Sentences with phrase «of big corporations like»

I sometimes feel a little confused by whether the law is written to protect the citizens or just to cover the tracks of big corporations like insurance companies, who try to wiggle their way out of a compensation.

Not exact matches

Although Sandwich still makes plenty of videos for penniless passion projects and moderately - funded ventures, the company has recently taken on work for big corporations like eBay and Yahoo, and has even put together the odd TV ad.

Nevertheless, like Haskayne, a growing number of Canadian business leaders are sick and tired of watching executives at our big - name corporations play the role of feed keeper in an eat - or - be-eaten world.

Asked about the worst career advice she ever received, Ahrendts tells of the time she was working at a big corporation and a human resources manager told her that she needed to make changes — like not talking so emotionally with her hands — if she wanted to be considered «CEO material.»

Many corporations are embracing the idea of empowering their workers to become «intrepreneurs» — acting like a small business under the umbrella of a bigger business.

We spoke to supply managers at seven big - name corporations — who buy packaging, marketing expertise, IT services, and more — and asked them what life looks like from their side of the desk.

The city, like the rest of the U.S., was stuck in a decades - long entrepreneurial slump that had left its economy dependent on a handful of big, staid corporations — corporations that were pulling up stakes to head overseas at a rate that alarmed local leaders.

But Apple and other Big Tech corporations like Google and Amazon — along with much of Big Pharma and even Starbucks — have avoided paying hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes on their worldwide earnings because they don't mainly sell physical things like cars or refrigerators or television sets that they make here and ship abroad.

One of the biggest benefits that the digital currency has is that it can not be controlled by a central identity like a corporation or government, thus countries are not able to sanction payments.

These reports are intended provide an accurate accounting of government finances, just like any big corporation would do.

Let's hope that when the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on the case on October 2, the Justices will side with regular working people like Hobson, not with the big bosses and corporations who want to use the fine print to rig the rules against the rest of us.

As I think about the back and forth that is happening here I am wish sometimes that God was like the big corporations that if you violated the contract terms of employment that you would be fired.

Having said that, I do engage in maritial affairs, I steal like other CEOs of big corporations and Wall Street, I invest money in companies that make all kinds of weapons, some that not only kill people in huge numbers, but maims many more.

Lucy Waletzky, a Sleepy Hollow psychiatrist and big - bucks backer of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, says the bankers who administered the trust left by her grandfather John D. Rockefeller Jr. — son of the Standard Oil founder — sold off the family's oil stocks in order to win fees from corporations like Boeing.

«Andrew Heaney is running for Congress to break the grip of the «special interests, big corporations and insiders like John Faso on Washington,» Catalfamo said.

Cuomo said state taxpayers are subsidizing big corporations like McDonald's that pay workers so little that they qualify for welfare or food stamps, at a cost of $ 6,800 per worker.

The trouble, of course, with that argument is that people like George Bush or [British Prime Minister] Tony Blair are so wedded to big corporations that they generally use government - funded science to support big corporations.

Big corporations like Pepsi and Coke can easily spread their message with million dollar advertising campaigns, while the message of better health and nutrition gets lost.

They face huge opposition — big corporations with lots of money and bad manners — and stand like a small but brave army of science soldiers fighting against a giant army of greed and more bad manners to promote the truth: without healthy oceans, our planet could not sustain life.

Also, the film tries to address some kind of political and social issues about big corporations in bed with world governments regarding natural resources like clean water.

The film's initial idea makes time the real villain — just like how money is the root of all evil in the real world — but we need to make the big bad corporations and the timekeepers bad guys, and bad ones at that, as well.

The messages we share include «You're looking very professional today» and «You look like a CEO of a big company or corporation» or «A well - dressed young man always demonstrates positive behavior.»

At a stroke, it democratised publishing and allowed any writer, anywhere in the world, to compete on equal terms with the corporate media giants like the Big Five: that's the Hachette Book Group (a subsidiary of Time Warner), HarperCollins (a subsidiary of NewsCorp), Macmillan Publishers (a subsidiary of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group), Penguin Random House (a subsidiary of Pearson and Bertelsmann), and Simon & Schuster (a subsidiary of CBS Corporation).

Are you sick of submitting your book to the big book promotion sites and feeling like you've been working with another faceless corporation that doesn't care your journey as an author?

«Normally, it's big corporations like IBM IBM, -0.29 % and Microsoft MSFT, +0.19 % and General Electric GE, -0.40 % issuing billions of dollars of credit every day.»

«I think people look at the wine industry and think it's a lot of big corporations,» said Stewart Cellars winemaker Blair Guthrie, «but it's a lot of small family wineries like ours who rely on tourism and can't survive six months without it.»

The majority of his work is with lawyers and law firms (and also bigger corporations like Microsoft).

A list of conservative economists and big corporations that endorse using a market - based, revenue neutral approach like Carbon Fee and Dividend: http://clcouncil.org/founding-members

Will EU Commissioner Cañete side with the European Parliament, which has called for a conflict of interest policy for the UN talks, or will he stick to the line of the likes of US President Trump and the same big oil, gas and coal corporations who are profiting from destroying the climate?

To resolve this question, leading environmental groups and major U.S. corporations (including some of the biggest greenhouse gas emitters) like American Electric Power and Duke Energy convened a negotiating process through Avoided Deforestation Partners, while the Waxman - Markey legislation was being drafted.

Much of this demand is being driven by big corporations like General Motors and Google and other non-utility customers who collectively signed 2,074 megawatts of power purchasing agreements in 2015.

On one side are groups like The Nature Conservancy that work with foreign countries to site hydroelectric dams so they are less destructive of river systems and with big corporations to protect wetlands and reduce pollution.

Calling him «Eric Holden,» Spence says that when a lawyer works long enough for big corporations, as Holder did as partner at a corporate law firm, «the human psyche begins to dry up and one day will fall out on the carpet of the boardroom floor... like a dried up old prune.»

We like to think that our employers, the big corporations in America are going to take care of us, but it's not so true.

The article reports on several legal profession luminaries — including Beth Wilkinson, who prosecuted Oklahoma City bomber Tim McVeigh; former 4th Circuit judge Michael Luttig; and Eric Dinallo, who investigated conflicts of interest on Wall Street under Elliott Spitzer — who have opted for in - house positions with big - name corporations like Fannie Mae (Wilkinson), Boeing (Luttig) and the Willis Group (Dinallo).

The city is also home to big media companies like regional television studios, radio corporations, and major newspaper publishers like Tribune and the now - depleted Sun - Times Media, which once housed Conrad Black's vast international media empire and still owns dozens of local newspapers.

They are big corporations whose main agenda is to increase profits for their shareholders at all costs — including the cost of their insureds who pay premiums like you and your family.

Mergers of big logos can cause trepidation in the market place for a number of reasons: No one likes a monopoly, people prefer choice to titanic sized faceless corporations who control the price, the offering, and the features offered to us lowly peons.

Fully 10 % of new condominiums being built in central Toronto were going to foreign buyers, according to a survey released in April by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC); veterans of the city's rough - and - tumble real estate market believe the vast majority are mainland Chinese investors 10 % doesn't seem like a big number and we're told that Chinese buyers are only interested in luxury priced properties.