Word: exxon
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...high school in Miami--his father, an engineer with Exxon, moved the family several times--Jeff became the valedictorian. He didn't drink, do drugs or even swear. People liked him anyway. And almost every summer, he headed for his grandfather's ranch in Cotulla. It was the perfect antidote to the brainy world he inhabited the rest of the year. On the ranch he'd ride horses, brand cattle with a LAZY G, fix windmills and tool around in a 1962 International Harvester Scout. He helped his grandpa fix a D6 Caterpillar tractor using nothing...
...word merger conjures up only thoughts of deals to join corporate giants like Exxon and Mobil, conjure again. What headline writers call "merger madness" is also breaking out among relatively pint-size companies, which seal new relationships in the cafeteria and celebrate with interpersonal mingling that can involve the whole staff. These not-so-big deals sometimes seem to occur in a business world altogether different from the one inhabited by the megabillion-bucks monsters. Witness the just completed merger of Personify and Anubis, two California e-commerce companies...
...that the company's case will be heard on the Hill? Well, last year alone Fruit handed out more than $435,000 in soft-money donations, a figure that puts contributions by the firm (1998 sales: $2.2 billion) ahead of those of such giants as Coca-Cola, Exxon and Bank of America. Most of Fruit's plums go to Republicans, including $265,000 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee, run by Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, the principal opponent of campaign finance reform...
Other panelists included Araz Azimov, a foreign affairs official from Azerbaijan; Ashton Carter, Ford Foundation professor of science and international affairs at the Kennedy School; and Tim Cejka, vice president of Exploration for Exxon Venture, which explores opportunities for exploiting new oil resources in the former Soviet Union...
...other 20 have gone on to tenured positions at UC-Berkeley, MIT, Princeton and other universities in three countries. One, Brian Flannery, is a corporate executive at Exxon. One former faculty member has an institute named after him in Europe...