In Benin, which signed a five-year, $307 million compact with the corporation in 2006, the president had high praise for Mr. Bush.
To the extent that it ever existed, the compact between U.S. corporations and U.S. labor is over.
Advanced by the big U.S. labor unions in the mid-20th century, this narrow vision could succeed only as long as the compact between U.S. corporations and U.S. unions lasted.
Rather than encourage the practice, the secretary of commerce should facilitate cooperation among the states -- via federal legislation or an interstate compact -- to reduce corporations' abilities to extract subsidies by playing states and their residents off of each other, as states sprint past one another, into ever deeper deficits.
The F.B.I. today looks more like a multinational corporation than the compact organization that J. Edgar Hoover ran as a fiefdom during his long tenure as director.
The Verbatim Corporation, maker of compact discs, has introduced a new recordable CD called the Digital Vinyl CD-R, which on the label side looks and feels like a 45-r.p.m. record.
A staff ethicist might instruct the corporation on its compact of trust with the consumer and the public.
Quantitative methylation analysis of the MUC4 promoter was performed using the MassARRAY compact system (Hitachi high technologies corporation, Tokyo, Japan; Ehrich et al, 2005; Yamada et al, 2008).
In contrast, Edwards is seeking to define the next New Deal in an era of globalization - a new social compact requiring people to work, corporations to act responsibly and government to protect people during tough times with a stronger safety net.
The corporation began construction on a compact soccer-centric stadium a few miles away in Harrison, N.J., spent money on players, raised standards and turned over executives with Steinbrenner-like regularity.
