Word: baxter
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Vernon Loucks, the CEO of Baxter International Inc., has come under attack recently after his company pleaded guilty to violating U.S. trade laws and giving economic information to the Arab League in 1985 in order to be removed from the league's list of companies to be boycotted...
THOUGH IT HAS BEEN AGAINST THE LAW SINCE 1977 for American firms to cooperate with the Arab boycott of Israel, the Clinton Administration has sent U.S. companies a strong reminder by levying the first criminal penalty in such a case. Baxter International, the world's largest hospital supplier, pleaded guilty to violating provisions of the law that forbids U.S. companies to provide the Arab League with information about their dealings with Israel. The U.S. government, which began investigating the matter three years ago, fined Baxter $500,000 in the case. Baxter will pay an additional $5,959,000 to < settle...
...Baxter Black, cowboy poet...
Shadow Play is definitely corilineal. Baxter's setting is conventional small-town America, but his scenes are as eerie as the realism of Edward Hopper paintings. Five Oaks is a town where history no longer takes root. Industry is elsewhere. Spirits too have up and gone. People have dusty backgrounds and odd occupations. A Palmer neighbor is a retired airline dietitian; a young woman describes herself as a Con-Tact-paper decorator...
...bargain. How could he? In a universe where God is only curious, the devil is certainly bored, at least with Five Oaks. To convey this sense of abandonment and emptiness without losing the reader is not easy. Shadow Play could have turned into another clever existential dead end. But Baxter fills the void with a hundred human touches, a style as intimate as chamber music, and a hero who rouses himself to reject the banality that hoohah happens...