Taco Leader Endows Forum to Study Manufacturing

The Brookings Institution, a private nonprofit organization devoted to independent research and innovative policy solutions, recently announced the launch of the John Hazen White, Jr. Forum on Public Policy, named for the president and chief executive officer of Taco Inc., who will endow the forum and fund activities related to manufacturing and innovation.

Scott Arnold

July 26, 2012

“As a manufacturer in business over 90 years, Taco is proud to be a company making things here in America,” White said. “The American manufacturer is an important part of our economic strength and health as a country, and we need to do everything we can to encourage and support an American manufacturing comeback.”

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Scott Arnold

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Described by a colleague as "a cyborg ... requir(ing) virtually no sleep, no time off, and bland nourishment that can be consumed while at his desk" who was sent "back from the future not to terminate anyone, but with the prime directive 'to edit dry technical copy' in order to save the world at a later date," Scott Arnold joined the editorial staff of HPAC Engineering in 1999. Prior to that, he worked as an editor for daily newspapers and a specialty-publications company. He has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Kent State University.