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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While shareholder resolutions have challenged American infant formula companies, such as Bristol-Myers and Abbott, Nestle, which is the world's largest producer of formula, is an international corporation based in Switzerland and does not sell stock in America...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Church Group Supports Nestle Boycott | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...Dollar Bill's" current margin, however, stands only at about 35 per cent to 23 per cent. Bell, backed by a couple of hundred thou in campaign contributions from the Republican National Committee--the largest contribution to any non-incumbent candidate from the GOP--is waging a big media blitz in the last few weeks aimed at the large number of undecided voters. Issuing the standard call for huge tax cuts (of at least 30 per cent), Bell claims that the election is "a referendum on President Carter's economic policies...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Dollar Bill at the Foul Line | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...what am I supposed to do here? Is that the high school over there? When do I come in? At the intermission, oh, that's okay." We are standing in a parking lot somewhere in Brockton, Mass. Across the highway is a large concrete, metal and glass structure, "the largest high school in the state," we are told. There are seven of us--one reporter, one photographer, one driver, one advance woman, two campaign workers and one Senator. Ed Brooke pins a carnation on a campaign worker he's never met and looks confused...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: 'It Doesn't Stop in the Living Room' | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...that's the country's second largest county in a nutshell, and if you managed to get to the end of this piece, you should have no trouble getting to the small type at the end of the ballot, where the county races have hung out for years...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Why did the Republican Cross the Road? | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

Crampton has criticized his opponent for "maladministration--for losing $30 million in one year through sloppy cash management." Crampton tells the story of how Crane helped out the Coolidge Bank & Trust, after being employed by that bank's third-largest stockholder. According to Crampton, Crane deposited a $14 million welfare clearing account in Coolidge during 1973-74. Participating in the State Board of Bank Incorporators, Crane helped Coolidge take over two faltering banks in Lincoln and Arlington, Crampton said. "If that's not a conflict of interests, what is?" he asked. "If the man weren't holding political office...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Yes Virginia, There is an Auditor | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

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