Policy good for company and workers

You have to hand it to the people at Wahl Clipper Corp. Those running the Sterling company, which makes electric hair clippers, shavers and other personal grooming products, have had a sense of humor about why they exist. If human hair didn't grow, after all, they'd be out of business. "As long as hair keeps growing, so should we," stated the late Jack Wahl, one-time president and CEO, in the company's 1994 annual report. The headline on a story in the paper the other day seemed to reflect that corporate wit: "Clipper company avoids cuts." Yes, someone might say, of course a company that makes clippers wants to build safe products that don't cut anything they're not supposed to. However, this headline wasn't referring to customers' skin, bu