Word: jamieson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public suspicion that they have conspired to create the shortage-a charge for which there is no evidence-or at minimum have taken advantage of it to enrich themselves by raising prices. Much of the attack focuses on Exxon's executives, ranging downward from Canadian-born Chairman John Kenneth Jamieson (see box following page). Such men are several light-years removed from the vulgar, wheeler-dealer, overnight Texas oil millionaires of popular myth and occasional reality. Still, as successors of Founder John D. Rockefeller, they must contend with memories of the evils of the old Standard Oil Trust. Moreover, Exxon...
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...Exxon's profits were up 59% over the comparable period in 1972. For the full year, its profits also jumped 59%, to a record $2.44 billion. Large increases were also reported by other large companies (see box, facing page). The profits amid scarcity, said Exxon Chairman J.K. Jamieson, have reduced the public image of the oil companies "to a particularly low ebb right now." Jamieson even held an unusual press conference to proclaim "We aren't making windfall profits...
...rings for a quarter of an hour, and then stub out the butt with a gesture so incisive that the wretched author resolves to forswear literature and apprentice himself to a tree surgeon. But Sheed is also a novelist himself, so skilled that a few years ago, in Max Jamieson, he managed to write a strong and eloquent novel whose main character was a critic. The feat was the equivalent of successfully memorializing a dentist, and the decision on all sides was that Sheed was a marvel...
...speak little these days about the probable future of the bureau. "This is not the time to be talking about the FBI," says J. Davidson Jamieson, special agent in charge of the Los Angeles office. But it seems clear that despite recent changes in leadership and some attempts to liberalize FBI rules, the bureau will continue to turn out agents strikingly similar to their predecessors...