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That could help curtail a true drug crisis with devastating economic and social impacts — and which was sparked, in large part, by the actions of huge pharmaceutical companies.

Even brand managers who embrace social media can find their efforts are met with lackluster response or, worse yet, can find themselves in a crisis from an online misstep caused by spreading oneself too thin.

Suzy Welch is a business journalist and best - selling author with expertise in leadership, change and crisis management, corporate governance, social media, and careers.

Johnson & Johnson was lauded in its response to the crisis, but this occurred in the days before social media, the Internet, and 24 - hour cable news, when careful consideration as to the tone and content of public communication could be timed to a daily, weekly, or monthly news cycle.

And while various troubling social factors, including unequal access to health care and the impact of the opioid crisis, have stalled the growth of the average U.S. life expectancy in recent years, odds are that America's higher earners will live longer — maybe much longer — than they expect.

Victor Bostinaru, vice chair of the Social Democratic group in the European Parliament and Romanian MEP, said on Thursday he had evidence that the Russians had interfered in the Catalan crisis, as reported by the Daily Telegraph.

The global financial crisis initially slammed the brakes on the nation's economic expansion, wiping out about 20 million export - related jobs — this in a country where anything under 8 % growth is generally considered to be too slow for social comfort.

An existential crisis in social media stocks, confusion over how to discount a trade war and conflicting interpretations of the Fed's latest move are weighing on the market.

Facebook announced the new feature in a blog post on Thursday that encouraged users to adopt the new feature in order to raise money through the social network for anything from medical procedures to relief in the wake of a public crisis or natural disaster.

Accordingly, as the European economic crisis continues to fuel nationalist ideology, STRATFOR expects the tension created by globalization and its social and cultural effects to be an important element in the European political scene in the coming years.

Still, in the wake of the 2008 U.S. financial crisis, he started thinking that the way of the future for financial institutions might be a different kind of business model — one that emphasized social good as much as turning a profit.

Superstorm Sandy inspired social media gaffes Without fail, a tragedy or crisis occurs and brands tweet or post something off - topic or downright offensive in relation to the event.

For those exploits that potentially apply, it is key that companies establish crisis cells to follow the development of these disclosures and be on the lookout for any patch or any attack reported in the media or social networks.

The housing bubble in the United States, which triggered the financial crisis in 2008, had highlighted the danger of using the financial system to make up for the failures in social policies.

The social network is undergoing its worst crisis in its 14 - year history as it faces a torrent of criticism about its privacy practices and the way it handles user data.

Mr. Deason and his Facebook friends became early entries in a database that would ultimately encompass tens of millions of Facebook profiles and is now at the center of a crisis facing the social media giant.

«The country is in a social crisis,» said José Ángel Álvarez, the head of a national association, Asonacrip, that has been working with the government on the Petro.

Complex and interconnected crises in the political, environmental, and social spheres are taking hold of our world — and it is time change - makers with a shared vision for a sustainable future seize the moment.

Jean Swanson, a veteran of decades of anti-poverty work in Vancouver, noted that the only up side she could see to the crisis is that it might possibly slow down the «luxury condo hurricane» she has seen crowd out needed new social housing in the Downtown Eastside.

The Miss Teen USA pageant is currently in the middle of a social media crisis.

On Wednesday, still reeling from a PR crisis after a photo on the company's website of a black child wearing a green hoodie with the slogan «coolest monkey in the jungle» triggered social media outrage (and the trashing of the brand's stores in South Africa), H&M posted its biggest profit drop in six years.

Public companies for the first time this year must disclose how much more they pay their chief executive than their median employee, a rule born in the wake of the financial crisis and amid a social backlash against rising income inequality.

Social Media Success Policy Template The hyper - speed and incredible reach of modern social media makes for uncharted territory that many companies are still floundering with, when it comes to what can and can not be said to avoid legal liabilities, how to handle a crisis in the public eye, and standard procedures and guidelines for creating the kind of culture you want on all your social chaSocial Media Success Policy Template The hyper - speed and incredible reach of modern social media makes for uncharted territory that many companies are still floundering with, when it comes to what can and can not be said to avoid legal liabilities, how to handle a crisis in the public eye, and standard procedures and guidelines for creating the kind of culture you want on all your social chasocial media makes for uncharted territory that many companies are still floundering with, when it comes to what can and can not be said to avoid legal liabilities, how to handle a crisis in the public eye, and standard procedures and guidelines for creating the kind of culture you want on all your social chasocial channels.

«Planned markets are sick markets, markets that are always in crisis, because their most - important social function — facilitating selection between competing pools of capital on the basis of what way of doing things in the real world works best in practice, distinguishing between real capital formers and fools — has been disrupted by the planner's clumsy interference.

Given that Social Security faces a substantial funding shortfall and that most workers don't appear to face a retirement crisis, there is a strong case for gradually slowing benefit growth, particularly for wealthier workers who are currently slated to receive millions in lifetime benefits despite being able to live comfortably off their private retirement savings.

79 % believe having an active C - suite participant on social media can mitigate risk in the event of a crisis.

Facebook Inc. hasn't been «fully forthcoming» as Congress probed Russia's attempted meddling in the 2016 presidential election, U.S. Senator Mark Warner of Virginia said Sunday as the social - media giant faced continued fallout from an ongoing data crisis.

«My background in the law really drove my desire to do this, and once I saw all the confusing and inaccurate advice people were getting about Social Security, and realized the extent of the growing retirement crisis, I knew it was important to ensure that my system be as comprehensive as possible.

One of the reasons for the social security crisis is that the money is to be invested only in US treasuries.

Final comments and conclusion By the 2008 banking crisis there no longer was a partisan political difference between Republicans and Democrats in the United States, or between social democratic and neoliberal parties in Europe.

The social networking giant was thrust into crisis this week following the Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal, forcing the founder of the California - based website to address the allegation that 50 million profiles were harvested back in 2014.

Quite a few are going the way of Greece, quite a few more are in danger of doing so and quite a few of those that so far aren't are scrambling to avoid it by cutting back on social spending before there is a default crisis.

(5) The most urgent ecumenical dialogue between Russia and Rome today must focus on a new generation of Russian Orthodox thinkers: those who, having looked hard at the crisis in Ukraine and their Church leadership's propaganda activities on behalf of the Putin regime, have concluded that Russian Orthodoxy needs a new theory of Church - and - state — and should develop one in vigorous conversation with serious scholars of Catholic social doctrine.

According to the Kerner Commission's analysis, racist white America was similarly bereft of moral resources, such that government, rather than the institutions of civil society that had been so central to the classic civil - rights movement, had to become the principal agent of enforced social change in order to deal with the crisis of an America «moving toward two societies... separate and unequal.»

While the elites are worrying about economic crises and indifferent to the plight of the people, the news of the coming «Savior» is given directly to the lowest of the low in the social pecking order, the shepherds.

Imagine, then, the young courtier, deeply concerned with the social and political problems of his country, which is faced by a «demise of the crown» at a time of crisis in international affairs; concerned with these problems, but at a level deeper than that of ordinary political discussion.

The bottom line is that so many people are going through a crisis of belief, faith and intellect and there is no room for them to experience this safely, which often results in very tragic social ramifications.

Von Hayek and his comrades assert that the roots of the crisis are to be found in the ominous and excessive power of unions, and in a more general way, of the labour movement; according to them, unions have undermined the base of private accumulation (of investment) by their salary claims and by their pressure against the rise by the State of the parasitical social expenses without end.

In a circumstance of real social crisis, however, the irrationalists might be isolated and prevented from spreading the poison of debonair nihilism throughout the culture, as they do at present.

The relationship... is seen as one that fluctuates with the changing needs, growth of family members, changes in family composition, and stress and crisis» «Marital Conflict: Its Course and Treatment — As Seen by Caseworkers,» Social Case - work, April, 1966, p. 212).

The rationale for the Charter is apocalyptic: «The prevailing development patterns in both the South and the North are leading the Planet to an economic, social, and environmental crisis which threatens the existence of human life and the integrity of Nature.»

Though many social organizations and unions give support to such movements, church members form an indispensable segment of their constituencies, as the recent financial crisis involving the NAACP in Mississippi made clear.

All of the worlds visited by the communal «I» early in the novel are in the throes of a social crisis caused by a lack of communal spirit.

As a social scientist, I also question the assertion that fundamentalism arises or gains prominence in times of crisis, actual or perceived.

Unfortunately, they view this urgent set of problems in strictly individualistic terms, and ignore the historical background and social context of the current crisis.

My procedure will therefore involve listing certain key concepts in Girard's thought, such as mimetic desire, envy, the social crisis, etc., followed by a search for parallel ideas in Kierkegaard.

From him we can learn that the «social crisis» which is resolved through the «scapegoat mechanism» is in reality the crisis of human existence before God, the crisis of creation.

Christian Lalive d'Epinay proposed a similar sociological argument explaining the growth of Pentecostalism as a function of the social, political, and economic crisis in Latin America produced by the rapid urbanization of traditional rural peoples.

There is, to be sure, a bias in the social sciences toward assuming that modern societies are faced with unprecedented crises.

One can find numerous examples like William Brenton Greene, Jr. who in 1912 argued that the more acute the social crisis, the more the church needed to emphasize its own mission of evangelism.3 Greene believed that no crisis outshone the religious crisis and there was neither time nor energy to go in two directions.