Word: nuclearization
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...invested a total of over $2 billion. The vast majority got the boot for their role in producing weapons that the fund views as particularly inhumane; in 2005, for instance, it sold off stakes in Britain's BAE and Boeing for their part in the manufacture of nuclear weapons. The remaining firms put the fund at risk of contributing to serious breaches of human rights, or severe environmental damage. Citing "systematic" violations of human and labor rights in its business and its supplier chain, the Ministry excluded Wal-Mart from the fund in May 2006. (The retailer said the claims...
...that presets the times when workers punch in and out, so no illegal overtime shows up on time cards. Lower-tech tactics, employed across Asia, include keeping double books, coaching workers on correct answers for auditors and paying bonuses to reward workers for passing audits. "It's like a nuclear arms race," says Ian Spaulding, managing director of Infact Global Partners, a compliance consultant and former director of global compliance for a large U.S. retailer. "The auditors do one thing, so the factory does another thing...
...Gates nominated Schwartz following his decision last week to oust General T. Michael Moseley and his civilian boss, Secretary Michael Wynne, for their service's sloppy handing of nuclear weapons and their components. (Gates also nominated top Pentagon bureaucrat Michael Donley to succeed Wynne). Both appointments require Senate approval, and Schwartz's nomination apparently came just in time. His biography on the Transportation Command website- which lists his first big military mission "as a crewmember in the 1975 airlift evacuation of Saigon," a sign of humility rarely witnessed among fighter pilots-had the words "Retiring effective...
...What is the status of the six-party nuclear talks with North Korea? I think the United States' position is that the verification stage [in which the North discloses all of its nuclear programs] is going to take a lot of time and is going to be very difficult. That is our position as well. But what's important is that my government will continue to work very closely with China and the U.S. in order to resolve this. We have no intention of taking two separate tracks, for instance by developing inter-Korean relations apart from the six-party...
...Most statements that supported the theory that Hussein had access to or the capacity to build chemical, biological, or even nuclear weapons did not take into account the disagreements between intelligence agencies as to the credibility of the WMD allegations...