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...passage of this initiative may herald new, more intense and perhaps more successful efforts to rollback affirmative action nationwide. However, the recent Texaco scandal demonstrates some of the reasons why these policies were enacted and why they are still necessary. Texaco was rocked last week by the release of secretly recorded tapes of top management mocking black employees and conspiring to destroy documents that could prove that the company's promotion practices were discriminatory. One Texaco executive sneered that "all the black jellybeans seem to be glued to the bottom...
...Texaco's CEO swiftly called a news conference to apologize for these statements and to declare that the corporation would work to stomp out racial discrimination. Ironically, Texaco had instituted a "diversity" program years earlier, complete with company literature featuring multi-cultural groups of smiling employees. Furthermore, Texaco's racial problems were not limited to the corporate boardroom--black employees of all ranks have spoken of harassment ranging from demeaning slurs to having their cars tires slashed...
...truth, storm chasing is arduous work that generally entails more common sense than courage and more physical discomfort than danger. Professional chasers often drive 15 hours a day for days at a time, subsisting on junk food and virtually no sleep. "We eat whatever Texaco, Conoco and Citgo are willing to serve up," laughs University of Oklahoma meteorologist Joshua Wurman. Nor do the hazards of the job always come from nature. Last year Wurman stopped during a chase to help extract a car from a ditch. "While I was pushing, the driver gunned his engine and I was covered...
Pulling into his local Texaco station, Don McCullough, a Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, artist, blinked and looked again. The price for high-test gasoline had jumped overnight from $1.36 per gal. to $1.49. "I couldn't believe it," he says. Blame the steep increase on the Iraqis and a problem in a Philadelphia refinery, said the attendant...
Following the Penn game the team will continue south to Durham for their spring training trip. Here they will play the powerful Duke team. A scrimmage against Team Texaco, a pro team, has also been tentatively scheduled...