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...growing number of major U.S. companies, including such firms as Exxon, Federal Express, Greyhound Lines, Southern California Edison, TWA, IBM and Lockheed, require all job applicants to pass urinalysis tests that screen for drugs. Some firms demand that experienced workers undergo such tests when the danger of impairment is simply too great to chance. At Rockwell, company pilots and employees who work with explosives are tested once a year...
With his Supreme Court cases now closed, Fisher has been working with DWT on a federal appeals case pertaining to the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 and on some other First Amendment work focusing on the journalistic privilege to keep sources confidential...
...just keeps growing, rising $7 billion in the first quarter alone. "A lot of investors might think that share buybacks and dividends and paying down debt are the way to go," says Robb Parlanti, a senior portfolio manager at Turner Investment Partners (which owns other energy stocks but not Exxon). "But the bigger question is, What are they going to do to grow the company long term?" That's a question that even the most disciplined companies eventually have to answer...
...coming of age of biotechnology has not escaped the notice of established corporations. Companies with large investments in genetic research range from chemical firms like Du Pont and Monsanto to oil giants, including Exxon and Chevron. The most active players are the pharmaceutical houses, which have been feverishly striking alliances with the biotech companies. A recent licensing agreement allows Johnson & Johnson to sell products developed by Amgen of Thousand Oaks, Calif...
...problems faced by American business executives living abroad. Chock-full of dos and don'ts on getting along in an alien culture, the tape has been bought by 75 of the top 100 U.S. multinationals. Says Author Lewis Griggs: "No matter what you do overseas, whether it's CIA, Exxon or a missionary, you can do it better if you understand the local culture...