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...company has prospered by catering to the conservative inclinations of its small-town clientele. "Other firms were advising people to buy and sell," says Ted Jones. "Our advice was to buy and keep." Currently, Jones brokers tend to recommend such blue-chip stocks as McDonald's and BellSouth. By putting down roots in small communities, Jones brokers can get to know their customers especially well. Says Bill Janssen, the Jones man in St. Peter, Minn.: "I can work with a customer Friday, fish with him on Saturday and sit next to him in church on Sunday." Last year the average...
Most people tend to cringe...
American broadcasters tend to consider British TV news programs professionally put together but low budget, low key and kind of boring. Instead of anchormen, there are news readers who do not thrust their personalities at the viewer. Only a few interviewers with outsize gall, like Sir Robin Day of the BBC with his signature polka-dot bow ties, are true celebrities (our unknighted Sir Ted Koppels and Sir Tom Brokaws must be content with honorary college degrees...
...patients in chronic-care facilities; some hospitals also endorse the use of flotation mattresses to help premature infants breathe more normally. Opinion is mixed, however, on whether water beds are good for back pain. Orthopedist Steven Garfin of the University of California at San Diego gives cautious approval. "Patients tend to do a little better in terms of range of motion and comfort on the water bed than conventional bedding," he says. But Dr. Rene Caillet, a rehabilitation specialist at Santa Monica Hospital Medical Center, is unconvinced. "If you lie on your stomach, the water bed allows you to increase...
...People who develop skill in policymaking andmanagement tend to ignore electoral politics. Thatis a mistake," says Thornburgh. "It violates arule of nature: a stream can't rise any higherthan its source...