Sentences with phrase «few global giants»
According to a study by Treasury Department economists, «excess» or above - average profits by a few global giants have increased.
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There was always a frustrating reality for reporters: They worked for a giant global news organization, but few people read their work.
For starters, it's part of a wave of global consolidation in agriculture that will put an increasingly large portion of the world's commercial seed market — roughly 50 % — under the control of a few giant multinationals.
This trend has been highlighted in a recent study that the emerging global order is spearheaded by a few hundred corporate giants, many of them bigger than most sovereign nations.
The prospect of another bidder emerging from the ranks of global private equity firms is also high, with US - based giant Carlyle Group known to have quietly sounded out former Coca - Cola Amatil managing director Terry Davis about his appetite for running a privately backed Treasury in the past few weeks.
Led by global paper giants APP and APRIL, the pulp, paper and palm oil industries are driving Riau's Sumatran tigers and elephants to local extinction in just a few years by destroying their habitat, the study found.
In the article and subsequent aimiable exchange with Nordhaus, Dyson touted no fewer than three possible crackpot mega-schemes as contingency «low - cost backstops» against global warming: «carbon - eating trees» covering fully a quarter of Earth's vegetated land mass, «carbon - eating phytoplankton in the oceans», and «snow - dumping in East Antarctica» (via «a giant array of tethered kites or balloons so as to block the westerly flow on one side only.»)
BHP Billiton is set to launch a review of its global legal panel, which could lead to the mining giant working with fewer firms.
We are one of very few top U.S. law firms who can be and has been adverse to the global finance giants like Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, UBS, Barclays, Bank of America, and Credit Suisse, among others, and who represent both international investors and sovereign governments.
Small firms like his, with only a few brokers, can specialize in unique properties in certain areas rather than handling big Class A office buildings like the giant global players, he added.