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1981 · réf. 80539 — Atlantic Richfield Company Civic Action Program 1981. Presumed first thus. Other. Good. Blade states EREII WON CAMPAIGN GAME 1981 on one side and Hal Bruno on the other. Harold Robinson "Hal" Bruno Jr. 1928 - 2011 was a journalist and political analyst who worked as the political director of ABC News from 1980 to 1999. He was the moderator of the 1992 vice presidential debate between Dan Quayle Al Gore and James Stockdale. Bruno launched his professional career as a reporter for Chicago area newspapers and news agencies. His first job after his graduation was for Advertising Age before becoming the sports editor of the Daily Chronicle. He temporarily left his profession in order to serve in the Korean War. Bruno returned to Chicago after the war and joined the staff of the Chicago City News Bureau as a police reporter. He joined The Chicago American in 1954. In 1956 Bruno earned a Fulbright Scholarship in India to study Indian media. He worked as a South Asian correspondent for the International News Service while in India. Bruno covered some of the biggest news stories of the 1950s including the 1956 Suez Crisis the Our Lady of the Angels School fire in 1958 and the Cuban revolution in 1959. He joined the staff of Newsweek magazine in 1960. Bruno worked as a reporter foreign correspondent news editor and chief political correspondent for Newsweek for 18 years. One of his first assignments at the magazine was the 1960 president election between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. His foreign reports included the 1962 Sino-Indian War. He rose to become Newsweek's Chicago bureau chief and later the magazine's political editor in Washington D.C. Bruno was inducted into the Society of Professional Journalists Hall of Fame in 2008. The Civic Action Program was an organized attempt to engage with the communities they were located in to increase public awareness of their contributions to the community and to address environmental and business concerns. Atlantic Richfield Company ARCO is an American oil company with operations in the United States Indonesia the North Sea the South China Sea and Mexico. It has more than 1300 gas stations in the western part of the United States and recently as of 2017 five gas stations in northwestern Mexico. ARCO was formed by the merger of East Coast-based Atlantic Refining and California-based Richfield Oil Corporation in 1966; the company's name is an initialism of the two companies. A merger in 1969 brought in Sinclair Oil Corporation. In the 1970s and 80s ARCO was one of the largest companies in the world consistently a top 20 company of the Fortune 500. After its subsequent fracture in the late 1980s and early 90s ARCO became a subsidiary of UK-based BP plc in 2000 through its BP West Coast Products LLC BPWCP affiliate. On August 13 2012 it was announced that Tesoro would purchase ARCO and its refinery for $2.5 billion. The deal came under fire because of increasing fuel prices. Many activists urged state and federal regulators to block the sale because of concerns that it would reduce competition and could lead to higher fuel prices at ARCO stations ARCO stations make up more than half of all stations with the lowest fuel prices in California. On June 3 2013 BP sold ARCO and the Carson Refinery to Tesoro for $2.5 billion. BP sold its Southern California terminals Vinvale Colton San Diego Hathaway and Hynes to Tesoro Logistics LP including the Carson Storage Facility. BP sold the ampm brand to Tesoro for Southern California Arizona and Nevada. BP exclusively licensed the ARCO rights from Tesoro for Northern California Oregon and Washington. Atlantic Richfield Company, Civic Action Program unknown