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...they had set 2000 as the target year for a total ban. Now most countries expect to beat that deadline by many years because substitutes for CFCs are coming on line more rapidly than expected. The central player in the drama -- the unwitting villain turned hero -- was Du Pont, the American chemical company that invented CFCs, dominated global production and eventually led the way in developing substitutes. In 1990 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency gave Du Pont an award for stratospheric ozone protection...
...turmoil that grips GM, IBM and other behemoths including Sears and American Express, is more than a matter of size and the inevitable cycles of change. Many giants manage to avoid hardening of the arteries. Du Pont, which is nearly 200 years old, remains an industry leader in synthetic materials. Philip Morris started as a tobacco shop in 1847 but is now a $55 billion-a- year company that sells everything from beer to breakfast cereal. General Electric managed to grow from light bulbs to jet engines, and Motorola from car radios to microchips...
...Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp, who has spent the past four years trying to reach out to African Americans and other minorities with sermons about enterprise zones, ownership and management of tenant housing, and school choice. This group also includes former Delaware Governor Pete du Pont, former Secretary of Education William Bennett and a host of like-minded Republicans in the House of Representatives. Most G.O.P. veterans acknowledge that whoever takes control of the party in 1996 will have to adopt at least some of the progressives' ideas. "The country stands ready to reward whichever party...
...chairman next January will face the task of reuniting the fractious G.O.P. Departing Minnesota Congressman Vin Weber seems the favorite for the job, partly because he is a straight-talking pol who kept his head above water while the President was drowning in his futile re-election bid. Du Pont also wants the party job, and has hinted he would forgo another run at the White House if he got it. Gramm and many moderate Bush operatives believe Labor Secretary Lynn Martin would do a better job of preventing the party from swerving too far to the right...
Despite their differences, nearly all the presidential aspirants are united on what it means to be a Republican. Du Pont notes that the party's factions and their presidential hopefuls are united by a common belief: "The single common denominator from Bill Weld to Pat Robertson is smaller government and economic growth." But selling that to the public may not be easy now that George Bush has presided over the largest deficits, highest taxes and biggest government in U.S. history...