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The Dating Game
Dateline NBC attempts to answer the question "how safe and fresh is the meat, chicken and fish we buy in the supermarkets? ... By conducting hundreds of interviews, examining regulations in 50 states, and secretly tracking thousands of pieces of meat, Dateline uncovered evidence of a widespread deception crossing both state and corporate lines, involving the largest grocery store chains in the nation. (The) investigation centered on 'sell-by' dates -- those tiny dates stamped on every package that are supposed to tell us how old meat is and when to throw it away."
Tags: food; meat; chicken; fish; safe; sell-by; supermarkets; chains; TAPE; TRANSCRIPT
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Bad Advice: As their firms chase investment banking deals, Wall Street analysts are ignoring red flags and touting stocks that are poised for a fall
"Many investors these days complain that stocks they own fall precipitously without warning from the analysts who persuaded them to buy the shares in the first place," Keenan reports. "Why didn't Wall Street pros issue warnings before the routs? Well, why would they? Analysts are more rainmakers than researchers these days. They're paid to be positive. " Of 28,000 analyst recommendations on 6,700 companies in the U.S. and Canada, less than 1 percent are sells or strong sells ... By contrast, one-third of the ratings are strong buys, another third are buys, and all the rest are holds." That ratio hasn't changed much over the past five years, "and it's not likely to change as long as analysts pay -- $2 million to $3 million annually for top-ranked names and as much as $15 million for the superstars -- is linked to how much business they bring to their firms."
Tags: Mary Meeker; Jack Grubman
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Out of Date Meat
WFMY-TV catches employees at five Winn-Dixie stores "illegally changing the sell-by dates on various types of meat products and extending the shelf life by more than a month on some products." The five Winn-Dixie stores were found in three counties near Greensboro, North Carolina.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; Winn-Dixie; Greensboro; North Carolina; food safety; meat products; sell-by dates
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King World Productions shows that supermarket stores may knowingly be selling food which is seriously beyond its "sell by" date. Packages of dairy products, cereal, poultry, meat, and even baby food (some products as old as five years out of date) were purchased from store shelves. These packages were then returned to store managers. In many cases these food products were returned to stor shelves, only to be puchased again. (Feb. 21, 1995)
Tags: Gilmartin Eigner Schupper Outdated food Contest entry Safety Health 2 pgs. TAPE NO SCRIPT