Arotech Corporation notes with profound sorrow the unexpected passing of its Board member and former chairman of its Audit Committee, Bert Wasserman.
In its solicitation last month for new planning ideas, the corporation noted that West Street could become a "living memorial," partly or entirely depressed south of Vesey Street.
Instead, Andrew Winters, the director of design and development for the corporation, noted that 50,000 people had visited the Winter Garden, where all nine proposals were being displayed through Feb. 2.
In a filing with the Securities Exchange Commission, the corporation noted, "The case alleges that the company's compensation plans for admission representatives violated the Higher Education Act".
Hosted by the World Wildlife Fund, and co-hosted by WBCSD and the World Environment Center, the forum featured speakers from major corporations noted for their sustainability programs, including Walmart, Coca Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé, and Procter & Gamble.
And economist Dean Baker, co-director of the Center on Economic and Policy Research, has argued that the plan does not demand enough from large corporations, noting that co-chair Erskine Bowles is a director for Morgan Stanley.
In order to commence construction of the ships as soon as possible, bids sent out to shipbuilding corporations noted that if they were selected to build the ships, an alteration to the design of the ships three months after their keels were laid must be allowed.
The United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations noted in 1985, "[E]xamples of 'double standards' in worker and environmental protection have been documented covering a broad range of transnationals, industries and countries" [ 7].
"The drug business was the original multinational corporation," he noted.
