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...Du Pont: Savannah River...
This sort of diversity can be seen by looking at the three companies for which Harvard had to cast proxy votes last year on nuclear weapons-related issues: The General Electric Co., The Du Pont Co. and The American Telephone and Telegraph...
...after a takeover bid is announced, in the hope that they can resell the stock to the acquiring company at a much higher price when the deal is finally concluded. Risk arbitragers made estimated profits of about $200 million last year on Conoco stock when it was sold to Du Pont. Ivan F. Boesky, 45, is said to have made at least $40 million on the Conoco takeover...
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...