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...when the boy refused to have sex with the men, one of them, Charles Jaynes, who weighs 250 lbs., sat on Jeffrey and smothered him with a gasoline-soaked rag. Then, according to the police, the men had sex with the corpse and, after that, bought a 50-gal. Rubbermaid container, sealed the body in it with duct tape and dumped the container into a river on the Maine-New Hampshire border...
...General Motors idled 45 of their 62 U.S. and Canadian plants for up to four weeks in the first half of 1990. Along with the closings, the Big Three have laid off or fired 38,000 workers. "Manufacturers are very cautious," says Stanley Gault, chairman of Ohio-based Rubbermaid, a leading maker of household products. "The economy is just hobbling along...
...sense of importance was not enough. A change in corporate philosophy was needed, the sort of disruptive and often expensive change that works only if the commitment starts at the top. In companies where impressive quality gains have been made -- Ford, Hewlett-Packard, 3M, Corning Glass, Apple, Motorola and Rubbermaid -- the chief executive lays down the rules and makes sure they are followed. Says Rubbermaid Chairman Stanley Gault: "Everyone has to know that shoddy work will not be tolerated. Our customers are not there to field-test our products." At Apple, says Chairman John Sculley, "quality is a religion. Anybody...
...upside down on someone else's desk. The Detroit News has added something new to the list: selling papers. For every 13-week subscription a staffer can peddle, the News announced last week, he or she will earn two points toward a catalogue full of gifts, from a Rubbermaid bird feeder (six points) to a digital watch (100 points...