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Irving S. Shapiro, chairman of E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. (annual sales: more than $8 billion), says, "It costs the company a lot of time and money to comply with Government reporting requirements." Du Pont has to spend $5 million and 180 man-years of work annually to file 15,000 reports to the Federal Government. Among many other things, the company is held accountable not only for its own programs for hiring and promoting minorities and women, but also for the affirmative action programs of every supplier that sells it more than $2,500 worth of goods...
...Administration's style of policy-making has spurred many gripes. Harold Malingren, a Washington business consultant, grouses that "part of the confusion on the part of the business community comes from the fact that there is no coherent voice coming out of the Administration." Corporate leaders like Du Pont Chairman Irving Shapiro complain that the Oval Office has seemed off limits for business since the exit of Budget Boss Bert Lance. Last week Carter responded to that criticism by meeting with 25 businessmen to discuss the economy...
More fundamentally, the stock market is mirroring the business and financial community's deepening lack of confidence in Jimmy Carter's management of the economy. Says Du Pont Chairman Irving Shapiro: "I still think he is a man of great ability. But he let himself get diverted by political slogans rather than sticking to his knitting." Adds James M. Howell, chief economist for the First National Bank of Boston: "Businessmen thrive on certainty. The President has bitten off half a dozen big projects, and all of them generate a tremendous amount of uncertainty...
...Harvard is going to be a tennis superpower, a neo-Princeton," Clarke said. "Except we don't play in turtlenecks and alligators," Pier pont added...
...oldest families, quit school early and moved from job to job in search of fame and fortune. He was peddling law books when his sister Jessie became Alfred du Font's third wife, and shortly afterward Ball was hired as the millionaire's aide Du Pont, a onetime chief director of the family business, had been forced out in a corporate power play and was seeking to build an empire of his own in Florida Before and during the Depression, Ball made regular swings through Florida for Du Pont, buying up businesses and land at bargain prices. When...