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...Boycott Green Mountain Energy!" screams the aptly named website www.boycottgreenmountain.com. "The Mountain is a landfill!" Hard-core environmentalists, far from rejoicing at the prospect of a for-profit, self-sustaining clean-energy company, think of Green Mountain as something of a Trojan horse, and Kelly its Ulysses...
...pain at the pump has put Big Oil in the profiteering spotlight again, albeit with an Internet twist. At least one widely distributed chain e-mail encourages readers to boycott stations operated by ExxonMobil, the largest gasoline retailer in the U.S. Exxon's profits roared 44% higher in the first quarter, to $5 billion, on fattened profit margins. The 27 largest energy firms in the U.S. earned $14.1 billion in the fourth quarter of 2000--more than double their profits in the same period a year earlier, reports the Energy Information Agency. Of course, there were no complaints while Exxon...
...reputation of Japanese business and lowered their products' prestige," says Yang Jiankun, secretary-general of the Chinese Consumers Association. A recent poll on one Chinese website found that 83% of the 7,584 respondents no longer prefer Japanese products because they think they aren't reliable. "We should boycott Toshiba to show that China is stronger than Japan," said a vendor named Zhou in Beijing's Haidian technology district. "We should not support a product that is made by people who try to cheat Chinese...
...drive down attendance. When the University of San Diego?s Center for Public Interest Law hosted a conference last month, a dozen of the nation?s top practitioners stayed away because the keynote speaker was Nader. Michael Thorsness, a successful business trial lawyer, wrote a letter explaining his boycott. "Nader is the reason we have a sub-standard president," he explained to the center's director. "His ?campaign? was nothing more than an exercise in egomania and I, for one, will have no part of any proceeding in which he is involved...
...Forging a coalition with the liberals certainly gives him a parliamentary majority, and the legal right to call a referendum on independence - which the liberals, who are even more strongly pro-independence than Djukanovic, urge him to do. But the pro-Yugoslavia parties have vowed to boycott a referendum, and judging by the latest election results, the turnout at such a referendum may not enough to achieve legitimacy for independence...