Word: agri
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ranks of other mega-merger firms like Astra-Zeneca and Rhone-Poulenc-Hoechst, to form a corporation worth about $52 billion. Why did it take so long for Monsanto to find its mate, and why was Pharmacia willing to take it on? The answers lie in Monsanto's agri-chemical division, a successful but controversial arm of the company, which is the target of a bitter alarmist campaign aimed at its genetically modified crops...
...chief execs of leading U.S. agri-biotech companies had heartburn last week, it wasn't because of anything they ate. Rather, it was that long-simmering European anxieties over genetically modified (g.m.) crops, like an ocean-hopping virus, had finally spread...
Harvard students should not have politics imposed on their palettes. Agri-business is not loving to its workers in any area of the industry. While there are better conditions in the United States than abroad, the large number of illegal immigrants in agriculture makes it easy to circumvent legal workplace regulations...
...Tactical PAC Project lists the groups that supported "senior committee members last cycle," and whether they gave more to the Democrats, the Republicans, or to both equally. Among those groups receiving an "unfriendly" rating were some that would appear to be natural ideological allies of the g.o.p. revolution, like agri-giant Archer Daniels Midland and pacs for Wall Street firms like Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers. When word of the guide leaked, furious lobbyists denounced it as "an enemies list," a violation of the Washington custom that you can do the fandango with just about anybody if it will help...