Word: firm
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Although PSLM members said the event has been in the works for several weeks, it came on the heels of the University's decision to join a group of universities employing a monitoring firm to oversee apparel factories making products with their trademark...
...those universities, the University of Notre Dame, already employs the firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers--a company that PSLM members have said has a conflict of interest since apparel manufacturers also employ it. PSLM used yesterday's event to express their displeasure with the impending agreement...
...past, student protestors have demanded specifically that Price-Waterhouse-Coopers not be assigned to act as an independent monitor. The firm already serves as a consultant to companies including Nike, Reebok and Liz Claiborne, which some students said creates a conflict of interest...
...hope that the students and others that areconcerned about this issue will appreciate that anauditing firm has obligations of independence thatother types of consultants don't have," he said...
...differences in the men and their states, Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore ordered superintendents to report any potentially dangerous student to police immediately. School districts are alarmed by the governmental consternation. Just last week, 150 calls were directed to Russ Ebersole, who runs a small but suddenly lucrative Bethesda, Md., firm that takes $500 from schools to bring in Labrador retrievers that sniff out bombs and gunpowder. Even so, after the worst school massacre in this country's history, there must be something we can do. Right...