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...results of the monitoring program this year are fairly typical, according to D. Reid Weedon Jr., a senior vice president at the consulting firm. "Within the companies that have signed the principles, something less than one-third are making what we would call 'good progress,'" he says. "About one-third are making some progress and getting by. The ones in the bottom groups really aren't putting their shoulder to the wheel." About 100 signatory companies are included in the report; 11 did not report their figures, Weedon says. About 160 American companies in the country have not signed...
Whether this progress actually means something depends on who you talk to. Weedon says that by and large American companies have proved strong on issues relating to the workplace. For instance, according to the new report, all of the companies have desegregated their facilities and their Black employees are found to be receiving higher average pay increases than their white counterparts. Still, Weedon admits that progress in other areas has been slower--especially in corporate involvement with community development. Most importantly, Weedon says, there has been a noticeable failure in companies' efforts to put Blacks in supervisory positions. Blacks...
...danger of the lab to the public is far smaller than the danger of a pesticide store." Weedon said, adding that the amount of hazardous chemical used in the lab's experiments "averages about one tablespoonful for each test...
...Weedon said that the facility is for analysis, not development, of toxic substances...
Asked by Danehy for a "100 percent assurance that nobody could break into the lab or that no chemicals could escape." Weedon said he could not give claims of certainty, but was "personally quite confident of the lab's safety...