Word: occidentale
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The Occidental Petroleum Corp. was about to start putting down an oil well along the busy commercial thoroughfare not far from downtown Los Angeles.
The article has some important ideas, as well as being rich in quotable phrases. To the argument that the authors of the fourteenth amendment did not intend for it to be used to equalize political districts, he presents considerable evidence that deference to the intentions of the framers of constitutional...
Up to now, Brower and Beckett have run Transamerica's conglomerate bundle of businesses "in tandem," as Beckett likes to put it. Salesman Brower, who will stay on in a less active role as Transamerica's chairman, has concentrated on operating Los Angeles-based Occidental Life. Beckett, a...
In Tandem. Today, Transamerica has resources of $2.3 billion, controls 20 major subsidiaries, has offices in all 50 states, France and Canada. It has 14,000 employees, more than 100,000 stockholders and 7,000,000 customers. It writes nearly every kind of insurance through 15 subsidiaries, including Occidental Life...
At six, she followed her Korean mother to a ramshackle bar and discovered that her mother was for sale to U.S. servicemen. On the way home, alone, the little girl had an even more traumatic experience: a man lured her into an alley and assaulted her. At eight, she learned...