Beijing has shown no moral constraints in doing business with pariah states, he says.
Furthermore, corruption, despite experiencing a downturn, still remains a major component in doing business in several African countries.
Meanwhile, American components and satellites are suffering because of the cost and delays in doing business with the firms that make them.
Several businessmen testified that they showered Kilpatrick with trips, custom-made suits and jewelry because they wanted his help in doing business with the city.
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Slim's people showed some interest in doing business with them, but the idea went out the window when Grupo Carso and Grupo Sanborns bought Compusa in early 2000.
Alan Chen and David Beim, Professor of Professional Practice, Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School, asked me to teach a group of senior-level executives interested in doing business in China.
The feedback we are getting is that the decision to keep its PC business has given channel partners and end users relief and giving them comfort in doing business with HPQ again.
At that hearing, radical opponents of the oil and gas industry repeatedly harassed, shouted down and physically threatened a young lady who was attempting to speak on behalf of a company that is interested in doing business in the area.
And if these companies feel little shame in doing business with a brutal and dangerous regime, it falls to statesmen to do their job and put these companies to a choice by imposing sanctions that cut them off from lucrative markets in the U.S., Europe, Canada, Australia and elsewhere.
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Recently Cindy McCain, wife of Senator John McCain, announced that she was divesting the portion of her investment portfolio that was invested in companies doing business in Sudan.
And the ruling does not prohibit other measures, such as divestment by state pension funds in firms doing business in Myanmar, a move already being pushed by some Massachusetts legislators.
With a stroke of his pen, the Governator ordered the divestment of tens of billions of dollars previously invested by two of the country's largest public pension funds, CALPERS and CALSTERS, in companies doing business in Iran.
Such benefits of civility were scarcely visible in the rowdy Harvard students and others who forced cancelation of a university dinner for alumni at their university's recent 350th birthday celebration because they objected to the university's investments in companies doing business in South Africa.
My firm started out representing U.S. companies doing business in Russia or Korea, as well as Russian and Korean companies doing business in the U.S. Fairly soon after that, we were representing Korean-American and Russian-American businesses as well, mostly relating to their transactions with Russia and Korea.
The president and the Senate must satisfy themselves that his successor will play an active role at the SEC safeguarding not only U.S. national interests, but those of millions of Americans who may now, unwittingly, be assuming material risks to their livelihoods and pensions by investing in companies doing business with our enemies in the war on terror.
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Two recent examples underscore this reality of doing business in China and are clarion warning calls for those who plan on doing business there in the future or investing there as well.
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It put an end to investments on the part of that state's firefighters, police officers, National Guard personnel and other public employees in companies doing business with the Islamofascist and genocidal regime in Sudan.
Josh filed a bill in the current legislative session in Ohio to end that state's investments in foreign companies doing business in and with Iran.
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Following a 75% peso devaluation (and a major debt default) in 2002, doing business in Argentina became much cheaper in dollar terms--a big draw for U.S. companies.
All of these Americans advanced a single agenda: As long as South Africa has a policy of apartheid, our university endowment, state and local public pension systems or retirement portfolio will not invest in any company doing business in that country.
The real estate industry in general remains largely a face-to-face business in which consumers are still more comfortable doing business in the real world.
But entrepreneurs are still having to dole out cash--to the numerous bureaucrats involved in every aspect of doing business in Russia.
The other day I ran into an important U.S. official who pointed out that there's now something of a competition in a number of developing countries to see which one can improve most in the Doing Business annual survey.
"We cannot hope to prevail in this war unless and until we cut off the billions of dollars flowing to terrorist-sponsoring regimes from America's state pension funds via investments in companies doing business with such regimes, " said Frank J.
On Sunday night, 60 Minutes called the attention of its millions of American viewers to a dirty little secret: Just about everyone with a 401(k) pension plan or mutual fund has money invested in companies that are doing business in so-called rogue states.
Since its launch last August, the Center's Divest Terror initiative has been actively engaged in educating the American people and their leaders about the extent - and the financial, as well as strategic, implications - of the exposure U.S. institutional and individual investors have in companies doing business with terror-sponsoring states.
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It calls on all American investors to follow Louisiana's lead and, in so doing, to diminish this ominous contribution by divesting terror - thereby forcing the companies in question to choose between doing business in these countries and their standing in the U.S. capital markets.
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And they are also a company that had a lot of business in Iraq, and now they're doing business in the Gulf Coast as well.
This grants immunity for actions a foreign government takes when it is acting as a government, but not for actions taken when it is acting as, for example, a commercial enterprise, which might occur when the government in question owns a company doing business in the United States.
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