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Chances are, you won't see these guards being led away in handcuffs on the evening news. In contrast to some of its larger competitors, sixth-ranked Guardsmark has nurtured a culture geared toward doing things right. Managers who neglect even the smallest screening procedure have their bonuses docked. While executives routinely job-jump among the biggest guard outfits, Memphis- based Guardsmark refuses to hire anyone who has ever worked for a rival. "I don't want their bad habits," says Ira Lipman, the firm's president and owner...
...real waste is the money that is left on the cards themselves. I go to the Design School to make photocopies maybe once a year. The last time I went, however, the smallest bill I had, after I accidently bought two VendaCards, was a five. I only needed to make a few copies, so I ended up with a VendaCard that has an extra three dollars on it. Does Tommy's take VendaCards...
...army has dug in tanks and artillery behind minefields and fortifications along the southern edge of Kurdistan, carefully including all of Iraq's major oil fields. Soldiers have set up checkpoints on the roads, and while they allow local traffic in and out, they confiscate all but the smallest quantities of food and fuel. At the town of Kifri, 96 miles north of Baghdad, in outposts separated by a tense 500 yards., Iraqi troops confront bearded peshmerga guerrillas in balloon trousers and tightly wrapped turbans. "We have been suffering from two blockades," says Jalal Talabani, leader of the Patriotic Union...
...industry (15% by 1989) and considerable self-management by state-owned enterprises. So when communism was overthrown, the new government saw no need for shock treatment; officials could institute a more gradual process of lifting price controls and reducing or eliminating subsidies. As a result, Hungary has experienced the smallest drop in production in Eastern Europe (6.5% last year) and the lowest inflation (34% for all 1991, about a third of that at year's end). Hungary has been especially successful in attracting foreign investment; it has formed no fewer than 10,000 joint ventures with Western firms. The country...
Your recent article, "A Sharp Shift to the New Right for Campus Conservatives" is typical of The Crimson's transparently partisan tactics to discredit conservatism. By constantly focusing on the most extreme--and, as you conveniently ignore, the smallest--conservative groups on campus, you grossly misrepresent the character of Harvard's conservative community...