Word: pitney
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...that much larger. Less than 15% of Du Pont's employees, both blue-collar and whitecollar, elect to keep working until they reach 65. Says Employee Benefits Manager Leonard J. Bardsley: "This trend continued through 1978 even when they knew of the change in the law." Pitney-Bowes, Inc., abolished mandatory retirement last April 1. Since then, 105 of its workers have retired on or before their 65th birthday, and only ten have chosen to keep working more than a few months past that age. Singer Co., which long has had a mandatory retirement age of 68, finds...
...have the new equipment. Meanwhile, the slow pace of the UPC revolution has led to quick check-outs by several firms that had hoped to capture a share of the supermarket automation field. After investing heavily in research and marketing studies, General Electric, RCA, Singer, Bunker Ramo and Pitney-Bowes all chose to cut their losses and quit. Now even Sperry Rand, which had bought out RCA's licenses, has withdrawn...
...attitude that bribery is acceptable where it is customary seems to be widespread in American business. Recently, Pitney-Bowes Chairman Fred T. Allen commissioned Opinion Research Corp. to poll upper-and middle-level corporate managers on whether they believed bribes should be paid to officials in foreign countries where such practices are standard. A surprising 48% said yes. A survey of 73 senior international executives, announced last week by the Conference Board, an independent business research organization, came up with exactly the same finding. Three-quarters of the executives said their companies had been asked to pay bribes...
Though that phrasing is Presbyterian, all Christian denominations believe that suicide violates God's commandment, "Thou shalt not kill." Last week, however, the New York Times revealed that one of the world's pre-eminent Presbyterians, the Rev. Henry Pitney Van Dusen, 77, and his wife Elizabeth, 80, had carried out a suicide pact in January. The retired president of New York's Union Theological Seminary and Mrs. Van Dusen took overdoses of sleeping pills in their Princeton, N.J., home. She died quickly, but he vomited up the pills, was found and taken to a hospital, where...
Died. Henry Pitney ("Pit") Van Dusen, 77, venerable Protestant theologian and president of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary from 1945 to 1963; of heart disease; in Belle Meade, N.J. Van Dusen combined a profound faith with skepticism over excessive dogmatism and clerical parochialism. His ordination was held up for two years while Presbyterian leaders agonized over his right to question the literal biblical rendition of the Virgin birth. During Van Dusen's tenure as president, Union's enrollment doubled and such studies as psychiatry and religious drama joined the curriculum. A prime organizer of the World Council...