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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Protesting Shell Oil's ties to the Nigerian government, 50 people shouted insults and waved signs in a demonstration at the Cambridge Shell gasoline station on Saturday afternoon...

Author: By Maia K. Davis, | Title: Activists Picket Gas Station | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

Demonstrators said they targeted Shell not only for the company's relations with a government notorious for its human rights violations, but also because oil drilling methods harm local Nigerian agriculture and rain forests...

Author: By Maia K. Davis, | Title: Activists Picket Gas Station | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

Then let's get some real fast food in Loker. I'm talking McDonalds, Taco Bell, pizza Hut--the kind of food we all grew up with and we like to pig out on. Because if you are already going to poison yourself with that foul oil and grease that comes with the pizza, you might as well do it and enjoy it right...

Author: By Nancy RAINE Reyes, | Title: How to Improve Loker Commons | 11/16/1996 | See Source »

...light yard work at President Rudenstine's house. On the other hand, if the dread charge of "behavior unbecoming a Harvard student" is raised, they could all receive a spanking from every member of the Harvard Corporation, and the registrar will be instructed to dip their transcripts in tuna oil before mailing them to potential employers...

Author: By David H. Goldbrenner, | Title: PLEASE DON'T CANE THEM | 11/16/1996 | See Source »

...black jelly beans." Under the settlement, Texaco will pay 1,500 present and former black employees who brought suit $115 million in cash, will provide $26.1 million in pay raises over five years for black employees and will pay $35 million for sensitivity and diversity training programs. The oil giant also agreed to subject itself to a review by an "Equity and Tolerance Task Force" that will attempt to identify and eliminate racial bias among Texaco workers. "With this litigation behind us, we can now move forward on our broader, urgent mission to make Texaco a model of workplace opportunity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texaco Will Pay Historic Settlement | 11/15/1996 | See Source »

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