Word: petroleum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...money and gray suits, which is to say, oil has been very, very good to Dallas. The place crawls with bankers and lawyers and investment drones, and the ones with the biggest spurs can take the elevator up to the 39th floor and sip Jack Daniels at the Petroleum Club...
...kids have to go downstairs to get to the Petroleum Club. ION Storm, the hottest name in what the industry calls 3-D shooter games, rents the penthouse suite on the 54th and 55th floors, with nothing but clouds and glass for a ceiling. When they first started riding the elevators, says company president Hall, 33, the suits "thought we were delivery boys...
Wouldn't you love to be a fly on the wall when these guys go down to the Petroleum Club for cocktails...
...last June, Harvard owned 91,000 shares of Nike, 320,000 shares of Occidental Petroleum and 500,000 shares of Columbia/HCA...
...addition to Nike, Columbia/HCA and Occidental Petroleum, Harvard invests in Elf Aquitaine, TRW, Tyson Foods and American Electric Power, companies which the Multinational Monitor alleges are involved in improprieties including bribery, international coups or maintaining substandard working conditions...