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Hagelin's Harvard degree led him to a Congressional think tank on science and public policy, which led to a frustration with the inability of non-profit organizations to compete with for-profit organizations for government attention, which led to candidacy for the Natural Law Party...
...proposal would also try to establish universal health care coverage in Massachusetts by requiring that a universal system be in place before insurance companies and hospitals could convert to for-profit status...
...protest followed the release on Friday of the "Independent University Initiative," a yearlong study of worldwide apparel manufacturing conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers. The report has been criticized by some for its reliance on information gathered by a for-profit corporate monitor...
...only an approximate measure of the actual growth of school commercialism. However, the increased media attention to activities such as exclusive vendor agreements with soft drink bottlers, the promotion of junk food and hair care products through in-school sampling and the privatization of public schools in deals with for-profit management companies, suggests that the presence of marketers in schools is indeed growing...
...private, non-profit corporation which is charged with the oversight of domain name registration, the system by which Internet users are able to receive names such as harvard.edu or amazon.com. Formerly controlled by the U.S. Department of Commerce, the domain-name registry was transferred several years ago to a for-profit corporation, Network Solutions, whose high profits and monopoly control prompted the government to transfer control once again to ICANN. In coming years, the group will decide on the creation of new, publicly available top-level domain names to augment the familiar .com, .net and .gov. However, it will...