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The actors who played Hercules in these films were Steve Reeves, Gordon Scott, Kirk Morris, Mickey Hargitay, Mark Forest, Alan Steel, Dan Vadis, Brad Harris, Reg Park, Peter Lupus ( billed as Rock Stevens ) and Michael Lane.
McDonald's Corporation v Steel & Morris EWHC QB 366, known as " the McLibel case " was an English lawsuit filed by McDonald's Corporation against environmental activists Helen Steel and David Morris ( often referred to as " The McLibel Two ") over a pamphlet critical of the company.
Following the decision, the European Court of Human Rights ( ECHR ) ruled in Steel & Morris v United Kingdom that the pair had been denied a fair trial, in breach of Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights and that their conduct should have been protected by Article 10 of the Convention.
In 1990, McDonald's brought libel proceedings against five London Greenpeace supporters, Paul Gravett, Andrew Clarke and Jonathan O ' Farrell, as well as Steel and Morris, for distributing the pamphlet on the streets of London.
Steel and Morris, however, chose to defend the case.
Steel and Morris called 180 witnesses, seeking to prove their assertions about food poisoning, unpaid overtime, misleading claims about how much McDonald's recycled, and " corporate spies sent to infiltrate the ranks of London Greenpeace ".
McDonald's spent several million pounds, while Steel and Morris spent £ 30, 000 ; this disparity in funds meant Steel and Morris were not able to call all the witnesses they wanted, especially witnesses from South America who were intended to support their claims about McDonalds ' activities in that continent's rain forests.
They further specified that they would drop the case if Steel and Morris agreed to " stop criticising McDonald's ".
Steel and Morris secretly recorded the meeting ; McDonald's said the pair could criticise McDonald's privately to friends but must cease talking to the media or distributing leaflets.
Steel and Morris were found liable on several points, although the judge also found that some of the points in the pamphlet were true.
Steel and Morris immediately appealed the decision.
* McDonald's Restaurants v Morris & Steel
Having admired Budd's all-steel bodies Morris founded The Pressed Steel Company of Great Britain Limited in 1926 as a joint venture with Edward G Budd Manufacturing Company-Budd International of Philadelphia, USA.
In the early 1980s, the former Morris plant at Cowley and its sister site the former Pressed Steel plant, were turned over to the production of Austin and Rover badged vehicles.
Other actors included Gordon Scott, Reg Park, Gordon Mitchell, Reg Lewis, Kirk Morris, Samson Burke, Alan Steel, Richard Lloyd, Renato Rossini and Frank Gordon.
The actors who played Hercules in these films were Steve Reeves, Gordon Scott, Kirk Morris, Mickey Hargitay, Mark Forest, Alan Steel, Dan Vadis, Brad Harris, Reg Park, Peter Lupus ( billed as Rock Stevens ) and Michael Lane.
More recently, as CSR has become mainstream, the company has beefed up its CSR programs related to its labor, environmental and other practices All the same, in McDonald's Restaurants v Morris & Steel, Lord Justices Pill, May and Keane ruled that it was fair comment to say that McDonald's employees worldwide ' do badly in terms of pay and conditions ' and true that ' if one eats enough McDonald's food, one's diet may well become high in fat etc., with the very real risk of heart disease.
McDonald's Restaurants versus Morris & Steel ( also known as the " McLibel case ") was an English lawsuit filed by McDonald's Corporation against environmental activists Helen Steel and David Morris ( often referred to as " The McLibel Two ") over a pamphlet critical of the company.

Steel and wrote
Eleven-year-old Mary Steel wrote a poem which ended:
Robert Schuman, the initiator of the European Community system, wrote that a supranational Community like the Europe's founding European Coal and Steel Community lay midway between an association of States where they retained complete independence and a federation leading to a fusion of States in a super-state.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in November 1738 by virtue of the fact that " His Name hath been known for many years among the Learned by Several Curious disertations published in the Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris & in particular by a very Learned and usefull book wrote in French entitled ' The Art of Converting Forged Iron into Steel ' and ' the Art of Soft ' ning Cast Iron ' printed at Paris 1722 4to and lately by his ' Curious Memoires relating to the History of Insects ' at paris in 4to three Volumes of which work have been Laid before the Royal Society ".
Nicholson wrote as " Harry Steel ", a combination of the names of Stalin (" man of steel " in Russian ) and Harry Pollitt.
As David McMahan wrote, “ Henry Steel Olcott saw the Buddha as a figure much like the ideal liberal freethinker – someone full of ‘ benevolence ,’ ‘ gratitude ,’ and ‘ tolerance ,’ who promoted ‘ brotherhood among all men ’ as well as ‘ lessons in manly self-reliance ”.
In the tribute anthology Foundation's Friends, Harrison wrote a story, The Fourth Law of Robotics, which featured the Stainless Steel Rat in the setting of Isaac Asimov's Robot series.
Steel wrote a column for The Guardian between 1996 and 1999.
The pair have collaborated on several songs, some of which are featured on Steel City, the dance show that Finn wrote.
In addition to Submarine !, Beach wrote several more books on naval history, including The Wreck of the Memphis ( 1966 ); United States Navy: 200 Years ( 1986 ), a general history of the Navy ; Scapegoats: A Defense of Kimmel and Short at Pearl Harbor ( 1995 ); and Salt and Steel: Reflections of a Submariner ( 1999 ).
Thomas tried his hand at network television hour-long shows in 1986 when he wrote and co-executive produced Steel Collar Man for CBS.
The American poet Carl Sandburg wrote a memorial poem for Anna Held after Held's death, An Electric Sign goes Dark, in the collection Smoke and Steel.
In 2003 Waid wrote the origin of the " modern " Superman with Superman: Birthright, a twelve-part limited series which was meant to be the new official origin story of the Man of Steel.
He wrote his first novel, Steel and Iron, in 1927.
In 1949, Duesterberg wrote The Steel Helmet and Hitler, in which he defended his pre-war political career and the Stahlhelm and detailed the movement ’ s independence from the Nazi Party and " the insane Jew hatred preached by Hitler ".
His graduate student, John A. Fitch, wrote The Steel Workers, a classic depiction of a key industry in early 20th-century America.
In 2011, Bump of Chicken announced that they wrote the song " Tomodachi no Uta " as the theme song for the animated 3D movie Doraemon: Nobita and the New Steel Troops: ~ Angel Wings ~.
Steel wrote the chapter on bowling in the cricket volume of the Badminton Library ( 1888 ).
Over the next decade he wrote several books, among them Adventures in Prose ( 1911 ), Shelley, Godwin and his Circle ( 1913 ), War of Steel and Gold ( 1914 ), Origins of the Great War ( 1914 ), Belgium and the Scrap of Paper ( 1915 ) and A League of Nations ( 1917 ).
After having received numerous requests to continue the story of detective Elijah Baley and his robot partner R. Daneel Olivaw, featured in his earlier novels The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun, Asimov wrote this short detective story.
Teaming up with Steve Jordan, who had worked on Dirty Work, the pair wrote several new songs ( one of which, " Almost Hear You Sigh ", would be placed on The Rolling Stones ' Steel Wheels in 1989 with lyrical modifications by Jagger ).
Histories he wrote included Scots in Canada ( 1911 ), Steel of Empire: The Romantic History of the Canadian Pacific ( 1935 ), Canadian Mosaic ( 1938 ) and two histories of nursing.
For MLJ Comics ( subsequently known as Archie Comics ), he wrote stories starring Steel Sterling, the Shield, the Hangman, and the Black Hood.
His television work includes Doctor Who for which he wrote the serials Inferno ( 1970 ) and The Mind of Evil ( 1971 ), the fifth Sapphire & Steel television story ( known informally as Dr McDee Must Die ) co-written with Anthony Read, Emergency – Ward 10, Crossroads, Ace of Wands, New Scotland Yard and The Professionals.
In 1997, he wrote and directed the movie Steel, based on the DC comic book character Steel.

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