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...He convinced a Houston jury that his client Pennzoil had been cheated after Texaco (by then a New York company) had “tortiously interfered” in Pennzoil’s signed deal to buy rival Getty Oil....
...Jamail had convinced a Houston jury that his client Pennzoil had been cheated after Texaco (by then a New York company) had “tortiously interfered” in Pennzoil’s signed deal to buy rival Getty Oil....
...“Mona is the largest shareholder in the company — Art Processors — and that is how I hope to assure its future.”...
...Noam Perry at the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker group that offers a tool highlighting alleged human rights violations in investments, called on other companies to follow Ben & Jerry’s example...
...“You can state 20 points in an opening statement, you get one of them that ends up being wrong you’re going to get hammered over the head with that throughout the trial,” Gravante said....
...Wouldn’t this state begin to look less like being on deadline and more like being at peace?”...
...In the 1980s and 1990s the John Lewis Partnership, a company with Quaker roots, fought an ultimately fruitless battle to resist Sunday trading in England....
...The compensation payable to shareholders equalled 40 per cent of Britain’s annual expenditure and constituted at the time “the largest single financial operation undertaken by the British state”....
...New York extended its state lockdown and cancelled its Democratic presidential primary....
...A study by ShareAction found that 38 of the world’s 75 largest asset managers scored badly on ESG issues, including BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street....
...Apple is not the only company that thinks it’s a good idea to wade into the state’s property market and try to alleviate the situation....
...Backed by investors including Singapore’s state investment company Temasek, the start-up recently signed an agreement with agricultural trader Archer Daniels Midland to scale up production of its animal-free...
...“Being an ethical Quaker-type proprietor he charged cost plus [while] all the other restaurants charged what they could get away with,” Grantham recalls....
...I do not entirely share his prescription of “better companies and more competition” as the solution. This indeed is part of the answer....
...Fury has erupted in Pennsylvania over huge fees paid by the Quaker state’s two largest public pension funds to investment managers on Wall Street....
...Mr Crowley’s top donors include Blackstone and New York Life, the insurance company....
...The FT’s Chris Flood takes a look at a showdown in Pennsylvania where a row has erupted over the investment policies of the Quaker state’s two biggest public pension funds....
...Chinese internet groups such as Alibaba or Baidu are influenced by the strictures of the state, and yet they find ways to remain creative and nimble....
...(FT) Double standards Several states in the US have banned medical companies from shocking patients with bills for thousands of dollars, but they are cashing in on the practice through their exposure to...
...That appetite for risk could come back to haunt it now that the company is in US regulators’ crosshairs....
...His pay package in 2009, when Barclays was already the beneficiary of state support through the Bank of England’s special liquidity and credit guarantee schemes, was £27m....
...The amount of landscape-based advertising and marketing material created by these companies is testament to this....
...It’s not a good state of affairs at the moment, but it could be so much better.”...
...By contrast, Iceland has prosecuted the chief executives of three large banks and 23 other bankers, according to Ruv, the Icelandic state broadcaster....
...Unite also highlights improvements in maternity pay arrangements, which with state top-ups amount to about nine months on full pay, compared with 16 to 18 weeks before....
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