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GTE's national literacy program GTE Reads today earned the telecommunications company the prestigious Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership.

The award, presented by President Clinton this afternoon during ceremonies in the Whit...

CIGNA was named one of the "Top 100
Employers" by The Black Collegian magazine in the publication's annual
ranking. The list is comprised of companies who hire the most college
graduates.
CIGNA projected a total of 308 hires from the college rank...

Georgia Governor Roy Barnes and BellSouth Corp. today announced a major initiative to build a broadband infrastructure throughout the state and deliver high-speed Internet access to rural Georgia residents and all of Georgia's approximately 1,800 K-12 schools. The project is...

Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (NYSE: ACK) said today that its wood products operations division (Triangle Pacific Corp.) will only purchase gatewood timber from companies who can certify that it was harvested by loggers trained in the industry's "Best Management Practices...

Gap Inc. (NYSE: GPS) today issued its first social responsibility report, offering the most comprehensive look ever provided by the company into its ongoing efforts to improve labor standards in the approximately 3,000 garment factories worldwide that produce merchandise for...

Twenty years after the eruption of Mount St. Helens that destroyed 68,000 acres of its forest land, Weyerhaeuser Company is opening a new exhibit at the Mount St. Helens Forest Learning center to commemorate the rebirth of the forest surrounding the blast zone.

The Mead Corporation’s Coated Board division recently initiated a third-party audit of its forestry operations. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP conducted the audit under the American Forest & Paper Association’s Sustainable Forestry Initiative(SM) (SFI) (SM) voluntary verific...

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (NYSE:APD) had the best safety record of large-scale chemical manufacturers in the U.S. for 1999, according to Responsible Care® performance measure data recently released by the Chemical Manufacturers Association (CMA).* The company's freque...

Doug Daft, chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company, today made a five-year $1 billion commitment to diversity in a comprehensive empowerment and entrepreneurship program for the U.S.

"This is a logical extension of our ‘think local, ac...

Weyerhaeuser Company’s Grande Prairie/Grande Cache Forestlands division has achieved certification to the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System (EMS) standard. Registration followed a thorough independent audit by the Quality Management Institute, a division of the Canad...