Exhibit 3.79


                               PRICE-MODERN, INC.


                      ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT AND RESTATEMENT
         (Under Section 2-609 of Corporations and Associations Article)

PRICE-MODERN, INC., a Maryland corporation, having its principal office in
Baltimore, Maryland and having The Corporation Trust Incorporated as its
resident agent located at 300 East Lombard Street, Maryland 21202 (hereinafter
called the Corporation), hereby certifies to the State Department of Assessments
and Taxation of Maryland, that: 

    The charter of the corporation is hereby amended and restated in its 
entirety to read as follows:

         FIRST:   The name of the corporation is Price-Modern, Inc.

         SECOND:  The purposes for which the corporation is formed are as
                  follows:

                  A.  To purchase, hold in inventory, and sell, lease or
                      otherwise transfer office products, furniture and
                      equipment and to render related products and services.

                  B.  To engage in and perform any activities or functions which
                      may lawfully be performed by a business corporation
                      organized under the laws of the State of Maryland.

                  C.  The foregoing enumerated purposes shall be in no way
                      limited or restricted by reference to, or inference from,
                      the terms of any other clause of this or any other Article
                      of the Charter of the Corporation, and they are intended
                      to be and shall be construed as powers as well as purposes
                      of the Corporation and shall be in addition to and not in
                      limitation of the general powers of corporations under the
                      general laws of the State of Maryland.

         THIRD:   The post office address of the principal office of the
                  corporation in Maryland is 2604 Sisson Street, Baltimore,
                  Maryland 21211.

         FOURTH:  The name and post office of the registered agent of the
                  corporation in Maryland are The Corporation Trust
                  Incorporated, 300 East Lombard Street, Maryland 21202.

         FIFTH:   The corporation has authority to issue 1,000 shares of common
                  stock with no par value per share.

         SIXTH:   The current directors are Mark D. Director, Donald H. Platt
                  and Milford H. Marchant.

         SEVENTH: The number of directors of the corporation shall be (3) which
                  number may be increased or decreased pursuant to the bylaws of
                  the corporation, and so long as there are less than 




                  three (3) stockholders, the number of directors may be less 
                  than three (3) but not less than the number of stockholders.

         SECOND:  The board of directors of the corporation, by a unanimous
                  written consent on September 25, 1998, adopted a resolution in
                  which was set forth the foregoing amendment to the charter,
                  declaring that the said amendment and restatement of the
                  charter was advisable and directing that it be submitted for
                  action thereon by the stockholders.

         THIRD:   The amendment and restatement of the charter of the
                  corporation as hereinabove set forth was approved by a consent
                  in writing setting forth said amendment and restatement of the
                  charter, signed by all the stockholders entitled to vote on
                  said amendment, and all the other stockholders entitled to
                  notice of a meeting of stockholders but not to vote thereat
                  having waived in writing any rights which they may have to
                  dissent from such amendment, such consent and waiver having
                  been filed with the records of stockholders meetings.

         FOURTH:  The Articles of Amendment and Restatement shall become
                  effective on the First day of October, 1998.

                                           PRICE-MODERN, INC.

                                     By : /s/  Kathleen M. Delaney
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                                           Kathleen M. Delaney, Vice President


Attest:  (Witness:)

/s/  Mark D. Director
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Mark D. Director, Assistant Secretary









THE UNDERSIGNED, Vice President of PRICE-MODERN, INC., who executed on behalf of
said corporation the foregoing Articles of Amendment and Restatement of Charter,
of which this certificate is made a part, hereby acknowledges, in the name and
on behalf of said corporation, the foregoing Articles of Amendment and
Restatement of Charter to be the corporate act of said corporation and further
certifies that, to the best of his knowledge, information and belief, the
matters and facts set forth therein with respect to the approval thereof are
true in all material respects, under the penalties of perjury.

/s/  Kathleen M. Delaney
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Kathleen M. Delaney, Vice President