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...students work for themselves "as independent businessmen and women." They contend that the company has followed this principle ever since it was established three years after the end of the Civil War. In the economically devastated South, "young men trying to make their way through college, no longer had family plantations fo fall upon," says James Simpson. South-western's public relations administrator The company was started in order to help students settle their accounts by selling Bibles in the Southern states, he adds...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: The Southwestern Equation | 5/6/1982 | See Source »

Alexander, however called South-western "a legitimate company," adding that working for it "is a valuable experience, particularly in learning how to work with people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Book Company Recruiting Despite Ban By Harvard | 3/7/1981 | See Source »

Once out of range, I ran as fast as I could, considering the circumstances. I reached the fence 20 minutes later, climbed over it, and went to sleep right there, by the side of U.S. 40, the main road through the south-western part of the country. I woke up to trucks roaring by one one side and cows staring at me across the fence on the other...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Riding a Greyhound In Search of America | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

...corporations and real estate conglomerates demand our land. The "desolate" patches of land in North America where Indian people live, given by treaty to the Indians--cover approximately 90 per cent of the uranium reserves and 50 per cent of energy resources. The vast uranium fields of both the south-western United States as well as Northern Brazil are inhabited principally by native people. Native people have lived harmoniously with the earth in the Americas for over 60,000 years, and now the economic interests of the industrial world demand to rape the earth for energy progress and promise little...

Author: By Winona LA Duke westigard, | Title: Seeking Justice | 11/1/1977 | See Source »

...Southwestern Publishing Company is in Cincinnati, and hyphenates its name, South-Western. The Southwestern Company is in Nashville, and has worked with college students continuously since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Southwestern Complains | 4/26/1977 | See Source »

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