Word: ince
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Most Americans would immediately say false. By tripling oil prices and cutting production for a while, the Arab nations created severe new international balance of payments problems, disrupted business, backed up long lines at gasoline pumps and caused countless other hardships. But at an energy conference held by Time Inc. in Williamsburg, Va., speakers from Government, industry and environmental groups also saw a brighter side to the five-month oil embargo. They believe that it awakened Americans to long-festering energy troubles and started them thinking about solutions...
...Thornton F. Bradshaw, president of Atlantic Richfield Co.; Ian MacGregor, chairman of American Metal Climax, Inc.; John W. Simpson, president of Westinghouse Electric's Power Systems Co.; Alfred J. Eggers Jr., assistant director for research applications of the National Science Foundation; and Lee C. White, chairman, Energy Policy Task Force, Consumer Federation of America...
...latest case, the Department of Labor accused a California Standard subsidiary, Western Operations, Inc., of discharging the 160 employees solely because of their ages during a three-year period that ended Dec. 31, 1973. Company officials contended that they had done nothing wrong but chose to sign a consent order rather than fight. Labor Secretary Peter Brennan, 56, hailed the scope of the settlement, which covers workers in eight Western states whose former jobs ranged from assistant service-station manager to executives; some earned about $40,000 a year. Individual awards to the employees will run from just under...
...only way to learn the retailing business is over the counter," Philip M. Hawley is fond of saying. Hawley, 48, first practiced what he now preaches while dishing up sundaes behind the counter of his Portland, Ore., ice-cream store. Now, as president of Broadway-Hale Stores, Inc., he directs a retailing empire that includes Neiman-Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman, Holt, Renfrew, Capwell's, The Emporium, Weinstock's and the Walden Book...
...head of the Italian subsidiary of Worthington Pump International Inc., the world's largest pump company, Paolo A. Gamboni acquired an asset that continues to elude most Italian business men: he won credibility with labor. While other firms were crippled by strikes or outsize contract settlements, Worthington Italiana multiplied its sales fivefold in the past ten years. In 1970 Gamboni was also put in charge of Worthington companies in five other European countries, and last month he was elected president of Worthington Pump International itself-a subsidiary of Studebaker-Worthington Inc. -which operates in 14 countries and expects...