NEW HEADMASK DISPLAYED Industrial Executives Think It Will Cut Casualties -- A Safeguard Against Fumes and Soot.
With a $500,000 ad purchase on Tuesday, an outside political group allied with Democrats said it was beginning an effort to tie the industrial executives to their agenda.
In the last 30 days, Americans for Prosperity, founded by the billionaire industrial executives Charles and David Koch, has spent at least $14 million on ads against Mr. Obama, F.E.C. records show.
The staggering profitability of the tech giants provides their leaders with more than a little of the swagger the industrial executives once possessed.
Scores of industrial executives have been invited to two symposiums late this month on how to frustrate the bombing of their factories.
What's more, some economists say, previous regulations, like the various amendments to the Clean Air Act, have resulted in far lower costs and job losses than industrial executives initially feared.
He chaired that committee between 1992 and 1996, before a putsch by Tory members forced him out because of one of his many lucrative extra-parliamentary interests, advising well-paid industrial executives of precisely the sort the committee was investigating.
The changes include nominating the former chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, Leslie Seidman, and two industrial executives, former American Airlines CEO Thomas Horton and former Danaher CEO H. Lawrence Culp, to the company's board.
In a sign that Germany's new Government may be willing to set up a fund to compensate people forced into slave labor under Hitler, Gerhard Schroder, the Chancellor-elect, plans to meet with top industrial executives to discuss options for resolving a growing number of lawsuits.
