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...workplace. For example, Chicago's Northern Trust Bank last month announced a ban on all smoking by its 4,500 employees except in lounges. It offered stop-smoking clinics to the 25% of its employees who indulge. USG Corp., also based in Chicago, has said that it would dismiss any employee of its acoustical-plants who smoked on the job or even at home, a move that critics contend treads on shaky legal ground. According to a poll of its members taken last fall by the Administrative Management Society, 42% of the firms now have some kind of smoking policy...
...dust clouds of rebellion kicked up by Juan Peron's followers. The mood is languorous, but the snake of sensuality curls under the loose garments of the ruling class. When Miss Mary, out of pity and passion, takes the girls' handsome older brother to bed, the family must dismiss her, as Argentina under Peron will soon purge itself of the British influence...
...others dismiss the elite image. "People arefinding out that, yes, it's beautiful, but it isalso affordable. There are things here foreveryone," says Hochman, of Crabtree and Evelyn...
...than four syndicated shows now offer entertainment in the form of real or simulated law cases. The TV docket began filling up in 1981 with the debut of The People's Court, whose innovative concept was to show actual small-claims cases being argued on camera. Participants agree to dismiss their cases in real court and abide by the decision of the TV judge; in return, the show agrees to pay the financial settlement. (If none is awarded, the participants divide $500; thus no one winds up a loser...
While many South African whites are trying to dismiss the impact of the U.S. pullouts, the departures can eventually hurt. The new owners may initially leave facilities and work forces untouched. In fact, GM last week announced plans to hire immediately 200 new workers for the launch of an upcoming model. But that often radically changes later. In Port Elizabeth, which once styled itself the "Detroit of South Africa," employment nose- dived in 1985 when Ford sold its majority share to local owners, who then shifted operations to Pretoria. Last week many Port Elizabethans doubted GM's assurances that...