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...They believe that the measure will serve to redirect the aim of local, national, and international movements towards the very structures which support the building of nuclear weapons. With President Bok's help and the newly formed Citizens Against Research Bans (CARB), whose major contributors include the nation's largest defense contractors, opponents of the measure have attempted to scare Cambridge voters with cries that the anti-nuclear legislation would mean a loss of jobs and violation of the First Amendment...
...last decision befits the galactic proportions of the breakup, involving as it does the world's largest company...
...Chairman Charles Brown said at a press conference that the company planned to shrink its worth by $5.2 billion at year's end. That means that the largest divestiture in history will be preceded by the largest financial write-down in history...
...completed seven months of intense negotiations with the agency by promising to spend $42.5 million over five years to increase the representation of women and minorities at all levels of the company. The agreement, which the automaker consented to without admitting to any of the charges, was the largest settlement yet of an E.E.O.C. complaint...
...Pickens is at it again. This time his target is Gulf Oil, the nation's fifth largest oil company (1982 sales: $30.6 billion). Pickens announced last week that he and a group of investors had bought $630 million worth of Gulf stock, or 14.5 million shares. He said they had put together a $1.1 billion nest egg to buy all the Gulf stock they could get their hands...