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- New Key to Success in Online Retail: Geography
- Wharton's David Bell says old-fashioned neighborhood census data can bring new shoppers to your online door. We all understand that people who live in the same community shop at the same physical stores. But you’ve actually found that people in the...
- Articles 2009-10-12
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- Minority Hiring
- Minority HiringUnfair hiring practices? I don't think so!Let's see -- 40% in one year? How far does that go in redressing the imbalances resulting from years of discrimination?As for qualifications - the interview and hiring process being what it is, who can fairly judge this? The process...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-06
- Quantifying Minority Hiring
- Quantifying Minority HiringBeing the best.If you even consider hiring because of policy over the best candidate you will be doing yourself, the company and that person a dis-service. It is your duty to do your best for that company which means recruiting and hiring the best. This allows your company...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-21
- Women, minorities get bid preference for FCC licenses
- Women- and minority-owned small businesses got help recently from a Federal Communications Commission ruling giving them preference in bidding on new wireless telephone and data services.But the bidding price may be too high for most such firms to take advantage of by themselves.The FCC voted 5-0 to set aside for...
- Research articles 1994-07-18
- Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., says if Jonathan Adelstein, an aide to Senate Majority Leader Thomas Daschle, D-S.D., is formally nominated by President Bush to the vacant commissioner seat at the FCC, he will block the nomination. (News From
- * Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., says if Jonathan Adelstein, an aide to Senate Majority Leader Thomas Daschle, D-S.D., is formally nominated by President Bush to the vacant commissioner seat at the FCC, he will block the nomination, citing Adelstein's inexperience. Lott says his preference...
- Research articles 2002-03-25
- Peacock Financial Corporation Partners With Minority Federal Contractor ''VIR-TEK Company''
- SAN JACINTO, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 21, 1999-- Peacock Financial Corporation (OTC BB:PFCK) announced that it has become a 49% partner in VIR-TEK Company, a minority disabled veteran engineering and contracting firm, formed to take advantage of recently passed federal legislation (H.R. 1568) requiring preference on all programs and projects funded...
- Research articles 1999-09-21
- Minority enrollment rebounds at California schools
- Great Results for Students in Post-Prop 209 Era When Proposition 209 was passed in California three years ago eliminating affirmative action procedures in the state's public universities and other institutions, detractors argued that this vote would lead to resegregation, a loss of opportunities for minorities and a "whitening" of the...
- Research articles 2000-06-30
- FCC preferences: affirmative action for the wealthy - awarding of broadcast licenses - includes related article on Jerome Lamprecht's case challenging the FCC's gender preference policy - Cover Story
- Summary: in awarding broadcast licenses, the government favors minority applicants. Critics say that logic - that diversity in ownership is reflected on the airwaves - is flawed. Proponents admit market forces probably play a larger role, but say ownership affects things like hiring and overall sensitivity. In 1983, a...
- Research articles 1993-02-22
- Sweat, not blood; Affirmative action.(The University of California is admitting more students from ethnic minorities)(Brief Article)
- Minority students have survived the end of racial preference Minority students have survived the end of racial preference
- Research articles 2002-04-20
- Wella investors resist P & G offer.
- Procter & Gamble (P&G) is struggling to win the support of minority shareholders in its [euro]5.5bn ($6.5bn) takeover of the German cosmetics group Wella, amid complaints that its offer to holders of the non-voting preference shares is too lo Procter & Gamble (P&G) is struggling to...
- Research articles 2003-05-27
- Hart-felt support from minor shareholders.
- Jul 23, 2003 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) Minority shareholders in Burns, Philp have supported a share conversion by the largest shareholder. Graeme Hart, through his private company Rank Group, wanted to exercise some options and preference shares. Shareholders approved a resolution that...
- Research articles 2003-07-23
- Healthcare Reform Kicks Into High Gear
- Just one month ago, the conventional wisdom in Washington -- here personified by inside-the-Beltway health guru Bob Laszewski -- was that the economic crisis and a vast federal bailout package had effectively killed any chance for an overhaul of the nation's creaky healthcare system. Don't count on...
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- UNDER THE DOME from the Legislature
- Keep shooting Active-duty military members who live in Colorado but are stationed out of state will no longer lose their resident status for the purpose of getting hunting and fishing licenses under a bill that passed the Senate Agriculture, Natural Resources and Energy Committee on Thursday. ...
- Research articles 2007-03-02
- ETI signs agreement
- TORONTO--BUSINESS WIRE--March 18, 1996--Ron Williams, chairman and chief executive officer announced that Environmental Technologies International Inc. ETI (TSE:ETK) has signed a binding letter of intent for the sale of its 98 common shares, 755 class A shares, Series A, B and C Preference Shares, a US$75,000 debenture, and a US$197,000...
- Research articles 1996-03-18
- Europe's revolting shareholders; Shareholder activism in Europe.(Business)
- A FUNNY thing happened in France on May 3rd: a Paris court blocked Schneider Electric's proposed euro 7.9 billion ($7.1 billion) takeover of Legrand, a rival maker of electrical equipment. The decision was a rare and astonishing victory for minority shareholders in Legrand, who had brought...
- Research articles 2001-05-12
- French Court Says Electrical Equipment Firms' Merger Terms Unfair.
- By Pierre Tran, Sunday Business, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 6--PARIS--The cause of good corporate governance advanced in France last week with the unexpected court decision that the merger terms for minority preference shareholders in Legrand, the electrical equipment company...
- Research articles 2001-05-06
- Emerging market for medicines
- When Haruo Naito, chief executive of Eisai, the Japanese pharmaceutical company, signalled his continued interest in western markets by inaugurating his company's European headquarters in the UK last month, his mind was already elsewhere."We have already finished our investments in all major areas in the US and Europe," he...
- External links 2009-08-03
- Germany seeks to soothe Opel fears
- Germany's government has dismissed fears that General Motors' sale of its Opel business may have to be halted or delayed because of European Commission concerns about the proposed deal. Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, economy minister, said the plan for Opel to be sold to Magna International, a Canadian car parts supplier,...
- News items 2009-10-18
- Germany seeks to soothe Opel fears
- Germany's government has dismissed fears that General Motors' sale of its Opel business may have to be halted or delayed because of European Commission concerns about the proposed deal.Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, economy minister, said the plan for Opel to be sold to Magna International, a Canadian car parts supplier,...
- External links 2009-10-18
- Air France nearing successful Alitalia bid
- Air France KLM appears to be on the verge of being named a minority partner in the reorganized Alitalia, beating out Lufthansa for the right to purchase a 20%-25% stake, according to widespread press reports from Italy. Investor group Compagnia Aerea Italia met with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi yesterday...
- News items 2009-08-07
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