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...woman be "modest" if she knew too much? Above all, education increased a woman's vocabulary, and one thing a 17th century man could not abide was a talking woman, whether the speech came salty and profane from the fishwives of Billingsgate or gentle and saintly from Quaker women testifiers, "prattlers" for Christ...
Fears of a free fall in crude prices resounded last week throughout the oil industry. Said Gulf Chairman James E. Lee: "I think we are kind of on a razor's edge." Texaco, Quaker State and Standard Oil of Indiana lowered the rates they would pay for some types of U.S. crude by as much as $2 per bbl., to $26. The trend may force two big producers, Britain and Nigeria, to mark down the official price of their crude. Said Constantino Fliakos, oil analyst at Merrill Lynch: "If that happens, OPEC ultimately would suffer and have to lower...
While in London, she met a young Quaker woman from Philadelphia, Lucretia Mott, who had also been barred from the slavery convention. The two of them talked of staging a meeting of their own some day to protest discrimination against women. Eight years passed; then Stanton, living in Seneca Falls, N.Y., heard that Mott was visiting near by. The two got together and decided to organize their meeting. As an agenda, Stanton boldly updated the Declaration of Independence as drafted by Thomas Jefferson. "We hold these truths to be self-evident," said the Stanton version, "that all men and women...
...cases just this year, Texaco bought back 9.8% of its shares for $1.28 billion from the Bass family, Warner Communications paid Rupert Murdoch $180.6 million for his 7% interest in the firm, St. Regis purchased for $160 million the 8.6% of its firm held by Sir James Goldsmith, and Quaker State Oil Refining gave Steinberg $47 million for his 8.9% of the company...
...Minerals credits First Boston with getting an extra $670 million, or $15 a share, when his company was sold to Fluor Corp. Recalls Duncan: "First Boston knew all the tricks. We got more than our money's worth." Says Michael Callahan, senior vice president of Quaker Oats, who worked closely with Salomon Brothers and Goldman Sachs when Quaker Oats bought Stokely-Van Camp last year: "Our business is food, and not mergers. So whenever we go shopping, we seek professional help...