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Department stores are combatting the success of off-price stores with several stratagems. Minneapolis-based Dayton's has become more price conscious and makes sure that its fashions are up to the minute. Says Executive Vice President Dean Baarda: "Off-pricers mostly have last year's merchandise." Boston's Filene's is enhancing its customer service. It has expanded its training program for salesclerks from two hours to up to 24 hours and asked customers to evaluate each sales transaction. Both Dayton's and Filene's are placing greater emphasis on their lines...
...begin operating for three more years, if it ever does. Its long and sometimes tumultuous development has been marked by runaway costs, faulty construction, mismanagement by the utilities that own it, and inadequate supervision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Earlier this month the three owners-Cincinnati Gas & Electric, Dayton Power & Light, and Columbus & Southern Ohio Electric-began to consider their options. Among them was the sobering possibility of abandoning the project. Such a move would turn Zimmer into nuclear America's biggest white elephant to date, and a woeful, if extreme, example of the quality-control problems besetting...
...carefully the implications of such a dramatic increase." The following day, however, Moody's Investors Service downgraded the ratings of the three utilities. Two other services, Standard & Poor's and Duff & Phelps, put the utilities on a credit watch. Fearful of bankruptcy, Columbus & Southern Ohio Electric and Dayton Power & Light have asked the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court to rule on who would be liable for the $1.6 billion should the project collapse. Says Gerald Morgan, an analyst with Prudential-Bache Securities: "You have the three utilities fighting among themselves as to who is to blame...
...batch of clergymen and investigators of Senator La Follette's civil liberties committee was insured. At the appointed time, Organizer Richard Truman Frankensteen, head of the U.A.W. Ford drive, accompanied by his lieutenant, Walter Reuther, appeared. Leader Frankensteen, a husky 30 and onetime football player (University of Dayton), led the way up a long flight of stairs to the overpass to supervise the handbills' issuance. He was smiling for photographers as a group of Ford men approached. Someone shouted, "You're on Ford property. Get the hell off here!" Frankensteen started to obey, was struck from behind...