Sentences with phrase «corporate power brokers»

Ambassador Froman's appearance at the Global Services Summit with Peter Allgeier, a former top U.S. trade official and now a spokesman for the services industry, illustrates the revolving door relationship between USTR and corporate power brokers.

His characters range from David Baldacci - like corporate power brokers to Elmore Leonard-esque misfits and scam artists.

There are times where directors Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk's film becomes something more akin to hagiographic fawning than it does a journalistic exercise in putting politicians and corporate power brokers on notice.

And sister - and - brother corporate power brokers (Malin Akerman and Jake Lacy, playing antagonist with prime - time soap excess that falls flat compared with Morgan's smirking farmhouse - henhouse - outhouse riff).

Not exact matches

After all, despite being led by respected corporate lawyer Purdy Crawford, the market restructuring committee in question was put together to find a solution acceptable to institutional investors and the financial community, including the power brokers who built the ABCP house of cards in the first place.

The way the «centrist» power - brokers in collusion with the corporate media are trying to — once again — to destroy Howard Dean and the populism he represents — even after he delivered a huge victory — is one of the most disgusting things I've seen yet.

Wendy Lecker puts her finger on two things of great importance: first, certain of the power brokers in public education in Connecticut are determined to increase the number of privately managed charter schools, and they are using every opportunity that presents itself — from the Sheff settlement to the Turnaround option in Obama's Race to the Top — to pursue just this goal; and second, a key factor in the advance of school privatization is «the corporate education «reform» industry's narrative... that our public education system is failing.»

George Norcross, a south Jersey Democratic power broker and insurance executive, called for more charter schools, a change to the teacher tenure system and corporate sponsorship for public schools at a forum tonight.

This reality, that public sector unions operate at the heart of the corporate and financial elite, that they broker, enable and corrupt corporate and financial power, is the tragic irony that is lost on California's electorate.

The secrets — ranging from the trite to the personal, from the corporate to the criminal, from the artistic to the magical, represent another facet of Kaino's project»» his interest in the archiving of conceptual power; the brokering of and the power of secrets.

Courts in Texas have commonly recognized the existence of fiduciary duties in the following relationships: Attorneys, employees, agents, escrow agents, insurance agents, holders of a power of attorney, corporate officers, joint venturers, executors and trustees, securities brokers, taxpayers, class representatives, mineral - rights holders, and condominium board members — just to name a few.