1993 Business Rankings Annual Lists of Companies, Products, Services, and Activities Compiled Froma Variety of Published Sources

"Forbes reports that U.S. Surgical Equipment has shown the best stock performance over the past five years with a proce change of 1599%. According to "Money", at least three countries in Lousiana have zero property taxes. "restaurants & Institutions" lists The Olive Gardfeb as the most popular dinner house restaurant chain in the U.S.;The staff of one of the top business libraries in the world regularly scan more tham 1,800 periodicals and newspapers to uncover the latest in publishes rankings. Their research results are published each year in "Gale's business rankings annual";The 1993 edition lists some 3,700 "top ten" business lists inclusing more than 1,480 new to this edition - and the rest fully updated in approximately 1,800 different subject areas. Each entry includes: a list of up to 10 items in the ranking; description of the ranking criteria; units of measure; the total number of items ranked; and a complete bibliographic citation to the source.;Every item in every entry is listed in the index, so users won't miss one bit of information.