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...business and its supplier chain, the Ministry excluded Wal-Mart from the fund in May 2006. (The retailer said the claims were based on inaccurate and outdated information.) Such exclusions are "in one sense, an admission of defeat of the corporate governance effort," says Slyngstad. "When you're no longer an owner, you no longer have influence...
...lasting partnerships with factories. "We thought monitoring was the answer, but we've learned the hard way that it isn't," Gap's then CEO Paul Pressler conceded in 2005. "Almost no factory is in compliance with our standards." As a result, the goal for many firms is no longer perfection, but more nuanced policies and a gradual raising of standards. Traditionally, Gap pulled out of factories in which it discovered child labor. Two years ago, it revised that policy. Now, if children are found in factories producing Gap clothes, the firm asks factory managers to remove them and find...
...what Elliot calls the "cash-rich, time-poor" are now springing up all over. Katharine Giovanni, chairwoman of the U.S.-based International Concierge and Errand Association, says membership in her organization has doubled in the last two years, to around 650 companies. And Giovanni says those firms are no longer catering exclusively to the leisure class. Many concierge clients these days are harried two-career families who simply need an extra hand planning a child's birthday party or picking up the dry-cleaning. "A concierge is a time broker," Giovanni says. "We're here to give you your life...
Weber notes, however, that hyperforin tends to oxidize and therefore lose potency in pill form. More recent formulations, she says, may retain this potency slightly longer, and therefore may have greater effects on ADHD symptoms - but only an additional study can establish whether that's the case...
...that much of the valuable farmland abuts the river and will be flooded by dams. The new residences for the Xiaoshaba residents looks more like a middle-income Hong Kong housing estate than a rural Chinese village. But despite the exterior improvements, villagers are upset that they can no longer raise livestock outside their homes. One former resident of the now-demolished village says his family lost valuable cropland and the payment offered by the government is not enough to compensate. Job growth due to hydropower work is unlikely, the resident says, because the dam builders rely on outside labor...