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...must be put up for sale, however, because the James Irvine Foundation owns the controlling interest. Under federal tax law, the foundation cannot control an enterprise that aims at making a profit-and Irvine Co. not only tries to turn a profit but clears a rather tidy one. Mobil Oil Corp. offered $200 million in May, setting off a frantic bidding war. Since then, counteroffers have come from Cadillac Fairview, a Canadian land developer, and SMBH & Z, a Detroit investment firm. Mobil has made a second bid, and the price has been pushed up toward $300 million. Last week...
...allows U. S. corporations to import Rhodesian chrome, in violation of U.N. sanctions. Even after he publicized his opposition to the Amendment last summer, the Ford Administration did very little to actually get it repealed. Nor has Kissinger done anything to press for prosecution of U. S. businesses like Mobil Oil that have broken the boycott illegally...
...Exxon, Texaco. Mobil Oil, Standard Oil of California, Gulf Oil. Standard Oil (Ind.). Shell Oil, Atlantic Richfield, Continental Oil. Phillips Petroleum, Union Oil of California, Sun Oil, Ashland Oil, Cities Service, Amerada Hess, Getty Oil, Marathon Oil. Standard Oil (Ohio...
Undaunted, Emilio Ambasz, 33, curator of design at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, decided two years ago that what New York and other cities needed was a totally new look in cabs. He secured grants from the Mobil Oil Corp. and the U.S. Department of Transportation, sought advice from New York's Taxi and Limousine Commission, and drew up a 160-page study on taxis and their ideal specifications. He then persuaded five manufacturers to submit fresh designs based on the study. This week, Ambasz's dream, "The Taxi Project: Realistic Solutions for Today," went...
Newspapers have letters-to-the-editor columns and op-ed pages to accommodate outside voices; broadcast equivalents are harder to find. The FCC encourages local stations to let viewers and listeners answer station editorials, but not news and documentary programs. In a Mobil ad that appeared opposite newspaper editorial pages the same day as the "hatchet job" blast, the company urged consideration of a "voluntary mechanism" for reply that would be "developed by the press [and] which would promote free and robust debate...