In researching corporations striving to optimise shareholder value, I have found this aim often clashed with a business's undertakings to promote social and environmental objectives.
American forces appear to have opened a new phase in the war in Afghanistan with two bombing raids over the weekend that Afghan commanders in the area said were aimed at clashing militia forces rather than the Taliban or Al Qaeda.
Live Earth bombed because it lacked the imprimatur of a figurehead or a clearly defined aim, while the clash between the message (raising climate change awareness) and the method (pop stars jetting in to stage energy-guzzling megagigs) – was horribly discordant.
K.TK As befits the most politically inclined band to survive Britain's punk-rock movement, the Clash usually aims for gritty realism in the video clips collected here, looking defiant and, at times, a little silly.
It has been in upheaval ever since Matteo Renzi, the 37-year-old mayor of Florence, challenged the party leader, Pierluigi Bersani, 61, last month in a generational clash also aimed at drawing new centrist voters to a party whose old guard is dominated by labor unions.
Product Clash is aiming to offer "peer reviewed product comparison in a fun way" with a site that takes Digg style voting to product grudge matches.
Through initiatives such as these, the Aga Khan aims to redress the clashes of ignorance so prevalent in the world, instead bridging the divides in knowledge that have separated peoples of different cultures, languages and religions rather than bringing them together.
The Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission, the body tasked with verifying the presence of government and opposition forces in Juba, has yet to confirm that security arrangements aimed at preventing clashes between the two sides have been met.
The strikes appeared to differ from previous American bombing raids in Afghanistan because, according to warlords in the region, they were aimed at controlling clashes among militia forces, and not at destroying the Taliban or Al Qaeda, the focus of American attacks since the first bombing raids on Oct. 7.
Mr Llorenti initially defended the police action, saying it was aimed at preventing clashes with pro-government groups.
Thirteen militants have been killed and seven Afghan army vehicles have been burned in the clashes aimed at clearing an area between Kabul and Jalalabad, he said.
