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- <text id=93AC0052>
- <title>
- The Ten Most Admired and Least Admired Corporations
- </title>
- <history>
- Compact ALMANAC--United States Statistics
- Corporations
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Almanac</source>
- <hdr>
- FORTUNE Magazine
- THE MOST ADMIRED & THE LEAST ADMIRED CORPORATIONS
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>THE MOST ADMIRED
- </p>
- <p> The top three remain in place. Old-timers Morgan and Boeing--
- the only companies that don't sell consumer goods--return,
- replacing PepsiCo and Johnson & Johnson.
- </p>
- <table>
- <tblhdr><cell>Rank<cell>Last Year<cell>Company<cell>Score
- <row><cell>1<cell>1<cell type=a>Merck<cell type=n>8.74
- <row><cell><cell><cell>Pharmaceuticals<cell>
- <row><cell>2<cell>2<cell>Rubbermaid<cell>8.58
- <row><cell><cell><cell>Rubber and plastics products<cell>
- <row><cell>3<cell>3<cell>Wal-Mart Stores<cell>8.42
- <row><cell><cell><cell>Retailing<cell>
- <row><cell>4<cell>8<cell>3M<cell>8.41
- <row><cell><cell><cell>Scientific and photo equipment<cell>
- <row><cell>5<cell>7<cell>Coca-Cola<cell>8.19
- <row><cell><cell><cell>Beverages<cell>
- <row><cell>6<cell>9<cell>Proctor & Gamble<cell>8.09
- <row><cell><cell><cell>Soaps, cosmetics<cell>
- <row><cell>7<cell>5<cell>Levi Strauss Associates<cell>7.96
- <row><cell><cell><cell>Apparel<cell>
- <row><cell>8<cell>4<cell>Liz Claiborne<cell>7.95
- <row><cell><cell><cell>Apparel<cell>
- <row><cell>9<cell>15<cell>J.P. Morgan<cell>7.93
- <row><cell><cell><cell>Commercial Banking<cell>
- <row><cell>10<cell>12<cell>Boeing<cell>7.88
- <row><cell><cell><cell>Aerospace<cell>
- </table>
- <p>THE LEAST ADMIRED
- </p>
- <p> Three of the companies on the wrong side of the reputation chasm
- are in bankruptcy. Bethlehem Steel returns to the cellar after
- clambering out.
- </p>
- <table>
- <tblhdr><cell>Rank<cell>Last Year<cell>Company<cell>Score
- <row><cell>311<cell>304<cell type-a>Wang Laboratories<cell type=n>1.99
- <row><cell><cell><cell>Computers and office equipment<cell>
- <row><cell>310<cell>306<cell>Continental Airlines Hold.<cell>3.05
- <row><cell><cell><cell>Transportation<cell>
- <row><cell>309<cell>297<cell>Glenfed<cell>3.49
- <row><cell><cell><cell>Savings Institution<cell>
- <row><cell>308<cell>302<cell>LTV<cell>3.58
- <row><cell><cell><cell>Metals<cell>
- <row><cell>307<cell>301<cell>Dime Savings Bank<cell>3.71
- <row><cell><cell><cell>Savings Institution<cell>
- <row><cell>306<cell>300<cell>CalFed<cell>3.72
- <row><cell><cell><cell>Savings Institution<cell>
- <row><cell>305<cell>254<cell>Crystal Brands<cell>3.81
- <row><cell><cell><cell>Apparel<cell>
- <row><cell>304<cell>303<cell>Unisys<cell>3.93
- <row><cell><cell><cell>Computers and office equipment<cell>
- <row><cell>303<cell>273<cell>Bethlehem Steel<cell>4.01
- <row><cell><cell><cell>Metals<cell>
- <row><cell>302<cell>286<cell>Hartmarx<cell>4.14
- <row><cell><cell><cell>Apparel<cell>
- </table>
- <p>Source: FORTUNE Magazine.
- </p>
- </body>
- </article>
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