Word: arco
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...companies are looking for new ways to lure drivers to their pumps, the once thriving company card may become an endangered species. Last week Atlantic Richfield Co., the eighth largest American gasoline retailer, an nounced that it was getting out of the credit-card business altogether. After April 15, Arco gas stations will accept neither its own blue-and-gray cards, which are held by more than 3 million people, nor those of Visa, American Express or other credit companies. Industry experts predict that other big gasoline retailers will eventually drop out of or cut back on the credit business...
...companies also complain about the high cost of maintaining the credit service at a time of skyrocketing interest rates. Last year Arco spent more than $73 million to administer its credit-card accounts. Texaco, which has also been plagued by rising credit-card costs, last November started levying a 3% sales surcharge on dealers who accept the Texaco cards for payment. Exxon has launched tests in selected areas to see if a 40-per-gal. discount will reduce credit-card use. The company is now considering introducing the plan nationwide...
Whatever the failings of today's youth courts and lockups, the problem that most stirs public anger is the length of time violent young criminals serve. Last July in Texas, David Keeler shot to death his mother and father, who was president of ARCO Oil & Gas Co.; David will no longer be under the control of juvenile officials when he reaches 18. Authorities typically lose jurisdiction when juveniles are no longer minors, and the offenders often go free...
...other countries which cause problems, never the good ol' U.S. of A.) is doubly disappointing in that the show not only had the opportunity to evoke the spirit of the sixties, but the resources to do it with. Though not fully exploited here, the space of the ARCO Forum is a dynamic one to work with: Few other Harvard theatres offer the same staggered sight-lines or sense of openness and height. The technical capabilities add to the impact: The microphones (a godsend to this production in which some of the unaided voices do not reach the second...
...ARCO Forum at the Kennedy School of Government finds one more form of political expression tonight as Jean Anouilh's Antigone starts its four...