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...Pont: Savannah River...
This sort of diversity can be seen by looking at the three companies for which Harvard had to cast proxy votes last year on nuclear weapons-related issues: The General Electric Co., The Du Pont Co. and The American Telephone and Telegraph...
...takeover bid is announced, in the hope that they can resell the stock to the acquiring company at a much higher price when the deal is finally concluded. Risk arbitragers made estimated profits of about $200 million last year on Conoco stock when it was sold to Du Pont. Ivan F. Boesky, 45, is said to have made at least $40 million on the Conoco takeover...
...concluded, the takeover would rank as the third largest in U.S. corporate history, surpassed only by last year's $7.5 billion merger of Conoco and E.I. Du Pont de Nemours, and the $6.2 billion acquisition of Marathon Oil by U.S. Steel. The resulting company would instantly become the seventh largest American industrial firm, with sales exceeding $36 billion...
Researchers at Savannah River and Sandia also conduct extensive work for non-military purposes Sandia, for example, oversees a large solar energy program, and its nuclear programs have civilian, as well as defense applications, says Rod Geer, a spokesman for the labs. Du Pont uses nuclear materials at Savannah River for testing cancer therapy...