Meanwhile these corporations rely heavily on bank loans rather stock market financing for their capital.
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These corporations and the people who ran them accumulated great wealth and political influence.
All of these corporations could have used those lost profits for U.S. jobs or expansion.
Yet few at the high echelons of these corporations have been held personally accountable.
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Not surprisingly these corporations expect a return on their investment, and they get it.
This makes any government action against these corporations too costly for the communities they serve and eventually non-enforceable.
These corporations have appeared on our list of America's Best Big Companies every year since its inception.
Complex and arcane tax laws are used to subsidize these corporations and obscure the true cost of energy.
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People could see themselves more easily taking these corporations on in real life.
This makes any government action against these corporations too costly for the communities they serve and eventually non-enforceable.
These corporations came to expect government to act on their behalf abroad, even to the extreme of overthrowing uncooperative foreign leaders.
Although, with a couple of exceptions, they are not the most heavily subsidised, these corporations have been chosen for what they symbolise.
Every one of these corporations now has a sustainability division whose job is to save money by moving toward renewables and efficiencies.
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These corporations tend to see Africa simply as the bottom of the supply chain rather than a market for serious, business-minded investments.
Some of these corporations are basically little more than pyramid schemes.
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Promises that American businesses made to workers that enabled some of these corporations to enjoy decades of monopolistic prosperity are now being unwound.
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When these corporations and wealthy Americans fail to pay up, who do you imagine is forced to bear the fiscal burdens in their place?
Why, these corporations don't pay a blessed dime of income tax.
Why was an effort to prevent bribery and corruption abroad so threatening to these corporations that they had to challenge the basic premise of public disclosures?
This means that investors in these corporations must be prepared for a rough ride, as austerity and deleveraging may depress demand and corporate earnings for quite some time.
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These corporations that have experienced considerable growth use roads, ports, airports, bridges, the court system which gets extensive use from business, police, fire, the UC system, water, sewage, etc.
"Well, the only lever we have in this is the fact that these corporations have come to the Congress of the United States and want a taxpayers' bailout, " Sen.
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If I recall computer engineers used to make 6 figures in the late 90s, then these corporations decided they could get a couple Indian guys to do it for 45k or less!
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Most Americans hold at least some of these companies in their retirement accounts and other investment portfolios, contributing to the funding capabilities of these corporations in a private sector venue that has typically been outside the scope of government oversight in Washington.
Not one single dollar is used by these large corporations to create one single new job.
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But these same corporations tend to be burdened by generations of procedural, political, and hierarchical dead weight.
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These allow corporations to pay a lower rate of tax on profits generated from UK-owned intellectual property.
Which raises the question: why did these large corporations invest and what did they get for their money?
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Only extreme unaccountability can explain the operation of these special corporations.
This means that whatever your image is of these giant corporations as great technical innovators, the closest analogy to IBM, SAP and Oracle is not Apple or Intel.
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