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...Texaco (who famously toiled from Maine to Mexico) decided to take the variety program they sponsored on radio and transfer it to network television, which was then in its infancy. With Milton Berle as host, Texaco Star Theater has been credited with inspiring millions of Americans to purchase their first television set. Now, as network TV seems to be in its dotage, executives at ABC are hoping that a new corporate sponsorship scheme will come to the rescue again...
...before his arrest, had moved to merge his company Yukos with another energy company, Sibneft, which would have made it the fourth-largest privately-held oil producer in the world, with one-fifth of the reserves of Kuwait. And Khodorkovsky had for months been courting Exxon Mobil and Chevron-Texaco to buy up to 40 percent of the shares in the new company for billions of dollars. For the now ascendant siloviki faction around Putin - men from the "power ministries" such as the armed forces, police and intelligence services, both the power of the new corporation and the proposed sell...
...firm typically takes on cases for people from developing countries against multinational corporations, such as a case brought by people from several South American countries against Texaco...
...Increasingly, it is the expertise that's sought," says Ira Hall, a former treasurer of Texaco who recently joined the board of Reynolds & Reynolds, a software company serving the automotive-retail industry. "All the better if it's a black person or a woman...
STEIN: A dividend obviously is more attractive in view of the President's plan. But the tail shouldn't wag the dog. First are the fundamentals of the company. We like energy: Exxon Mobil, Chevron Texaco [4.4%] and ConocoPhillips [3.5%]. They have strong balance sheets and have increased their dividends. We are also looking at health care, including Pfizer [2%]. In the consumer area, companies with reasonable valuations include ConAgra...