Word: exxon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...companies before the subcommittee and harshly accused them of jacking up prices and making extortionate profits from the energy crisis. The oilmen argued that the high earnings were for only one year, came after several years of modest profits, and were largely from big sales overseas. At one point, Exxon Vice President Roy A. Baze could not recall the size of his company's 1972 dividends. Jackson angrily threatened "to start slapping subpoenas on some of you," and then telephoned a stockbroker and announced that the dividends had been $3.80 a share...
...Exxon Education Foundation yesterday awarded a grant of $50,600 to fund the project. Robert Dorfman, Wells Professor of Political Economy, will co-chair the committee composed of members of the American Association of University Professors...
Before the Exxon grant was awarded. Dorfman said the committee approached many university administrations for possible funding of a trial development project, but none were willing to put up the money. "Rosovsky's getting awfully stingy. I asked him for $5000 and he wouldn't give it to me," Dorfman said...
...DeNiro) takes the first steps on the ascent from petty thief to capo di rutti capi in a series of flash-backs interspersed in the main action. Here, Michael (Al Pacino) has to deal with the legacy of his father--an extra-legal fiefdom doing business on a scale Exxon wouldn't sneeze at--and try to adapt it to changing times. If the film has anything to say about this, it is that he is imprisoned by his heritage. He marries an upper-class New England girl (played by Diane Keaton, who apparently hasn't learned...
...London on the details of the deal recessed last week, but it seems likely that in the end the Saudi government will have paid some $2 billion for Aramco. The chief questions still to be negotiated are how much the Saudi government will pay Aramco's American owners (Exxon, Mobil, Standard Oil of California and Texaco) to manage and operate the wells and pipelines, and how much of the crude that is produced the Saudis will guarantee to sell to the American companies...