The agreement represented a full and final settlement of Union Carbide's civil and criminal liabilities.
In a neighbourhood just north of the Union Carbide plant, we found people drawing groundwater from a pump.
In 1984, a gas leak at the Union Carbide pesticide plant near Bhopal, India, killed nearly 4, 500 people.
And both Union Carbide in Bhopal and BP in the Gulf of Mexico were clearly investments that went wrong.
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Even many large companies such as Hoechst AG, Union Carbide, Xerox, DuPont, C.
In 1989, Union Carbide reached an out-of-court settlement with the government of India.
Union Carbide is currently the only domestic supplier of the ultra-high purity semiconductor material increasingly required for defense applications.
Reilley concluded that the company, which had been spun off from Union Carbide in 1992, had to cut capital spending.
When I arrived on Wall Street, the big names in the index embraced DuPont, IBM and Union Carbide.
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Chevron, Goodyear Tire, Union Carbide and Sears Roebuck were replaced by Microsoft, Intel, SBC Communications and Home Depot.
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The only properties in the Dow Jones industrial index with depressed earnings are Boeing, Union Carbide, International Paper and Eastman Kodak.
It was signed into law by former President Ronald Reagan after the infamous Union Carbide pesticide factory gas leak in Bhopal, India.
Basic materials plays like DuPont and Union Carbide were pulled along, so long-suffering value players may get their day in the sun.
Union Carbide, which divested itself of its Indian subsidiary's stock in the 1990s, was acquired later by Dow Chemical, based in Midland, Mich.
Union Carbide was a popular target for such suits because it produced the asbestos that was used in drilling mud sold by another company.
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Union Carbide, a chemicals firm, has a link to information on the deadly Bhopal gas leak in India on its home page, for example.
Thousands of people were killed and injured in 1984 when gas leaked out of a Bhopal pesticide plant that was owned by Union Carbide India Ltd.
Dow has come far since its two years of losses, in 2001 and 2002, when it was bedeviled by a recession and asbestos costs from acquisition Union Carbide.
William Aubin of Sarasota, a retired firefighter, sued Union Carbide, which manufactured the asbestos fibers used in construction equipment Aubin had come into contact with as a younger man.
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The Bhopal Medical Appeal, which funds clinics in Bhopal, believes that Dow, which bought Union Carbide in 1999, should pay to clean the site and supply funds for victims.
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In 1999, Dow merged with the Union Carbide Corporation, whose subsidiary Union Carbide India ran the Bhopal pesticide plant - the site of one of the world's worst industrial disasters in December 1984.
On Aug. 4, Stavropoulos and Union Carbide CEO William Joyce, 63, announced the results of a dinner discussion the two had had at a quiet restaurant not far from Joyce's home in Newtown, Connecticut.
On Aug. 4, Stavropoulos and Union Carbide Chief Executive William Joyce, 63, announced the results of a dinner discussion the two had at a quiet restaurant not far from Joyce's home in Newtown, Conn.
In recent years, the Indian government has sought more compensation for the victims, but Dow Chemical has denied responsibility for any additional payments, saying the Bhopal accident occurred 17 years before it acquired stock in Union Carbide in 2001.
In 1999, Dow merged with the Union Carbide Corporation, whose subsidiary Union Carbide India, ran the Bhopal pesticide plant - the site of one of the world's worst industrial disasters, in which thousands of people died in the previous decade.
Prahalad, who began his working life managing an Indian battery plant for Union Carbide, is best known as a highly influential thinker on corporate strategy, and has more recently turned his attention to ways to help poor people around the world.
Given that Union Carbide settled with his parents, then refused to settle in this case, a reasonable person might conclude the judge came to the matter with some baggage regarding what companies might be expected to pay a plaintiff in such litigation.
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One of the worst environmental accidents so far, at the Union Carbide factory in India where thousands of people were killed by a leak of poisonous gas in 1984, made companies everywhere think again about how to manage crises on such a scale.
In 1999, Dow merged with the Union Carbide Corporation, whose subsidiary Union Carbide India, ran the Bhopal pesticide plant - the site of one of the world's worst industrial disasters which had led to the death of thousands of people in the previous decade.
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