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Republicans pile on more executive nominee filibusters
Posted by admin on March 20th, 2013
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Swiss back executive pay curbs, referendum projection shows
Posted by admin on March 3rd, 2013
ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss citizens were on track on Sunday to impose some of the world's strictest controls on executive pay, forcing public companies to give shareholders a binding vote on compensation, initial result projections showed. A projection by polling institute Gfs.Bern for Swiss state television based on early results showed 70 percent backed plans [...]
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No Comments »Eco-activists, members of Congress pushing executive action on climate change. Legislation may wait
Posted by admin on February 19th, 2013
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Posted in Breaking News Tags: Action, Change, Climate, Congress, Ecoactivists, executive, legislation, Members, pushing, wait No Comments »Airshow: Boeing defense contracts unaffected by India budget cuts – executive
Posted by admin on February 7th, 2013
BANGALORE (Reuters)- Boeing Co’s contract talks with India for military helicopters will be unaffected by planned budget cuts, an executive said on Thursday, a day after the country’s defense minister said spending on arms would be tightened. India, the world’s biggest arms importer in recent years as it looks to upgrade its mostly Soviet-era military [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Airshow, Boeing, Budget, Contracts, cuts, defense, executive, India, Unaffected No Comments »EU executive thwarts Canada lobby on tar sand oil
Posted by admin on January 30th, 2013
BRUSSELS/CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) – Canada’s urgent hunt for buyers for its oil is being thwarted as the European Commission sticks to a plan to label fuel from tar sands deposits as highly polluting, deterring refiners bound by environmental rules. Intense pressure from Canada, seeking new markets to compensate for dwindling U.S. buying and discounted sales, [...]
Canadian police allege ex-SNC executive paid bribes to Gaddafi son
Posted by admin on January 26th, 2013
(Reuters) – A son of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi allegedly received 120 million euros ($ 162 million) in bribes for giving major contracts in Libya to SNC-Lavalin Inc, Canada's biggest engineering and construction company, a police document said on Friday. According to an affidavit the Royal Canadian Mounted Police used to obtain a search [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: allege, bribes, Canadian, executive, exSNC, Gaddafi, paid, Police No Comments »Executive Creative Too
Posted by admin on January 24th, 2013
NEW YORK—Saying he likes to think of himself as “more than just a stuffy businessman in a suit,” Wyatt Media Group CEO Barney Washburn, 57, informed reporters today that he is actually quite creative, too. According to Washburn, in addit… Tweet This Post
Republicans ask a pizza executive to teach them how to not suck so much
Posted by admin on January 17th, 2013
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Roundup: GOP outraged by Obama’s executive orders on guns, but still not certain why
Posted by admin on January 17th, 2013
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