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If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
Author:
Howard Zinn
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I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.
Author:
Thom Yorke
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And it's one reason why I don't go to a lot of movies - they're more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as opposed to cinematic concerns.
Author:
Jeffrey Wright
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
Author:
Malcolm Wilson
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Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.
Author:
Ellen Willis
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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
Author:
Gore Vidal
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I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.
Author:
Bennie Thompson
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Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their officers. Strangely enough, when the President was a corporate officer, he took out several loans from the company.
Author:
Bennie Thompson
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We should not allow wealthy people, including corporate criminals, to hide their assets and avoid paying their bills.
Author:
James Talent
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The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases.
Author:
David Suzuki
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The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.
Author:
Richard Stengel
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You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.
Author:
Stephen Sondheim
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Pulling the plug on the BlackBerry could cost corporate America millions of dollars. The BlackBerry is more than e-mail but a handheld office, and if you shut down the BlackBerry, you shut off the data that powers American business.
Author:
Al Smith
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We try and stay out of the corporate side of it. The band has never compromised. At some point in our career we could have made a certain type of record and sold millions of units, as they are called.
Author:
Adrian Smith
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It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed.
Author:
Bill Sienkiewicz
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And so I'm still giving some thought - I will transition hopefully into the corporate world. And I look forward to getting involved in several other areas that I have a great interest in.
Author:
Hugh Shelton
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Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First Amendment veil in order to exploit children for the sake of corporate profit.
Author:
Connie Sellecca
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You grow up a lot in terms of your understanding of the industry and how to deal with the corporate things.
Author:
Dougray Scott
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There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about.
Author:
Justin Sane
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Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.
Author:
David Rockefeller
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Many athletes competing in Atlanta wouldn't be here if it weren't for corporate support.
Author:
Mary Retton
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Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.
Author:
Robert Redford
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Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.
Author:
Eric Raymond
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Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own red pencil, trying to reach a consensus on every word.
Author:
Jon Postel
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We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.
Author:
River Phoenix
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Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles.
Author:
William Petersen
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There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.
Author:
Steve Odland
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I think independent movies are actually very challenging right now, because it was this huge scene and it was great for a few years. Then, it was totally co-opted by the studios. Now, it's become very corporate, the independent scene.
Author:
Bob Odenkirk
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I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.
Author:
Don Nickles
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Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda.
Author:
Richard Neal
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The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
Author:
Ralph Nader
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The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.
Author:
Ralph Nader
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Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.
Author:
Benito Mussolini
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Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.
Author:
Benito Mussolini
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Sometimes things just click. The one contribution I tried to do, was shield the staff from the corporate politics that occur on any show. But yes, we all got along very well.
Author:
Joe Murray
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The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America.
Author:
Robert Mueller
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America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.
Author:
Bill Moyers
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My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.
Author:
Merton Miller
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Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.
Author:
Marty Meehan
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Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media?
Author:
Robert McChesney
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Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth.
Author:
Marlee Matlin
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They will open up to what I would call corporate broadcastings where the non-commercial material will have air time. There's no possibility of that here right now, none.
Author:
Ann Macbeth
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Even now it is no longer composed of the traditional political class, but of a composite layer of corporate leaders, high-level administrators, and the heads of the major professional, labor, political, and religious organisations.
Author:
Jean-Francois Lyotard
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So often corporate America, business America, are the worst communicators, because all they understand are facts, and they cannot tell a story. They know how to explain their quarterly results, but they don't know how to explain what they mean.
Author:
Frank Luntz
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I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before.
Author:
Frank Luntz
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I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to.
Author:
Frank Luntz
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The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.
Author:
Kenny Loggins
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In corporate levels, it's all about tailoring your shirt and which tennis club you belong to and which watch you are wearing and what did you shoot last week?
Author:
Ron Livingston
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The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves.
Author:
John Lewis
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This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corporate and identified with corporate interests that you can't tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans.
Author:
Dennis Kucinich
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I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners.
Author:
Henry Kravis
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If we can just take a few companies, and use those as models, as examples, to show the rest of corporate America how they can become more competitive, that's what I'd like to do and that's what I hope to do.
Author:
Henry Kravis
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The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters.
Author:
Henry Kravis
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The corporate outings were fun, but after doing them for 25 years, they got to be a little old hat.
Author:
Tom Kite
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When we give a subsidy, the benefits to the public ought to exceed the benefits to the company. When it doesn't, that's our definition of corporate welfare.
Author:
John Kasich
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Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world.
Author:
Rosabeth Kanter
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In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.
Author:
Elena Kagan
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The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas.
Author:
Fredric Jameson
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An illustration I use to get people to understand it is this: I'll ask major corporate audiences: Why don't you just take all your traditional beliefs about organizations, and apply them to the neurons in your brain?
Author:
Dee Hock
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What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld.
Author:
Jim Hightower
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Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.
Author:
Bruce Henderson
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I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.
Author:
Barbara Harrison
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We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs.
Author:
Stephen Harper
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And then of course, obviously as far as issues such as global warming, something has to be done on the corporate side, there has to be some mandate or some legislation.
Author:
Daryl Hannah
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Most people see through these issues but the corporate media doesn't reflect these sentiments.
Author:
John Hall
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There's one political party in this country, and that's the corporate party.
Author:
John Hall
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In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.
Author:
John Grierson
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The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.
Author:
John Grierson
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Pixar is going in the direction of the early Disney. And it's also corporate, where they have four or five projects in the works. I don't want to get into that subject.
Author:
Joe Grant
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For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.
Author:
Paul Graham
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If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.
Author:
Austan Goolsbee
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Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.
Author:
Amy Goodman
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I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted. We have zero tolerance for corporate fraud, but we also recognize the importance of avoiding collateral consequences whenever possible.
Author:
Alberto Gonzales
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I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.
Author:
Todd Gitlin
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There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.
Author:
Michael Gartner
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Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and allocating investment funds among firms.
Author:
Toshihiko Fukui
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And it would be fair. Everyone will pay the same tax and it will eliminate tax cheaters and corporate shenanigans.
Author:
Steve Forbes
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Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.
Author:
Larry Elder
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I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.
Author:
Phil Donahue
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Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act.
Author:
Christopher Dawson
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When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.'
Author:
Mitch Daniels
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CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything.
Author:
Evan Dando
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Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on.
Author:
Evan Dando
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The corporate killer downsizing is directly responsive to what the mutual funds have wanted.
Author:
Jim Cramer
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Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.
Author:
Peter Coyote
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What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
Author:
Barry Commoner
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The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
Author:
Barry Commoner
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Did you know that they introduced the 15 percent flat tax on individual and corporate income in Iraq? Something that some politicians very much wanted to push in the United States without success but in Iraq they do it.
Author:
Juan Cole
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I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.
Author:
Lee Child
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Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.
Author:
Linda Chavez
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That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.
Author:
Dana Carvey
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In a perfect world we would bring corporate tax rates down to 25% or less so we can get competitive in the world economy. Ultimately, I would love to see a flat tax.
Author:
Eric Cantor
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I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career.
Author:
Herman Cain
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Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.
Author:
Tammy Bruce
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Just tasking a team to be creative won't get you to be innovative. It's having a corporate climate that gives people the space to experiment and take risks. Only then can you truly sustain it.
Author:
Steve Brown
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This year, we are going to take our government out of the hands of corporate special interests and put it back into the hands of Ohio families - where it belongs.
Author:
Sherrod Brown
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I'm disappointed that Senator DeWine once again chose to go along with his party leaders and their big corporate lobbyist supporters. Ohio deserves a Senator who will be more than a rubber stamp.
Author:
Sherrod Brown
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I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit.
Author:
Lisa Bonet
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I had found myself a new mission - and once more my recurring dilemma between corporate commercial needs and personal scientific ambitions was solved unexpectedly.
Author:
James Black
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In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.
Author:
Carol Bellamy
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In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world's children.
Author:
Carol Bellamy
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Corporate partners help UNICEF fund our programmes for children, advocate with us on their behalf, or facilitate our work through logistical, technical, research or supply support.
Author:
Carol Bellamy
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But in this Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility.
Author:
Melissa Bean
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The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.
Author:
Peter Bart
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People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.
Author:
Laurie Anderson
