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  • [[Scottish Financial Enterprise]] is a corporate lobby group which represents the financial industry in Scotland. ...nique partnership between government, the financial services industry, and trade unions in Scotland set up to ensure Scotland’s continuing success as an i
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  • ==Westminster's lobby land== In the heart of Westminster's lobby land, just 600 yards from the House of Commons, are the offices of one of B
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  • Members of funeral trade associations are not regulated by law. They operate their own voluntary cod ...f NAFD are not held to a common code of practice, as is the case with many trade associations.
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  • ...is report was prepared more that five years before the attack on the World Trade Center. The report describes regime change in Iraq as an important Israeli ...ked other neighbors, he was hostile to us, he supported numerous terrorist groups. It’s true that he didn’t have a link that we know of to 9/11. . . . Bu
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  • ...to put pressure on Democrat President [[Jimmy Carter]]. The parallels with groups such as the Center for Security Policy can be shown by looking at who have ...extremist, neoconservative roots can be found in his support for advocacy groups and research institutes such as the [[Project for the New American Century]
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  • ...i_n_1406016.html American Legislative Exchange Council, Ultra-Conservative Lobby, Loses 2 Major Funders], 4 April 2012, accessed 11 April 2012.</ref> Its go ...ial” ALEC, which is “tax-exempt screen for major U.S. corporations and trade associations that use it to influence legislative activities at the state l
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  • ...ivities 2005], PRRI website, accessed 18 Jan 2010</ref> which controls the trade in genetically modified organisms. It is the view of the foundation that wh ...niversity of Cape Town, South-Africa. Thomson has links to industry-backed groups (see [[AfricaBio]].
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  • ...oration" with six other institutes, these institutes include the four main groups from the SN website but add the [[Edmund Burke Foundation]] (Netherlands) a ...etwork'', Web Archive 01-April-2002, Accessed 09-May-2010</ref> These main groups supplied the patrons and directors of the Stockholm Network<ref>Stockholm N
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  • ...s in a better position to lobby for a cut in funding of corporate watchdog groups and networks … The UN's support, via the Global Compact, for the simplist ...lelist10">Denmark</td></tr><tr><td class=“tablelist10”>[[Department of Trade and Industry]] (DTI)</td><td class="tablelist10">Government</td><td class="
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  • ==Lobbying groups== ...rdinary citizens. One reason for this is obvious: pharmaceutical companies trade in health, a basic need and what should be a basic right for all people. An
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  • ...ce to underground resistance movements,' guerrillas and refugee liberation groups, and support of indigenous anti-communist elements in threatened countries ...ganizations through such bodies as the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and AFL-CIO affiliates.
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  • ...nd patients groups on the issue of exposure to chemicals. Washington D.C. trade magazine, ''Inside EPA'', reported Mongoven told the NPRA that "in five yea ...nsideepa.com/ Industry Fears Growing Role Of Patient Groups In Environment Lobby]", ''Inside EPA'', March 24, 2004.
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  • ...purely scientific appraisals are often politicized and misused by interest groups. The Marshall Institute seeks to counter this trend by providing policymake ...must have a prior record of supporting well-known environmental groups, or groups with a record of opposing the deployment of ballistic missile defenses. Thi
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  • Tellingly the groups have worked together. In December 1997, they issued a joint press release s ...ents have included the [[American Crop Protection Association]] (the chief trade association of the pesticide industry), the American Petroleum Institute, A
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  • ...nd Skills]] from October 2010 and later the [[Department for International Trade]] until April 2017. ...lications/donnelly-martin-permanent-secretary-department-for-international-trade-acoba-recommendation/summary-of-business-appointments-applications-martin-d
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  • ...&ndash; a right-wing ideologue, operative with far right Ukranian emigree groups. Even while in government she continued to lobby for Exxon. As Chris Mooney summarizes her role:
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  • ...l Fitzgerald]], Unilever chairman, discussed in businesslike fashion world trade issues and, according to sources, touched on more delicate issues nearer ho ...ry. Business leaders are worried that Mr Blair may make concessions to the trade unions, who are demand-ing more rights in the workplace, in an attempt to b
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  • ...''British Bankers' Association''' is the UK banking and financial services trade association. ...28 September 2012, accessed 14 October 2012.</ref> "[T]he BBA acts as the lobby organisation for the same submitting banks that they nominally oversee, cre
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  • Aquafed is an international water industry lobby group. ...of the two AquaFed offices reflect two key features of this new corporate lobby group, launched in October 2005. Firstly, AquaFed’s efforts "to promote p
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  • ...rving in the Royal Air Force from 1956-1958. In 1969 he became a full time trade union official with USDAW and rose through the ranks, becoming General Secr ===All-party groups (office-holding)===
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