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...But a good runner-up might be “corporations”. Business investment (something like a fifth of GDP) has likewise withstood higher interest rates....
...The defendant, he argued quoting Max Weber, was simply motivated by the belief that “building the corporation is the ultimate good, and . . . everything that resists building it out is bad”....
...From Harry Truman to Bill Clinton, so-called liberal internationalists have sent US forces to Korea, Vietnam and the Balkans with orders to protect democracy and human rights against the threats of communism...
...He signalled that corporations had two years before regulators in some jurisdictions including the UK and EU moved to make such disclosures mandatory....
...A glance at Robert Shiller’s cyclically adjusted price/earnings ratio shows the S&P was trading on historically lowly valuations in 1949 and 1953 ahead of the Truman and Eisenhower administrations, which...
...Indigenous groups in Alaska, however, own collective land through regional corporations in which they are shareholders....
...When I leave it’s like I hit the world; y’know, like [hitting] the wall at the end of The Truman Show.” Seaside knows all about The Truman Show, released 20 years ago this June....
...Philip Stephens, in “Trump has sounded US global retreat” (July 6), traces his concerns about American reliance from the Truman doctrine of 1950....
...I wonder how American corporations, and our system at large, will change in response....
...Instead, profit-rich US corporations have chosen to pay higher dividends and buy back shares instead of investing for long-term growth....
...The Roosevelt-Truman administrations created the model based on overall risk reduction....
...In the 20th, it was the corporation. Now, it is the individual consumer....
...Nicole de Fontaines is the secretary general of Cems, the alliance of business schools, corporations and non-governmental organisations....
...When Harry S Truman ceased to be US president in 1953, he determined, according to biographer David McCulloch, that “his name was not for sale....
...It was left to novelist Dave Eggers, however, to brilliantly capture a near-future nightmare of a sinister tech company with The Circle and its seductive campus landscape, which turns out to be a Truman...
...Presidents from Franklin Roosevelt to Harry Truman railed against the excesses of a privileged few in finance and business. Some have gone beyond rhetoric....
...To me this renaissance of artisan breweries reflects the truth that entrepreneurs identify changes in consumer tastes better than large corporations....
...Sheila Bair, the chairperson of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation during the crisis, has called him the “bailouter-in-chief”, while Neil Barofsky, who was a special inspector of the bailouts, says...
...Sarah Vaughan, BB King, Jackie Wilson, Lon Fontaine, Dinah Washington, the Spinners, T-Bone Walker and countless others performed at clubs in those two decades....
...Owen LITERARY NON-FICTION White Girls , by Hilton Als, McSweeney’s, RRP$24 The New Yorker critic’s first major work since 1996’s The Women, this collection of essays parses cultural figures including Truman...
...And if he fails to attract enough votes, he will have to build his 2012 presidential campaign around it, attacking the Republican “do nothing” Congress, as did “Give ‘em hell” Harry Truman in the election...
...So oil-rich Norway has increased its exposure to equities, as has Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC). Others have chosen to retrench....
...Originally intended for snap-happy amateurs, Polaroid Land cameras were soon adopted by professionals and put to a wide range of creative uses, which inspired Land and the Polaroid Corporation to establish...
...It took Bob Swarup of The Pension Corporation to visualise the gaping hole in this Budget. “We are still looking at a £70bn-plus deficit in 2014…we are facing a debacle....
...But the new political leaders of the west were men such as Harry Truman and Clement Attlee, who spoke plainly because they knew no other vocabulary....
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