Category Archives: Company

Wal-Mart hushed up vast Mexico bribery case

By doris | Published: April 24, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.com MEXICO CITY — In September 2005, a senior Wal-Mart lawyer received an alarming e-mail from a former executive at the company’s largest foreign subsidiary, Wal-Mart de Mexico. In the e-mail and follow-up conversations, the former executive described how Wal-Mart de Mexico had orchestrated a campaign of bribery to win market dominance. [...]

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‘Crisis’: Supplies of life-saving drug used to treat children could run out in 2 weeks

By doris | Published: February 11, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.com How can a drug company run out of medicine because of quality concerns? They must have people checking everything that goes on in the company. Do you think it is like everything else it boils down to money. Cut back here cut back there and work the employees as much as [...]

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Gulf oil spill still leaking after 7 years subject of lawsuit

By doris | Published: February 6, 2012

Full Story at USNews.msnbc.msn.com Environmental groups on Thursday sued an oil company over the pace of its cleanup of a Gulf of Mexico spill that continues seven years after it was triggered by Hurricane Ivan in 2004. “The plaintiffs filed suit to stop the spill and lift the veil of secrecy surrounding Taylor oil’s seven-year-long [...]

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McDonald’s drops use of gooey ammonia-based ‘pink slime’ in hamburger meat

By doris | Published: February 1, 2012

Full Story at USNews.msnbc.msn.com McDonald’s confirmed that it has eliminated the use of ammonium hydroxide — an ingredient in fertilizers, household cleaners and some roll-your-own explosives — in its hamburger meat. The company denied that its decision was influenced by a months-long campaign by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver to get ammonium-hydroxide-treated meats like chicken and [...]

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Coca-Cola says it told gov’t about fungicide in OJ

By doris | Published: January 13, 2012

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com WASHINGTON (AP) — Coca-Cola Co. acknowledged Thursday it was the company that alerted federal regulators about low levels of fungicide in its own orange juice and in competitors’ juice, prompting juice prices to rise and increased government testing for the residue. The Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency [...]

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US automakers look to build on victories in the new year

By doris | Published: December 29, 2011

Full Story at BottomLine.msnbc.msn.com Ford is hoping history can repeat itself with the upcoming launch of the next-generation Fusion four-door. It’s been more than a quarter century since the maker revolutionized automotive design with the original Taurus sedan. Its windswept styling helped Ford dominate the huge midsize market segment, and led most competitors to migrate [...]

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Millions savor Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade

By doris | Published: November 24, 2011

Full Story at nsmbc.msn.com About 3.5 million people were expected to crowd the route of the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade in New York on Thursday while an additional 50 million watched from home. A jetpack-wearing monkey and a freakish creation from filmmaker Tim Burton are two of the big new balloons that will make [...]

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Many companies pay no income taxes, study finds

By doris | Published: November 3, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The corporate tax rate is 35%. But an examination of 280 of the nation’s largest corporations suggests that many aren’t paying anything close to that. The real tax rate paid by a slew of major corporations averages closer to 18.5%, according to a study released Thursday by [...]

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German satellite to fall to Earth this weekend

By doris | Published: October 22, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com A defunct German satellite is expected to fall to Earth this weekend, with experts predicting that up to 30 big pieces of the junked spacecraft could hit the planet. But exactly when and where the satellite will fall remains a mystery. The 2.7-ton Roentgen Satellite, or ROSAT, will likely plummet to [...]

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Obama orders U.S. troops to help chase down African ‘army’ leader

By doris | Published: October 14, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — President Barack Obama is sending about 100 U.S. troops to Africa to help hunt down the leaders of the notoriously violent Lord’s Resistance Army in and around Uganda. “I have authorized a small number of combat-equipped U.S. forces to deploy to central Africa to provide assistance to regional [...]

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Steve Jobs, Apple founder, dies

By doris | Published: October 5, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Steve Jobs, the visionary in the black turtleneck who co-founded Apple in a Silicon Valley garage, built it into the world’s leading tech company and led a mobile-computing revolution with wildly popular devices such as the iPhone, died Wednesday. He was 56. The hard-driving executive pioneered the concept of [...]

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A mother’s war on germs at fast-food playlands

By doris | Published: September 18, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com GILBERT, Ariz. — One of those who kicked off her shoes and slithered her way through the multihued plastic tubes of a fast-food restaurant playground here one recent morning was not enjoying herself in the least. In fact, she had a frown on her face. “It’s bad,” Erin M. Carr-Jordan said, [...]

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White House ignored red flags in loan to failed solar company

By doris | Published: September 14, 2011

Full Story at Bottom Line.msnbc.msn.com The Obama administration committed more than $500 million in taxpayer money to a maker of solar power panels despite repeated red flags about the company’s viability, NBC News’ Lisa Myers reported Wednesday. The FBI raided the Silicon Valley headquarters of the company, Solyndra, last week, investigating whether the government was [...]

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Search under way for 10 oil workers in Gulf of Mexico

By doris | Published: September 10, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Mexico’s state-owned oil company searched in rough seas Friday for 10 workers missing from a U.S.-owned oil vessel in the tropical-storm-roiled Gulf of Mexico. The workers, contracted by Texas-based Geokinetics, abandoned ship Thursday afternoon after Tropical Storm Nate caused their liftboat to take on water in the Bay of [...]

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After 9/11: A decade of deaths, marriages, war and peace

By doris | Published: September 8, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com Six-year-olds often times forget their own last names, but I remember Tuesday, September 11, 2001, like it was last week. I remember wearing my favorite jumper and my mother braiding my hair. I remember eating scrambled eggs off a yellow plate. And then I remember the radio anchor said, ‘Wow! Have [...]

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15 Food Companies That Serve You ‘Wood’

By doris | Published: July 7, 2011

Full Story at 15 TheStreet.com McDonald’s (MCD) uses cellulose in the following products:Fish Filet PattyMcRibPremium Caesar SaladChipotle BBQ Snack WrapPremium Southwest Salad with Grilled ChickenSouthern Style Chicken BiscuitStrawberry SundaeNatural Swiss Cheese (used in McRib, Quarter Pounder with Cheese, Angus Mushroom & Swiss, Premium Grilled Chicken Club Sandwich, Premium Crispy Chicken Club Sandwich, Angus Mushroom & [...]

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8 secrets about Disneyland

By doris | Published: July 2, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com From how to score a cocktail to where to scatter grandma’s ashes, this is your ticket to the real Magic Kingdom. 1. There are dead bodies in the Haunted Mansion The Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland is one of the scariest places in the park, but not for the reasons you’d [...]

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Not the brightest bulb

By doris | Published: June 25, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com Everywhere you look, people are telling you how to go green: Walk. Recycle. Compost. Turn off the water. Turn off the lights. But it looks like there’s one place in America that didn’t get the memo. The firehouse in Livermore, California has a light that’s been on for 110 years. (Yes, [...]

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Airbus soars over Boeing, saleswise, at air show

By doris | Published: June 23, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com LE BOURGET, France — Airbus is trouncing Boeing in the race to be the world’s biggest plane maker, claiming over $72 billion dollars worth of orders and commitments at the Paris Air Show, where the popularity of its new fuel-efficient jets twice broke records for the largest order ever. Airbus’ success [...]

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Meet Russia’s bearproof, floating 6-wheel truck

By doris | Published: May 22, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com In Siberia, a simple rainstorm can turn a road into not just mud but quicksand. Snow drifts close roads for months, and streams come and go. The vehicle of choice? The six-wheel Trekol, a two-ton amphibian with pillow-soft tires. The key to the Trekol‘s fortitude are its tires — engineered with [...]

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