Word: exxon
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...that argument convinced Exxon, for example, to pledge $1 million, which it has specified for use in developing the public policy program at the Kennedy School of Government. The line may also have won over some of the committee members themselves. Amory Houghton Jr. '50--who has a controlling interest in Corning Glassware, Dow Corning, Owen-Corning Fiberglas and Pittsburgh-Corning Corp.--arranged for those four companies to donate $750,000 which, along with the Houghton family's own check, will endow a $1-million Amory Houghton Sr. Professor of Chemistry. And Time, Inc. will donate half-a-million...
...that argument convinced Exxon, for example, to pledge $1 million, which it has specified for use in developing the public policy program at the Kennedy School of Government. The line may also have won over some of the committee members themselves. Amory Houghton Jr. '50--who has a controlling interest in Corning Glassware, Dow Corning, Owen-Corning Fiberglas and Pittsburgh-Corning Corp.--arranged for those four companies to donate $750,000 which, along with the Houghton family's own check, will endow a $1-million Amory Houghton Sr. Professor of Chemistry. And Time, Inc. will donate half-a-million...
...that argument convinced Exxon, for example, to pledge $1 million, which it has specified for use in developing the public policy program at the Kennedy School of Government. The line may also have won over some of the committee members themselves. Amory Houghton Jr. '50--who has a controlling interest in Corning Glassware, Dow Corning, Owen-Corning Fiberglas and Pittsburgh-Corning Corp.--arranged for those four companies to donate $750,000 which, along with the Houghton family's own check, will endow a $1-million Amory Houghton Sr. Professor of Chemistry. And Time, Inc. will donate half-a-million...
...Hampshire, the only state in the union with no sales or broad-based income tax, has been growing faster than any other Eastern state except Florida. More than one-third of its manufacturing labor force is now employed in technological industries. Exxon and Burroughs have recently bought land for construction of major new plants in Connecticut. "We were arrogant and half asleep for 25 years, allowing what we had here to be drained away," says Connecticut Economic Development Commissioner Edward Stockton. "Now we have incentives to encourage businesses to settle and stay here...
...going to Canada, of going underground, of becoming conscientious objectors should the draft resume. But the personal motives mask a core of political beliefs. Americans may have forgotten about Vietnam, but it doesn't take much to remind them, and draft registration brings memories back to the surface. Exxon and Mobil will be distressed to learn that large numbers of America's youth think oil isn't worth dying for. "What the fuck have they ever done for me?" asked one, obviously not a regular reader of the Times op-ed page...