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...team of consultants, including the Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) Education Fund, the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) and Dara O'Rourke, an expert in worldwide labor standards, gathered information by speaking with government officials, trade unions, non-governmental organizations, factory owners and other industry stakeholders in each country to identify problems in the workplace. They then conducted factory inspections, two per country, to test the reality of these problems...
...universities hired a team of three consultants--O'Rourke, the Business for Social Responsibility Education Fund and the Investor Responsibility Research Center--to prepare the report, and they in turn engaged Pricewaterhouse to conduct two factory visits in each of the seven countries visited...
...hold investor, that's a good idea...
Conventional fraud investigations usually take six months to a year. But Internet fraud often wraps up in less than a week. The electronic trail is that clear--far easier to trace than the paper trail of the old economy. Last year Silicon Investor, based in Seattle and owned by Go2net, reprimanded Lebed for "violating the terms of his membership" (which can mean anything from spamming to being abusive to going "off topic" on message boards). The last time he posted a message to the site was July 17, 1999. He then apparently gave up and moved to the less regulated...
...Missouri speech by Karenna Gore-Schiff, and a second group were arrested trying to enter a Gore campaign office in Washington state. Of course, these protests are mostly an opportunistic effort by the tribe's supporters to take advantage of the election-year vulnerability of Occidental's most famous investor (and the fate of the U'wa is unlikely to weigh heavily on the minds of swing voters in battleground states), but they do smudge Gore's efforts to project himself as a friend of the Earth. So much so, in fact, that the Gore campaign is at pains...