Word: texaco
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...been a busy few weeks for Carl Icahn, the billionaire financier who gained fame--some would say notoriety--in the 1980s by taking over TWA and agitating for change at the likes of Texaco and RJR Nabisco. While juggling his bids to get on the board of mobile-phone manufacturer Motorola and to buy car-parts maker Lear, Icahn, 71, took a break to talk with TIME's Barbara Kiviat about imperial CEOs, movies by mail and the one thing no one ever gets about...
...Harvard and served in the White House—endeared him to the state’s liberal Democratic primary electorate. Appointed chief of the Justice Department’s civil rights division during the Clinton administration, Patrick also served as general counsel at both Coca-Cola and Texaco. He was a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers from...
...question about how his race might affect how he campaigns, he told TIME, "In Iraq the bullets don't pierce different racial groups differently." Another Harvard Law School grad, Deval Patrick, who is running for Governor of Massachusetts, has played up his background as a corporate executive at Texaco and Coca-Cola. "A guy came up to me after a speech and said, 'I expected Jesse Jackson, and I got Colin Powell,'" Patrick said. Kweisi Mfume, who hopes to enter the Senate from Maryland but faces a tough primary opponent, is the exception to those men, touting his civil rights...
...Chicago, Patrick attended high school at the Milton Academy in Milton, Mass., on a scholarship, and he became the first in his family to attend college. After graduating from Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Patrick went on to hold high-level corporate posts at Coca-Cola and Texaco after his Clinton administration stint...
...firms doing business with Iraq as part of the U.N.-administered oil-for-food program. Volcker's 623-page report, which alleges that Russian, French and Chinese companies made the lion's share of illegal payments, fingers some firms with well-known brands in the U.S., including Texaco, Siemens, DaimlerChrysler and a Belgian-based construction division of Volvo. With few exceptions, the accused have denied wrongdoing...