Word: exxon
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Other forms of intimidation have been more direct. School buses full of American children have been stoned. One executive's Cadillac was burned, while an Exxon employee narrowly escaped injury in southerly Ahwaz when a Molotov cocktail was hurled at his car. The entire U.S. community was thrown into its deepest shock two weeks ago by the assassination of Oil Executive Paul Grimm in Ahwaz...
...least six U.S. oil firms, including Exxon, Phillips Petroleum and Union Oil, have sent top-level delegations to Peking to discuss possible joint ventures. The theme of all the talks was the same: China would own any oil that was found, but the firms, in exchange for their technological expertise, would win the right to buy some oil at below OPEC prices...
...pays for it? The Indian people." The Indians do not have the management expertise to develop their own resources, Williams says, but there are other ways of being part owners of these activities. The Navajo tribe just recently signed a huge joint venture uranium exploration agreement with Exxon. The agreement, (the first Indian joint venture agreement) gives the tribe equity shares in the extraction of uranium, and increased control in the rate and manner of development, should the tribe decide to develop...
...advertising enterprise can prosper by acquiring a lot of firms that are allowed, even encouraged, to compete with one another. The firm's mainstay remains McCann-Erickson, which bills more than $1 billion annually in ads from a long list of blue-chip clients, including Miller Brewing and Exxon. The Marschalk agency, which was a small outfit when McCann-Erickson bought it in 1955, is now one of the fastest-growing U.S. ad firms, handling such heavyweights as Gillette, Heublein and Paine Webber. Erwin Wasey, a West Coast firm that joined the Interpublic fold in 1963, and Detroit-based Campbell...
Every day scores of planes, from 747s to vintage C-46s, haul television sets, machinery and other U.S.-manufactured goods to the Caribbean and Latin America, returning with clothing, fresh flowers and food. In Coral Gables alone, 80 international firms have opened offices. Exxon, Du Pont and General Electric have their Latin American headquarters there. International trade now accounts for $4 billion in state income and has created 167,000 jobs, some of which have been filled by other Latin American nationals who have been drawn to the booming area...