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...industry executives are as tough on Pickens as he is on them. "He's only after the almighty buck," says G.C. Richardson, a retired executive of Cities Service. He's nothing but a pirate." Gulf Chairman James Lee accuses Pickens of "hit-and-run tactics." Says Chevron Chairman George Keller: "Pickens does not break any laws doing what he does. But he breaks tradition." Many oilmen are reluctant to discuss Pickens publicly for fear of drawing his attention to their companies. Says one executive: "They want to let sleeping dogs...
...Washington's most effective weapon is still its most direct one: cutting off drugs at the source. "The closer you are to where it comes from," explains Ambassador Corr in Bolivia, "the more bang you get for your buck. By the time it gets to East St. Louis or Champaign, Ill., it's all over the place." U.S.-backed programs of coca eradication have enjoyed some measure of success: last fall in "Operation Federico" in Brazil, 9 million epadu plants were burned while workers in Peru slashed down more than 5,000 acres, three times more than...
...with South Africa, and divestiture of other moral issues. South Africa has no monopoly on injustice in the world, although its blaram racism would make it appear so. Rather, the globe is jammed with left-wing, right-wing ambidexuous governments then citizens. And loads of American companies make a buck or two from most of them...
...study sparked a stinging exchange between Rukeyser and Financial Columnist Dan Dorfman, who wrote about the study in a Jan. 14 New York magazine column. Said Dorfman: "Here's a surefire way to lose a buck--and fast." Dorfman's column suggests that Rukeyser tends to select guests whose ideas are already in vogue on Wall Street. By the time the experts appear on the show, their favored stocks may have nearly crested...
...that score, That's Dancing will not advance the art of ballet in the United States, but that's not why MGM produced this film: they're making a buck off their past. And it's not a bad past. True, the very best moments of American dance are already in That's Entertainment, but the films between 1935 and 1955 are an almost endless gold mine; That's Dancing is still a rich yield...