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...burial in landfills and detoxify the poisonous chemicals for similar disposal. Instead, the corporation just stacked the drums out back. Reacting to the fears of Elizabeth residents, state officials seized the site in March 1978 and began the slow cleanup. The companies, whose barrels were clearly labeled, included the 3M Co. and Union Carbide; the firms had no legal obligation to retrieve their drums but promptly did so when notified by the state...
...idea is hardly new. The Japanese developed circles after World War II, borrowing ideas from U.S. business theorists, and such groups are considered to be an important contribution to Japan's productivity. Among the U.S. corporations now using quality circles are General Motors, Ford, American Airlines, 3M and Martin Marietta. One of the most enthusiastic, Westinghouse, is expanding the use of circles after experimenting with the idea for 16 months at its Defense and Electronic Systems Center near Baltimore. Notes Executive Vice President George Beck: "This is one of those rare programs that benefit everyone...
Even some of the "defensive research" is starting to pay off. Last week the 3M Co. introduced a lithograph printing plate that uses nonpolluting tap water instead of chemical developers to produce an image. General Motors' new zinc-nickel oxide battery pack-which can be completely recharged 300 times and will power a car for 100 miles-cost $33 million and took ten years to develop, but it has now opened up for the first time the possibility of a practical, mass-produced electric...
This year the Corporation will consider resolutions asking Philips Petroleum and the 3M company to withdraw their operations from South Africa, a resolution asking Kodak to stop sales of certain kinds of photographic equipment to the South African government, a resolution calling on Exxon not to expand its South African operations, a resolution calling on Bristol Meyers to change its Third World infant formula marketing practices, resolutions prohibiting ex-government officials from taking jobs with General Electric and several other companies, and resolutions on redlining, political contributions, and journalistic practices...
...Corporation has set up no group to evaluate the companies. The ACSR, we have been told many times this year, is designed to deal with ethical questions related to Harvard's investments. Yet when the ACSR voted overwhelmingly last week to support shareholder resolutions calling upon Motorola and 3M corporations to discontinue their South African operations, Hugh Calkins, acting on behalf of the Corporation, decided instead to abstain. This action made a mockery of their protestations of reliance on the ACSR--itself hardly a representative body. Unless the Corporation itself intends to review every company, it must either respect...