Sentences with phrase «for giant corporations»

Trump is trying to renegotiate NAFTA to be even worse for people & the environment and even better for giant corporations.

Senate Majority Leader Michael Gronstal (D) said the Republican plan «favored tax breaks for giant corporations.»

Because Kraft, Coca Cola and Wal - mart are living proof that is possible for giant corporations to make and sell kid - friendly, family - friendly, and healthy processed foods so that we can give our kids some special treats — like the U.K. versions of Starburst and Skittles, for example — without necessarily exposing them to a chemical cocktail that might also give them brain tumors, or leukemia, or the symptoms of ADHD, as the Center for Science in the Public Interest recently highlighted in their report «Rainbow of Risks».

Beloved classics are being turned into marketing schemes for giant corporations intent on shoving...

Not exact matches

Whereas Apple's old logo connoted the free spirit of an upstart that was taking on staid tech giants, its current position as one of the most valuable corporations in the world calls for the sleek, futuristic logo it has now.

It's always been challenging for small businesses to compete with big - box chains and giant corporations.

In a very large country, Canada Post has some built - in advantages for a foray into the parcel business: besides a national delivery network that reaches or almost reaches every home in Canada, the corporation's retail outlets offer a far more user - friendly way of collecting a missed parcel than what's on offer from logistics giants like UPS.

The argument is the same in places such as India as it is in North America: that Facebook, a giant, rich corporation, is skewing the equality of the Internet in its favour by giving users some parts of it for free while the rest remains «for pay.»

It wasn't until after Facebook acquired Oculus in 2014 for $ 2 billion that Nguyen and his team could re-engineer Home with the resources of a giant corporation that has expertise in cutting - edge software development and data processing.

In a tweet, Hamill called the FCC chief «profoundly unworthy» of wielding a lightsaber, noting that «A Jedi acts selflessly for the common man - NOT lie 2 enrich giant corporations.»

THE new millennium could mark major hydrocarbon developments for Chevron Australia Pty Limited, a wholly - owned subsidiary of US oil and gas giant Chevron Corporation.

It envisions a barbell structure for most industries, with a few giant corporations on one end, a relatively small number of mid-sized firms in the middle, and a large group of small businesses balancing the other end.

• Xiaomi Corporation, the Chinese phone giant, filed for an IPO in Hong Kong.

One of the major thrusts of this Asian Consultation organised by the CCA is the arsenal of measures by which the menace of capitalist appetites of giant corporations and their global operations may be stemmed so as to secure for all persons a fair share of the work, wealth and happiness as a sine qua non of a just world system.

It is laughably absurd to suggest that a giant for - profit corporation like GE (which owns NBC) is «socialist» or even «left wing».

On the other hand, our concern for equality will prompt us to check very carefully whether the tax breaks are producing their desired effect, or whether they are being used by the rich to purchase yachts and by giant corporations to gobble up smaller companies.

Renmin Vizconde, Advocacy Officer of the Philippine Network for Food Security Programmes added that «malnutrition and its resultant blindness exist because the basic rights of the farmers and people to land, livelihood are disrupted, due to government neglect and absence of social services, and not because the rice variety they consume does not have Vitamin A. Golden Rice is baseless, unscientific and nothing but a sensationalized product of giant agro-chem corporations to lure super-profits.»

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 wish there was just a giant corporation we could all verbally academically demonize, order a beer and collectively shrug our privileged shoulders at our inability to do anything more than to vote for Obama and not shop at Wal - Mart.

But what makes Andy unique amongst his peers isn't so much his pro-plant bias as it is his passion for calling out the inextricable link between giant food corporations and how we innately come to think and feel about the foods we (often unconsciously choose to) eat.

«From his work as a trial attorney taking on giant corporations like Wal - Mart on behalf of working people, as well the hundreds of hours he's done in pro-bono work for women who were victims of sexual harassment and abuse.

Relegislate abortion, defend marriage, protect millionaires, abolish collective bargaining, hand out unfathomable tax breaks to giant oil corporations, dismantle the most popular and necessary entitlement program, and threaten to destroy America's international credit rating, but what has the GOP done for me lately?

«It's been really good for progressives that there's been kind of a race among potential presidential candidates to not just be on board, but be leaders on issues like Medicare for all, fighting for Dreamers and fighting against Trump's giveaways to billionaires and giant corporations,» said Adam Green, a founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a liberal advocacy group.

«This half - baked compromise will still double the tax on millions of Americans and is a hollow sham that would hammer huge numbers of middle - class families from Elmira to Syracuse with a tax hike in order to pay for a tax cut to already - profitable giant corporations and the super-rich,» Schumer said.

Toward that end, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited agreed to purchase from the French nuclear giant AREVA at least two 1650 MW European Pressurized Reactors, each priced at more than $ 3.5 billion, with an option for four more later.

Owned by the broadcasting and manufacturing giant Radio Corporation of America, RCA Laboratories in Princeton, New Jersey, for example, concentrated on radio and television.

But when the giant Albertsons bought one of our little country grocery stores, the town seems to be either changing their views or they are no a match for such a large corporation.

He works with the product development team of a giant corporation's subsidiary, looking for vulnerabilities in military - grade private security devices.

That's because it's easy to use a giant, greedy, faceless corporation as a symbol for evil.

Dr. Kate Caldwell (Naomi Harris), who developed the pathogen for the Energyne corporation before its sibling owners Claire (Malin Akerman) and Brett Wyden (Jake Lacy) stole the formula and had her terminated, volunteers to help Davis with George, but they soon discover that they have bigger problems — in particular, a giant wolf that's combing the Wyoming countryside.

Interestingly, Stanton blames a giant corporation — the aptly named «Buy»N' Large» — for the destruction of the earth and the plumping of the useless human race.

But branding isn't just a huge buzzword reserved only for the like of giant corporations.

Microsoft and B&N announced their partnership and the formation of the new corporation in 2012, under which the software giant invested $ 300 million for a 17.6 percent equity stake in the company valued at $ 1.7 billion overall.

All of these sales venues are giant corporations that are out to make a profit for themselves and their stockholders.

As you may remember, the US giant had been trying to gain control of the Amazon.com.br domain for years, and recently managed to do so by settling its long legal battle with the domain's previous owner, a Brazilian company called Amazon Corporation.

Giant Corporations can File for Bankruptcy, but Bankruptcy is Not an Option for Student Borrowers Let freedom ring!

While American Express is the giant in the corporate rewards program space, MasterCard has increased its business offering in recent years, with corporate credit cards for executives at major corporations as well as small business credit cards for entrepreneurs.

For instance, giant gaming corporations are acquiring more momentum and resources by the minute.

The character is a clone of a giant corporation, and working is the only purpose for Klaus.

With our forward - thinking, charismatic president Demetrio Watts delivering cheaper energy to cities throughout the world, the Prometheus Corporation continues to balance sophisticated research with environmental conservation to light a brighter future for humanki — What a giant load of horse @ # % *.

To Rodriguez, he uses a simple test not for being indie, per se, but for being independent, seeing if the developer is owned by a giant corporation.

King of the Monsters is a series of video games created by SNK Corporation (the predecessor of the current SNK Playmore) for the Neo-Geo, featuring giant monsters reminiscent of kaiju and tokusatsu.

Her logos for global corporations and cultural institutions have cemented her reputation as a giant of identity design.

[45] In 2009, Kusama designed a handbag - shaped cell phone entitled Handbag for Space Travel, My Doggie Ring - Ring, a pink dotted phone in accompanying dog - shaped holder, and a red and white dotted phone inside a mirrored, dotted box dubbed Dots Obsession, Full Happiness With Dots, for Japanese mobile communication giant KDDI Corporation's «iida» brand.

Owned by a giant corporation now, I am doubtful about that, but for the moment, it's interesting.

James Murdoch, the young scion of the giant News Corporation media empire, has an op - ed article for The Washington Post aimed at «conservation - minded conservatives,» spelling out the many reasons to propel an energy transformation in the United States through a declining cap on carbon dioxide emissions, despite the uncertainties in climate science.

And given that Toyota is by no means the only corporation aiming for 100 % renewable energy in its manufacturing operations, the coal giants are likely fretting too.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has joined the American Legislative Exchange Council, a private group set up for corporations and other interest groups to ghostwrite legislation that is sponsored by legislators in state capitals around the country.

And the corruption of the world from the oil giants is at absurd levels — when Denier billionaire David Koch sits on the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, who else in the media world can go after Oil?

And, except for two congressmen who didn't take any energy industry money, the signatories received sizable contributions from a number of other corporations that compete with wind, including coal barons Arch Coal and Alpha Natural Resources; and oil and gas giants Chesapeake Energy, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Valero Energy.