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...Carlson, an analyst at investment tracker Morningstar. "There's no clear line between what's socially responsible and what's not." That's how two respected socially responsible benchmarks--Calvert Social Index and Domini 400 Social Index--wind up holding different groups of companies. While Calvert doesn't hold McDonald's because it fails the index's labor-practices screen, Domini does. And though Domini rejects Pfizer partly on the basis of its environmental record and product-safety issues, Calvert includes the drug giant. "You have a lot of companies where reasonable people can disagree," says Adam Kanzer, director...
...boycott, but it's beginning to feel like one. According to two polls by GMI, a Seattle-based market-research company, nearly 20% of consumers abroad say they will avoid U.S. companies and products like McDonald's, Starbucks, American Airlines and Barbie dolls because of the U.S.'s unilateral foreign policies. And the more American a brand is perceived to be, the more resistance it encounters. For instance, almost half the survey respondents (including 1,000 people from each of the G8 nations, excluding the U.S.) associate Mattel's Barbie with America, while 10% make the same link with Kleenex...
...officer arrested Christopher McDonald, 37, of Quincy, Mass., for warrants outside the stadium...
...certainty in an age of great uncertainty." Social conservatives often lean left on other issues, says Wallace, so the values vote is "winnable by both sides." Labor has missed out on that vote because it's failed to articulate firm core values, says University of Melbourne sociologist Kevin McDonald, who contrasts the Howard government's clear "vision of moral purpose" with Labor's "absence of a defining message." Says M.P. Ferguson: "If Labor ever wanted to represent a cross-section of Australia on some of the more difficult moral issues, they have left that constituency behind...
...Facing Clarkson’s Amanda Dittmer on a 1-on-1 breakaway, Vaillancourt put the puck behind the defender from the right, and then skated around the left to collect it. From there, she put a hard wrister into the top right shelf of the goal to beat McDonald for her fourth goal of the season...