Word: du
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Elizabeth R. Goree Prairie du Chien...
...overall goals but also the subtle yet compelling little signals, like styles of dress or who gets promoted, that tell employees how to behave. Industrial powerhouses often sum up their cultural values in slogans like General Electric's venerable "Progress is our most important product" or Du Font's "Better things for better living through chemistry." Those mottoes not only help sell light bulbs, refrigerators and synthetic fibers, but tell the employees what their companies stand...
...concluded, the takeover would rank as the third largest in U.S. corporate history, surpassed only by last year's $7.5 billion merger of Conoco and E.I. Du Pont de Nemours, and the $6.2 billion acquisition of Marathon Oil by U.S. Steel. The resulting company would instantly become the seventh largest American industrial firm, with sales exceeding $36 billion...
...sultry and close inside the Salle du Sacre (Coronation Room). The men at the huge conference table have their jackets off, and even British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in a light summer dress, has a few beads of perspiration along her impeccable upper lip. The debate on economic and monetary affairs, supposedly the height of the summit, drones on. President Reagan starts amusing himself by doodling neat little pen portraits of imaginary figures-a nondescript man with a mustache, something that looks like a smiling Marlboro cowboy, and the head of a horse. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan passes a note...
Researchers at Savannah River and Sandia also conduct extensive work for non-military purposes Sandia, for example, oversees a large solar energy program, and its nuclear programs have civilian, as well as defense applications, says Rod Geer, a spokesman for the labs. Du Pont uses nuclear materials at Savannah River for testing cancer therapy...