Word: exxon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fruit salad cart. A stunning Indian woman in a sari dispensed a first-rate cup of fruit here, with watermelon, orange, grapes, grapefruit, pineapple and cantaloupe. It was at this stand, right in front of the Exxon building, that I generally saw a scene that took me all summer to get used to. It went something like this...
From its headquarters in New York City, AT&T controls assets of $137 billion, more than those of Exxon, General Motors and U.S. Steel combined, and more than the gross national products of all but 20 nations. A T & T's resources include 24,000 buildings, 177,000 motor vehicles and 142 million telephones, or eight out of every ten phones in the U.S. The company's 1 million employees make up almost 1% of the American work force, a level that no other company even approaches. It has 3 million shareholders, more than any other firm...
Officials in both the University and the corporate community say it is impossible to expect the private sector to replace all of the cutbacks in federal funds. As Robert Payton, president of Exxon's Educational Foundation, points out, "The total sum of corporate contributions for all purposes is less than the cut in the federal budget for student aid alone." Nevertheless, the corporate community has become an increasingly vital source of educational funds, and one that the University will continue to court...
...Exxon service stations. Saul Bass, Herb Yager, Howard York and Richard Huppertz, principal designers. All elements, including architecture, graphics and gasoline pumps are integrated into one quietly assertive unit that should help calm America's roadside clutter...
...vote, the lawmakers approved a package of waivers to the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Act, which set the ground rules for the project as early as 1976. The three U.S. natural gas producers involved in the deal-Exxon, Standard Oil of Ohio and Atlantic Richfield-will be allowed to share ownership in the pipeline with the Alaskan Northwest Natural Gas Transportation Co., the ten-company consortium that plans to build it. A1977 presidential decision barred such an agreement on antitrust grounds, but the backers argued that the change was needed to pay for the project...