Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...growing number of Sullivan Code signatures suggests, most U.S. corporations have decided they are willing to be judged by that standard. Now it is up to them to turn in performances that will quiet their critics and bring more tangible benefits to the blacks and coloreds of South Africa...
Ever since the women's movement began sneering at Miss America, the pageant has been nervous, trying to keep traditionalists content while courting the interest of modern young women. Some ambiguity is inevitable. Christine is liberated by any standard, adamant that the public perceive her as a "woman who can take care of herself." When a reporter asks for her vital statistics, she looks him square in the eye and says, "I don't know. I don't even know how much I weigh." But she slips into the word "girls" when lapsing into pageant talk...
...years ago, such Ethel Mermanesque exuberance would have sounded strange coming from the chief of one of world oil's fabled Seven Sisters-Exxon, Shell, Mobil, Texaco, British Petroleum, Standard Oil of California and Gulf.* Though the sorocracy had ruled the international oil trade since it began, the upheaval in the business that started with the Arab embargo of 1973 threatened to end this reign. Flushed with their success in quintupling the price of petroleum, the OPEC countries were about to nationalize their oilfields, which would strip the Sisters of ownership of much of their crude reserves. Some governments...
Though all the Sisters' sales are more than double those in the embargo year of 1973, when the cheap-oil era ended, only three of the companies earned more profit last year than they did then: Shell, Mobil and California Standard (SoCal), which markets under its Chevron Trademark. And none but SoCal has regained the peaks of 1974, when soaring prices gave them a one-shot windfall by raising the value of petroleum they held in inventory. The later profits from price boosts have gone primarily to the OPEC nationalizes of the oil. But the companies have done...
...Vatican: "It is not difficult to recognize our inexperience in so delicate a sector of church life. We promise to treasure the suggestions that will come to us from our worthy co-workers." One of his first acts was to reappoint the heads of all major Vatican offices, a standard practice. His own choices will be made later, gradually...