Word: exxon
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This year the Corporation will consider resolutions asking Philips Petroleum and the 3M company to withdraw their operations from South Africa, a resolution asking Kodak to stop sales of certain kinds of photographic equipment to the South African government, a resolution calling on Exxon not to expand its South African operations, a resolution calling on Bristol Meyers to change its Third World infant formula marketing practices, resolutions prohibiting ex-government officials from taking jobs with General Electric and several other companies, and resolutions on redlining, political contributions, and journalistic practices...
...PHILADELPHIA--The team payroll rivals that of Exxon's board of directors, but the mound staff has too many weaknesses for the Phils to win more than 90 games...
...outlook seems bleak enough as matters stand now. Though most U.S. gasoline stations still have enough fuel on hand to meet the demands, oil company deliveries are rapidly being pared back to stretch dwindling inventories. Exxon's supplies are becoming so tight that last week the company had to impose an $8 limit on gas purchases at its stations along the heavily traveled New Jersey Turnpike. Exxon also said it would not renew crude-oil supply contracts with other companies, a step that is going to make it harder for the firms that have been cut off to meet...
...group of 48 Roundtable member firms, among them AT&T, General Motors, Exxon, Procter & Gamble, Dow Chemical and Eastman Kodak, were examined for the added costs caused in 1977 by just six federal regulatory agencies and programs. The total: $2.6 billion, which was equal to about 16% of the companies' net profits, 10% of their capital expenditures and 40% of their R. & D. budgets for the year. IBM Chairman Frank Gary, who supervised the study, reckoned that the $2.6 billion figure, extrapolated to cover the whole U.S. economy, would yield an overall cost of regulation that is "not inconsistent...
...each sector of the gasoline business point to those in the other. All the major companies have raised their wholesale prices, and there is endless debate over whether or not these increases are justified by the rising costs that the firms must pay for oil. Since early November, Exxon has boosted its wholesale price for regular gas by 4.3%, to 47.9? per gal.; Mobil has lifted its price 10% to 51.9? per gal. and Amoco 11.4% to 50.6? per gal. The service station dealers then normally pass these wholesale increases on to their retail customers. The station owners commonly...