Carolyn Fairbairn, director general of
the business lobbying organisation the CBI, called on the government to «act with urgency to minimise the uncertainties that affect investment decisions and slow job creation.»
Bate joined others, such as Fred Smith of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Grover Norquist (Americans for Tax Reform — key strategist of Newt Gingrich's Republican Party faction), Fran Smith (editor of Consumer Alert - a corporate funded «consumer» magazine) and a number of other
business lobby organisations, in taking a skeptical view on the issue of global warming.
Not exact matches
There was even a suggestion Prince Charles might privately
lobby against the move, when Philip Spedding, director of the prince's Arts &
Business organisation, said he would be against the plans.
A BBC report claimed that official departmental
business was discussed during visits on which Patel was accompanied by Lord Polak, the honorary president of Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI), an influential
lobbying organisation.
Vince Cable, the
business secretary, had 106 meetings with outside
organisations and none with a
lobbying firm.
The Accu - Weather report was commissioned by a
lobbying organisation called the Global Climate Coalition, which was set up in 1989 «to coordinate
business participation in the scientific and policy debate on the global climate change issue».
Pearson invest heavily in
lobbying various governmental and inter-governmental
organisations to forward their
business aims at the expense of promoting free public quality education.
Whether they are painted on the wall in the corporate
lobby or lying deep within a family
business, most
organisations have a set of values.