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...Pressure from activists has led Wall Street firms like J.P. Morgan Chase to assess environmental risks when deciding whether to finance projects such as gas pipelines in ecologically fragile regions. In the industrial sector, GE comes tardy to the green party, following firms such as Alcoa, BP, DuPont and Shell, which several years ago set targets for cuts in greenhouse gases and promised greater reductions than...
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Furious that its blueprint for peace had been scuttled, Syria allowed its Lebanese supporters to shell Gemayel's hometown of Bikfaya, in the mountains east of Beirut. Tank and artillery clashes between Druze militiamen and Christian forces shook Suq al Jharb, a hill town overlooking the Presidential Palace. In Beirut, meanwhile, there were exchanges of artillery and rocket fire across the line that divides the capital between Muslim and Christian sectors...
...meanwhile, carried on his experiments. He had built twelve prototypes for the Ergon; for the Equa, designed in collaboration with Don Chadwick, there were 27. Before Equa, there were two kinds of office chairs: seat and back could be separate, as in Ergon, or they could be one solid shell. Stumpf and Chadwick found a new material (Du Pont's Rynite, a reinforced fiber glass) and thereby an ingenious third design: the Equa shell is continuous, but a graceful H-shaped slice is carved out of the lower back so that it becomes virtually animate, bending like two independent pieces...
...Shell-shocked by defeat in four of the past five presidential elections and stunned by the loss of the Senate in 1980, the Democratic Party has drawn some solace from its continued dominance of the nation's Governors' mansions. Halfway through Ronald Reagan's second term, Democratic Governors still outnumber Republicans 34 to 16, defying political analysts' speculations about party realignment...