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...Jerry Brown made the roster, and his presidential bids came in 1976 and 1980 and again in 1992. Former Governor of Florida Reuben Askew ran in 1984, and Lamar Alexander, Secretary of Education in the Bush Administration, looks like he's trying for the 1996 G.O.P. nomination. Pete du Pont, the ex-Governor of Delaware, challenged Bush in the primaries in 1988, as did Donald Rumsfeld, Gerald Ford's Secretary of Defense; and Congresswoman Pat Schroeder was an undeclared candidate in 1988. Given this pattern of presidential ambition among the '74 selectees, we should not be surprised if Robert Gottlieb...
While gays have faced uneven results in the political arena, especially at the national level, they have made great strides in the seemingly less inviting world of private business. Hundreds of companies, including IBM, Eastman Kodak, Harley-Davidson, Dow Chemical, Du Pont, 3M and Time Warner, have specific policies banning discrimination based on sexual orientation. Many, ranging from the Wall Street law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy to the insurer Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, provide health or other benefits for gay employees' partners. Such old-line companies as Union Carbide and Colgate-Palmolive hire consultants to teach...
...consumer tastes in part by lightening blends of a leading whiskey brand, introducing bottled cocktails and importing wines and liqueurs. He also diversified into office buildings, shopping malls and other businesses. In 1981 Seagram bid for control of Conoco, a giant oil and gas producer. It lost to Du Pont Co. but came out owning 24.3% of Du Pont stock, today worth around $9 billion. Seagram's management of that investment just might indicate what role it could play in Time Warner. The company has made no effort to take over Du Pont, but it sought and got proportional representation...
...Pont, which began presenting its defense last week, denies that Benlate was tainted and contends that ruined crops were probably the result of high heat and humidity or of farmers' overuse of fertilizers or pesticides. But initially, at least, the company acted as if it had its own doubts about Benlate: it voluntarily recalled the fungicide in 1991 and paid $510 million to growers in compensation. The company stopped the payouts, it says, after a panel of outside experts reviewed company records and new field tests and concluded that Benlate could not have caused the damage. The fungicide remains...
Other claims against Du Pont go even further. Some suits allege that Benlate is harmful not just to crops but to people, producing headaches, muscle pangs and nausea...