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...Williams College, still in the process of divesting from two companies--the Dresser Corporation and Numont Mining Corporation--that conduct business in South Africa, students and officials alike stress that debate on South Africa policy is conducted entirely by members of the Williams community. "I believe that the students who favor divesting from South Africa do so because of their own beliefs entirely, there is no outside involvement," says Raymond C. Blyer, public information director for the college. Williams is divesting from the two corporations because they did not answer requests for statements of compliance with the Sullivan Principles...
...Williams College, still in the process of divesting from two companies--the Dresser Corporation and Numont Mining Corporation--that conduct business in South Africa, students and officials alike stress that debate on South Africa policy is conducted entirely by members of the Williams community. "I believe that the students who favor divesting from South Africa do so because of their own beliefs entirely, there is no outside involvement," says Raymond C. Blyer, public information director for the college. Williams is divesting from the two corporations because they did not answer requests for statements of compliance with the Sullivan Principles...
Hoffa was presumably murdered in 1975, when he disappeared without a trace. But Hoffa's successor, Frank Fitzsimmons, continued to allow Dorfman to control the union's pension fund, and Dorfman prospered in the murky, billion-dollar swamp of Teamsters loans and land deals. A dapper dresser fond of a round of golf and the company of old cronies, he lived with his wife Lynn in a $750,000 home in the Chicago suburb of Riverwoods...
...respect. Certainly, he does not live like a superstar. His pleasant home in Los Gates is nothing that would interest Architectural Digest: freshly laundered shirts lie on the floor of an unfurnished second bedroom, a love letter is magneted to the kitchen fridge, the master bedroom holds a dresser, a few framed photos (Einstein, Jobs with his buddy Governor Jerry Brown, a guru), a mattress, an Apple II. He has forsaken vegetarianism ("Interacting with people has got to be seriously balanced against living a little healthier") and dresses with what might be called tailored informality. He is a work junkie...
...PepsiCo, whose bottling plants in the U.S.S.R. have been quenching Russian thirst since the Nixon years, contended that Reagan's on-and-off "light-switch commercial policy" branded the U.S. an unreliable supplier. Still, 15 more plants to bottle Pepsi will be uncapped soon. General Electric and Dresser Industries, two companies that would have been stung badly if the pipeline sanctions had gone on, now will be able to deliver their goods...