Search results

Create the page "Act Now" on this wiki! See also the search results found.

• Pfizer: Corporate Crimes
  According to Cap Gemini, a consultancy, direct-to-consumer advertising now accounts for 16 per cent of total promotional spending in the healthcare in ...ether so they brought back what they caught and did not eat while hunting. Now the Hoodia is at the centre of a bio-piracy row.
  51 KB (7,869 words) - 21:25, 18 February 2007
• Tim Rycroft
  ...e government and public affairs director with [[Diageo]] in the UK. He is now Corporate Relations Director Global Travel & Middle East. He was hired by [ ...ecessarily the commercial freedom of responsible licensees". The Licensing Act, Scotland (2005) did not ban promotions on alcohol sales.
  7 KB (1,037 words) - 10:05, 30 March 2013
• Shell: Corporate Crimes
  Shell now paints itself as a caring company wishing to dissociate itself from past 'm ...or 2001 said that plans to grow output by 5 per-cent between 2000 and 2005 now looked "Very challenging" amid the slowing world economy. Analysts predicte
  23 KB (3,436 words) - 18:00, 18 February 2007
• Spies at Work, Chapter 3: 'Section D'
  ...ed, on the grounds that the respondents, having been naturalised under the Act of 1870, were capable of being Privy Councillors when they were respectivel ...ath that he was given greater responsibility in the organisation, "and was now running my own group, known as Section D". Nevertheless White also clearly
  36 KB (5,988 words) - 14:50, 17 August 2007
• Spies at Work, Chapter 4: The Economic League and the General Strike
  ...the leadership, having discovered the limit of their movement's power and now also deprived of the ultimate sanction, were more inclined to compromise in ...ping the public authorities," he claimed, would be "performing a patriotic act." Joyston-Hicks told the Supply and Transport Committee that he believed th
  37 KB (5,842 words) - 14:51, 17 August 2007
• Spies at Work, Chapter 6: The Economic League goes to War
  ...and reliable recipient of intelligence, in breach of the Official Secrets Act. ...ist who had bought an honour which had not been forthcoming, he decided to act. The industrialist asked for a refund, which Gregory had refused in such a
  60 KB (9,504 words) - 20:51, 1 February 2008
• Spies at Work, Chapter 7: Peace and Cold War
  ...le to encourage such work through existing independent organisations. I am now writing to inform you that the Federation has examined the work carried out ...untry. One of its tasks was to expose the true nature of the insidious and now almost forgotten "Peace" campaign, which developed into the notorious "Germ
  39 KB (6,147 words) - 14:16, 20 August 2007
• Spies at Work, Chapter 8: The Wilson Years
  ...streets. But although the conspiracy may have been put on ice, a taboo had now been broken, and a network of powerful contacts remained. A whispering camp ...lready attracted the support of some senior and junior officers. There was now, however, a more fundamental constitutional problem regarding the Army as a
  58 KB (9,216 words) - 20:55, 1 February 2008
• Spies at Work, Chapter 9: Spies at Work
  ...acceptance of their views by the British electorate . . . Some of them are now saying very blatantly that they are more concerned with harming the nation ...ring the making of the programme researchers had warned [[John Prescott]], now one of the Labour Party's leading front benchers but then a National Union
  50 KB (8,091 words) - 20:58, 1 February 2008
• Spies at Work, Chapter 10: 'The Need for a Change of Direction'
  "I think it is fair to claim that we now have a reputation within Parliament as a responsible and effective organisa ...pursue a more robust line. It played a small part in the coal dispute and now generally seeks to encourage sometimes disappointingly reluctant industry t
  44 KB (7,134 words) - 20:18, 12 September 2007
• Spies at Work, Chapter 11: The Fall
  ...donations of £15,000 in 1986 and 1987. Following changes to the Companies Act in 1967 the BUI relinquished its status as a Limited Company so as to avoid The natural alliance between the Economic League and the NAFF (now called the Freedom Association) continued until the end. This was reflected
  28 KB (4,501 words) - 13:41, 13 September 2007
• ASDA Wal-Mart: Corporate Crimes
  ...ay - and if it isn't one of exploitation and hardship then it must step in now." ActionAid investigators spent nine months collecting evidence about the w ...ot their first language and some of them do not speak much English at all. Now, if what is being alleged about taking on asylum seekers is true, that's a
  64 KB (10,114 words) - 13:16, 8 September 2009
• Tesco Plc
  ...s, electronic goods, consumer financial services and internet services. It now has four established UK formats: Tesco Express - a convenience store servin ...ons) – took 47% of British shoppers’ spending on food in supermarkets. Now these supermarkets take 75% of British shoppers spending on food in superma
  66 KB (10,141 words) - 14:54, 13 July 2016
• Tesco Plc: Corporate Crimes
  ...to appeal to a broader spectrum of customers and one Tesco shopper in four now buys at least one organic product. As a result they are broadening their ne ...o exploitation by supermarkets. It seems ironic that the supermarkets have now appropriated them. Selling some organic/fair trade ranges does not excuse t
  80 KB (13,052 words) - 17:55, 29 July 2007
• New Labour: Donors
  ...nsorship). The Trade Unions, who once generated 90% of the Party's income, now provide only 30% (and only 3 high-value donations in 1998-9). ...and Industry Secretary, he told the CBI that his brief from Blair was 'to act as a vocal and tenacious advocate of the needs of wealth creation and busin
  61 KB (8,658 words) - 18:46, 5 November 2012
• Bayer: Corporate Crimes
  [[Gilman and Pastor]], LLP, are now prosecuting a nationwide class action lawsuit on behalf of all persons in t {{ref|229}} Nelson Mandela signed the [[Medicines Control Act]] in 1997, which allowed South Africa's health minister to override patent
  75 KB (11,176 words) - 11:18, 24 August 2009
• Marcus Grant
  ...d was one of four national bodies concerned with alcohol misuse in the UK, now replaced with [[Alcohol Concern]] and the [[Medical Council on Alcohol]]. ...hol." <ref>Edwards, G. (1998) If the drinks industry does not clean up its act, pariah status is inevitable. British Medical Journal 317, 336.[ISI][Medlin
  7 KB (1,059 words) - 11:04, 13 October 2011
• Sodexho: Corporate Crimes
  ...ion of America. ‘In June 1994, we acquired an 8% stake in CCA... we have now determined that our CCA investment is no longer in line with our strategic ...acquisition and the acquisition of Corrections Corporations of Australia (now renamed Australian Integrated Management Services) also from CCA, Sodexho h
  64 KB (9,794 words) - 14:28, 16 November 2015
• Halliburton: Influence / Lobbying
  .... Hunt has served as chairman. Although the NPC is not allowed to lobby or act as a trade group, it operates in an advisory role to the US Energy Departme ...aq, at least that is what he would have us believe (see Corporate Crimes). Now that Dick Cheney is back in government, his position on sanctions is likely
  13 KB (1,897 words) - 13:57, 27 January 2017
• Exxon Mobil: Corporate Crimes
  ...re working for the opening of the refuge. The [[House of Representatives]] now support plans to drill for oil and gas in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge. Befor Intercor is now about to evict all residents of the Indigenous community of Tabaco, to make
  28 KB (4,089 words) - 21:51, 26 July 2007

View (previous 20 | next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)