Reg Bailey's 2011 government report on the pornification of popular culture played a small part (much of the legwork done by activists) in placing pressure on corporations, resulting in Co-op's "modesty bags", followed by Tesco persuading magazines to create less sexually explicit covers.
As FPIF columnist Walden Bello points out, workers also have been asserting their rights, with several strikes last year against transnational corporations resulting in substantial wage increases.
And the recent proliferation of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) has led to many developing countries being taken to private courts by transnational corporations, resulting in the overturning of many health, safety, and environmental laws, as well as awards in the billions of dollars from taxpayers to corporations.
Gel spot excision and subsequent tryptic digestion were conducted using an Ettan™ Spot-picker (Amersham Biosciences) and ProteomeWorks™ MassPREP™ robotic handling station (Bio-Rad Laboratories and Waters corporations), resulting in peptides in a final extraction solution of 2% ACN, 0.1% formic acid in H20.
Cablevision had been locked in a prominent programming fee dispute with the News Corporation, which resulted in the operator losing Fox's local stations in New York and Philadelphia for 15 days until the two sides resolved their differences last week.
Well known in Britain, Collins will be introduced in the United States in the fall with 125 titles, bringing under one umbrella several nonfiction and reference imprints of HarperCollins, the book publishing division of the News Corporation that resulted from the 1990 merger of the American publisher Harper & Row and William Collins of Britain.
The first beneficiary of that legislation was Citigroup, a corporation that resulted from a merger that would have been banned by Glass-Steagall.
The bankruptcy of the Oregon Arena corporation, which resulted in the Rose Garden being owned by a consortium of investment firms, further alienated the fanbase, as did an incident in which forward Darius Miles (himself African-American) called coach Maurice Cheeks a "nigger", following it up with more racial invective when Cheeks sought out Nash, referring to Nash as Cheeks' "daddy".
Help grow the military-industrial complex: Fifty-five yeafterfter President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned about the growth of the "military-industrial complex" in his farewell address, the partnership between the government, the military and private corporations has resulted in the permanent militarization of America.
They point out that some of the island's power plants are antiquated, for one, and that the government gives large electricity subsidies to municipal offices and buildings, churches and some corporations, which result in higher prices for other consumers.
The creation of a radical services FTA like the proposed TISA, advocated for by global banking, investment, accounting, energy, telecoms, transport, and other services corporations, would result in the deregulation and liberalization of many private and public services in developing and developed countries alike.
