Corporations acknowledge that they cannot afford to do the open-ended, basic research on which they capitalize.
A group of American companies that had factories in Nazi Germany plans to establish a fund that would aid people who suffered persecution under Hitler's rule, a gesture that comes as more American multinational corporations acknowledge having benefited from forced and slave labor during World War II.
Even still, the former top-level executive at one of the world's richest corporations acknowledges that income inequality is a growing problem.
The political climate finally appears to be changing in the United States, with a growing number of House Republicans pledging to work with Democrats on climate solutions and major corporations acknowledging the need to curb carbon emissions.
"It's a very weighty challenge," Kevin M. Rampe, the president of the development corporation, acknowledged yesterday.
However, he argued that the BBC's failure to stop Savile from abusing his victims made it all the more important that the corporation acknowledged what had happened.
The owner, the FirstEnergy Corporation, acknowledged that workers at its Davis-Besse plant, on Lake Erie about 30 miles east of Toledo, had concealed the damage.
Patrick J. Foye, co-chairman of the Empire State Development Corporation, acknowledged that the convention center expansion plan that he inherited from a previous administration was "dead".
F. Carlisle Towery, president of development corporation, acknowledged that he has been speaking to Ms. Stark about parting with the meat-processing plant.
David M. Goebel, the chief operating officer of the development corporation, acknowledged in testimony today that no developer had been signed for the project yet and that there were no definite plans for the property of some of the plaintiffs.
