The disregard revealed by these deeds can be understood as representative of human behavior under intense conditions for securing profit, influencing enterprises as diverse as pharmaceuticals, chemicals, energy, food production, and financial services.
Nearly half of the world's top 100 global companies are trying to subvert climate policies by lobbying, advertising, and influence-peddling, said the UK-based non-profit, Influence Map.
Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich, authored by Peter Schweizer, reportedly alleges financial donations to the global non-profit influenced U.S. policy in the Clinton White House and years later at the Clinton State Department.
A LITTLE-MAGAZINE HISTORY Much of the Miser's enthusiasm for free jazz was channeled into fanzines: homespun labors of love, not profit, whose influence vastly outweighed their circulations.
But a reported deal giving Sinopec, a Chinese state-run oil company, control over a third of the storage capacity at Zhenhai has raised concerns that the pursuit of profit might influence decisions about when to release the reserves.China is not oblivious to such anxieties.
As wage taxes reduce the agent's effective share when participating in the firm's profit, they influence the principal's trade-off between tax benefits and incentive alignment, which in turn can distort the transfer pricing decision.
As HCA's profits and influence grew, strains arose with doctors and nurses over whether the chain's pursuit of profit may have, at times, come at the expense of patient care.
"The Koch brothers embody this ability to tap vast corporate profits and influence policies that undermine the public welfare".
Five of James Brown's children are seeking to invalidate his will on grounds that former advisers seeking to profit unduly influenced Brown, below, to create charitable trusts, The Associated Press reported, citing court documents.
The commission's unusual public criticism -- it has issued 12 subpoenas, none accompanied by stinging accusations of obstruction -- underscored the anger in Washington at the outsize profits and influence of Goldman, which had emerged nearly unscathed from the financial crisis.
"Gross profit is influenced by the mix of national and local deals we offer.
