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In the News (Fri 25 Dec 09)

  
  The President's Comprehensive Corporate Reform Agenda
Corporate officers hold offices of high trust and they should face stiffer penalties when they break the law.
Corporate leaders who violate the public trust should never be given that trust again.
Create a new Corporate Fraud Task Force to increase DOJ’s ability to oversee and coordinate the investigation and prosecution of fraud and related criminal activity.
www.whitehouse.gov /infocus/corporateresponsibility/agenda.html   (611 words)

  
 BPA - Definitions
The flow of power on transmission lines (paths) other than those over which it is scheduled, occurring because in interconnected system operation, power flows according to the impedance (resistance) of the transmission paths and not according to schedules.
In marketing, power composed of firm energy, firm capacity, or both, and guaranteed to be available to the customer at all times during the period covered by a contract, except for reason of certain uncontrollable forces or service provisions.
Power that is continuously available to public bodies, cooperatives, Federal agencies, and investor-owned utilities to meet their net firm load requirements within the Pacific Northwest.
www.bpa.gov /corporate/pubs/definitions/pq.cfm   (3375 words)

  
 A Comprehensive Structure of Corporate Governance in Post-Enron Corporate America
The shift in power from shareholders to management started with the appearance of large corporations as a result of the Industrial Revolution, when small capitalists pooled their resources to finance bigger ventures that were operated by professional managers referred to subsequently as “managers for hire.”
The authors’ proposed corporate structure attempts to rebalance power in the corporation by recognizing employee groups as members of the corporate team.
Stakeholders use a corporation’s annual reports and financial statements to gauge the success of its operations and to judge whether it is upholding the public trust.
www.nysscpa.org /cpajournal/2004/1204/essentials/p46.htm   (2159 words)

  
 Comprehensive Corporate Power   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Comprehensive Corporate Power (CCP) is a concept or method how to evaluate the combined political power of a corporate entity in quantitative and qualitative ways by looking at a wide of aspects that might influence its power.
The advocates of the Comprehensive Corporate Power school of thought says that one get a better picture of the power a corporation by analyzing a comprehensive combination aspects instead of the more narrow or dimensional aspects that are often used.
This be useful to make predictions about changes the marketplace about the political impact and of corporations in society or it can used to see to what degree a utilizes its power potential etc.
www.freeglossary.com /Comprehensive_Corporate_Power   (514 words)

  
 Corporations: Different Than You and Me
If a corporation is part of the community, then it is entitled to the same freedoms available to others, and the same presumption of non-interference that society appropriately affords real people.
Especially because corporations work so aggressively and intentionally to obscure the point, it is crucial to draw attention to the corporation as an institution with unique powers, motivations and attributes, and to point to the basic differences between human beings and the socially constituted and authorized institutions called corporations.
Because of their political power, they are able to define or at very least substantially affect, the civil and criminal regulations that define the boundaries of permissible behavior.
www.commondreams.org /views01/0124-06.htm   (731 words)

  
 Center for Corporate Policy: Executive Compensation
Corporate Irresponsibility by Lawrence Mitchell describes certain fiscal and tax policies that might be used to mitigate against the legal and structural constraints that make it difficult for managers to make moral judgments and be held accountable for their actions.
Corporate Warriors (2003) by P.W. Singer is a revelatory exploration of the new private military corporations that have grown enormously in the past decade as a result of the privatization of military operations.
Corporate Predators by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman is a wide-ranging collection of columns from the editors of the Corporate Crime Reporter and Multinational Monitor.
www.corporatepolicy.org /issues/books.htm   (3906 words)

  
 GPEG - About Us
We design, engineer and manufacture a comprehensive range of heat recovery and auxiliary equipment primarily used to enhance the efficiency and facilitate the operation of gas turbine power plants as well as for other industrial and power-related applications.
We believe that we are a leader in the power generation equipment industry, offering one of the broadest ranges of gas turbine power plant and other power-related equipment in the world.
With our equipment installed in power plants and in industrial operations in more than 40 countries on six continents, we believe that we have one of the largest installed bases of equipment for power generation in the world.
www.globalpower.com /aboutus/business.html   (253 words)

  
 Navy League of the United States - Citizens in Support of the Sea Services
This issue of Sea Power features the first edition of our comprehensive corporate membership directory, the source for up-to-date information on nearly 180 leading firms in the defense industry.
Sea Power’s corporate membership directory, which begins on page 18, is the informed source for the business of defense, providing decision-makers in the administration, the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill access to the vital statistics of the nation’s naval, maritime and defense industrial base.
Additionally, each corporate gold member entry includes such additional information as 2003 defense revenue figures, to highlight this segment of the firm’s total revenue report.
www.navyleague.org /sea_power/aug_04_11.php   (199 words)

  
 Europe Inc. -- Regional & Global Restructuring and the Rise of Corporate Power
The authors cover the major players in these anti-democratic practices and analyse the structural and political factors which have enabled transnational corporations to become such a dominant force in politics.
The featured case studies examine corporate influence on transport, biotechnology, climate change policies, as well as key economic globalisation projects such as the Transatlantic Economic Partnership and the Multilateral Agreement on Investment.
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) is a not-for-profit research and campaign group targeting the threats to democracy, equity, social justice and the environment posed by the economic and political power of corporations and their lobby groups.
www.corporateeurope.org /incadd.html   (329 words)

  
 About Power-One
To be recognized as the leader in system-level power and power management solutions from AC to the IC in the communications and high-technology markets, utilizing our technical leadership to deliver comprehensive low-cost solutions; providing increasing value to customers, employees, and investors.
Power-One is one of the largest power-conversion equipment manufacturers in the world.
Power-One is firmly committed to supporting our customers in their efforts to be RoHS compliant by the time the directive goes into effect on July 1st, 2006.
www.power-one.com /about/index2.html   (254 words)

  
 Justifying a Power Management System
In fact, a comprehensive power management system that yields energy cost savings, improved power quality, capital equipment optimization, and reliability improvements can be expected to save at least 4% of your company's total power cost.
The plant also discovered (with power measurements on its onsite generator) that it could reduce the firm demand in the utility's existing interruptible rate, saving an additional $13,000.
Prior to the installation of a power management system, plant engineers would have taken snapshot readings with a current probe or recorded periodic readings of the analog ammeter on the substation in order to assess circuit loading.
powerquality.com /mag/power_justifying_power_management/index.html   (1595 words)

  
 Citizen Works - Citizen Works Corporate Reform Press Conference
When state legislators early in the 19th century began granting more charters that brought corporations into existence, the unmistakable understanding by the lawmakers was that those artificial entities were to be the peoples’ servants, not their masters.
Today’s giant global corporations, chartered in the United States, are rampagingly out of control as their bosses vastly enrich themselves and exert the immense political and economic power as masters over workers, consumers, small taxpayers, investors and voters.
A comprehensive, modern corporate reform law needs to be passed for publicly-held companies at the federal and state levels with a span of provisions.
www.citizenworks.org /admin/press/pc-corp-crime-nader.php   (722 words)

  
 Eat Healthy. Live Happy. - Good Corporate Citizen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Corporate citizenship refers to the way a company integrates basic social values with everyday business practices, operations and policies.
The Good Corporate Citizen: A Practical Guide is a very detailed and complete handbook on corporate philanthropy for those corporations that that wish to make a meaningful contribution to the improvement of their communities, but it is extremely useful for individuals and family foundations that want to make a difference as well.
The Good Corporate Citizen helps the business executive develop a practical plan for giving and helps the nonprofit executive better understand the motivations and needs of companies wanting to be engaged in the community they serve.
www.valuerecipes.com /index.php/trade/productinfo/ASIN/0471475653   (787 words)

  
 Atmel Corporation - Corporate Overview
Atmel Corporation is a global leader in researching, designing, manufacturing and marketing advanced semiconductors, including microcontroller, nonvolatile memory, logic, secure, mixed analog/digital, radio frequency and sensor integrated circuits (ICs).
Atmel is a pioneer of NVM (nonvolatile memory) chips that retain their content in the absence of power.
A fast-growing application is power management, required by all hand-held devices in order to maximize battery autonomy, particularly as they become more feature-rich.
www.atmel.com /corporate/corporate_profile.asp   (1498 words)

  
 Cognex Corporation - Company Profile
Cognex Corporation is the world's leading supplier of machine vision systems — or computers that can "see" — which are used to automate a wide range of manufacturing processes where vision is required.
This is part of a family of sensors that provides solutions based on a new generation of vision technology from Cognex.
Surface Inspection Systems provide comprehensive surface and web inspection of products that are manufactured in a continuous fashion, such as metals, paper, nonwovens, and plastics.
www.cognex.com /corporate   (567 words)

  
 Finding and Using Information about Corporations
Ravenswood was a dramatic example of how strategic corporate research can be a powerful weapon in campaigns for economic and environmental justice.
Simply put, strategic corporate research is the process of digging up information that can put a business adversary on the defensive and thus make it more inclined to do the right thing.
McDonald's Corporation brought a libel lawsuit against two environmental activists in Britain in the mid-1990s for distributing pejorative leaflets.
www.nhi.org /online/issues/110/organize.html   (983 words)

  
 Comprehensive Corporate Power Article, ComprehensiveCorporatePower Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The idea isderived from the concept of Comprehensivenational power (CNP), developed by Chinese scholars since approximately 1978.
The advocates of the Comprehensive Corporate Power school of thought says thatone can get a better picture of the power of a corporation by analyzing a comprehensive combination of aspects instead of themore narrow or one dimensional aspects that are often used.
This can be useful to make predictions about changes in themarketplace, about the political impact and influence of corporations in society, or it can be used to see to what degree acorporation utilizes its power potential etc.
www.anoca.org /aspects/market/comprehensive_corporate_power.html   (274 words)

  
 Powerware UPS Products Index for UPS power supplies and backup UPS power systems
Combining superior backup power management and performance with innovative features, the Powerware 9125 UPS delivers the ultimate in power quality, available as a rackmount or stand alone unit.
As the power quality industry's most reliable and comprehensive option in backup power protection and power management, the Powerware 9315 UPS is essential for mission-critical applications such as data centers, server farms, and transportation facilities.
Designed to meet the current and future power protection requirements of data centers, manufacturing operations, medical facilities and other large-system applications, the Powerware 9390 provides the most robust combination of power performance, battery management, scalable architecture, flexibility, power density, and warranty and service.
www.powerware.com /UPS/Products.asp   (656 words)

  
 Honda Worldwide | Power Products | Environment
Numerical targets were established for making the exhaust gas emissions of power products cleaner and achieving higher fuel economy, and Honda adopted aggressive measures to realize these targets.
Evolution of the four-stroke engine technology that Honda has nurtured over the years has resulted in Honda being among the first to clear the Phase 2 exhaust gas emissions standards of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Tier II standards of the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the most demanding in the world.
This engine boats the world's top level of environmental performance, featuring approximately 15% higher fuel economy than Honda models of the same class, noise levels that are about 4dB (A) lower, and exhaust gas emissions that are approximately 30% lower than EPA Phase 2 and CARB Tier 2 standards.
world.honda.com /power/environment   (626 words)

  
 Interview with Peter Dowling of Canada's National Farmers Union - Part 2 - Rural America / In Motion Magazine
There seemed to be some concern that corporations involved in food were not getting the same return as the more general return on investment.
Corporate power over our food supplies is one of our big concerns - the technical use agreements.
At the same time as corporations are getting together to control business, we are restricting the farmers from getting together to marketing their products.
www.inmotionmagazine.com /pdowl2.html   (2155 words)

  
 ARRLWeb: The Power-Line Noise FAQ Page
Nonetheless, depending on your level of expertise and the specifics of your situation, you may be able to facilitate a speedy resolution by locating the RFI source for the utility.
Although not intended to be a complete or comprehensive, it should give many amateurs an understanding of the procedures involved and an idea of where to start.
If you hold the antenna at the same distance near each power meter in the suspect area, you should be able to determine the house with the source.
www.arrl.org /tis/info/powerline-FAQ.html   (6710 words)

  
 PowerLight- Proven Solar Performance :: Why Invest in Solar
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions depends on reducing the amount of fossil fuel energy we produce and consume, including coal, petroleum, and natural gas - all of which are used to fuel electric power generation and transportation.
Dramatically increased use of renewable power is a key factor in reducing the rapid increase in global greenhouse gas emissions, including solar, wind, geothermal, biodiesel and fuel cells.
These renewable fuel types, in combination with energy efficiency and sophisticated energy management techniques, can power the modern global economy and reduce the risk of climate change.
www.powerlight.com /solar/whyinvest.php   (431 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Anti-globalization Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Though the mechanisms of globalization are often poorly understood in the western world (see Ford Foundation), the popularity of this stance grew in the late twentieth century mainly due to calls to combat the internationalisation of corporate economic activity and any potential exploitation of developing nations resulting from such activity.
Those in the anti-globalization movement generally try to promote awareness for human rights NGO's, advocate socialist or social democratic alternatives to capitalism and seek to protect the public interest and the world's ecosystem from what they believe to be potentially damaging effects from globalisation.
These corporations are seen as having abilities that human persons do not have: moving freely across borders, extracting desired natural resources, utilising a diversity of human resources.
www.ipedia.com /anti_globalization.html   (3707 words)

  
 PowerHour® Recruiting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Our recruiting database of corporate housing professionals, multi-housing industry vendors, apartment property management and apartment locator professionals is the largest in the industry...and has taken us ten years to build/develop it--and to earn the trust of our recruiting candidates and companies.
We telephone interview corporate housing candidates before we forward their information to you, plus have them complete three specific written exercises.
We use a customized corporate housing Criteria Form, which is our proprietary system for sorting and filtering the best companies, based on your experience and needs.
www.powerhour.com /corporatehousing/recruiting.html   (320 words)

  
 Comprehensive Corporate Power - TheBestLinks.com - Corporation, Lawyer, Market, Patent, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
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 Premiere Corporate Members - Web Analytics Association, About Us
AOL is a leading global Web services company with a substantial and growing worldwide audience, a suite of powerful Web brands, industry-leading products and one of the largest and fastest-growing advertising networks in the United States.
ShinyStat is focussed on the integration of e-commerce and search-engine positioning, providing a comprehensive tool suited to enhance the effectiveness of the most demanding e-business activities.
All articles, logos, bios and corporate descriptions are copyrighted to their respective creators.
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 About Us | J.D. Power
Established in 1968, J.D. Power and Associates is a global marketing information firm that conducts independent and unbiased surveys of customer satisfaction, product quality and buyer behavior.
Since 1968, J.D. Power and Associates has been conducting quality and customer satisfaction research based on survey responses from millions of consumers worldwide.
In fact, J.D. Power and Associates has developed and maintains one of the largest, most comprehensive historical customer satisfaction databases in existence, which includes feedback on the shopping, buying, and ownership experiences for a variety of products and services.
www.jdpower.com /about   (258 words)

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