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Produced by Manhattan-based Playback Associates for Phillips Petroleum, this imaginative series has already been distributed to some 10,000 schools and colleges around the country. For those of school age, it should be the best recruiting film ever made. In an effort to show that research is not a club for white males only, there are many examples of women and members of minority groups at work...
...Hunts revealed in the documents the inner relations of family businesses. Each brother, for example, owns an equal share of Planet Petroleum. But Bunker has 50% of Hunt International Petroleum, which holds valuable oil leases in Canada's Beaufort...
Indecisiveness also characterized two other votes of the Corporation. It faced a proxy calling on Atlantic Richfield Company to halt its expansion in Chile until the Pinochet government loosens its restrictions on civil rights, and another committing Occidental Petroleum--the parent company of the polluter of the Love Canal--to establish a policy for responsible disposal of chemical waste. With the ACSR backing the two resolutions, the Corporation was once again caught between its reluctance to oppose management and its desire not to counter the urgings of the ACSR. Again, it abstained...
...teaching as well as practical training. In particular, the Energy and Environmental Policy Center, sparked by the work of professors Thomas C. Schelling and William Hogan and lecturer Daniel Yergin, has emerged as a respected voice in the field of conservation and in the world-wide competition for petroleum. Expansion doesn't stop there--Allison proudly details the plans for study groups on health policy and management and relations between government and business management. Funds for these projects are still forthcoming, but no one seems very worried. "We already have the intellectual horsepower," says Jackson, adding that at least...
...four years, $850 million in subsidies to spur the commercial production of ethanol, which can be mixed with gasoline to make gasohol and $600 million for biomass energy, such as that derived from turning municipal garbage into fuel. Finally, the bill included a provision to fill the National Strategic Petroleum Reserve. For months the Department of Energy has delayed buying oil for the reserve largely because of opposition from Saudi Arabia. The 750 million-bbl. stockpile of oil would be used in case of another cutoff of petroleum from the Middle East...