Industry
2001

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• Enron Moves Money to Democrats  - AP 27dec01

• Airlines' Awful Year: Sept. 11 attacks push U.S. carriers to record losses -  SF Chronicle 26dec01

• Drkoop.com to Shut Down - AP 18dec01

• Multinational Giant Cargill Ignores the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to make Salt - Prof. Hinestroza / La Universidad del Zulia 16dec01

• Pharmacia to Spin Off Monsanto Stake, Less Than 2 Years After Firms' Merger  - Wall Street Journal 28nov01

• Steel Smugglers Pull Enter U.S. Market - Wall Street Journal 1nov01

• Lawsuits Filed Against Kerr-McGee in Three States  - PRNewswire 24oct01

• TAP (Takeda Chemical Industries/Abbott Laboratories) Fined $875 Million  -  British Medical Journal 13oct01

• Unilever caught Dumping Mercury in India  -  Ashville Global Report 4oct01

• Plans for Corporate Directors to Hide Addresses  - The Times London 4oct01

• Bristol-Myers Squibb Closes Dupont Pharma Buy $7.8 Billion  - Dow Jones Newswires 2oct01

• Bayer Agrees to Acquire CropScience For $4.9 Billion, Plans 4,000 Job Cuts  - Wall Street Journal 2oct01

• G.E. Is Accused of Trying to Undercut Order to Dredge Hudson River  -  NY Times 1oct01

• Airlines Win Pledge of Government Aid  - Chronicle News Service 19sep01

• Santa Fe International Plans to Acquire Global Marine in $3 Billion Stock Deal  - Wall Street Journal 4sep01

• Hewlett-Packard Proposed $25 Billion Compaq Purchase Would Create PC and Server Giant  - Wall Street Journal 4sep01

• Jack Welch: The Toughest Boss - The Times London 3sep01

• 30 Nigerian Families Sue Pfizer on Test of Trovan Antibiotic -  NY Times 30aug01

• Sara Lee plant bosses knew of tainted meat-report - Reuters 30aug01

• Anti-spin activist John Stauber penetrates AMERICA's LIE MACHINE  - Westchester County Weekly 23aug01

• Worldwide Case Against Bayer  - Reuters 17aug01

• All Major Asbestos Makers Face Bankruptcy: RAND study - Reuters 15aug01

• Cochran assesses need in PCB fight  - Anniston Star 15aug01

• Ben & Jerry's founder's fund buys nontoxic cleaner maker Sun and Earth Inc  - AP 7aug01

• GE plant releases 1,100 pounds of methylene chloride gas  - Courier & Press 7aug01

• GE Will Pay $460 Million to Dredge PCBs from Hudson River  -  AP 1aug01

• How Much Is the Right To Pollute Worth?  - Commentary / Wall Street Journal 1aug01

• Nestlé's Deal to Buy Ralston Purina Wins European Commission Approval  - Wall Street Journal 30jul01

• Pfizer  Morally  Bankrupt  -  British Medical Journal 28jul01

• Drug Industry Exaggerates R&D Costs To Justify Prices, Consumer Group Says  -  Wall Street Journal 24jul01

• Rx R&D Costs $500 Million for Each New Drug is a Myth -  Public Citizen 23jul01

• There's Still Gold in Them Thar Pills - Fortune 23jul01

• Coca-Cola Sued for Human Rights Abuses in Colombia  - United Steel Workers Union and the International Labor Rights Fund 20jul01

• Smoking Can Help Czech Economy, Philip Morris-Little Report Says  - Wall Street Journal 16jul01

  • Text of Philip Morris Funded Study of Smoking in the Czech Republic - Philip Morris 28nov00

• The Business of Business: Corporate Naming of Public Buildings  -  SF Chronicle 10jul01

• WR Grace Protecting the Product / A special report. Company's Silence Countered Safety Fears About Asbestos - New York Times 9jul01

• Wal-Mart Sues Church   -  AP 9jul01

• High Pay Even if Company and Stock-holder Even as Companies Perform Poorly  -  SF Chronicle 10jun01

• Tobacco - A Question of Intent: A Great American Battle with a Deadly Industry Book Review - British Medical Journal 5may01

• GE Plastic's Pollution: Avoidance of Responsibility - Mindfully.org Response to Editorial: School Newspaper / Evansville (IN) Courier & Press 3may01

• AstraZeneca Invests $100 Million In China Plant, Its Biggest in Asia  -  Wall Street Journal 29apr01

• Baby-Food Makers Heinz, Beech-Nut Call Off Merger Following Court Ruling  - Wall Street Journal 27apr01

• Chevron Profits up 53 percent: Rising fuel prices  -  SF Chronicle 26apr01

• Thomas E. Workman Jr. Dies of Emphysema: Lawyer for RJ Reynolds Against Victims of Cigarettes -  LA Times 23apr01

• Best Buy Announces Electronics Recycling Program  - Press Release 19apr01

• The Tightening Grip of Big Pharma  - Editorial / Lancet 14apr01

• PC makers ponder computer afterlife  - CNET News.com 13apr01

• What's your poison? (Commentary on Trade Secrets) - The Economist UK 31mar01

• 'Trade Secrets': Rendering a Guilty Verdict on Corporate America  -  New York Times 26mar01

• Bristol-Myers Squibb to Sell AIDS Drugs at Less Than Cost - British Medical Journal 24mar01

• Moyers's Exclusive Report: Chemical Industry Left Out  -  Washington Post 22mar01

• Alcoa might idle recycling unit ‘indefinitely’  -  Courier & Press 15mar01

• GE's Welch, in Year of Decisions, Got $16.7 Million in Salary, Bonus  -  WSJ 12mar01

• Dow AgroSciences to Buy Rohm Haas for $1 Billion -  Indianapolis Star 9mar01

• Chemical Industry Finds Sweet Profits in Perfume  - Bloomberg News 13feb01

• Warner-Lambert Knew of diabetes drug Rezulin-Liver Damage  - LA Times 11mar01

• American Cancer Society $100,000+ Excalibur Contributors  - ACS 4feb01

• Fugitive French Oil Exec Alfred Sirven Arrested  -  AP3feb01

• Central Spot for Tobacco Papers UCSF to offer public access to them on the Web -  SFC 1feb01

• 1,300 to Lose Jobs At Amazon.com In Bid for Profits  -  SFC 31jan01

• Philip Morris See a Friend in Bush  -  AP 31jan01

• Demand Outpaces Drug Development Pharmaceutical firms race to catch up  -  Boston Globe 29jan01

• New Corporate Perk -- If the Stock Falls, Cancel Purchases  -  NYT 26jan01

• If Earnings Depend on Investing, Watch Out  -  NYT 21jan01

• McDonald's Profit Falls as European Sales Are Damped by Fears of Mad-Cow Disease -  WSJ  25jan01

• Lucent to Cut About 16,000 Jobs Company reports $1 billion loss  -  SFC 25jan01

• Tosco Wants to Raise Output Critics say new owner hasn't addressed safety  -  SFC  23jan01

• Enron Reports 34% Increase in Its Profits: State's energy crisis a boon for Houston-based supplier  -  SFC 23jan01

• Enron Pres: Energy Companies Not Taking Advantage of California - DJNW 22jan01

• Genentech Earnings Rose 73% on Year in 4th Quarter Helped by Rituxan and Herceptin Cancer Drugs  - WSJ 19jan01

• Scientists Worldwide Making Nanotech A Reality -  FEER18jan01

• Mergers Leave St. Louis With Fewer Headquarters -  DJN 17jan01

• Agribusiness Profit 1999  - Between The Furrows / CARP 15jan01

• Tobacco's New Clout in Washington -  SFC 15jan01

• Tyson Foods Victorious in IBP Bidding War Now Nation's No.1 Beef, Poultry Processor  - Agribusiness Examiner 11jan01

• FCC Conditionally Approves AOL-Time Warner Merger -  DJNW 11jan01

• Texas History: Oil's Big Day  -  San Antonio Express-News 6jan01

• Philip Morris draws fire for anti-smoking freebies to schools -  AP 5jan01

• Monsanto Hid Decades Of Pollution: PCBs Drenched Ala. Town, But No One Was Ever Told - Washington Post 1jan01