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Bhopal is for lawyers. (Union Carbide Corp. industrial accident)
National Review
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January 11, 1985
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Bhopal Is for Lawyers
WHEN DISASTER strikes far away in the Third World, the French send doctors. The Swedes send food packages. We send lawyers.
""Get Union Carbide' is the slogan,' announced tort lawyer John P. Cole of Washington when he arrived in Bhopal. It happened that Mother Teresa arrived on the same plane with the American contingency-fee boys. The contrast between the diminutive nun and the swaggering tortsmen did not go unnoticed. "Forgive, forgive,' said the winner of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. "I just ask everyone to forgive.' That sort of ...
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The blood of Bhopal.(TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS--BHOPAL, INDIA)
Magazine article from: New Internationalist
; ...not all the violations resulting from Union Carbide's business in Bhopal, India, stem from...In the year following the massacre, Union Carbide's legal counsel, Bud Holman, developed...died if it had begun around 500 AD. If Union Carbide saw its shareholders' salvation in...
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Union Carbide plant earns clean bill of health from FDA.(Human Drugs)
Newspaper article from: Inspection Monitor
; Union Carbide Corporation, Hahnville, LA, New Orleans Office A GMP inspection of Union Carbide, Hahnville, LA, resulted in no 483 being...Chan of the New Orleans District Office. Union Carbide, a subsidiary of Dow Chemical, is an active...
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Bhopal campaigner's death highlights victims' plight.(Sunil Kumar Verma commits suicide)
Magazine article from: World Watch
; ...poisonous gases leaked out from the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, the capital...date, not a single representative of Union Carbide has ever faced trial. In 1989, the...received only US$500 each. In 2001, Union Carbide was bought out by Dow Chemical, which...
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A killing wind: inside Union Carbide and the Bhopal catastrophe.
Magazine article from: Washington Monthly
; A Killing Wind: Inside Union Carbide and the Bhopal Castrophe. It...isocynate gas drifted from a Union Carbide pesticide plant over Bhopal...solely with its Indian affiliate, Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL), which was...
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A Network Management System That Can Locate Lost Billings.
Magazine article from: Communications News
; ...world's largest chemical companies, Union Carbide, is understandably a big and challenging...resources to the constant efforts of Union Carbide communications managers to search out...telecommunications network. The control center for Union Carbide's network, known as Unicom, is ...
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Dow Chemical To Cut 4500 Jobs.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Nonwovens Industry
; ...savings from its purchase of Union Carbide, Danbury, CT, earlier this year...savings it found through the Union Carbide acquisition. Additionally, Dow...projection when the takeover of Union Carbide was announced in 1999.
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The year of Bhopal? (Union Carbide industrial accident) (column)
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...intention of the managers of Union Carbide Corporation, Indian Division...afflicted desire to punish Union Carbide, but so does all of India...mind that the management of Union Carbide is convincingly traumatized...
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UES to close Somerset site.(Business & Industry)
Magazine article from: JCT CoatingsTech
; ...Chemical Company, Midland, MI, has announced that the Union Carbide Corp. will cease manufacturing operations for UES at Union Carbide's Somerset, NJ, facility. In a related decision, Union Carbide has disclosed plans to shut down this site. Productivity...
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KUWAIT - The Equate Complex.
Newspaper article from: APS Review Downstream Trends
; ...1) Equate, a 50-50 JV of PIC and Union Carbide Corp. (UCC) of the US which runs the...from 350,000 t/y to to 400,000 t/y. Union Carbide, a producer of bulk chemicals acquired...saleable. Equate's CEO Charles Kline of Union Carbide noted in March 2001: The year 2000...
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Union Carbide network balances economy, growth.
Magazine article from: Communications News
; UNION CARBIDE NETWORK BALANCES ECONOMY, GROWTH In the 1980s, Union Carbide faced the same two-headed monster that menaced...threat of obsolete technology from the other. Union Carbide girded its loins and did what it took. The Industrial...
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