11.   Cleaver described the meeting as cordial but said he made little headway on the issue of how the company treats its minority customers.

12.   Companies can treat the securities as debt for tax purposes and deduct the interest.

13.   Comic book superheroes were invented on the eve of World War II, and back then different comic companies treated the approaching war differently.

14.   Critics say the layoffs demonstrate how modern companies treat workers as disposable tools.

15.   Current rules do not require companies to treat such options as being valuable when they are given out.

16.   Four African-American plaintiffs filed suit against Coke, alleging that the company treated them and other black employees unfairly in pay and promotions.

17.   For the most part, Stufflebeam acknowledges, the company treats its workers well.

18.   How will his companies treat their workers?

19.   How a financial services company treats its retirement plan is a delicate issue.

20.   How the company treats the workers it dismisses affects the morale of those left behind, he says.