Few workaday meetings have had the impact of those secretly recorded by a Texaco executive several years ago.

At several points on the tapes, the Texaco executives openly discuss destroying records to protect themselves in the discrimination case.

Under normal bankruptcy case rules, Texaco executives had the exclusive right to present a reorganization plan to the court.

The Texaco executives involved in the review were apparently thinking in that vein.

Texaco executives can concentrate on such moves because, for the first time in several years, they are not preoccupied with legal challenges and external threats.

Texaco executives have not publicly expressed their views on the reorganization plan.

Texaco executives said they intended to maintain working relationships with the civil rights groups.

The other is the existence of audio tapes secretly recorded by a Texaco executive who later became angry with the company.

What the behavior of the Texaco executives really exemplifies is how institutional affirmative action has failed to alter individual attitudes.

Texaco executives announced that up to 100 people will lose their jobs because of corporate restructuring in Harrison.