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...blatant" discrimination and adding, "A woman is not required to be a Victorian broodmare." If the Supreme Court rules for Johnson Controls, then by some estimates up to 20 million jobs, many of them well paid, could eventually be closed to women. Gulf Oil, B.F. Goodrich, Du Pont and Eastman Kodak are just some of the companies that have instituted fetal-protection policies since a federal court upheld such measures in 1984. Johnson Controls estimates that more than half its production jobs are barred to fertile women...
Polaroid is a company built on instant gratification, but its grievance with Kodak has required enormous patience. A federal court in Boston has ordered Eastman Kodak to pay Polaroid $910 million in damages in the largest patent- infringement award in history. The decision is the culmination of a 1976 lawsuit in which Polaroid charged Kodak with violating patents on instant cameras and film. The amount of damages has been at issue since 1985, when the court ruled that Kodak had infringed on seven patents and ordered the company out of the instant-camera business...
...from hands-on management and organizing the staff into some 3,000 teams of up to 15 members each. One result: profits have risen 250% since 1982. "By the mid-1990s," says Luther, "we'll define good management as the ability to get out of the way." Managers at Eastman Kodak decided to let the folks on the factory floor run the professional-film manufacturing unit. In 1989 the unit, which had run $1 million over budget, came in $1.5 million under. Such feats should be ballyhooed as an example to other workers, says Paul Schumann, a creativity consultant...
...unlikely heroes made their debut seven years ago in a black-and-white comic book drawn by Peter Laird, now 36, and Kevin Eastman, 27. Laird had been "scraping out a living" drawing eggplants and such for the gardening page of a newspaper in Northampton, Mass., when the editor of a local comic magazine suggested that he collaborate with Eastman, an amateur cartoonist who was working as a short-order cook. One night in 1983 -- and neither can remember why -- inspiration struck. Eastman drew a humanized turtle wearing a ninja mask and carrying a katana blade. The idea...
...after his favorite Renaissance artists: Leonardo (the group's leader), Raphael (the rebel), Michaelangelo (the jokester) and Donatello (the technical whiz). "The characters should have Japanese names, but we knew we couldn't come up with convincing ones, so we decided to go way in the other direction," explains Eastman...