Word: warrens
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Perhaps the most spectacular government action came when Warren M. Anderson, 63, Union Carbide's U.S. chairman, flew to Bhopal later in the week. Immediately after his arrival, he and two officials of the company's Indian subsidiary were arrested and charged with "negligence and criminal corporate liability" and "criminal conspiracy," which under Indian law carries a maximum penalty of death. Instead of being taken to prison, the three executives were detained at the company's comfortable Bhopal guesthouse, surrounded by 50 armed guards to protect them from possible mob attacks, and cut off from communication with the outside world...
Last week's tragedy was a personal trauma for Union Carbide Chairman Warren Anderson, who has spent 39 years at the company. A graduate of Colgate, where he was a chemistry major and a football letterman, Anderson joined Union Carbide in 1945 as a salesman and moved steadily up the ranks to the chairmanship in 1982. Employees last week admired the way he rushed to India after the accident, even though he knew that he would surely face trouble as soon as he stepped off the airplane. Anderson has been trying to give new momentum to a company that...
...Decades] have passed, times have changed, and [the clubs] are really a very small minority. This won't have the impact it would have had in 1918," said committee member Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker, director of University Health Services...
...voters in their infinite wisdom are always right, as Sidey suggests, how does he explain their choice of Richard Nixon, Herbert Hoover, Warren Harding and other disasters...
Nevertheless, the fear remains that last month's election results may reverberate in the judicial arm for decades to come. To some, it would signify the long last return of the pendulum form the liberal days of the Warren Court. Others would say such a court would be an expression of the polity. But as Weinreb of the Law School puts it, "the hope in the Constitution is that the Court would restrain public opinion. A Reagan Court may facilitate...