Word: alberts
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Besides the two spills, Exxon suffered an explosion and fire in late December at a major Louisiana oil refinery. To many Exxon critics, the string of accidents suggests that the company stubbornly refuses to embrace a policy of safety and prevention. Says Albert Appleton, New York City's new commissioner of environmental protection: "Exxon has a corporate philosophy that the environment is some kind of nuisance problem and a distraction from the real business of moving oil around." Last week Exxon named Edwin Hess, a senior vice president, to the new post of vice president in charge of environment...
...reassure creditors, the corporation's directors last week banished Robert Campeau from all U.S. operations and said he would confine himself to developing Canadian real estate. The twelve board members included Albert Reichmann, chairman of Olympia & York Developments, a Canadian real estate giant that has invested $700 million in Campeau Corp. and holds a 38% stake in the company. Emerging from four days of meetings in Toronto's pink marble Scotia Plaza, the directors said they had vested control of the U.S. stores in a voting trust to be run by a board of U.S. trustees...
Harvard's own Albert Gore, Jr. '69 has done a commendable (but politically naive) deed by wrapping himself not in a flag, but in a non-biodegradable plastic bag. As Mr. Environment, Gore may never get himself elected above the Senate, but at least he's gutsy enough to choose a worthwhile cause...
That position did not garner much support until last spring, when France and Australia, two countries with a major presence in Antarctica, suddenly announced that they backed the world-park idea and would not sign the Wellington Convention. In Washington, Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee is leading a drive to get the U.S. to withdraw its support of the accord. Until the debate is resolved, there will be no agreed-upon strategy for protecting Antarctica from mineral exploration...