Search results

Jump to: navigation, search
  • ...eads in the sand. We think there's a middle path and by adjustments to the legislation the government can achieve something that is reasonable." The key factor mo ...he CBI dinner: "Please resist the siren voices calling for more employment legislation when preparing your next manifesto." But if the mixing tax proves to be les
    33 KB (5,326 words) - 05:36, 5 November 2014
  • 32 KB (4,819 words) - 13:36, 7 May 2007
  • Despite this B-M has worked hard to oppose emissions capping legislation. They helped to set up the [[Business Council on Sustainable Development]] ...tainable Development]] which continues to oppose enforceable environmental legislation and pushes for voluntary corporate action on environmental issues. The WBCS
    29 KB (4,352 words) - 22:49, 15 May 2009
  • The Massachusetts-Burma law is a controversial piece of legislation excluding any corporation that trades in Burma from contracts for Massachus Naturally such legislation has come under attack from corporate interests, particularly from the [[Nat
    28 KB (4,516 words) - 09:40, 7 March 2009
  • ...2 by the US House of Representatives Government Operations Subcommittee on Legislation and National Security concluded that there was little evidence to prove tha
    17 KB (2,542 words) - 16:00, 3 December 2006
  • ...toing the House and Senate versions of the Iraq war supplemental bill. The legislation includes benchmarks and a 2008 withdrawal plan. If lawmakers cannot pass a ===Network neutrality legislation===
    14 KB (2,043 words) - 07:02, 25 April 2013
  • ...tion.be is full of the kind of furious attacks on environmental and social legislation that are more commonly associated with radio talkshows from the US mid-west ...ce of tobacco and chemical industries using the changes to delay or weaken legislation to improve public health. <ref> Katherine E. Smith Gary Fooks, Jeff Collin
    53 KB (6,619 words) - 21:33, 23 September 2015
  • Putin has himself vetoed legislation which would restrict the sale of beer; vodka however has become subject to
    16 KB (2,472 words) - 21:32, 2 October 2012
  • ...commercials extolling the virtues of birth control in Africa and anti-gun legislation was winning marketing awards in Canada. Millions of dollars were being spen
    6 KB (860 words) - 14:54, 21 March 2018
  • ...Activ.com, 14 January 2009, accessed January 2009.</ref> The new pesticide legislation aims to halve the number of toxic products used in farming by the year 2013 ...pesticides-legislation-looks-set-adoption/article-178385 New EU pesticides legislation looks set for adoption]", EurActiv.com, 9 January 2009, accessed January 20
    24 KB (3,606 words) - 00:31, 9 January 2018
  • ...profits); implementation and strengthening of the TRIPs agreement (patent legislation); lowering of chemical threshold values (e.g. the allowable chemical thresh ...s have been adopted by the Organisation. The IMO helps governments put the legislation into effect.{{ref|146}}
    66 KB (9,524 words) - 20:31, 27 February 2007
  • ...resentatives and Superfund-related committees in order to prevent stricter legislation (see [[Dupont: Influence|Influence]]). ...for Responsible CFC Policy]]. {{ref|66}} However, as the threat of federal legislation died down with the Reagan Administration, DuPont put a stop to its $3-4 mil
    47 KB (6,825 words) - 19:46, 19 July 2007
  • ...not limited itself to making settlement offers. The company is pushing for legislation that would effectively deny access to the US judicial system to foreigners ...ight weeks ago, the Republican senate leader slipped into patients' rights legislation a ban on all lawsuits against makers of parts for body implants, even those
    51 KB (7,869 words) - 21:25, 18 February 2007
  • ...bargaining power, and in the long term to helping to support the case for legislation aimed at permanently undermining trade unions' influence in the labour mark
    39 KB (6,147 words) - 14:16, 20 August 2007
  • ...rights at all levels of industry. It would also have forestalled the Tory legislation which ultimately left the trade union movement isolated and considerably we
    58 KB (9,216 words) - 20:55, 1 February 2008
  • ...ed - political beliefs. But that legislation would not be easy to enforce. Legislation would need to be policed, and any whistleblowers would need to be protected "WE ALSO RECOMMEND THAT LEGISLATION SHOULD PROVIDE THAT, WITH THEEXCEPTION OF PREVIOUS EMPLOYERS PROVIDING REFE
    28 KB (4,501 words) - 13:41, 13 September 2007
  • ...actice and most felt powerless to prevent it. 75% said they would like new legislation to deal with the problem. Colin Peters, the head of development control for ...riends of the Earth campaign, the Government has committed to changing the legislation. Asda seem determined to go ahead before new rules come into force, avoidin
    64 KB (10,114 words) - 13:16, 8 September 2009
  • ...t hypocrisy of the business groups pushing anti-consumer product liability legislation, revealing that the same companies lobbying to restrict the legal rights of ...n China, noting their support in gaining passage of the US Congress's PNTR legislation this year. Major sponsors of the event were: Cigna, Emerson, ExxonMobil, Ge
    31 KB (4,647 words) - 13:59, 7 May 2007
  • ...e would come if the Competition authorities stepped in to enforce monopoly legislation which defines a ‘classic monopoly’ as 25% of market share in a given se ...entry into both Thailand and Malaysia seems to have prompted a new wave of legislation aimed at reducing the power of foreign supermarkets and big business. Howev
    66 KB (10,141 words) - 14:54, 13 July 2016
  • ...islation which would ensure workers a basic living wage, health and safety legislation and the right to collective bargaining. In particular, the ETI does nothing ...ently available). Unless we as citizens act to restrain Tesco and call for legislation to restrict its market share, no one else will.
    80 KB (13,052 words) - 17:55, 29 July 2007
  • ...ers]] blockaded the port in Leverkusen for several weeks, thereby changing legislation and forcing Bayer to "voluntarily" stop dumping the acid into the North Sea ...www.farmanimals.net/ban_background.htm (date viewed: 05.02.02) |'Community legislation in force', European Commission Document, available online at: http://europa
    75 KB (11,176 words) - 11:18, 24 August 2009
  • ...untary private employee benefits'. In doing so they initiate and champion 'legislation and regulations favorable to our members' needs and interests, and influenc ...ok for policy debate in the days leading up to House passage of new energy legislation which opened up some of the US's last unspoiled mountains, canyons and badl
    13 KB (1,897 words) - 13:57, 27 January 2017
  • ...and the Environment]] (Bozeman, Montana) is working against environmental legislation. It gives seminars that resemble free luxury vacations for judges to promot
    31 KB (4,412 words) - 01:11, 21 May 2015
  • ...£30bn, and called for an audit of the economic impact of all existing EU legislation on the UK.<ref>[http://www.openeurope.org.uk/Content/documents/Pdfs/regs.pd ...ued that the UK government’s proposed ‘referendum lock’ - a piece of legislation that would prevent cession of particular powers to the EU without a referen
    79 KB (11,371 words) - 07:02, 29 January 2018
  • ...eceives money from the pharmaceutical industry, which is supporting reform legislation in exchange for a White House promise to limit cuts.<ref>Dan Eggen, Funding
    12 KB (1,623 words) - 16:52, 14 December 2010
  • Ros-Lehtinen has supported and sponsored several pieces of legislation for the [[Church of Scientology]], <ref>'FLORIDA POLITICIANS AND OFFICIALS
    6 KB (794 words) - 19:39, 4 March 2015
  • ...0 January 2001, authorised the disbursement of $4 million to the INC under legislation passed in late 2000. The money was earmarked for a programme described as t ...y Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq" and to help in "drafting resolutions, legislation and regulations" to advance democracy there.<ref>
    40 KB (6,274 words) - 22:57, 23 April 2011
  • ..."advise multinationals and individuals on how to exploit loopholes around legislation they had helped to write".
    28 KB (3,810 words) - 12:15, 21 January 2020
  • ...ls to ban incitement to religious hatred; remove clauses creating specific legislation to deal with racially motivated crimes in the Crime and Disorder Act and Anti-Terrorism and Security Act 2001; review the efficacy of citizenship tests and citizen
    17 KB (2,452 words) - 08:44, 16 November 2011
  • ...he Policy Exchange, said of the report: “It doesn’t deal with specific legislation or whether we need 25 extra battalions or whatever. It deals with vital but
    65 KB (9,862 words) - 08:59, 16 September 2014
  • ...vention and The Biological Weapons Convention. He drafted the implementing legislation for the Biological Weapons Convention and managed the Senate approval of th
    18 KB (2,638 words) - 00:06, 17 October 2013
  • ...y 1929) is a British Judge who is best known for chairing the Inquiry into Legislation against Terrorism, which produced the so called Lloyd Report in 1996. ...tant groups in Northern Ireland. The inquiry set up to review the existing legislation was headed by Lord Lloyd and published its report in October 1996.
    3 KB (434 words) - 00:10, 27 May 2010
  • ...eturning to the Home Office in 1982, she worked on prevention of terrorism legislation and related high security issues. Later, she directed the Top Management Pr :* new legislation from Brussels as well as Westminster, which provides citizens ever more pro
    26 KB (3,886 words) - 23:53, 30 October 2008
  • ...slation is considered one of the most harmful anti-environmental pieces of legislation in the past decade. Not only does the bill fail to include meaningful solut
    4 KB (525 words) - 13:53, 19 February 2008
  • ...e consultancy '''SC Strategy Ltd''' with former reviewer of anti-terrorism legislation and peer for the [[Liberal Democrats]], [[Alex Carlile]]. The firm claims t
    6 KB (800 words) - 12:13, 4 November 2015
  • ...slation is considered one of the most harmful anti-environmental pieces of legislation in the past decade. Not only does the bill fail to include meaningful solut
    13 KB (1,942 words) - 11:33, 23 March 2008
  • ...ips with other industries to assist them in their attempts to avoid formal legislation.
    14 KB (2,028 words) - 14:33, 29 January 2015
  • ...eral public and policy influentials. After hearing that Waxman-Markey-like legislation could increase the costs of gasoline to around $4 and lead to significant j ...increased energy costs to all unsound proposals (e.g., Waxman-Markey-like legislation, tax increases, and access limitations).<ref>Memo from Jack Gerard, preside
    6 KB (931 words) - 10:39, 6 July 2010
  • ...usly, he was a consultant for the [[World Bank]] designing anti-corruption legislation, and a research analyst at the [[Olin Center for Strategic Studies]] studyi
    610 bytes (80 words) - 18:09, 23 April 2012
  • ...ublic, convincing many to oppose a bill they would support if they saw the legislation.
    6 KB (852 words) - 12:15, 16 April 2008
  • ...vernment and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport consider legislation to prevent such comments from being allowed to remain online'.<ref>Matthew
    31 KB (4,472 words) - 17:37, 24 June 2023
  • ..."advise multinationals and individuals on how to exploit loopholes around legislation they had helped to write".
    17 KB (2,460 words) - 12:14, 21 January 2020
  • ...mstrong]] published ''Can We Be Neutral'', an examination of US neutrality legislation.<ref>Mark Lincoln Chadwin, The Hawks of World War II, University of North C ...g published ''Can America Stay Neutral'', which warned that "no neutrality legislation can give us the advantages of an isolation that does not in fact exist."<re
    19 KB (2,877 words) - 14:41, 27 October 2014
  • *Oppose "all amnesties & guest worker legislation".
    1 KB (193 words) - 17:46, 26 April 2008
  • :* reviews domestic legislation and provides advice on drafting enabling laws; ...tates and provides training to national administrations with regard to new legislation;
    1 KB (185 words) - 15:07, 31 May 2008
  • ...n 2001 he was appointed the government's independent reviewer of terrorism legislation.<ref>[http://security.homeoffice.gov.uk/news-publications/publication-searc ...ilkinson]]. [[Paul Wilkinson|Wilkinson]] pushed for repressive anti-terror legislation for years, and was involved in the legislative process which led to the Ter
    8 KB (1,125 words) - 10:11, 9 January 2024
  • ...for the [[War Crimes Act 1991]], lobbying the Thatcher government to allow legislation to bring those responsible for Nazi atrocities (and now resident in Britain
    18 KB (2,486 words) - 11:50, 19 September 2022
  • ...s largest software company and as an MEP who has been involved in patent legislation that could help that company. Lehne and Taylor Wessing are keen to stress t
    22 KB (2,906 words) - 11:03, 2 April 2012
  • ...rs of the regulatory agency have to disclose their interests. ‘Community legislation clearly states that the members of the Management Board, scientific committ
    17 KB (2,578 words) - 15:42, 3 March 2009
  • ...d as part of a guide produced to help in raising awareness and influencing legislation relating to osteoporosis<ref>International Osteoporosis Foundation, "[http:
    13 KB (1,899 words) - 01:05, 25 February 2016

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