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...mutual funds, Fidelity has led the way in customer service, and it aims to distance itself from competitors. The company pioneered such techniques as automatic transfers over the telephone, and is developing a slew of advanced phone and computer products to speed the transactions. Fidelity also sees new markets in the thousands of corporations for which it administers 401(k) plans (including this magazine's parent company, Time Warner). It wants to persuade those customers to let it handle data-dense departments such as medical insurance, human resources and payroll as well. The attraction for corporations is lower cost...
Since last fall a slew of violent crimes occuring near and on campus have begun to belie the bucolic appearance of Harvard's grounds and its Cambridge environs. While the Harvard police and administration have certainly made some progress in recent years toward improving campus security, we feel that there is still more they can do to ensure an optimal level of safety...
More than 100 anxious Cantabrigians and a slew of city and police officials--including Police Commissioner Ronny White, City Councillor Michael A. Sullivan and Harvard Police Chief Francis D. "Bud" Riley--gathered last night in King Elementary School's cafeteria to discuss the crime...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Why can't Johnny smoke? Because President Clinton says so, that's why. Clinton declared tobacco an addictive drug today, saying cigarette marketing which produced an epidemic of young smokers was "no accident." Also no accident, the presidential timing. The FDA had a slew of stricter rules on the sale and marketing of tobacco products ready last year, but as the President prepares for the Democratic National Convention, his Rose Garden assault on the tobacco industry will doubtless play favorably in the polls. The new FDA rules are intended to cut the number of teen smokers...
While most airlines almost immediately jettison the flight numbers of planes involved in disasters, TWA only last week decided to take Flight 800 off its timetables. The reason for the delay? "Our first concern was with the investigation and the families," said a TWA spokesman. After a slew of prank calls, however, the designation was changed to 924. Other numbers retired after tragedies...