Word: unioned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...does about Scripture. Eugene Rivers, a Pentecostal minister in Boston's poor Dorchester neighborhood, has depicted Moses as an African revolutionary (Egypt is in Africa, after all) to teach gang members about throwing off the yoke of slavery to drugs. Norman Cohen, provost of New York City's Hebrew Union College, used the prophet's speech defect to come to terms with his own temporary paralysis. Moses is a universal symbol of liberation, law and leadership, sculpted by Michelangelo, painted by Rembrandt, eulogized by Elie Wiesel as "the most solitary and most powerful hero in biblical history...After him, nothing...
...incident at Meribah begins with the stark announcement, "Miriam died there and was buried there." The next sentence is, "The community was without water, and they joined against Moses and Aaron." This abrupt shift has fascinated scholars, including Hebrew Union College's Cohen. "His need is mourning," Cohen points out. "And do the people gather to comfort him? No. To complain. The same song and dance." Distraught, Moses strikes. With the blows, "he takes out everything," says Cohen. "He takes it out on the people, maybe on God, because he's lost his sister." And the Lord punishes...
Mobil spent millions of dollars trying to convince us that it had the cleanest gasoline, one that made your engine run smoother. Union Camp spent millions of dollars trying to convince us that it had the cleanest paper, Great White, that made your copier run smoother. In the end, few consumers were willing to pay more for a particular brand of either common commodity--gasoline or plain white paper. Now both companies are succumbing to longtime rivals, Exxon and International Paper, in deals that were unthinkable just a short time ago. Suddenly, neither Mobil nor Union Camp could be assured...
...Union Camp and Mobil had simply lost control of their fate. For years these commodity companies had gone through booms and busts along with the world economy they played in. But for the past decade it has been nothing but bust. The new economy, with its focus on cost cutting and price competition, has tamed inflation to the point that each year Mobil and Union Camp faced progressively lower real prices for their products. Both companies had done pretty much everything they could to wring out costs, but it still wasn't enough...
Mobil, by dint of its huge cash flow, was always able to offer a steady stream of dividends, and Union Camp rewarded shareholders with a greater than 4% yield before the merger. But in a stock market mad for the kind of raw growth delivered by the likes of Cisco, Intel and America Online, both Mobil and Union Camp seemed like vestiges of a capitalist era past...