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Martinelli near-universal as Americans rst, we’ve shifted our turned to sobs, as I thought about Editor aspirational value. attention from the values that unite the young men in the ground at my Christi Milligan President Trump should “own” us instead to the di erences that feet, mostly 18 to 22 years old, who News that statement. divide us. had given their all, perishing in the Senior Reporter D-Day landing at Omaha Beach for Kathy Canavan I’ve counseled leaders throughout Like more than 10 million of my public a airs career, from CEOs us who served in the U.S. military the American concepts of freedom. Digital Editor/Senior Reporter Alex Vuocolo to top elected o­ cials to clergy and during the Vietnam era, I volunteered Our country is a great country, others. because I “drank the Kool-Aid” of Copy Editor better than any in history. A Al Kemp If I were counseling President the American ideal. Heck, as an old democratic republic. 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A was,” he contends. study this summer Fortunately, Lustig as Delaware shares showed that analysts says all ex-DuPont rated DuPont as colleagues he knows headquarters with Michigan their No. 12 broker have now found jobs pick, on average, of — in consulting, in BY ROGER MORRIS the 30 stocks on the university teaching Special to Delaware Business Times Dow Jones Industrial and research and averages. with other chemical When the DowDuPont merger — almost two One unsentimental companies. years in the making — becomes nal on Aug. 31, DuPont ex-employee Some of those and stockholder, it will be a seismic change in the history of the scientists now have who retired a few 215-year-old Delaware company, yet there will be working relations Andrew Liveris years ago and who Edward Breen few outward indications that anything is di erent. with a new company requested his name While there will be meetings of of 85 industrial not be used, says recently his nancial adviser “commemoration” for employees, company o­ cials scientists, most of them ex-DuPonters, called say, “no celebrations” are planned. ere will be no “suggested I unload because of potential legal liabilities my Chemours stock I got in the spino , Stride, headed by non-DuPonter Seetha Coleman- immediate changes in corporate signage, and the Kammula. According to Coleman-Kammula, DuPont oval will not suddenly become a Dow but to hang onto the DD stock until the merger plays out. As long as I make a few bucks and my Stride has both nonpro t and for-pro t arms and diamond. Employees, with few exceptions, will pension is safe, I’m happy.” aims to provide expert services for any company continue September 1 in the jobs they are currently So far, there have been no announcements of who needs them — including, for some scientists, performing for the foreseeable future. Customers planned layo s and job redundancies that can be their former employer. “We have two sizable will still call the same o­ ce numbers. anticipated as part of the predicted $3 billion in contracts already,” she says, “and I de nitely think But the company will no longer carry only synergies the merger is expected to yield. Current there will be opportunities with the new company the name of DuPont, and it will no longer be employees, especially in sta departments, will [DowDuPont].” headquartered solely in Delaware. also likely have concerns about if and where they e new DowDuPont will have headquarters For the scores of descendants of DuPont founder will t within the two Delaware-based units being in Midland, Michigan, where Dow is located, and Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours, the merger formed, or whether they will be asked to transfer Wilmington, and it will be a holding company for will mean a dramatic weakening of their special to Michigan.