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Association of Free Lutheran Congregations

The AFLC has five corporations that are sponsored by the AFLC to direct their common endeavors: the Coordinating Committee, the Schools Corporation, the Missions Corporation, the AFLC Foundation and the Association Retreat Center (ARC), located near Osceola, Wisconsin.

Attensity

Corporations that use or have used Attensity software include Airbus, Charles Schwab, Citigroup, HP, JetBlue, Lloyds Banking Group, Safeway, Siemens, StubHub, TiVo, Travelocity, Unilever, Walgreens, Wells Fargo and Whirlpool.

Australia's First Families of Wine

Some industry commentators lay the blame for this negative opinion on the giant, publicly listed multinational corporations, such as Constellation Wines and Foster's, which have dominated the industry for years and concentrated on the cheap commodity end of the market rather than building the reputation of Australia's finer, regionally distinctive wines.

Beetroot Design Group

Clients include cultural institutions such as the Benaki Museum, the Onassis Cultural Centre and the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, as well as multinational corporations such as Lidl, Microsoft, Corbis and Nestlé.

Canada Development Corporation

The CDC was created as a result of Walter Gordon's Royal Commission on Canada's Economic Prospects, and the 1968 Watkins Report commissioned by Gordon, in an attempt to redress the problem of foreign ownership in the Canadian economy by stimulating the development of Canadian owned corporations, particularly in the field of natural resources and industry.

Carl E. Reichardt

Reichardt also served on the boards of a number of corporations, include Pacific Gas & Electric, ConAgra, HCA, McKesson, HSBC Holdings PLC, and the Newhall Management Corporation.

Charles, Providence, Rhode Island

By the 19th century, the improvement in infrastructure and proximity to the West River caused corporations such as the Silver Spring Bleaching and Dyeing Company to move to the area.

Christopher Falkenberg

Falkenberg’s team consists of former chief security officers, lawyers in multinational corporations and physicians who are board-certified in emergency medicine.

Cigar Dave

The "Pleasure Police" and "Big Pleasure" are plays on George Orwell's "Thought Police" and "Big Brother" themes from the novel 1984, where governments and corporations combine mass surveillance assets to oversee all aspects of an individual's professional and personal life.

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.

Earl G. Graves, Sr.

He has held other board and director memberships to a number of corporations including AMR Corporation, Daimler AG, Federated Department Stores and Rohm and Haas, as while as board member of the American Museum of Natural History and Hayden Planetarium in New York City.

Fatal Inertia

The game is set in the mid-22nd century Earth, and a handful of immense corporations control virtually all business, politics, and entertainment.

Franklin Hobbs

He has been a director of Molson Coors, Lord Abbett, GMAC, and other corporations, as well as serving on the Boards of Harvard University and Milton Academy.

Greenup County, Kentucky

Traditionally, this has meant a sizeable tobacco base and cattle ranching, but in recent years, as traditional agriculture products have come under the dominance of agri-corporations, growth has been seen in non-traditional products such as American Quarter Horses, ostriches, and marijuana.

Howard DGA-8

The DGA-6's racing success brought the DGA series much attention, and in its various permutations, differentiated mainly by different powerplants, the DGAs -8, -9, -11, -12 (and later DGA-15) emerged as coveted aircraft, owned by corporations, wealthy individuals, and movie stars, such as Wallace Beery, who was himself a pilot.

Igor Ansoff

He has consulted with hundreds of multinational corporations including, Philips, General Electric, Gulf, IBM, Sterling and Westinghouse.

Inverted totalitarianism

In Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco, inverted totalitarianism is described as a system where corporations have corrupted and subverted democracy and where economics trumps politics.

Ixtapa

Several large hotel corporations maintain properties in Ixtapa, including Meliá, NH Hoteles, and the InterContinental Hotels Group.

John G. Linvill

John Linvill was Chairman of the board of TSI, served on the boards of other Silicon Valley corporations, and led technical committees for the National Research Council, NASA, and the IEEE.

John J. Welch, Jr.

After leaving government service in 1992, Welch served on the Board of Directors of a number of corporations, including MBDA-US, Verint Systems, Serco Group, Dynacs Military & Defense, Meggitt, and Wilcoxon Research.

Jon Elliott

An in-depth look at the limited number of corporations who control the majority of what Americans listen to on their radios, the film was four years in the making and was produced by award-winning documentary film producers Jon Monday and Jennifer Douglas, distributed by mondayMEDIA.

Kevin Cashman

During his time at LeaderSource, Cashman worked with leaders and teams from notable multinational corporations and brands such as 3M, American Express, Avery Dennison, Carlson Companies, General Mills, Novartis, Pillsbury, and Honeywell.

Krzysztof Obłój

Obłój acts as consultant and supervisory board member (partly as chairman) in Polsh companies or local subsidiaries of corporations like Asea Brown Boveri, LG Group, Reckitt Benckiser, Alior Bank SA, Prochem SA, Agora SA, Ambra SA, Eurobank S.A., Impel SA, NFI Foksal SA, PGF SA, PKN Orlen SA, Polmos Lublin SA or PZU SA.

Lullaby for Columbine

Within weeks of its inception, the Project garnered more than a quarter of a million dollars of support through in-kind donations from large corporations such as Sony Disc Manufacturing, Musicland and the National Digital Television Center to facilitate nearly all production, manufacturing and distribution phases of the record project.

Margaret Heffernan

Examining examples of willful blindness in the Catholic Church, the SEC, Nazi Germany, Bernard Madoff’s investors, BP’s safety record, the military in Afghanistan and the dog-eat-dog world of subprime mortgage lenders, the book demonstrates how failing to see—or admit to ourselves or our colleagues—the issues and problems in plain sight can ruin private lives and bring down corporations.

Mortmain

A further explanation is that the property of religious corporations could be said to be "in dead hands", as the members of such corporations were considered civilly dead after taking religious oaths.

Neurosecurity

Neal Stephenson's book The Diamond Age (1995) briefly refers to corporations hacking neural implants in order to superimpose advertisements onto a user's field of vision.

New Community Corporation

Although community development corporations such as the New Community Corporation will continue to play a significant role in addressing the needs of low-income inner city residents, their promise as the "magic bullet" against the cycle of poverty is now in doubt.

New England Foundation for the Arts

The New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of six not-for-profit regional arts organizations funded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and by private foundations, corporations and individuals.

Office Open XML

The same InfoWorld article reported that IBM (which supports the ODF format) threatened to leave standards bodies that it said allow dominant corporations like Microsoft to wield undue influence.

Pasha Centre

The Kenya ICT Board was established by HE President Mwai Kibaki, as a state corporation under the State Corporations Act Cap.

Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours

It would become one of the largest and most successful American corporations: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company.

Poly Technologies

Poly has established business relations with hundreds of enterprises and governmental organizations of nearly 100 countries and regions, including many world famous multinational corporations such as Boeing of the United States, Bombardier Inc. of Canada, Chevron - Texaco of the United States, Benz of Germany, Ferrari of Italy, State Corporation 'Rosoboronexport' and Japanese Sagawa Logistic Co., Ltd.

Prahova County

Some of the biggest international corporations like Coca-Cola, Unilever, InBev, Johnson Controls, Cameron, Weatherford, Michelin, Timken and others have invested heavily in the recent years.

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

These corporations were involved in funding the development of synthetic rubber, construction and operation of a tin smelter, and establishment of abaca (Manila hemp) plantations in Central America.

Reynolds and Reynolds

Since the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling that prohibited the government from restricting independent political expenditures by corporations, entities associated and with links to The Reynolds and Reynolds Company have been some of the top donors, giving over $2 million to Super PACs supporting Republican candidates.

Spaceflight

Private spaceflight is a rapidly-developing area: space flight that is not only paid for by corporations or even private individuals, but often provided by private spaceflight companies.

State Government Affairs Council

The State Government Affairs Council (SGAC) was created in 1975 by government affairs executives of major corporations to provide support to several major United States non-governmental organizations, including the Council of State Governments, the National Conference of State Legislatures and the American Legislative Exchange Council.

Sungei Road

The factory was the first ice-making plant in Singapore using large compressors manufactured mainly from Carrier and York corporations.

Taxation of cooperative corporations in the United States

The taxation of cooperative corporations in the United States is subject to special rules under subchapter T of the Internal Revenue Code, different from both subchapter C and subchapter S corporations.

Tip Top Building

A proposed Dartmouth Media Institute, an offshoot of Dartmouth College, conceived by composer Jon Appleton (who was also the founder of New England Digital) and funded by some prominent corporations, was envisioned as the media anchor.

Transnational Corporations Observatory

Transnational Corporations Observatory is a Non-profit organization, created by Régis Castellani in October 1999 in Martigues, France.

Trevor Eyton

Eyton is a board member of a number of corporations, including Coca-Cola Enterprises (Atlanta), General Motors of Canada, Noranda, Nestle Canada and Coretec, and serves as Chairman and a director of Ivernia West.

Urgent care

The majority of urgent care centers are owned by physicians or physician groups, however, more corporations and investment banks are acquiring urgent care centers and creating regional and national brands in the industry.

Vehicular communication systems

Car manufacturers and communication corporations are also investing in vehicular communications; among them are Kapsch, General Motors, Daimler Chrysler, Ford Motor Company, Siemens, Honda, Toyota, BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Mark IV.

Vivartia

Vivartia is the result of the merger of Delta Holding S.A., which included Delta Dairy Products, Goody's, Flocafé and Mechelany foods as well as a dozen other major Greek food and beverages related corporations of the nutritions field, with the snack and bakery business lines of Chipita.

When In Manila

Foreign corporations have also found the online metro guide to be an effective channel to reach Filipinos, with Sony, Asus, McDonald's, KFC, Coca Cola, Kia, Visa, Mastercard, and Johnnie Walker having advertised.

World Council of Indigenous Peoples

Corporations which the WCIP lists as particularly damaging are: Amax, Alcan, Coca Cola, United Fruit, Volkswagen, Sonya, Rio Tinto Zinc, ITT, Mitsubishi, Noranda and BP.


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