Word: olin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speechmaking, the dissidents went on their separate ways last week without the U.S. Government making much of a fuss over them. Alexander Ginzburg and Georgi Vins moved temporarily to Vermont, Ginzburg to the baronially fenced estate of exiled Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn in Cavendish and Vins to the home of Olin Robison, a fellow Baptist minister and president of Middlebury College. Mark Dymshits and Eduard Kuznetsov headed for Israel, while the fifth exile, Ukrainian Historian Valentyn Moroz, is considering teaching at Harvard...
LECTURE: "Deborah Norris Logan: Women at the Time of the American Revolution" by Mariene Barr of SUNY Dept of English Olin-Sang...
...longer wander in late because of railroad tie-ups, and they tend to stay to clean up the day's work rather than flee at the stroke of 5 p.m. to catch the next train. Some firms have even been able to lengthen their formal work week. The Olin Corp., whose 1969 move from Manhattan to Stamford led off the exodus to Fairfield County, cut its lunch period from one hour to half an hour; Union Carbide, which now works its employees seven hours a day in New York City, will adopt an eight-hour day next year when...
...from the city or a hard search for affordable housing. For this reason, companies are sometimes accused of leaving New York City for racist reasons, even though some of the firms have increased their minority employment. The percentage of blacks and Hispanics working in office and clerical jobs at Olin, for example, has risen from 13% to 16%. Minorities account for a fifth of Stamford's population, and, says Champion International President Andrew Sigler: "We are lined up twelve-deep to hire every black kid who gets out of high school...
Still, applying a constructive or creative sentence to a corporation is not easy. Often the fine for a misdeed is less than the profits to be made from wrongdoing, while really severe fines can punish stockholders as much as culpable executives. In the Olin case, where the victims arguably range from those workers at the Winchester plant who are concerned about apartheid, to all U.S. citizens embarrassed by Olin's arms sale, to South African blacks themselves, deciding who deserves restitution is difficult. As far as Columbia Law Professor Walter Werner is concerned, Zampano's decision...