Free enterprise at crossroads in America's third century
In the bicentennial year, business leaders and critics debate whether free enterprise is dying or evolving. Account includes AMA surveys, Jeremy Rifkin, and figures like Richard Riley. discussions cover corporate power, government planning, and the shift toward economic planning amid inflation and unemployment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marylin Bender
N.Y. Times News Service
New York
Richard A. Riley
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
American Management Association
Word Corporation
AMA
People’s Bicentennial Commission
People’s Commission
Jeremy Rifkin
Wharton School
America
PBC
John W. Warner
Official
Lodge
Henry Ford II
Robert V. Roosa
Thomas A. Murphy
General Motors Corporation
Walter B. Winston
First National City Bank
United States
Gar Alperovitz
Jeff Faux
Economic Alternatives
Peter D. Hart
Cern
Soviet Union
West
Pollution spending to more than double in decade
A Frost & Sullivan study finds capital expenditures by industry and local governments in the United States will rise from 4.5 billion dollars last year to 10.3 billion by 19.5, indicating a sharp increase in pollution control investment over the next ten years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
UPI
United States
Frost & Sullivan Market Research Organization
Conflicts of Interest in Investment Banking Report Says Underwriters Face
New York reports that the Twentieth Century Fund urges reforms to reduce inherent conflicts in security underwriting. Nicholas Wolfson notes clients push for high issue prices while investors seek low prices, cites evidence of limited value appreciation, and calls for stronger SEC enforcement and a bankers ethics code while opposing banning underwriting by brokerage firms and predicting competitive commissions won’t harm the industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Twentieth Century Fund
Nicholas Wolfson
Wolfson
University of Connecticut Law School
Securities and Exchange Commission
SEC
South Central Vermont Realtors Hold January Meeting
The South Central Vermont Board of Realtors met January 19 at Gurrys Restaurant Manchester Depot with about forty two members. Bob Waite of Traske Waite was elected president, Walker S Kimball Jr vice president, Rita Ruland secretary, Betsy Litchfield Cetron treasurer. Lewis LaTuch of Rutland Savings Bank spoke on plans for a Manchester Shopping Center branch office. A Q and A followed with legislators Sam Lloyd Orrin Beattie and Senator Merritt Hewitt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Central Vermont Board of Realtors
Gurry’s
Manchester Depot
Steward Ledbetter
Bob Waite
Traske & Waite
Walker S. Kimball Jr
Kimball-Martin, Inc
Rita Ruland
Kimball
Lewis LaTuch
Rutland Savings Bank
Manchester
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Stanley Marcus
Neiman- Marcus
Adam Smith
Smith
George C. Lodge
Harvard Business School
Alfred A. Knopf
Bennington
Kenneth N
Alma K. Corey
Shaftsbury
James F
Rhoda J. Comi
Eastview Drive
State of Vermont
Theodore P
Shirley A. Morse
Rice and
Denio
Francis B. Woodward
Frederic S
Estelle B. Hoth
Cyr Court
Grand Union
Sale
Your
Dan River
Overwice
Wanemad
Monument Plaza
Bennington, Vt
South Central Realtors
Sam Lloyd
Weston
Orrin Beattie
Merritt Hewitt
Mais
Main ST
Nees
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