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...tend to be the boss's choice to inherit the top job. Mark Whitacre, 38, was just such a favorite at giant Archer Daniels Midland, the company that calls itself "supermarket to the world" because its products range from flour to vegetable oil. So close was Whitacre to ADM chairman Dwayne Andreas that the older man regarded the younger as a "second son." And as if to emulate his mentor, Whitacre lived in a colonial-style mansion in Moweaqua, Illinois, that Andreas once owned...
...fast-growing division that extracts profitable nutrients like vitamins from grain. But he also served as an FBI mole in an investigation of possible price-fixing at the firm. According to a story broken last week by the Wall Street Journal, Whitacre alerted federal authorities to possible collusion between ADM and other companies in 1992, and was outfitted with a briefcase with a hidden recorder. Since then, the Journal said, the FBI has collected audio- and videotapes of hundreds of meetings between ADM and other firms in hotels in cities from Los Angeles to Tokyo...
Hultgreen herself had always fought against any leniency in standards towards women. "If people let me slide through on a lower standard, it's my life on the line. I could get killed," she told Rear Adm. Robert Hickey. This lower standard could only be a result of lower quality skills in women. Subjecting women to a lower form of military education results in lower quality skills and ultimately dooms them in a military career. If they are admitted, then they are a danger to themselves; if they are not, then they are never given equal opportunities. The Citadel cannot...
...main issues of the labor dispute of ADM and Ogilvie are quite the same as those of Decatur," said Trembly, who is a French speaker. "We will continue to develop solidarity with workers of the U.S. It gives us hope to come to you to fight to keep our dignity at work...
...President has chosen a recently retired Air Force general, Michael Carns, to take over the CIA, according to Administration sources. An official announcement is expected later this week. If confirmed by the Senate, Carns would be the first military officer to run the agency since Navy Adm. Stansfield Turner held the post during the Carter Administration. TIME Washington correspondent Douglas Waller says the choice of Carns--a Harvard MBA, veteran of 200 combat missions in Vietnam and the Air Force's vice chief of staff until last year--took most Beltway insiders by surprise. But, Waller adds, Carns's reputation...