Sentences with phrase «as corporations buy»

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When it was acquired by Dell a little over nine years ago, many in the gaming industry saw it as a lame attempt by a stodgy corporation to buy its way into the «cool kids» club.

Corporations such as Unilever and Walgreens have based promotions on the buy - one - give - one model.

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) was then created as a safety net to oversee and ensure that investors would buy and sell their assets according to regulation.

Similarly, insurers «as purveyors of insurance products, pension plans, and other financial services to corporations, have reason to mute their corporate governance activities and be bought off.»

As a defensive tactic against ransomware attacks, corporations have been noted to buy «emergency funds» of 50 to 100 bitcoins to be able to negotiate with hackers.

This change of behaviour needs to occur at the banks that issue the bank bills, as well as those that buy them including the investment funds and state treasury corporations.

The former prime minister of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani — widely known as HBJ — has bought the mortgage on the property, according to Bloomberg, which also revealed that he was the silent lender behind the minority purchase of the hotel by Ashkenazy Acquisition Corporation.

8Point3 Energy Partners LP (NASDAQ: CAFD) was initially founded as a joint venture yieldco between First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLSR) and SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ: SPWR) with the intention of buying solar assets from both entities and then paying up to 80 percent as a dividend.

Bank bailouts have been aimed at protecting local institutions, as discussed earlier, and the Japanese government is buying stocks of Japan - based corporations to help company balance sheets, but also giving them a competitive advantage over the subsidiaries of foreign outfits.

You will never have honest politicians as long as corporations are allowed to buy them.

If corporations profit from what people decide to buy, and if they adjust their production and advertising policies according to buyers «preferences and the interests of stockholders, then they also are amenable to what the public refuses to buy or what their stockholders establish as policy, and should be expected to adjust their production and advertising plans to take into account buyer and stockholder preferences.

Singapore - based Pardoo Beef Corporation, run by Bruce Cheung, purchased the 198,000 hectare Pardoo Station for $ 13.5 million earlier this month while other major operators such as Great Giant Livestock Co, the second - largest cattle feedlot in Indonesia, and Japfa, also known as Santori, spent a combined $ 50 million buying cattle stations in the far north.

I want you to know that I am among the many who see through your public relations tactics, and I will continue to refuse to buy Nestle products as long as the corporation continues to put profits before life.

News Corporation, as we I write are engaged in extremely expensive attempts to pay off a number of those whose phones were hacked into, including publicist Max Clifford, whose silence has allegedly been bought for a # 1 million.

«The craft beer community is at its most critical moment since its inception as larger brewing corporations have bought into our grassroots movement, irrevocably changing the marketplace.

An LDC, a quasi-public corporation that is funded by tax dollars but operates independently, removes all control over who eventually buys the facility, and what costs we as a County are forced to bear until that point.

As a growing population stresses the world's food and water supplies, corporations and investors in wealthy countries are buying up foreign farmland and the freshwater perks that come with it

The anti-GMO clichés go something like this: GM crops are unsafe to eat; they are bad for the environment; they are a tool of agribusiness corporations; and they exploit poor farmers who must buy seed as opposed to their traditional practice of saving seed.

From 1959 in Green Bank, we had been running a successful and busy 85 - foot telescope, called the Tatel Telescope, that we bought as a kit from Blaw - Knox Corporation.

And then, as most stories often go in the land of corporations, Burt's Bees was bought out by Clorox and their formula now contains canola oil and soybean oil (which I don't eat and also don't want on my lips).

Packing is everything and the big corporations know about marketing and packaging big time, as they do a great job to get people to buy their products.

The incident underlines the peril corporations face as they buy blogs and networking sites like MySpace, which depend on the good will of their users.

A small part by Alan Alda, as the original Elysium founder plays out pleasingly, and it is his character Carvin that holds the deed to the farm, offering the story its silly subplot about a big corporation trying to buy out Elysium to build a casino, which at one point has Linda running topless (with others) in front of a television camera.

Blade Runner 2049 picks up three decades after the events of the original film, Tyrell Corporation has been bought out, Replicants were prohibited and later reinstated under stricter policy and cities have become gridlocked and towering as populations have been exponentially increased.

In the Public Interest recently released a report, Buying Access: How Corporations Influence Decision Makers at Corrections Conferences, Trainings, and Meetings, shedding light on how for - profit companies use conferences such as ACA's to build influence with decision - makers in the public prison system.

It is a shame that Malloy has resorted to disaster capitalism as his mode for educational reform and has been bought by charter school corporations.

I totally understand the self publishing route choice, but should you be wooed by any of the large corporations and move to live in a cramped city and give up paradise, I for one, would pay the ridiculous prices to buy a hardcover as often as you produce them.

Corporations, associations, foundations, government agencies and the armed services buy books directly from publishers for use as premiums, incentives, sales promotions, for educational purposes, and sometimes for resale.

Not just books, but * authors * have been treated as fungible widgets for decades, a process that has gotten worse as the old publishing houses got bought up by soulless corporations that make the «Zon look like a feel - good co-op run by gentle hippies.

Shopping where quality matters more than profit is where my money is best spent and I know how to look at a product to see if it's worthy of my money... I don't care what company produced it, as long as it is good quality and if Americans didn't shop that way, we'd be giving the monopoly on everything we buy to greedy corporations that care more about profit margins than quality and satisfied customers.

They showed me how to buy stocks direct from major corporations through Dividend Reinvestment Direct Purchase Programs with as little as $ 25 a month and no brokerage commissions.

It is possible as well to buy shares in private corporations.

A lot of people buy things with characteristics they don't understand, such as the nature of the underlying business or the capital structure of a corporation.

While MICs are set up as corporations — with investors buying and redeeming shares — you don't actually make money on the appreciation of those shares.

Unlike a lot of market theories that have no foundation in reason or fact, buy and hold investing works because, as Keynes identified many years ago, corporations do not as a rule pay out all their earnings in dividends or share repurchases.

Klien and Zur define an entrepreneurial shareholder activist as «an investor who buys a large stake in a publicly held corporation with the intention to bring about change and thereby realize a profit on the investment,» which seems quite broad.

+ read full definition firm, commonly known as a brokerage firmBrokerage firm A company, corporation, partnership, or other organization that buys and sells stocks, bonds and other investments for investors.

Only infrequently over the years has general market performance been of such overwhelming significance as to overshadow the performance of specific corporations whose common stocks are held in the portfolios of fundamentalist buy - and - hold investors who have staying power.

Entities such as trusts, partnerships, estates, corporations, associations, and fiduciaries are also able to buy paper savings bonds.

Similarly, a business entity such as a corporation or an limited liability company may be the designated beneficiary if a business is purchasing life insurance on a business partner's life as part of an entity purchase buy - sell strategy.

When equities are rich, corporations use them as a currency to buy assets.

Singles are more likely to experience major life events that lead to the purchase of coverage from a life insurance corporation, such as buying a home or having children.

A recent Associated Press (AP) report detailed how People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has spent the better part of the past decade buying stock in at least 80 companies, including such retailers as Safeway, Kroger, Costco and Wal - Mart, in an effort to influence the way these corporations do business.

«Most veterinarians are engrained with myths such as only corporations can buy million dollar practices and that you need a large down payment to buy a practice,» says editor Dr. Byron Farquer.

Sony could conceivably get bought out by one of these four corporations someday, because they do not have the resources to compete on the same level as Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google.

As the hibernating bear of gross sales evaluation wakes up from its post-Christmas lull, it's time for corporations to brag about how a lot they bought over the vacation.

Pietrobono and fellow Occupy member Noah Fischer contend that art has been completely taken over by monetary interests: corporations that engage in «brandwashing» (supporting the arts as a PR play), controversial figures like David Koch using art philanthropy as a way of deflecting from his politics, and unsavory practices such as free ports (storage areas outside national jurisdictions that make it possible to buy and sell art without being taxed).

Their goal is to get as many people as possible to buy nothing at all over a 24 - hour span on Friday in the United States (and Saturday elsewhere around the world), as a small blow against what they say are the destructive efforts of advertisers and corporations to fuel the deep - rooted human tendency to want the next new thing.

Send the corporations a loud and clear message: — reduce your consumption — buy local, support your local farmer — buy only from companies with a verified record of social equity and protecting the environment — speak out to others about the choices that you are making — boycott companies that engage in greenwashing such as ExxonMobile

Peabody was eventually bought by a unit of Lehman Brothers, which brought the company public as Peabody Energy Corporation in 2001.