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...historically been run by a relatively small and delineated class of industrialists, analysts say that circle has, ironically, grown even tighter with the rise of globalization - and is now dominated by financiers. Analyses show that a disproportionate number of people sitting on the boards of the CAC 40 companies come from the country's largest and most influential corporations - mainly banks and financial firms - giving them considerable influence over the operations of the other companies. Four executives from the French bank BNP Paribas, for example, sit on the boards of 12 other CAC 40 companies, including the environmental-services group...
...there's another way change could come to the top of France's economic pyramid: the foreigners who hold 40% of the CAC 40 companies' capital could increase that amount and then demand the kinds of shareholders' rights and powers they enjoy in the U.S. and Britain - and stage a mini-coup of the France Inc. boardrooms...
...result of these meals, Sifuentes says that people who normally do not interact with each other—be it because they live in different entryways or travel in separate social circles—have come together and “rearranged themselves...
...book-laden trip to Caluco did not come without extensive preparation on the part of volunteers who became involved in Learning Through Libraries. Nine hundred of the books brought to Caluco were new texts purchased with money procured through fundraising efforts...
...poignant, given that no one had fought harder and longer than Kennedy for universal health care, something that the terminally ill liberal lion had referred to before his death in August as "the cause of my life." And it was all the more ironic considering that Massachusetts has come closer than any other state to assuring coverage to all of its citizens, thanks to a 2006 law that was championed by a Republican governor, Mitt Romney, who was celebrating onstage with Brown on election night...