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unusual facts about The Corporation


Katherine Dodds

Hello Cool World is now the educational distributor for The Corporation (Directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott), and with Mark Achbar they co-produced a three-part version of the DVD designed for high schools.


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# "I Want You Back" (The Corporation)

Jennifer Abbott

Abbott became involved with the documentary I Am (2011) after director Tom Shadyac saw The Corporation (2003) and invited Abbott to work as the editor on the film.

Squeezing Out Sparks

# "I Want You Back" (The Corporation) – 3:26


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Anucha Browne Sanders

Several days after her firing in January 2006, Browne Sanders filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against New York Knicks general manager Isiah Thomas and Madison Square Garden (the corporation which owns the Knicks and several other New York sports franchises).

Arthur Morrell

Arthur R.H. Morrell, mariner and member of the Corporation of Trinity House

Balu Sankaran

While working as a Director of Central Institute of Orthopedics, He helped set up the Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India at Kanpur in 1972 and helped establish National Institute of Rehabilitation Training and Research at Olatpur near Bhubaneshwar in 1975 and remained Chairman of the Corporation till 1981.

Bath City Surveyor

The prominent post of Bath City Architect and Surveyor was bestowed by the Corporation of Bath, Somerset, England, on an architect who would be repeatedly chosen for civic projects.

Blanche Barton

A settlement was later reached in which Anton LaVey’s belongings, writings, and royalties would be split among his three children, Karla, Zeena and Satan, and that Barton would receive the “corporation known as Church of Satan.”

Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope

The corporation is bound by a tripartite agreement between the University of Hawaii, the National Research Council (NRC) in Canada and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France.

Canadian corporate law

The Supreme Court of Canada, in its ruling in BCE Inc. v. 1976 Debentureholders, stated that, in seeking court approval of an arrangement, the onus is on the corporation to establish that

Charles-Albert Poissant

He was also president of the Corporation des Jeux du Québec and ambassador to the finals of Jeux du Québec in Matane.

CKPG-TV

In 1988, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) renewed the network licence for CKPG-TV and Terrace station CFTK-TV, which allowed the two CBC affiliates to use the Corporation's microwave equipment to transfer syndicated programming, when it was not being used for CBC programming.

Corporate tax in the United States

Some types of corporations (S corporations, mutual funds, etc.) are not taxed at the corporate level, and their shareholders are taxed on the corporation's income as it is recognized.

County Borough of Rochdale

In addition the corporation tracks reached as far as Littleborough and Whitworth, and ran joint operations with other municipal operators.

County Borough of West Ham

The corporation's electricity generation and supply undertaking was nationalised in 1948, when it was transferred to the London Electricity Board.

Cy-près doctrine in English law

The Byzantine Empire also used a system similar to cy-près when dealing with piae causae, charitable corporations, whereby if the corporation fell its possessions were to be transferred to the Papal treasury and spent on a purpose as close as possible to that of the original corporation.

David Docherty

During his career in television his credits have included serving as BBC Deputy Director of Television and Director of New Media with the corporation, as well as being a member of the BBC's Board of Management and a director of the Royal Television Society.

Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstad

In 1915 Eriksberg underwent massive developments to accommodate production of larger ships after a major takeover of the corporation's stocks by Dan Broström.

Feltner v. Columbia Pictures Television, Inc.

C. Elvin Feltner, Jr., and the corporation he owns, Krypton International Corporation, operate 3 television stations which ran various television shows licensed from Columbia Pictures, including Who's the Boss?, Silver Spoons, Hart to Hart, and T. J. Hooker.

Gaylord Chemical Corporation

Crown Zellerbach was the object of a hostile takeover by James Goldsmith in mid-1985, which split up the corporation in May 1986.

Green’s Balloon at Newcastle

The flight took off from the Corporation Depot at Manors, Newcastle, lasted approx.

Gregor Benko

Benko managed the non-profit institution for two decades, attracting Spanish virtuosa Alicia de Larrocha to act as the actual President of the corporation, and building an enormous collection of recordings, scores, memorabilia and associated matter concerning concert pianists.

Grossarl

Anton Sauter (1800–1881), Botanist and Doctor, brother of Ferdinand Sauter, founder of the corporation of Salzburgs regional and cultural studies

Helen Boaden

A second and parallel investigation, launched by the BBC into possible management failings at the Corporation, called the Pollard Report after the lead investigator, Nick Pollard (a former senior executive at Sky News), criticised the BBC and several executive members, including Boaden, for continuing with plans to celebrate Savile's life, despite apparently having received advanced information that Savile was being investigated for multiple cases of sexual abuse.

Hull Blokes

The project was actually part of the BBC’s Northern Exposure ‘Writing in the Margins’ initiative, spearheaded by the Corporation’s then creative director of new writing, Kate Rowland.

Jacques Olivier

Following his defeat, Olivier established a Ford dealership in Saint-Hubert, Quebec, and soon joined the board of directors of the Corporation des concessionnaires automobiles du Grand Montréal et du Québec.

Jane Tranter

Her success as an executive producer at Carlton led to the BBC making a bid to bring her back to their staff; she returned to the Corporation in 1997, succeeding Michael Wearing as the in-house Head of Drama Serials.

Lanai City, Hawaii

The corporation Castle & Cooke, which owns the Dole Food Company had intended in 2009 to demolish much of what remains of the historic district, including homes, a laundromat, and a jailhouse all dating back to the 1920s, in order to build new commercial structures.

Layerthorpe

The Branch Line's sidings and the Corporation's premises have been replaced by a variety of industrial and retail units, although the refuse destructor's octagonal chimney (a Grade II listed building, approximately 55 metres high) has been preserved next to Morrisons supermarket on Foss Islands Road.

Leonard Pearce

For the corporation, Pearce chose the site of a new power station at Barton and supervised its construction to his designs.

Lydiard Tregoze

In 1943, the local authority, the Corporation of Swindon, bought the house and its park from Henry, 6th Viscount Bolingbroke, in a dilapidated state.

Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation

The corporation mainly produces equipment for the Turkish Armed Forces, such as the ammunition for small arms and heavy weapons, artillery systems, aerial bombs, mines, explosives, and rockets.

National Publications

The corporation was originally two companies: National Allied Publications (founded by Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson in 1934 to publish the first American comic book with all-original material rather than comic strip reprints) and Detective Comics.

Nolan Karras

Karras is a member of the Board of Directors of Scottish Power, the corporation that operates in Utah as Rocky Mountain Power.

Pacifica Radio

The controversy included highly publicized disputes between listener organizations and Mary Frances Berry, a former chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, who chaired the corporation's board at the time.

Pat Dixon

In 1951 Dixon agreed to a request from Spike Milligan to record an audition tape which included Milligan, Sellers, Bentine and Secombe; he passed the tape on to the BBC planners and stressed that a series would be an asset to the corporation.

Payment of members

These payments could be enforced by writs issued after the dissolution of each parliament, and there were many instances of the issue of such writs down to the reign of Henry VIII; while the last known instance is that of one Thomas King, who in 1681 obtained a writ for his salary against the corporation of Harwich.

Pine Lake, Georgia

The corporation sold lots around a small fishing lake to Atlantans who lived in (then) faraway areas like Buckhead for use as a weekend retreat.

Playing company

Theatres proliferated, especially (though not exclusively) in neighborhoods outside the city's walls and the Corporation's control — in Shoreditch to the north, or the Bankside and Paris Garden in Southwark, on the southern bank of the River Thames: the Curtain, the Rose, the Swan, the Fortune, the Globe, the Blackfrairs — a famous roster.

Prussian Trust

The corporation's activities have been repudiated by some German politicians who have addressed the issue, including the president of the Federation of Expellees, Erika Steinbach.

Richmond Barracks

At the same time as the transfer of the barracks to the corporation, Christian Brothers purchased three of the buildings and turned two of them into class rooms and called it "St Michaels CBS", a national school opening in 1929.

Roger Sherman Greene II

Two of their other children achieved prominence, Evarts Boutell as an American historian at Columbia and Jerome Davis Greene as a foundation administrator, banker, and secretary of the Corporation of Harvard University.

Rust-Oleum

Vernon Hills High School's football stadium is named Rust-Oleum Field, as the corporation donated money for the stadium.

Seeds of Destruction

Monsanto, the corporation that seems to be the prototype of Macroseed biotechnology company from this film.

Sir William Brown, 1st Baronet, of Richmond Hill

He erected the Free Public Library and Derby Museum at Liverpool, which was opened on 8 Oct. 1860, at a cost to himself of £40,000, the corporation providing the site and foundation and furnishing the building.

Softeam

Branches of the corporation are located in cities around the country, including Lille, Lyon, Nantes, Rennes, and Sophia-Antipolis.

The Daily Collegian

The film was co-produced by Aaron Matthews and the Independent Television Service and had major funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King

The group of professionals, known as The Corporation, is made up of Ted Forrest, Jennifer Harman, Minh Ly, Doyle Brunson, Todd Brunson, Howard Lederer, David Grey, Chip Reese, Gus Hansen, Phil Ivey, Barry Greenstein, Lyle Berman and other assorted professionals.

Thomas Bata

Thomas J. Bata (1914–2008), Tomáš's son who led the corporation through the 1980s

Three Laws of Robotics

The futurist Hans Moravec (a prominent figure in the transhumanist movement) proposed that the Laws of Robotics should be adapted to "corporate intelligences" — the corporations driven by AI and robotic manufacturing power which Moravec believes will arise in the near future.

Transport in Nagpur

Nagpur is also at the junction of two Asian Highways namely AH43 Agra, India to Matara, Sri Lanka and AH46 connecting Kharagpur, India to Dhule, India Moreover, Nagpur city has come in the national spotlight recently for its good roads, which were developed as part of the upgradation and renewal works under Integrated Road Development Project (IRDP), spearheaded by the erstwhile Commissioner of the Corporation Dr. T Chandrashekhar.