Word: program
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those that produce prescription drugs, cement, and electric motors, to file quarterly reports on price actions, including any price changes being considered for the future. Bosworth frankly admits that there has been plenty of mismanagement of the price standards. Yet he insists: "The answer is not to abandon the program. We've lost a lot of time, but we've got to get a better flow of information...
...days before the sun set on the British Empire, his ancestors might have rattled a few sabers and issued an edict in the name of the Queen. But Robin Hanbury-Tenison, 42, re-established order in a subtler way. After studying the troubled tribesmen, he launched a program to teach them fishing and chicken and pig farming. That helped restore their self-sufficiency and, equally important, their selfesteem...
Some of the causes of the trouble were specific-demands for more tenured black professors, charges that the black studies program is too meager, pressure on Dartmouth to sell its stock in corporations with holdings in South Africa. Beyond that was a sense that minority students were isolated. At an all-campus meeting, Dartmouth President John Kemeny felt compelled to assure minority students, who make up 10% of Dartmouth's 4,000 enrollment, "This college cares deeply about...
...federal campaign laws in 1974 allowed ARCO to organize a political action committee (PAC). The New York Times called ARCO's "Civil Action Program" one of the most sophisticated corporate PACs in the country. It is also one of the best financed. While other PACs usually confine themselves to soliciting campaign contributions from employees, ARCO spends about $750,000 annually giving political instruction to employees as well as retirees, shareholders, royalty owners, leaseholders and distributors. It encourages them all to pressure their legislators. In its latest annual report, ARCO notes, "In its continuing effort to heighten employee and shareholder political...
...that ARCO has experienced a sudden access of patriotism since the years 1962 to 1968, when the company paid no federal income taxes on a book income of $410 million. There is a very simple test of this thesis. If ARCO is genuinely interested in the value of the program, not the benefits of advertising, it will instantly agree to change the name rather than jeopardize the program's integrity...