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Search results for "Conglomerate" ...
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CIF's Grab for Oil and Minerals
This story examines how a well-connected Chinese conglomerate eased out its Western rivals and wrangled lucrative resource deals in Africa. Its competitive edge? Promises of billions of dollars worth of infrastructure projects, most of which never materialized.
Tags: Oil; China; Conglomerate
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LNG Controversy Dogs Every Step of the Policy Process
Reporting for the Malibu Times at first, Hans Laetz looks into Australian Energy Conglomerate BHP Billiton's plans to "build a liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal floating off the local coast." But after two months, Laetz was removed from coverage by the Times amid criticism, possibly due to the fact BHP Billiton was an advertising client of the Times. He then was picked up by the Malibu Surfside News, and continued to tell a tale of the various aspects of the deal: how BHP got a smog waiver after White House officials overruled local Environmental Protection Agency officials, the safety and pollution risks of the project; citizens' letters supporting the project to the government, which turned out mostly to be fake; and the opposition of state and federal parks officials to the project.
Tags: BHP Billiton; liquified natural gas; Hans Laetz; environmental issues; Environmental Protection Agency; paddleout protest
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The Conglomerate College
Community colleges are addressing a plethora of community needs with often little or no increases in state or local government funding.
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The Pharmageddon Riddle
The New Yorker tells the story of the international chemical conglomerate Monsanto and the troubles the company has had recently in light of growing concerns in America and Europe about the safety of genetically engineered products.
Tags: Monsanto; genetically engineered; GE; food; medicine; protests; Europe; Greenpeace
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Whose Company is it, anyway?
This Money Magazine article traces the changes that are so active in the insurance industry by following Principal Life as it transformed from a mutual insurance company into a diversified insurance services conglomerate.
Tags: mutual holding company strategy; stock company; AmerUs
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Info-bandits
In These Times examines the Telecommunications Act. It claims that the bill, supposedly created to bring discipline to the media market and protect consumers, was hijacked by media conglomerates with millions in PAC contributions.
Tags: Center for Responsive Politics; Center for Media Education; Interest Groups; Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
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Ronald O. Perelman began attending board meetings at his father's companies at age 11 and by age 52 he'd bought and sold 44 of his own companies finally creating, MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc., a conglomerate of 60,000 employees. Today Perelman is worth somewhere around $5 billion, making him one of the wealthiest people in the United States. Business Week looks at Perelman's rise to power, expansion of his empire, and the legal troubles Perelman encountered along the way. (August 21, 1995)
Tags: Spiro Revlon First Nationwide Bank Investment strategies Corporate raids Business 7 pgs.
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Wall Street Journal investigates how Tele-Communications, Inc., a cable-tv company, grew from a small struggling firm to the world's biggest cable conglomeration; finds that the firm uses hardball tactics to block other companies and self-dealing to enrich its executives, Jan. 27, 1992.
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The Nation explains how big businesses within the U.S. and foreign conglomerates have spent millions to influence politicians to pass the North American Free Trade Agreement; the forces opposed to NAFTA do not have a fraction of the resources, June 14, 1993.
Tags: Lewis Ebrahim Coordinating Council for Export Business 13 pages
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Washington (D.C.) City Paper profiles the corporate empire of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church which include the Washington Times, Insight Magazine, an international media conglomerate, book publishers, video production companies, a major American cable network, travel agencies, health-food stores, real-estate agencies, and a whole area protected from government scrutiny as a result of an entanglement of nonprofit organizations, June 11, 1993. # DC Zilliox Green
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