Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies 1997


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"Highly recommended". -- Choice New Edition Since 1960, Ward's Business Directory has been a standard reference for professionals seeking an easy-to-use source of current, verified data covering 120,00 U.S. companies -- more than 90% of which are privately held. Ward's helps you analyze markets, assess competition, find clients, target promotions, examine company backgrounds, form business partnerships, recruit new talent and more. Vols. 1-3: Complete company information arranged alphabetically. Vol. 4: Geographic section lists companies in ZIP code order by state. Vol. 5: Rankings of private and public companies by sales within four-digit SIC. Vols. 6-7: State rankings by sales within four-digit SIC. Special features include ranking of top 1,000 privately held companies, top 1,000 publicly held companies and top 1,000 employers.













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Race Against Time


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While many studies of race relations have focused on the black experience, Race against Time strives to unravel the emotional and cultural foundations of race in the white mind. Jack E. Davis combed primary documents in Natchez, Mississippi, and absorbed the town's oral history to understand white racial attitudes there over the past seven decades, a period rich in social change, strife, and reconciliation. What he found in this community that cultivates for profit a romantic view of the Old South challenges conventional assumptions about racial prejudice. Davis engagingly and effortlessly weaves between nineteenth and twentieth centuries, white observations and black, to describe patterns of social interaction in Natchez in the workplace, education, politics, religion, and daily life. It was not, he discovers, false notions of biological differences reinforced by class and economic conflict that lay at the heart of the town's racial divide but rather the perception of a black/white cultural divergence -- in values in education, work, and family. White culture was deemed superior, a presumption manifested through a hierarchy of old-family elite and other white citizens. Since 1930, Natchez has developed a major tourist industry, downsized sharecropping, expanded its manufacturing sector, and participated in the struggles for civil rights, school desegregation, and black political empowerment. Yet the collective white perception of a mythic past has continued, reinforced through the sum of Natchez's public history -- social memory, school textbooks, breathtaking antebellum mansions, and world-famous Pilgrimage. In Race against Time, Davis sensitively lays bare the need for shared control of the town's history and the acknowledgment of intercultural dependence to effect true racial equality. Building upon the 1941 classic Deep South: A Social Anthropological Study of Caste and Class, Davis brings tremendous passion and insight to the demanding issue of race as he fathoms the contours of Natchez's distinctive racial dynamics in recent decades.