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unusual facts about Big Business



Here Come the Waterworks

Here Come the Waterworks is the second album by Stoner/Sludge metal band Big Business.

Leo Burmester

He played Holly Hunter's father in the prologue of Broadcast News (1987), and the bum in front of The Plaza in Big Business (1988).

Norma MacMillan

During this time, she also appeared in feature films, including Nightmare on the 13th Floor, Big Business, Love at Stake, Dangerous Intentions, Big Bully, and Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry with Katharine Hepburn.


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Charles Gilman Norris

The Oxford Companion to American Literature notes that Norris' novels dealt with "such problems as modern education, women in business, hereditary and environmental influences, big business, ethics and birth control." He also published three plays: The Rout of the Philistines (with Nino Marcelli, 1922), A Gest of Robin Hood (with Robert C. Newell, 1929), and Ivanhoe: A Grove Play 1936.

Coady Willis

Willis and Big Business bandmate Jared Warren both appear on the Melvins' albums (A) Senile Animal, Nude with Boots and The Bride Screamed Murder and have officially been members of the band since moving to Los Angeles in January 2006.

David Rothkopf

Power, Inc.: The Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Government--and the Reckoning That Lies Ahead (ISBN 978-0374151287) was published in 2012 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and addresses the changing nature of national and private power - especially that wielded by large multinational corporations - in the global era.

It Can Happen Here

Conason discusses what he sees as a trend towards authoritarianism during the administration of US President George W. Bush, focusing on manipulation of intelligence and public opinion surrounding the Iraq War, disregard of national and international law (the NSA warrantless wiretapping controversy and signing statements are used as examples), the increased mix of big business and government, and more.

MacGregor Knox

He rejects Marxist views that Fascism and National Socialism were agents of, or represented the interests of, capitalism or big business, and he is highly critical of both the Italian Socialist Party and the Communist Party of Germany, whose revolutionary rhetoric, he argues, provoked middle-class support for Fascism and National Socialism.

Mahmud Karzai

Mahmud Karzai is closely connected to the Kabul Bank scandal and former U.S. Congressman Donald L. Ritter, a conservative, Jewish-American, Republican from Pennsylvania, widely criticized and scrutinized for supporting big business interests allegedly involved with serious environmental degradation, toxic waste,pollution and global warming.

Peter Nolan

He is also the Director of the Chinese Big Business Programme at Cambridge Judge Business School and a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge.

Thomas Suozzi

The campaign was funded largely by big business, in the form of Home Depot co-founder Kenneth Langone, former NYSE CEO Richard Grasso, David Mack of the MTA, and many individuals on Wall Street who had been investigated and prosecuted by Eliot Spitzer.