"This won't just hurt business, it will hurt millions of workers who have coverage through their employers," said John J. Castellani, president the Business Roundtable, a group of chief executives of some of the nation's biggest companies.
The executives of some of these so-called nonprofits earn in excess of $500,000 a year while the staff members providing daily care to disabled people earn minimum wage.
The directors for the Legion's charitable wing include executives of some of Mexico's largest corporations, including the cement multinational Cemex; Copamex, a large paper producer; and Banco Compartamos, the country's largest microfinance group.
But at Senate hearings on June 15th executives of some of those companies had to admit that their plans for responding to oil spills in the gulf were embarrassingly similar to a much-excoriated one submitted by BP.
Before an audience that included top executives of some of the world's largest Internet companies, including Google, Facebook, Amazon and eBay, he added, however: "The universe you represent is not a parallel universe.
Among the professionals and executives who teach on Long Island are the highest-ranking judge in Nassau County, the top executives of some of the region's largest companies, and leading planners and business analysts.
Executives of some of the five dropped Canadian companies, which all report their financial results in American dollars and have extensive business ties to the United States, said they failed to grasp the logic of the move.
It is also a club frequented by senior executives of some of America's biggest corporations — firms like AT&T, ExxonMobil, and I.B.M., all of which sponsor the Masters.
Mr. Davis said that while he was grappling with California's energy problems, Vice President Dick Cheney was meeting with executives of some of the companies that contributed to the crisis.
