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...Administration that private industry can't be relied on to protect the nation's infrastructure on its own. "Expecting a trade association to tell a business it needs to spend more money on security isn't sufficient," says Sal DePasquale, a Georgia chemical-security expert, who helped draft the industry's current voluntary plan. Congress is looking at making chemical-plant security mandatory, and DHS officials say they're ready to order beefed-up security for chemical facilities as well. But that process could take years, and who knows what will happen when new regulations are finally ready for Administration...
...Coca-Cola Company has been working to develop a Workplace Rights Policy—the first of its kind for our entire industry. The policy will contain our commitment to foster an open and inclusive environment based on recognized workplace human rights. We have received comments on the draft policy by external human rights organizations such as the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, Human Rights Watch, International Labor Rights Fund, and Oxfam. We have also met with numerous other organizations including the International Union of Food Workers (IUF), the United Food and Commercial Workers, and Amnesty International...
...creative writers made a pact before leaving the scene. All of their revised theses will contain the words “flying glass” in the final draft. It will be “a code for each other,” Vaz said...
...Cheney is too old to be a baby boomer, but his five draft deferments during the Vietnam War make him an honorary member of the tribe, as does his infamous explanation of why he didn't fight: "I had other priorities." The failure to serve-and the relative safety and affluence of our upbringing-has been a defining quality of so many baby boomers who have come to political power, and there have been consequences. Bill Clinton often seemed daunted and uncertain in his dealings with the military. Bush and Cheney have been the opposite. They rushed...
...draft plans to sell digital music and combat piracy, but was forced to shelve them just to focus on its core operations. "The company was in such a bad spot in terms of both earnings and capital structure, frankly, we didn't have time to think of anything else," says Rose. Levy's team discovered that the Virgin label wasn't integrated into the business, so essentially two separate music companies were operating within EMI. Record sales were clearly not recovering, either. Indeed, after her Glitter album tanked, EMI had to pay Mariah Carey $28 million to extricate itself from...