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...chiefs study the successes of other businesses in dealing with public issues and outside pressures. They look at the case of the food companies that set up the Food Safety Council, enlisted the help of a ranking aide to Ralph Nader and now mutually work to agree on a list of food products and additives that everybody could consider safe-before going to the great trouble and expense of putting them on the market. Diebold also has his clients study the National Coal Policy Project. Companies that mine and use coal formed it with environmental leaders, and together they reached...
This past winter more than half a dozen athletes joined the list of baseball millionaires. Like a medieval heir apparent, Pete Rose flashed his Prince Valiant haircut before a clutch of contending clubs, finally settling on the Philadelphia Phillies and their reported dowry of $3.5 million over four years. Former Minnesota Twins Star Rod Carew took his seven batting titles to the California Angels in exchange for some $4.5 million over five years. Boston Slugger Jim Rice, the American League's M.V.P. last season, agreed to a seven-year deal said to total $5.4 million and, in the process...
Also topping the good news list was the three-inning relief stint turned in by junior Rob Alewissos. Alewisos gave up B.C.'s final run in the seventh, but then teamed fastball with slider to retire the last seven men he faced...
...with Congressmen, administration officials, and the various business groups to which he belongs, deButts estimates that he spends 30 per cent of his time on federal issues. At least two business groups--the Business Roundtable and the Business Council (both collections of select members of the Fortune 1000, a list of the largest companies in the nation)--require deButts and his fellow CEOs to remain personally involved in the political process...
Holcombe became the focus of labor controversy in the spring of 1976. When the Radcliffe dining hall management suspended him--qstensibly for cooking cauliflower too soon--he submitted a list of five safety grievances. Dining hall workers left their jobs for an emergency meeting, and students, some faculty and workers rallied to pressure for his rein-statement. After his suspension, Holcombe worked at the Freshman Union until his death...