Sentences with phrase «from rich corporations»

In the eyes of most people who heard about the case, the lawsuit was obviously ridiculous and was apparently an attempt to take money from a rich corporation.

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Prior to co-founding Zillow, Rich founded Expedia, an online travel company, as a group within Microsoft Corporation, a software company, in 1994, which Microsoft spun out as Expedia, Inc. in 1999, and Rich served as Expedia's President, Chief Executive Officer and as a member of its board of directors from 1999 to 2003.

Not only have the B.C. Liberals copied the «big ticket» items from the B.C. NDP platform, but they've refused to adopt the revenue measures designed to pay for them: modest tax hikes on profitable corporations and the richest two per cent.

They are rich, they get lots of money from big corporations, and at the end of the day, they vote for nothing that may make a poor person's life better.

The control of the media by rich corporations prevents the public from understanding what is happening.

Republicans hate people, are racists, want to take everything away from the average person and give it to the rich, stomp on those in need so corporations can have more power and abuse their workers more and LIE ever day as easily as they breathe.

These protest movements also voice a concern that democratic politics has become imbalanced in favour of corporations and the very rich and / or (as with the indignados) that politicians have become a class separate from ordinary citizens: concerns about the loss of genuine popular sovereignty.

The tax reform legislation, which the GOP aims to push through Congress this week, will amount to about $ 1.46 trillion in debt from tax cuts over the next decade, with reductions in rates focused for the richest Americans and corporations.

It comes from a choice to slash taxes on corporations and the super rich and slash services on everybody else,» Nixon said, deeming Cuomo a «good investment» for the likes of the Koch brothers, who are prominent political donors.

«It comes from a choice to slash taxes for corporations and the super rich and slash services on everybody else, and it's a choice we're used to being made by Republicans like Donald Trump, but for the past eight years, it's a choice that has been made by our Governor Andrew Cuomo,» Nixon continued.

Far from doing anything about it, the government relaxes local planning rules and sucks money from local councils, making them even weaker in the face of these companies, who are meanwhile made richer with George Osborne's cut to corporation tax.

Several countries with the richest biodiversity, such as Brazil, are this week refusing to sign up to new targets unless there is also a deal on sharing the cash benefits from the exploitation of their genetic resources by western corporations such as drugs companies.

Blue carbon markets, in which countries or corporations could offset CO2 emissions by buying carbon credits from projects that create or protect carbon - rich habitat, could become viable in two to three years, says John Bruno, a marine ecologist at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

Into the middle of this bog stepped Merryl H. Tisch, a former 1st - grade teacher with an EdD from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a spouse, James Tisch, who heads Loews Corporation and has sometimes appeared on the Forbes 400 list of the richest people in America.

The Berenergy Corporation produces oil from several sites in Wyoming's mineral rich northeast corner.

It also features a rich single player campaign set within a dystopian future, where players take on the role of a tactician to a resistance group attempting to prevent an evil corporation from taking over a city.

«This scam really pisses me off — mainly because these people aren't stealing from large rich corporations but taking advantage of smaller companies and indie developers.»

The annual gathering has shifted from its origins as a hippie - like solstice festival to a pop up city in the desert built yearly by large corporations and rich participants, often from Silicon Valley.

The comments about rich versus poor give me an opportunity to replay a letter I wrote to a newspaper yesterday — a scientist from a corporation with a very strong climate policy mentioned that affluence increases per capita emissions.

When we attacked Iraq, oil was at $ 29 a barrel and the great fear was that once we attacked it, the tremendous increase in supplies from Iraq would drive the price of oil down to even lower levels, causing the oil rich nations (and corporations) to lose billions of dollars.

Most of ALEC's money comes from corporations and rich people like the Koch brothers, with a tiny sliver more from its negligible legislator membership dues ($ 50 / year).

But if anyone could afford to make a bigger and earlier switch to Non-carbon energy use it would be the richest 1 billion people (and the corporations / government they might work for)-- these «wealthier» people also have «the pull» to tell those who they buy stuff from that fossil fuels is not an option in their supply line anymore.

The largest majority of real cuts in fossil fuel energy use need to come from the world's richest people and largest corporations to solve the problem faster.

Well, the US political system has been captured by the money from corporations and rich individuals, the result being a hard right turn away from science and rational thought.

That's a pretty rich statement coming from a guy who shills for a corporation that spent millions spreading disinformation about climate science, continues to deny and contest payments to victims of the Exxon Valdez spill, has been low - balling estimates of the Arkansas oil spill, and has spent the past week intimidating and blocking out the media from reporting the truth at their spill in Arkansas.

South Texas, Louisiana and other states along the Gulf Coast are especially rich in natural resources, which makes this region a target for large - scale gas and oil operations, as well as corporations looking to profit from the mineral riches by drilling deep into the soil.

These mega-corporations are not rich in tax revenues or other state monopolies like the quasi-sovereign joint - stock corporations chartered to rule vast territories from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century.

The shelter is funded by donations from thousands of people around the world, North Americans and Europeans, rich and poor, individuals and corporations alike; in this regard, it is one of the best examples of the entire Bitcoin community pooling its resources together.

McDonald's Corporation (Oak Brook, IL) 2001 — 2008 Business Insights Analyst (Year — Year) • Architected a complete web analytics strategy in a timely, efficient, and cost effective manner • Spearheaded process from acquiring back - end hardware needs, software evaluation and selection, legacy data migration and profile development • Devised visitor engagement methodology to fully understand and educate business stakeholders on visitor interactions within rich Internet applications • Defined the success of global promotions by evaluating the marketing plans • Created, developed, and executed reporting for business stakeholders regarding KPIs, ROIs and user behavior insights