Word: dow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week after the October 22, 1967 march on Washington, the one Norman Mailer '43 described in The Armies of the Night, 300 Harvard students imprisoned in Mallinckrodt for seven hours a recruiter from Dow Chemical, the principal manufacturer of napalm for use in Vietnam. Even SDS was caught by surprise. Its executive committee had called for simple picketing. But the 375 students who voluntarily turned in their bursar's cards to the administration adopted four demands: no on-campus recruiting by Dow, the CIA, or the U.S. military, and no disciplinary action against the demonstrators. President Nathan M. Pusey...
More than one American entrepreneur has befriended the Greek military regime, and industrialists reap large profits at the expense of Greek laborers. Multi-national corporations, including Exxon, Coca-Cola (both represented by Pappas), Dow Chemical and Alcoa, are exempt from a variety of taxes and duties. This is specified in the Greek constitution. Trade unions have been scrapped or stripped of power by the government, in order to maintain the low wages that attract foreign monopolists. Such economic tactics have driven about 250,000 workers to seek jobs in West Germany...
Price indexing, too, has become a mania; art buyers want to have value lists analogous to the Dow Jones charts. Unfortunately, the statistics are nearly always incomplete, inaccurate and full of special pleading; even so, they have helped crystallize the fantasy that the desire for art can somehow be statistically measured. By far the quaintest manifestation of this to date has been a rating system cobbled together by a young financial tipster named Willi Bongard, which recently appeared in Capital (a monthly German management magazine) and was reported in the Wall Street Journal. His artcom-pass purports to grade...
Other barter deals involve a kind of commission paid in goods rather than cash. Dow Chemical Co., for example, currently ships ethylene to other chemical processors who cannot get the substance elsewhere. The processors convert the ethylene to polyethylene, then ship a percentage of the polyethylene to Dow and keep the rest as payment. Dow can in turn continue to supply polyethylene to its customers...
...political bedfellows in Chile, Greece, Brazil, South Korea, the Philippines, and the Middle East. In any of these regions an increase of popular resistance to U.S.-supported oppression could cause the government to drag us into new counterrevolutionary intervention. This continual threat of war means that now, as with Dow Chemical in 1967 or with ROTC in 1969, it is no less important to try to break the ties between the military and large corporations...