Word: richfield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Previous $1 million grants have come from Atlantic Richfield and from an alumnus, Frank Weill...
...those natural polluters, the Atlantic Richfield Co. (ARCO) ordered up two pyramidal traps, the first of which was installed a fortnight ago. Placed over an area with a large concentration of leeps, they will sit on the sea floor like upside-down funnels, collecting gas and oil. The natural gas is siphoned off through a 6-in.-wide pipe that runs along the ocean bottom to shore. The oil will be stored in tanks within the pyramids and periodically emptied by ships. The project is expected to yield...
...business. The freshly lettered office doors in New York and Washington provide the name: Kissinger Associates Inc., a blue-chip team that includes Lord Carrington, 63, who resigned as Britain's Foreign Minister when the Argentines invaded the Falklands, and Robert O. Anderson, 65, retired chairman of Atlantic Richfield. The firm's services: strategic planning and advice on international-business decision making for about 20 large long-term corporate customers willing to pay the reported $250,000-a-year retainer...
Firms that have already gone into the field report that networks can quickly change office style. Atlantic Richfield Co. has installed a pilot project that links 50 employees on the 21st floor of its Los Angeles corporate headquarters. Says Deanna Bengston, the director of Arco's office support program: "People are collaborating more on documents; it's affected the working style." At the nearby Transamerica Corp. offices, some 200 employees on three floors are connected by a network. Says Transamerica Consultant Zara Haimo: "We're looking for improved quality in the way people work...
...Lowell read from the Bible to silent students and walked his spaniel Phantom around the campus, one could and occasionally did walk to Walden Pond, The Advocate published with some regularity, and the clubs were a center of College life. As Thornton F. Bradshaw '40, later president of Atlantic Richfield and RCA, recalls: "The Porcellian, Delphic, A.D. and Fly were still spoken of with awe by those of us who were in the lesser clubs" Adds Thomas Boylston Adams '33. "There were classes of course. Some time had to be given to them. But the object of coming to Harvard...