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...The struggle is evident at public companies that remain under family control, such as Fox Corporation and News Corp, both of them dominated by 91-year-old Rupert Murdoch....
...Long copyright benefits a few “elderly and disadvantaged authors”, but it mostly benefits the corporations who own a handful of truly profitable properties such as Mickey Mouse and Batman....
...Such a company, like Shakespeare’s King Lear, “but slenderly knows itself” — and will end up raving on the heath of public opinion....
...As title suggests, it’s about the eye-watering cock-ups that have spelt doom for powerful corporations....
...That would make CNUC the largest shareholder in Rossing alongside IFIC, the Iranian Foreign Investment Company, and ICSA, the Industrial Corporation of South African....
...After graduating from Western Michigan University and an internship at tyremaker Continental in Detroit, he took an executive job at Lear Corporation, the car seat and electrical distribution systems manufacturer...
...As they attempt to seize control of the family corporation, their estranged sister Florence frets by the phone in rural Wyoming....
...A “private museum with a public purpose”, half the building costs came from the mayor and half from private corporations and foundations. Alberto Sierra, 71, is co-founder of the museum....
..., when Shakespeare wrote King Lear, placing this sublime creative act within its historical and social context: the gunpowder plot, plague and fears of witchcraft....
...Some days ago, Tony Hall, director-general of the BBC, welcomed journalists, well-wishers and a sprinkling of celebrities to Broadcasting House to unveil the corporation’s new plans to cover the arts, and...
...Its customers include the UK’s National Health Service and New York-listed Lear Corporation, which makes car seats for most of the world’s auto manufacturers....
...Lear’s Alf Garnett figure was Archie Bunker, played by Carroll O’Connor, who railed against the “coons”, “spics” and “fags” who were making his neighbourhood, and his world, an uncomfortable place....
...Recent investments include the UK’s first foam manufacturing plant, opened by Detroit-based Lear Corporation....
...There are rumours that people past 70 have sexual relations, though the movie industry would prefer that they run marathons or major corporations....
...The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that the group, including the founders of Ben & Jerry’s, the ice cream maker, and Norman Lear, the television producer, is aiming to raise $1.8m....
...He got in his Lear jet and moved the money offshore.” Perhaps the rhetorical attacks reflect the grip of the so-called privileged “posh boys” running the government?...
...It provides nuclear expertise to help run Pakistan’s power plants and has built the Karakorum Highway that links the border with China to Pakistan’s heartland....
...But Mr Osborne is trying to tap into something rather deep in the nation’s psyche: the idea that the country is stuffed full of super-rich bankers, tax-evading multinationals and Lear-Jet-riding non-doms...
...It acquired businesses from the bankruptcies of Lear Corporation and Collins & Aikman, but has also expanded abroad....
...Losers: Banks, oil companies, tax avoiders, people in Lear Jets....
...Also interesting is what is not included: where is the description of the Lear Jet Levy?...
...Human nature dictates that people tend to be at their worst when there is a sharing out of the spoils (see King Lear)....
...ii] Rumours on corporation tax....
...Lear Corporation, which makes seats for cars, this week filed for bankruptcy in one of the biggest failures yet of a supplier to the automotive industry....
...His first job was in the nascent computer division of electronics group Radio Corporation of America....
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