ex-role: model of ethics For the gurus of socially responsible investing‚ what lessons from a tarnished star? * * * * * * * * By Laurent Belsie‚ Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor / March 4‚ 2002 Perhaps the ultimate irony about Enron Corp. is how it charmed ethical investors‚ even the pros‚ for so long. The Houston-based energy giant not only said the right things‚ it also invested in solar energy‚ addressed questionable labor practices at overseas
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Rifleman Dodd is about a green-coated British infantry rifleman in the Napoleonic Wars‚ an age when rifles were a novelty and most of the army was red-coated and carried muskets. Private Matthew Dodd gets separated from his regiment during a retreat and finds himself stranded behind enemy (French) lines in Portugal. With the occasional aid of some natives‚ but mostly on his own‚ he harasses the French with his rifle and tries to prevent them from building a bridge across the Tagus River. It’s a remarkable
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Against this background‚ the question how a manager should act with regards to the owner of a company and the employees of a company is quite important. A possible answer to this question can be discussed in the stockholder vs. stakeholder debate. Although there are reasonable arguments for both – the stockholder and the stakeholder theory - I will use this paper to show that the stakeholder approach is superior and should be used for business in companies. To reach my conclusion‚ I structured the
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The Human Right Act 1998 is an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom which received Royal Assent on 9 November 1998‚ and mostly came into force on 2 October 2000.It’s aim is to “give further effect” in UK law to the right contained in the European Convention on Human Right. The Act makes available in UK courts a remedy for breach of a Convention right‚ without the need to go to the European Court of Human Right in Strasbourg. It also totally abolished the death penalty in UK law although this was
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George retain an interest in the property? Does George retain a legal interest or an equitable interest? Or is George a licencee at best? It is clear-cut that George has no legal interest in the property as his name is not on the title deed since the house is registered in Rose and Paul’s joint names. Now that Rose has died‚ the title deed of the house vests solely in Paul’s name as the Right of Survivorship (‘Jus Accresendi’) applies. Since George does not retain a legal interest in the property
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Hengxuan Chi Academic Writing( Fall 2 2011) Research Paper Assignment 5/12/2011 She Slapped Him: Abused Men Joe S’s wife slapped his face and scratched him when she got into trouble with money. However‚ Joe never hit back because he just thinks a man cannot hit a woman. Jeff W. was hit by his wife several times. When he first met this problem‚ he thought this may be a onetime thing. Steve J. had 12 years of married life. Unfortunately‚ his wife would push him into a wall and throw glass
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EXECUTIVE BUSINESS COMMUNICATION ASSIGNMENT SUBMITTED BY‚ SHANTHI KRISHNA MBA ‘A’ WHEN THE PRESENT MEETS THE FUTURE Let’s start it from the famous quote of Khuswant Singh‚ “A bad government is a government elected by good people who do not vote” And‚ as far as all the elections fought in independent India‚ statistics reveal that youths constitute the major part (more than 57%) of the people who do not vote. If the people‚ who have education‚ mental ability to understand government policies
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Executive Summary The Indian Government‚ to promote transparency and accountability in the administration processes‚ brought into force the Right to Information Act on October 12th‚ 2005. As per the Parliament of India‚ the purpose of the RTI Act is ‘to provide for setting out the practical regime of right to information for citizens’[i]. The Act applies to all the states and union territories of India‚ except Jammu and Kashmir. The Act is applicable to all constitutional authorities – any
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* Human rights act (1998) * Disability discrimination act(1995) * Sex discrimination act (1975) * Protection of children act(1999) * Health and safety at work act (1974) * (COSHH) control of substances hazardous to health regulations(2002) * Data protection act (1998) Human rights act(1998)-human right gives you the right to live to certain freedoms on what you can say and do anyone in uk has to respect theses rules cannot be gone against as its a law. Human right gives you
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Sections of the mental health act * Definitions * Section 1 of the mental health act 1983 was amended in 2007. This section of the act defines a mental disorder as ’any disorder or disability of mind ’ it goes on to state that a “learning disability” is define as a state of arrested or incomplete development of the mind which also includes impairment of intelligence and social functioning (MHOL‚ 2010). For the purpose of the act a person who has a learning disability is not considered
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