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Despite Immelt's pledge that it's a new green day at GE, it would be a mistake to think the company has quit protecting its less eco-friendly interests. GE has a history of opposing environmental regulations that don't suit the firm. In 2000, superstar lawyer Laurence Tribe asked the U.S. Supreme Court, on GE's behalf, to throw out EPA standards for smog and soot (the court declined). In 2003, GE was part of an industry coalition that lobbied for revised EPA regulations allowing utilities and refineries to modernize their oldest and dirtiest facilities, in some cases...
...notebook detailing the suspicions of a former treasurer who quit after confronting Scrushy with allegations of fraud...
...recruiting blacks, urging MEN OF COLOR, TO ARMS. But black soldiers were being discriminated against. They received about half the pay whites did and were not being promoted for distinguished service. Worse still, black prisoners were being murdered or enslaved by Confederates. As a result of these injustices, Douglass quit recruiting and went to Washington to plead his case to the President...
...exactly. You can't swing a rosary in Manila nowadays without snaring a self-professed "destabilizer": someone trying to undermine the presidency of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Or an accuser charging the government with some malfeasance, or a Senator or Congressman calling for Arroyo to quit, or a prophet forecasting "major change"?meaning a complete overhaul of the Philippine political system. The press is certainly looking for them, and writing up breathless copy even when they don't quite fit the bill. Eugenia Apostol, publisher of the new Mr. & Ms., did some television interviews at the relaunch soir?e and was asked...
...Asked to complete a sentence beginning "I wish ... ," a woman in her 20s cried as she confided that what she wished for most of all was to see her mother, who had worked abroad for the past two decades to support her children. Another recruit said he had just quit a seminary to support his sister because she was pregnant and her husband had fled. He explained: "Only this company gave me a break." In a country where there is so little opportunity that some 7 million Filipinos have gone overseas to work, call centers provide a crucial lifeline...