2009 will go down as the year the US Chamber fell from its perch as the representative voice of business and became a national joke.
And we are glad to note the pacific line of the Standard, which is in keeping with its old traditions as a moderate representative of business feeling.
"It has become harder for me in my role as the representative of business to make the argument for pro-enterprise policies.
"Just like Enron or Madoff aren't representative of business, most people believe Satyam is not representative of India's IT business," says Jessie Paul, chief marketing officer for Wipro Technologies, who is working on a book on branding.
In addition, although we have made efforts to make the colleges studied representative of business students in Chennai, it is possible that the study sample differed in other, unobservable ways from the population of business students in Chennai or Tamil Nadu.
His speeches, mostly to environmental groups and antiglobalization teach-ins, drew increasingly large audiences, including representatives of businesses.
The UK delegation, led by health secretary Lansley, included representatives of businesses large and small involved in innovation based on healthcare data, including iWantGreatCare.
Bob Keener, a spokesman for a coalition member, Business for Shared Prosperity, said on Monday that 400 executives, investors and representatives of businesses had signed a petition in support of the campaign.
Spurred by local human rights activists and spiritual leaders, and an engaged, experienced police chief who warned that "silence is acceptance", representatives of businesses, unions, civic and political organisations responded before the violence could escalate.
The commission's members, drawn both from government and private industry, split into three camps -- the five antitax members, led by Governor Gilmore; the six representatives of businesses, all with major Internet interests; and the eight others, mostly from government at various levels and led by Governor Leavitt, who say that the way an item is sold should have no bearing on how it is taxed.
