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...emphasis on performance has made the pension business intensely competitive. Says Dave Williams, chairman of Alliance: "We're hired, fired and retained on the basis of our investment results." He admits that his company once lost Monsanto as a client after managing its pension fund for only six months. The industry's mortality rate is high. Though hundreds of new investment advisers set up shop every year, the total number of competitors dipped slightly, from 6,041 to 5,760 during 1982. Predicts Citibank's Vermilye: "Over half of these new firms will not be around...
Besides Dow, which was the Government's main supplier, the defendants in the Agent Orange case include the Monsanto Co. of St. Louis, the Diamond Shamrock Corp. of Dallas, Uniroyal Inc. of Middlebury, Conn., and T.H. Agriculture and Nutrition Co. Inc. of Kansas City. The case, now in pretrial hearings, is not expected to go before a jury until next year. "It's been all cloak and dagger," says ex-Navyman Sutton, "but I think the truth is finally coming out." No doubt, but some truths may continue to prove elusive: while scientific studies have shown that dioxin...
...first hint of the now-booming industrial interest in the biotechnology field came in 1974. When Monsanto agreed to give the Medical School $23 million over 12 years in exchange for exclusive licensing rights to any product developed under its funds...
...University of Pennsylvania the gathering was also organized by officials from Cornell. Princeton, Yale, Johns Hopkins, and Washington Universities, and the Universities of Michigan and Texas. Also involved were government representatives, and top executives from the corporate boardrooms of IBM. Upjohn, Smithkline Beckmen Centus Dupont, General Electric and Monsanto...
...always stick my neck out a lot, "Oomen said. Many corporation officials were hesitant to build the facility with the untested rolling turf, but Oomen insisted that it would be the best and most economical, and he recently sold his idea for the turf-rolling system to Monsanto Corporation...