Word: orin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eyed about our interests and the situations we are getting into when we use our military power. It should not have taught us that we should never use our power. We should be very careful about doctrinaire answers or lessons-either that we should have intervened anywhere, any time orin response to our Viet Nam experience-that we should not intervene anywhere any time...
...though the company's inventories are all but overflowing. Ashland executives had no firm idea of what to do with the shipment, though they hinted that they might try to resell it in the coming weeks at an even higher price than they paid for it. Says Chairman Orin Atkins, who tends to get so distracted by corporate affairs of state that he forgets to remove his black homburg while being zipped about in the company jet: "What is good for Ashland Oil is good for the country...
...demanded that the offenders promise to stop violating U.S. securities laws by concealing illegal contributions in their reports to the SEC and the public. Most companies let the matter drop at that point. Some exceptions: Ashland Oil chose to make Chairman Orin Atkins and two other executives pay the company $325,000 from their own pockets, and 3M got several officers, including former Chairmen Bert Cross and Harry Heltzer, to give back $480,000. Thomas V. Jones resigned as chairman of Northrop and is supposed to be replaced as president no later than June 16; after that...
Ashland Oil Inc. Chairman Orin E. Atkins recently hung on his office wall a color portrait of Cartoonist Al Capp's renowned detective, Fearless Fosdick, Swiss-cheesed by bullet holes. Says Fosdick: "Fortunately, these are merely flesh wounds...
...covert dealing between U.S. corporations and elected officials is so obvious that it has been illegal for federal candidates to accept corporate funds, or for executives to offer them, since the trust-busting days of 1907. Yet the laws forbidding such practices, observes Ashland Oil Inc. Board Chairman Orin E. Atkins, are primarily "honored in the breach." Atkins has reason to know. He heads one of seven major U.S. corporations* that have admitted dipping unlawfully into the company till for contributions to Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign. Last week executives from six of the firms testified before...