Despite his earlier opposition to NAFTA, Perot remained largely silent about expanded use of guest worker visas in the United States, with Buchanan supporters attributing this silence to his corporate reliance on foreign workers.

Despite the lack of formal ownership, firms can and do gain from high levels of training, in part because it creates a corporate culture or vocabulary teams use to create cohesion.

Despite owning a large corporate empire, he seems to enjoy micromanaging WNYX.

Despite an initial sharp economic slowdown and numerous corporate bankruptcies, South Korea has managed to triple its per capita GDP in dollar terms since 1997.

Despite promises by San Mateo County officials, opponents felt a longer runway would lead to bigger and noisier planes, in particular, more corporate aircraft.

Despite the city's historic importance in the development of American music, there are those who feel that its status has declined in recent years, due to a combination of increased corporate control over music media, an increase in the cost-of-living and the rise of local music scenes whose success is facilitated by the cheap communication provided by the Internet.

Despite the similarity of their names, there has never been any corporate connection between the original or later Packard Bell and Hewlett Packard, Bell & Howell, Bell Aircraft, or Bell System.

Despite this, the basic layout of the corporate office had remained largely unchanged, with employees sitting behind rows of traditional desks in a large open room, devoid of privacy.

Despite the fact that the BUF did not stand in the 1935 General Election, the BUF demanded that there be a corporate state in which the state would co-ordinate both employers associations and trade unions as a means to stopping strikes and sacks and that there be a nationalised banking system.

Despite controversy about the ability of corporate America to deal with a part-time crossdresser, Horton's workplace experience was positive.

Despite an excellent playing surface and its own water storage, focus shifted to its unfavourable position, and its antiquated corporate and spectator facilities such as its outdated sepia-toned video screen.

Despite this and despite the fact that Great Western had in 1997 ceased to exist as a separate entity, the Great Western corporate logo and the letters forming the words GREAT WESTERN initially remained on the building's exterior.

Despite the 40 % acquisition by Sears Roebuck, both companies maintained their Standard & Poor's " single -' B '- plus corporate credit rating ".

Despite the Global Recession in the late 2000s and corporate change, Istithmar, Barneys ' owner, remained committed to Barneys ' expansion plan.

Despite optimising revenue in theory, introduction of yield management can sometimes fail to achieve this in practice because of corporate image problems.

Despite the corporate re-branding GTW's blue color scheme and its logo would persist on rolling stock and locomotives for several years while they are slowly either repainted or retired.

* Despite the efforts of CalPERS and others, the chief counsel of TIAA-CREF was quoted in 2003 as saying that there has been " no countrywide improvement in corporate governance ".

Despite the rejection of the " justice of the case " test, it is observed from judicial reasoning in veil piercing cases that the courts employ " equitable discretion " guided by general principles such as male fides to test whether the corporate structure has been used as a mere device.

Despite the low budget, development benefited from much corporate support, being funded in majority by Columbia Pictures, Warner Bros. and Canon.

Despite many assurances from CEO Jay Fishman that the newly formed company would retain the St. Paul name, the corporate name only lasted until 2007, when the company repurchased the rights to the famous red umbrella logo from Citigroup and readopted it as its main corporate symbol, while also changing the corporate name to The Travelers Companies.

Despite health problems stemming from an over-active pancreas, Cone steadily rose up the corporate ladder, eventually impressing the head of the firm, Albert Lasker.

Despite being a successful mid-priced line for Chrysler for most of its life, DeSoto's failure was due to a combination of corporate mistakes and external factors beyond Chrysler's control.

Despite some early cooperative military successes against Japan, by the time that the Japanese surrendered in 1945 neither the CPC nor the KMT trusted each other or were actively cooperating.

Despite its many successes, this picture is not sufficient to explain the variety of structure we see in galaxies.

Despite the successes enjoyed by his troops, Germanicus ' German campaign was in reaction to the mutinous intentions of his troops, and lacked real strategic value.

Despite initial successes, the German army was stopped close to Moscow in December 1941.

Despite successes such as the revival of economic growth and the beginnings of the Northern Ireland Peace Process, by the mid-1990s the Conservatives were embroiled in ongoing " sleaze " scandals involving various MPs and even Cabinet Ministers.

Despite these successes, the Germans were pushed back from Moscow and could never again mount a simultaneous offensive along the entire strategic Soviet – German front.

Despite many successes, RISC has made few inroads into the desktop PC and commodity server markets, where Intel's x86 platform remains the dominant processor architecture.

Despite successes in neutrino astronomy and neutrino astrophysics, Kamiokande did not achieve its primary goal, the detection of proton decay.

Despite only modest military successes, Henry and his allies now controlled the south-west, the Midlands and much of the north of England.

Despite a brief delay caused by a mechanical problem early in the first act, the performance was an unqualified success, and the play went on to become one of the year's biggest West End successes.

Despite its successes, there were problems: Front de libération du Québec militants had initially threatened to disrupt the exhibition, but were inactive during this period.

Despite his successes and one-time popularity, Harold Wilson's reputation took a long time to recover from the low ebb reached immediately following his second premiership.

Despite all these notable successes in diagnostics and detection techniques ectopic pregnancy remains a source of serious maternal morbidity and mortality worldwide, especially in countries with poor prenatal care.

Despite several albums over the next three years he failed to repeat his earlier successes, with no singles managing to reach the Billboard Hot 100 except for 1982's " Change ," climbing into the Billboard R & B Top 20 (# 12 ).

Despite these successes, de Moivre was unable to obtain an appointment to a Chair of Mathematics at a university, which would have released him from his dependence on time-consuming tutoring that burdened him more than it did most other mathematicians of the time.

Despite undoubted successes, Boleslaus III Wrymouth committed serious political errors, even against Zbigniew of Poland, his half-brother.

Despite its successes, the Dutch Republic was unable to sustain a prolonged naval war.

Despite his many successes, Rivers was still a markedly reticent man in mixed company, hampered as he was by his stammer and innate shyness.

Despite his successes at MGM, Paramount Pictures, and RKO Pictures, Selznick longed to be an independent producer with his own studio.

Despite the conquest of Nice by a Franco-Ottoman fleet, the French remained unable to advance into Juarez, while a joint Anglo-Imperial invasion of northern France, led by Charles himself, won some successes but was ultimately abandoned, leading to another peace and restoration of the status quo ante in 1544.

Despite Dundee's initial successes in the north, Gordon eventually surrendered on 14 June, due to dwindling supplies, and having lost 70 men during the three-month siege.

Despite these successes, integration issues were long apparent.

Despite the previously highlighted criticisms of his work, Orosius ’ s books were considered to be successes from virtually the day of their publication.

Despite ample reserve forces that could have been deployed to exploit localized successes, McClellan failed to destroy Lee's army.

Despite enjoying what some might consider a reasonable amount of time on Greenland in conjunction with varying times of successes and failures, the Norse settlement in Greenland did not last more than 500 years.