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Bailey: Director of association of business communicators says information is more of a motivator than a paycheque these days.
Bailey: Director of association of business communicators says information is more of a motivator than a paycheque these days.

Bailey: Director of association of business communicators says information is more of a motivator than a paycheque these days.

Date3/24/1982
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0125157F
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Vernon Dollard, president and general manager of Toronto Better Business Bureau, says the bureau will dig up the facts on business promotions, but that anyone who asks it for advice or information will have to do some thinking for himself. Some people, he says, look for favorable answers and will ignore warnings nine times out of ten. Bureau staff is told to stick to facts and not make judgments.
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Scotty Dunbar, a guard at Canadian Tire's Brampton warehouse, says the company's profit-sharing plan has given him incomparable security for his old age. Dunbar, 49, has used his equity in Canadian Tire shares to pay off his mortgage and start a business that later failed. He still has more than $120,000 left. He hopes to retire in few years.
Scotty Dunbar, a guard at Canadian Tire's Brampton warehouse, says the company's profit-sharing plan has given him incomparable security for his old age. Dunbar, 49, has used his equity in Canadian Tire shares to pay off his mortgage and start a business that later failed. He still has more than $120,000 left. He hopes to retire in few years.
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Edwin Storey: The president of Canagrex, the new federal export agency for agricultural products, says he wants ideas and information from businesses to help him sell more non-grain food aboard
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First man appointed as executive director of the female-dominated Canadian Physiotheraphy Association, Peter Large, 41, bachelor, says he feels no trepidation because an association is an association
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Each day Ing Loy, 80, sits on the bench outside the information centre at City Hall to pass the time in his Ionely days
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