It's a corporate fight to the death.
"Anybody who stands up and says, 'We won this thing by a couple of votes and therefore labor is weak,' they don't know how to count," said Mr. Donohue, who led the corporate fight for the trade bill.
Also, its record in tackling HIV may help it secure the "social licence" to mine in other regions with virulent diseases, such as malaria.A final pay-off from the corporate fight against AIDS is that it helped to shame South Africa's government into changing its AIDS policy.
BARON ALBERT FRERE (Belgium) reportedly bought and sold a stake in Bouygues to help Arnault in the corporate fight.
It has taken Congress more than seven years to pass patent reform, and the corporate fight that sprung up around the bill meant rich rewards for those on Capitol Hill.
What we have witnessed over the last five months, then, is a corporate battle fought largely out of view, with bargaining sessions run by an armada of lawyers.
Even in inter-corporate fights, jobs remain the focus of every legislative pitch a lobbyist makes, and piracy provides a natural hook: stopping foreign websites from pirating U.S. goods would create American jobs!
Each firm invests in companies involved in possible takeovers and in companies that are the object of corporate governance fights, fights sometimes started by Mr. Wyser-Pratte.
