However, it determined that neither this factor, nor `` the fact that all concerned in high executive posts in both companies acted honorably and fairly, each in the honest conviction that his actions were in the best interests of his own company and without any design to overreach anyone, including Du Pont's competitors '', outweighed the Government's claim for relief.

ASACP members were concerned that various forms of legislation being proposed in the United States were going to have the effect of forcing adult companies to label their content.

The use of a foreign company for the extraction of gold at the largest mine in the Western Hemisphere has startled and concerned many Dominican's who believe that this gold is Dominican gold and should be extracted by Dominican companies and not foreign.

However, this approach has been only somewhat more effective than the harmonization approach: while states are not as concerned about having foreign traditions of corporate governance imposed on their companies, which the harmonization approach could well entail ; they also wish to ensure that the EU-wide system would be palatable to the traditions of their national companies, so that they will not be put at a disadvantage compared to the other member states.

Bradley Belt, former executive director of the PBGC ( the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, the federal agency that insures private-sector defined-benefit pension plans in the event of bankrupment ), testified before a congressional hearing in October 2004, “ I am particularly concerned with the temptation, and indeed, growing tendency, to use the pension insurance fund as a means to obtain an interest-free and risk-free loan to enable companies to restructure.

There were many anti-Communist committees, panels, and " loyalty review boards " in federal, state, and local governments, as well as many private agencies that carried out investigations for small and large companies concerned about possible Communists in their work force.

Where start-up technology companies are concerned, some courts have considered that the traditional factors for finding that an author is an " employee " can be less important than in more-established companies, for example if the employee works remotely and is not directly supervised, or if the employee is paid entirely in equity without benefits or tax withholding.

By this time, large coal companies were more concerned about their public image, and Glen Alden made an effort to make the building and grounds attractive.

Oddly enough the UNIVAC originally could not read or punch cards, hindering sales to companies concerned about the high cost of manually converting large quantities of data on cards.

In the early 2000s, federal public policy makers concluded that where independent financial statement audits of public companies regulated by the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission are concerned, that the AICPA's standards setting and related enforcement roles should be transferred to a government empowered body with more enforcement authority than a non-governmental professional association, such as the AICPA could provide.

On 3 August 2004, shortly before the settlement, Senator Charles Grassley, a Republican senator from Iowa, sent a letter to GSK, stating that he was concerned that " some drug companies " may not have provided the FDA with all the information at their disposal.

Local government councils and similar authorities also set up government corporations, such as water supply companies and " local-authority trading enterprises " ( LATEs ) ( New Zealand ), as separate corporations or business unit of the councils concerned.

All companies concerned need to have policies in place which prevents transactions with criminal background.

The companies were in dispute over the completion of the route as the MDR was struggling financially and the MR was concerned that completion would affect its revenues through increased competition from the MDR in the City area.

Environmental groups like Friends of the Clayoquot Sound and the First Nations communities were concerned with the logging companies ’ approach to resource management.

The companies were in dispute over the completion of the route as the MDR was struggling financially and the MR was concerned that completion would affect its revenues through increased competition from the MDR in the City area.

The main reason for this decision, which effectively killed MacDonald Stephenson ’ s idea, was that many of the businessmen concerned had a personal interest in protecting their investments in the established shipping companies that enjoyed a monopoly on carriage of passengers and goods into and out of China.

NEDRA is a coalition of drag racing fans, electric drag racing vehicle owners and drivers, individuals interested in promoting the sport of EV drag racing, EV parts suppliers, EV manufacturers and other environmentally concerned companies and individuals.

Critics concerned with corporate hypocrisy and insincerity generally suggest that better governmental and international regulation and enforcement, rather than voluntary measures, are necessary to ensure that companies behave in a socially responsible manner.

Because of this change, some small businesses are concerned that they will not be able to compete with larger companies that can afford a larger advertising budget.

Until this time, factories had been concerned with high production, but now the companies started to market their products as a lifestyle purpose.

* Abnormal Situation Management, a research and development consortium of companies and universities that are concerned about the negative effects of industrial plant incidents

Lines of communications were established between the two companies and several Du Pont products were actively promoted.

and General Motors and Du Pont were to be ordered to terminate any agreement that provided for the purchase by General Motors of any specified percentage of its requirements of any Du Pont manufactured product, or for the grant of exclusive patent rights, or for a grant by General Motors to Du Pont of a preferential right to make or sell any chemical discovery of General Motors, or for the maintenance of any joint commercial enterprise by the two companies.

These plans, like Du Pont's, contained provisions for passing the vote on Du Pont's General Motors shares on to the ultimate stockholders of Du Pont, Christiana, and Delaware, except that officers and directors of the three companies, their spouses, and other people living in their households, as well as other specified persons, were to be totally disenfranchised.

There were two methods that could have been used for conducting the study within the resources available: ( 1 ) interviews in depth with a few selected companies, and ( 2 ) the more limited interrogation of a large number of companies by means of a mail questionnaire.

Fifty of the 100 firms were selected on a random basis from 3,500 names submitted by member companies of the Aerospace Industries Association ( AIA list ) and fifty were selected in a similar manner from a list of 1,500 names compiled by the research team from the Thomas Register ( TR list ).

Ten days after the questionnaires were mailed, follow-up airmail postcards were sent urging those companies which had not yet returned their questionnaires to do so at once.

Three lists of companies were made and used in the study.

The first was a list of fourteen manufacturing companies located in the state of Washington which were personally known to the research team to be active in defense work.

These names were secured from member companies by the Association from the forty-four sources listed in Appendix Aj.

The forty-four lists supplied by the AIA member companies were merged and duplicate names were eliminated.

There was further elimination of all companies that were not accompanied by the name of a responsible company executive.

It was compiled as a control sample to determine if the opinions and practices of companies on the lists submitted by the members of the Aerospace Industries Association were materially different from those of other small firms selling to defense programs.

The fact that companies on the AIA lists were already participating in the defense program because of the manner of their selection.

The returns from companies classified as large businesses were set aside and not used because they were not relevant to a study of the opinions and practices of small firms.

In the first place, the two groups of firms, when combined, had characteristics and practices that were more representative of companies that were the subject of this study than did the firms from the AIA list alone.

In Inside Africa, John Gunther describes one of these, the Societe Generale, as `` the kind of colossus that might be envisaged if, let us say, the House of Morgan, Anaconda Copper, the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and various companies producing agricultural products were lumped together, with the United States government as a heavy partner ''.

By 1865, following the American Civil War, stocks in small industrial companies, such as iron and steel, textiles and chemicals were first sold by curbstone brokers.

Initially, the majority of films in the programmes were Pathé films, but this changed fairly quickly as the American companies cranked up production.

In France, Pathé retained its dominant position, followed still by Gaumont, and then other new companies that appeared to cater to the film boom.

Russia began its film industry in 1908 with Pathé shooting some fiction subjects there, and then the creation of real Russian film companies by Aleksandr Drankov and Aleksandr Khanzhonkov.

In 1927 Paramount and MGM, Hollywood's two top studios, noting the profits being made by companies like Pathé Exchange and Educational, both re-entered the production and distribution of short subjects after several years.

The Motion Picture Patents Company ( MPPC, also known as the Edison Trust ), founded in December 1908, was a trust of all the major American film companies ( Edison, Biograph, Vitagraph, Essanay, Selig, Lubin, Kalem, American Star, American Pathé ), the leading film distributor ( George Kleine ) and the biggest supplier of raw film stock, Eastman Kodak.

A few companies, including the Victor Talking Machine Company and Pathé, produced record players using compressed-air loudspeakers.

The Trust was a cartel that held a monopoly on film production and distribution comprising all the major film companies of the time ( Edison, Biograph, Vitagraph, Essanay, Selig, Lubin, Kalem, American Star, American Pathé ), the leading distributor ( George Kleine ) and the biggest supplier of raw film, Eastman Kodak.

* early systems with the film projector linked to a phonograph, developed by Thomas Edison ( Kinetaphone, Kinetaphonograph ), Selig Polyscope, French companies such as Gaumont ( Chronomégaphone and Chronophone ) and Pathé, and British systems.

* European shellac records — In the first three decades of the twentieth century European companies including Pathé, Odeon, and Fonotipia made recordings in a variety of sizes, including 21 cm, 25 cm, 27 cm, 29 cm, 35 cm, and 50 cm ( roughly 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, and 20 inches ).

She also recorded primarily for two companies whose distribution was limited and erratic: Pathé and Edison.

In 2009, the 37ºSouth Market attracted 35 companies ; which included: Bavaria Films, Icon Productions, Media 8 Entertainment, Miramax Films, NBC Universal, National Geographic Channel, Paramount Pictures, Pathé, Village Roadshow, etc.

Along with it was the Pathé Records ( Hong Kong ) record company, which ended up becoming one of the most significant popular record companies in Hong Kong.

Weinberg was already a prominent figure at that time, especially known as the a representative of foreign companies such as Pathé for whom he sold gramophones before he got into the film business.

DeLay worked with over 25 motion picture companies including the original Warner Bros., Pathé, Vitagraph, Astra, Universal, and Fox.

But Pathé did begin to market its smaller, lighter camera to cinematographers around 1903, and even some cameramen employed by Edison and Biograph began to use them in defiance to the patent cameras owned by the companies that employed them.

Many of the depressingly numerous 78-rpm gramophone records that he made prior to World War I for the Fonotipia, Victor and Pathé companies — and for the forerunner of HMV — are now available on CD reissues from various labels.