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...Without thinking, I told the fellow, 'I swam," Quist says. "After that, of course, I had to keep it up. I told him that Texaco had funded the whole thing. That first they flew me to the Liberian coast, where I waded out into the ocean and started swimming west. A boat followed me and picked me up at night so I could sleep, butanchored so I could start in the same place thenext day. I said the whole trip took about two anda half weeks...
...types more than others. Supporters of Jerry Brown, for example. There must be some high school physics teachers and corporate executives wedded to the technology, but I haven't met any. Solar energy represents, for one thing, freedom from the grid. Solar heating? Good-bye ConGas. Solar car? Adios Texaco. Photovoltaics? Nice knowing you, Northeast Utilities...
European companies have been more aggressive in pursuing the contracts than U.S. firms, he said, although Texaco and Conoco have both expressed interest...
...needs a little informal advice on how to polish the image of American Express, he has only to turn to his wife Linda. As president of the Manhattan p.r. firm Robinson, Lake, Lerer & Montgomery, she ranks among the most powerful -- and controversial -- publicists in America. Her clients range from Texaco, which she helped to fend off a takeover bid staged by raider Carl Icahn, to junk-bond king Michael Milken, whose infamy she tried to % subdue. Together the Robinsons are a nonpareil power couple who cut a broad swath through the toniest boardrooms and ballrooms of the corporate elite...
Among the traffic stuck behind the protesters was an oil truck from a Texaco dealer, White Oil of Boston. The Truck's driver, angry about the delay and apparently irritated by the activsts' cries of, "Hell no, we won't go! We won't fight for Texaco," urged the Boston police officers to arrest the crowd...