last January, OSHA alleges, the company assembled 50 employees to revise its logs. IBP, which is fighting the case, has been charged with 1,038 instances...
...proposition that eager -- and well-heeled -- investors can be found almost anywhere among the hills and dales of America. Jones' energetic corps of 1,273 brokers, who almost never set foot in towns with more than 25,000 people, has enjoyed solid success in outposts from Spearfish, S. Dak., to Broken Bow, Neb., that such big-time competitors as Dean Witter Reynolds and Merrill Lynch have virtually ignored. Based in the St. Louis suburb of Maryland Heights, Jones ranks just 43rd among brokerage firms in total capital ($82.5 million), but no investment company is represented in more places. Jones...
...Jones man in St. Peter, Minn.: "I can work with a customer Friday, fish with him on Saturday and sit next to him in church on Sunday." Last year the average Jones broker made $105,000, which went a long way in a place like Devils Lake, N. Dak...
...heading. A deputy sheriff in Montana said that he had seen someone matching Snell's description driving through town with two other men. Stubbs went to a map, drew a radius around the spot and figured the men had to be heading for Casper, Wyo., or Rapid City, S. Dak. He put out leads to law officers in the area, who started watching the roads. Reported sightings were relayed to Stubbs, who used the computer system to corroborate or discount them. Within ten days, the search focused on an isolated farmhouse outside Rapid City. A dawn raid netted Snell without...
...Steve Symms, who won a second Senate term. Bonnie Angelo, who heads the New York bureau, searched a small town in Maryland with Democrat Barbara Mikulski, who would later win her Senate bid, as she tried to find the hall where she was supposed to speak. In Sheyenne, N. Dak. (pop. 307), Chicago Bureau Chief Jack White found supporters of successful Senatorial Aspirant Kent Conrad so enthusiastic about having a representative of the national media in their midst that they once gave the startled White a round of applause. Notes Atlanta Bureau Chief Joseph Kane: "The trouble is that just...