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...convicted between 1975 and 1985 of serious crimes, from price fixing to illegal dumping of hazardous wastes. Executives at Beech-Nut tried to pass off flavored water as apple juice. Ivan Boesky and a ring of Wall Streeters traded on insider information. Even such an upstanding company as Eastman Kodak, which has won awards for its minority-hiring and other social programs, has felt the heat. Residents of Rochester, where Kodak is based, have accused the company of covering up its chemical contamination of the city's groundwater...
...whose strong suit is prescription products, still smarts from its failure last year to acquire New York City-based Sterling Drug, the maker of Bayer aspirin, Phillips milk of magnesia and other popular over-the-counter brands. Sterling spurned the Hoffmann-La Roche offer and sold out to Eastman Kodak instead. "We wanted primarily to establish ourselves in the American over-the-counter market," recalls Hoffmann-La Roche Chairman Fritz Gerber, 60, whose company gets a third of its sales from U.S. operations based in Nutley, N.J. "It's the biggest pharmaceutical market, and it has a lot of future...
Becky Gaffney got the "Kodak picture" play of the game. Gaffney took the ball next to the goalpost and, with her back turned, shot the ball over her shoulder into...
...attempted to start joint ventures with foreign investors. The Soviets have proved flexible: the original plan, which insisted on majority Soviet ownership, has been revised to accommodate the demands of Western companies. Last Thursday at a Kremlin ceremony, executives of a consortium of six U.S. firms -- including Chevron, Eastman Kodak and Johnson & Johnson -- signed an agreement for as many as 25 joint ventures involving about $10 billion over the next 20 years. Although the agreement specified ways that profits could be taken out of the Soviet Union in hard currency and not just held in worthless rubles, joint ventures still...
...only with a single-lens reflex camera, as Ektar is currently available in just two speeds: very slow (ISO 25) and very fast (ISO 1000). Clarity will not come cheap: Ektar 25 is expected to cost about $6 for a 24-exposure roll, compared with $4 for Kodak's most popular film, Kodacolor Gold...