Whether alternative exchanges will succeed in changing the way they are regulated in Canada remains unclear, since the Ontario Securities Commission, which oversees the Toronto exchange, has endorsed the exchange's regulatory role.
And now, a Ministry of Agriculture official is on trial in Beijing for accepting bribes in exchange for endorsing food products.
In exchange for endorsing a Democrat or a Republican in a given race, he said, Independence Party leaders may obtain an appointed position for one of their own.
What finally sprang the bill was a political deal: In exchange for endorsing Gov. George Pataki's re-election in November, the Empire State Pride Agenda, a leading gay rights group, won a promise from the Senate majority leader, Joseph Bruno, to allow the bill to reach the floor for a vote.
Forbes reported a year ago that workers in the ASEA plan were being kept in the dark about the fact that their union was receiving $1 million annually from Nationwide in exchange for endorsing its 457 plan.
In tandem with floating exchange rates, the agreement endorsed central bank interventions aimed at clearing excessive volatility.
But much to everyone's surprise, he endorsed needle exchange after interviewing experts in public health, AIDS prevention and epidemiology.
Finally, while food insecurity was strongly associated with sex exchange in unadjusted analyses (as also reported in a recent study in sub-Saharan Africa) [ 33], this association was not seen in adjusted analyses and may be due to the lack of statistical power related to the small number of individuals that endorsed sex exchange.
The United States Surgeon General's office and the Department of Health and Human Services have endorsed needle-exchange programs, but the federal government provides no money for them.
Ronald Arculli, chairman of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, which owns the stock exchange, said Monday that he endorsed the mainland caution.
