Monthly Archives: March 2009

Russell Athletic Gets the Undivided Attention of Labor Groups and University Administrators

Tweet So far 18 universities have pulled back from licensing deals with Russell Athletic over the company’s labor practices.  Harvard, Columbia, Duke, Michigan and Penn State are among schools that have ended licensing agreements with Russell over what they believe are unfair business practices related to a Honduras factory that had...
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Prepaid Wireless Takes Off

Tweet Consumers are abandoning traditional subscription plans, which may curb growth for AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and T-Mobile By Olga Kharif March 20, 2009 –  BusinessWeek   It looked, for a while, like the wireless industry might shrug off the worst of the recession. AT&T (T), the biggest U.S. phone...
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NEW INSIGHT INTO AMERICANS’ ATTITUDES

Tweet This article and others published in USA TODAY this week are based on 355,334 telephone interviews conducted throughout 2008 by the Gallup Poll and Healthways, a Tennessee-based health management company.   The surveys of about 1,000 people a day for 351 days measured Americans' physical, emotional and economic well-being....
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