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While the council in the spring of 1999 fought over bills endorsing same-sex marriage legislation and urging the University to divest from companies like and Exxon, Chevron and Mobil, today’s council’s biggest debates are over things like funding for student groups...
STEIN: A dividend obviously is more attractive in view of the President's plan. But the tail shouldn't wag the dog. First are the fundamentals of the company. We like energy: Exxon Mobil, Chevron Texaco [4.4%] and ConocoPhillips [3.5%]. They have strong balance sheets and have increased their dividends. We are also looking at health care, including Pfizer [2%]. In the consumer area, companies with reasonable valuations include ConAgra...
...search made more urgent in the wake of this month's terror bombing of an oil tanker off the coast of Yemen. European companies such as TotalFinaElf and Royal Dutch Shell have long been players in the region but leading the new charge are U.S. giants ExxonMobil and Chevron and independents such as New York-based Amerada Hess. American firms have been particularly aggressive in wooing new producing countries like Equatorial Guinea and can tap their experience in deep water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. West African oil is low in sulphur, which makes it easy to refine. Because...
Business is getting right with the environment too. The Center for Environmental Leadership in Business, based in Washington, is working with auto and oil giants including Ford, Chevron, Texaco and Shell to draft guidelines for incorporating biodiversity conservation into oil and gas exploration. And the center has helped Starbucks develop purchasing guidelines that reward coffee growers whose methods have the least impact on the environment. Says Nitin Desai, secretary-general of the Johannesburg summit: "We're hoping that partnerships--involving governments, corporations, philanthropies and NGOs--will increase the credibility of the commitment to sustainable development...
...debt, triggered by Enron's troublesome partnerships, had not been in the original merger documents and Watson thinks it was a rude surprise for Enron head Ken Lay and the Enron team as well as Dynegy and its 30-percent owner, Chevron. Enron, he says, had not envisioned all of the possibilities that could trip them up. Operating in "panic mode," Watson's team began trying to sort out the details of the100-page SEC filing the next day, on Nov. 20th, but with a sinking feeling. A week later, on Nov. 27th, after renegotiating the deal almost daily, Watson...