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...Would you please move your car closer to the pump...
...Michelin, the French tiremaker may eventually pump $1.5 billion into plants in South Carolina. The company has already sunk $300 million into three new factories. One that is being built in Spartanburg may well employ 1, 200 people...
Carter will pump $10 million into advertising, including $6.5 million on TV spots. He has such trust in his men that he did not even screen the ads that began appearing on CBS last week. The second biggest outlay will be $4.5 million for the field staff, which already has selected its 50 state coordinators, including former partisans of men whom Carter left dazed in his wake: Scoop Jackson, Mo Udall, Hubert Humphrey...
...comes to energy. Even before the vacation rush began this year, motorists were using about as much gasoline as they had been in 1972, before the recession and the quintupling of foreign oil prices that drove the cost of gas to 60? or 70? per gal. at the pump (see chart...
...reason is that there has been a rush by electric utilities, mining and oil companies to acquire coal producers and pump money into them, just as Kennecott did with Peabody. Indeed, Wall Streeters give the copper company high marks for its prescience in getting into the coal industry ahead of everyone else. Yet that obviously was a mistake on Kennecott's part too. No other big purchaser of a coal company has been bothered by the FTC, even though some might provide clearer examples of potential antitrust violations than Kennecott. In other words, the FTC ruling, despite its success...