Word: arco
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Recognizing the problems with investment in such an oppressive country, many other corporations, including oil companies, have pulled out of Burma. Petro-Canada, upon its pullout, described the SLORC as "thugs, criminals and drug-dealers." Texaco, however, along with Unocal, Total, Nippon Oil and most recently Arco, has decided to do business with the regime and continue its tradition of environmental destruction and persecution of indigenous peoples...
...again. On Dec. 3, the concept of the panel discussion will gain new meaning. According to a press release from the Coalition on Urban Affairs (CUA), a euphemistically named right-wing advocacy group, a conference on "Free Speech, Sensitivity and True Tolerance" will be convened next Tuesday at the ARCO Forum focused on the critique of Peninsula printed in this space one month ago. Who is to be included on this K-School panel? CUA says it will have John Leo, a reactionary senior columnist for U.S. News and World Report; Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield...
...reporters from national newspapers met at the Kennedy School's ARCO forum to analyze the political maneuverings leading up to President Clinton's re-election and the lethargy of the media in covering them...
Speaking before a packed house of 700 to 800 people last night at the ARCO Forum, Reed was calm and unfazed by protesters in his discourse on the upcoming election, drugs, abortion, civil rights and slipping social values...
...about this play is that it is performed in the style of an old-time radio show: the set consists only of four microphones, on which the actors, costumed in regular street clothes, must act their parts using only their voices. Remarkably, in last weekend's performance at the ARCO Forum, the actors succeeded in painting vivid images for the audience's imagination. The removal of the pressure to visually imitate reality makes the parody all the more believable--without visual distractions, listeners can mentally connect the voices with the subjects being caricatured. Also, the radio-style format adapts nicely...