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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like to manipulate people," said Laura D. Blackbuene, vice-president of the New York-based Institute for Mediation and Conflict Resolution, Inc. She will be conducting a study group entitled. "Mediation and Conflict Resolution: Applications in the Public Sector...
...sudden, consumers are being urged to jettison their old view of the phone as a utilitarian item and look at it as a fancy new entry on a shopping list. Local Bell System companies, as well as AT&T's brand-new baby, American Bell Inc., are beseeching customers to buy telephones instead of leasing them, and even to plug more of them into their homes. Department, specialty and discount stores are getting into the act too, stacking shiny new phones next to the portable TVs and toaster ovens...
...American Bell Consumer Products: "We expect there will be telephones in rooms where their principal function is decorative." Some phones are designed as objets d'art: a porcelain unit with a hand-knotted silk cord ($495); the shimmering Shellamar Abalone, with its own pearlescent finish ($250) by TeleConcept Inc. of Hartford, Conn. Others are objets de nostalgia: the 1930s-vintage Candlestick ($139) with its separate mouthpiece and earpiece; the Country Junction ($265), which has an oak case and two brass bells...
...already begun scouting the cola business. Late last year it announced a deal to buy Coca-Cola Bottling Mideast Inc., an independent company that bottles Coke and other soft drinks in several Kentucky cities. That plan upset executives at Coca-Cola Co. in Atlanta, who fear that P & G will learn the secrets of Coke's success and apply them in selling its own drinks, including perhaps a new cola. Coke quickly got a Georgia state court to issue an order temporarily blocking P & G's purchase, and the case is now before a federal judge in Atlanta...
Some computer buffs might argue that video games are well on their way to replacing baseball as the national pastime. Warner Communications Inc., whose Atari unit has reaped a fortune on such electronic diversions as Pac-Man and Asteroids, apparently thinks that there is still money to be made from real-life action on a dusty playing field. Warner announced last week that it will buy a 48% share in the Pittsburgh Pirates from the team's longtime owners, the John W. Galbreath family of Pittsburgh, for an undisclosed price...