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...Corporations seeking to rebuild their image can always open their checkbooks. For example, oil giant Royal Dutch Shell, excoriated in the 1990s for polluting the Niger Delta, is spending millions of dollars to combat malaria and aids in Africa, and is funding other initiatives aimed at improving the lives of those affected by oil exploration. Other firms have tried to make their peace with often-critical NGOs. British oil company BP, French retailer Carrefour and Swedish packaging manufacturer Tetra Pak are working with the World Wildlife Fund on environmental issues...
...billion Donations pledged at last week's global conference in Beijing to combat the spread of avian...
...with money spent on good works is one way. Oil giant Shell, for example, excoriated in the 1990s for its pollution of the Niger Delta, is plowing money into projects to help indigenous people in Africa and elsewhere who are affected by oil exploration, including funding local initiatives to combat malaria and AIDS. Other firms rely on more cynical marketing trends, including the latest-- "buzz marketing," in which people are paid to tell their friends and anyone else they meet how good a product is, from Vespa scooters to Lucky Strike cigarettes. But that doesn't work for governments. Just...
...case goes there, the allies plan a three-step approach: first, a mild resolution exhorting Tehran to end its questionable atomic activity voluntarily. If after two or three months Iran remains intransigent, they would then propose a stronger Security Council order based on the U.N.'s authority to combat threats to international peace. Step three would call for targeted sanctions, such as a freeze on government bank accounts a possibility for which Tehran apparently began planning last week when it started to shift its foreign-currency reserves from E.U. banks...
...Thernstrom said that two major problems facing higher education today are “a growing gulf between political and ideological beliefs” and a “teach your own politics” approach by faculty members. He said he joined the BAA to “combat this tendency and encourage a more balanced view on what’s going on in the world...