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"In 2002, Maxine Taylor, an executive with Eli Lilly, explained how drug marketers could use this technique when the corporation came under fire from critics. "Deploy third parties to advance your cause," she advised in an article in a trade magazine. "Even though you may not have many friends, maximize the ones you have!" The third party technique might be considered relatively harmless in other industries. For example, few people might complain if a soap manufacturer hired housewives to tell their friends about the cleaning power of a new laundry detergent they had discovered." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"It's a complex web of tangled alliances out there; you may show up and discover that the corporation you're picketing is also the corporation that, directly or indirectly, made your shoes or printed your last paycheck. Not only has the line between friends and foes become blurred, but it has become fractal in its complexity—if it even exists at all. In fact, you may not even have to carry a picket sign, or even show up Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, and her subsequent arrest signaled a turning point in the civil rights movement, 1956." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"The study, funded by the corporation for National and Community Service, was based on population surveys from 2002 to 2004 from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau. Let's keep adding to those numbers! peak 2: keeping your head in the clouds: enjoying being a lifelong learner One of the most persistent themes in this book has been the importance of lifelong learning. Learning strengthens our cognitive reserve and saves us from intellectual stagnation. Increasingly, baby boomers are embracing their retirements as an opportunity for awakening and reinvention." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"The President's Science Advisory Committee decries the excessive use of agricultural chemicals and states: "The corporation's convenience has been allowed to rule national policy." Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta organize the United Farmworkers Union in Delano, California. Pesticide abuses are a major focus of their organizing work. 1968 ?Science magazine publishes an article linking bird population declines with reproductive failure caused by pesticide accumulations in their tissues. 1970 0 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is created." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"The "consumer's right to know" — Ralph Nader and Alan Morrison's great triumph of the 1970s — had become the corporation's right to "subtly encourage." Put another way, the reigning governmental, legal, and political ethos about prescription drug promotion had morphed from "patient trust thy doctor" into "buyer beware." The immediate result was an explosion of economic activity — the creation of two new information industries, one based on DTC, one based on off-label promotion. The former was the sexier." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"In the example of the business corporation we discussed above, the actions and behaviors of the corporation's employees, when on the job, are largely dictated by their job descriptions and the functional design of the company. Even Wilber has acknowledged: "When an individual-I or a cultural-We produces artifacts ... their exterior behavior is itself an artifact of their intentionality."5 We can thus imagine many common situations in which intersubjective entities—human relationships—are connected to both external structures and behaviors that are all completely artifactual." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.) "The designs of management can influence corporate culture, but the opinions and morale of the corporation's employees arise from their actual experience and from the quality of the relationships they have with each other and with the company's leaders. The esprit de corps of an organization is a holonic self-organizing cultural system that can be influenced, but not directly designed and created in the same way that an external organizational structure can be." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.) "And once the corporation becomes operational, the elements of its structure (as evidenced by the organization chart) are the result of conscious planning by the company's management. Although the external design of a corporation's structure is most definitely artifactual (including both its organizational design structure and its physical buildings and information systems), the company's internal culture and the way it is perceived by the market are holonic." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"Just like someone from behind the Iron Curtain seeking refuge in the West used to become an Enemy of the State I had now become an Enemy of the corporation. Corporate Outlaw The stack of documents Wyeth had received from Pharmacia contained more than just shocking revelations—I also read the praise other people had written about me when I joined the company. It felt like something from a bygone era, when I wasn't suspected of subversive activity. The irony is that one comment specifically mentioned that I had "high integrity." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.) "I asked him if he would be a reference on your behalf at the time you do have an offer in hand and he said that "once outside the corporation, things could be different." I commented that he obviously thought you were quite talented because he hired you twice and he said "that's right." This wasn't entirely negative, but it was perfectly clear that Darren might decide to hide behind company policy. I now realized that I could trust no one any longer. Darren had been informed by Pharmacia's lawyers that I was a security threat. Of course, he wanted to distance himself." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.) "From certain documents Pfizer attached to their "motion to dismiss," I learned that, after many of my coworkers and I had helped Pfizer address the problems in the Genotropin franchise, Pfizer had turned around and tried to paint us all—the people who tried to clean up—as crooks: In a May 19, 2003, letter to the FDA about the Genotropin "corrective measures" Pfizer took, the corporation wrote, "Pfizer has replaced or is in the process of replacing senior sales and marketing personnel in the Genotropin product line and disciplining certain sales representatives." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.)

"Or maybe I just treated people and the Earth as dismissively as any corporate guy would. the corporation fed me, and I fed my woman, and I was a pretty basic guy. I was in your face, in his or her face, ready to displace. Anyone or anything could become a target. But it was not a very good me. But, then, that's what a lot of us thought being part of a corporate culture allowed us to be. When I came back to civilized society, I knew I was a sinner, a fossil fuel drunkard on bended knees, and a seeker of green salvation." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Their defunct company pleaded no contest to the felony count of producing a product that presents a danger to the public. the corporation agreed to pay $350,000, the Chen's agreed to pay $46,500 each, and Wang agreed to pay $56,500. Cancer survivors who had used PC SPES filed a class-action lawsuit against BotanicLab. Patients sue Later patients even sued the Milken Prostate Cancer Foundation. "Giving people prescription drugs without their knowledge is insane. It is total fraud," a woman was quoted as saying in a Washington Post article. [Washington Post, Sept." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"Author unknown There is a great movie that was made, actually a documentary, entitled the corporation. In my book I talk about "it's all about the money." I talk about the fact that the love of money is the root of all evil. I talk about the fact that corporations are legally defined as individual entities. The legal responsibility of corporations is to make a profit. As a matter of fact, the law states that a corporation must, above everything else, make a profit. That means it cannot take into account its employees' welfare before profit." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"Thereafter the corporation became a major player in the cartel until the dissolution of Basel AG at the end of World War II. After the war, Geigy's stock shot up higher as it became the first corporation to promote DDT around the world. But Geigy was not the only firm to profit. Almost all chemical corporations profited handsomely from sales of DDT, since most agricultural chemical manufacturers and merchants sold several versions of it.3 Almost immediately after DDT became available for farm use, the soil fumigant DD came on the market." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

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"In the last six months of the case the corporation was paying the defense firm a million dollars a month in fees — and two hundred thousand a month was going back to the executives of the corporations as expert consultants. So, yes, some people in the corporations are making money on the lawsuits, too." But tough is the way Levin likes it. He is champing at the bit to use the litigation process to effect the kind of change he wants. "I have never seen a vehicle of social change that works as fast and effectively as the toxic tort arena. Never!" - Peter Radetsky, Allergic to the Twentieth Century: The Explosion in Environmental Allergies--From Sick Buildings to Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (Get the book.)

"If corporations and governments are indeed partners, we should be worried about the state of our democracy, for it means that government has effectively abdicated its sovereignty over the corporation.29 There may be some comfort to be had from the fact that corporations do try to be good, and to be seen to take their corporate responsibilities seriously. Of course, their definition of good is limited, working to the extent that they and theit shareholders can also benefit from their actions." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.) "When I lobby, I try to change government policy in a way that's a win-win for both [Pfizer and the public],' Pfizer CEO Hank McKinnell told Joel Bakan in an interview for his book, the corporation. 'We hope to elect people who have supported policies which are good for the nation.'25 The amounts pharma contributed to the 2004 presidential election cycle were not massive considering pharma companies tend to think in billions. Pfizer, for example, gave just under $1." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"Second, "contributions serve to create a favorable public image of the corporation." The third factor may be the most important in this case: "to encourage a social and political environment conducive to [the corporation's] survival and prosperity" (Nelson, 1970). If we look at this last-named criterion, we can see immediately that many of the corporations making donations, or whose members serve as leaders of MSKCC, have been mentioned before—as corporate polluters." - Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D., The Cancer Industry (Get the book.)

"Sky WindPower is the furthest along in its research, with functional prototypes already tested in the field. The corporation's chairman, Bryan Roberts, an Australian professor of mechanical engineering, teamed up with some Americans to commercialize his Flying Electric Generator—a windmill that's tethered to the ground, but that flies like a whirligig in the jet stream. There are two immediate advantages to these flying wind farms." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"She asked whether I would object to Horizon, the corporation's flagship science programme, making a documentary about my work. This, mind you, was at a time when my article wasn't even written, never mind published. More buzz. I asked for a day to think it over, and went home. Sitting on my couch in my empty flat in Clapham, I thought: Why not?" - Luca Turin, The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell (Get the book.)

"Executives from Tyco lied to investors and shareholders and virtually operated the corporation as their personal piggybanks, all so they could line their own pockets. Fast food companies have been found guilty of lying to the public about the cleanliness of their restaurants and the ingredients used in their products. Major food manufacturers are being found guilty every year of lying to the public about the ingredients that are being put into their mass-produced food that is being sold throughout the world. This brings us to the pharmaceutical conglomerates today." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"The corporation has a patented monopoly and, at the same time, has no restrictions placed on the purity of their product. Without required batch testing, biological impurities in their rDNA products do not affect profit margins. This lack of regulation and monitoring by the FDA on behalf of consumers could be responsible for a host of problems now being encountered by diabetics. If the rDNA insulin product is not folded exactly right; if there are miscellaneous incomplete strands or folds of insulin; if undetermined protein products remain in the mixture; if there is miscellaneous E." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"Out of all the institutions that contribute to our societal structure, the corporation is in the midst of the greatest flip because it represents the biggest arena for transformation. Corporations have the power to address and radically transform humanity's most pressing challenges. They possess the resources to rebuild trust through humane and sustainable business practices. Many corporations are beginning to answer this clarion call to mature their business practices and redefine their organizational values." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.) "The moral crisis has triggered a revival of values and meaning in business, which leads us to the next big megatrend—in this case, the spiritual transformation of the corporation." That sounds like a wonderful ideal, but how and where is it really taking place? "This change is happening from the top down, bottom up, inside-out, and outside-in. From the top down, wise CEOs are recognizing that the greatest assets and resources of any company are its people." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"Both of these great men recognized that the corporation, especially the international corporation, is in fact alien to the principles of capitalist economics, and they saw corporate collusion with the government as the greatest danger to a true free market—using the power of the government to prevent competition and to protect themselves from citizens who recognize the dangers that corporate activity poses to public health and safety." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.) "They saw the corporation as an entity that used the power of government to stifle competition, the life-blood of free enterprise. They also saw that these institutions are similar to government itself in that they are inevitably heavily bureaucratized, and slow to respond to new and innovative ideas. The collusion between the aluminum and superphosphate fertilizer industries and the government has resulted in the fluoridation of 75 percent of America's drinking water—at a profit, no less." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

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