Fairtrade USA left Fairtrade International in 2011, and other groups such as Equal Exchange have expanded consumer options for more fairly traded products.
The prince's Kingdom Holding Company, whose shares are traded on the Saudi stock exchange, owns stakes in hotel groups including Four Seasons and Fairmont Raffles and is a part-owner of the Savoy Hotel in London.
Individually and through trade groups and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the industry is bent on shutting down existing publicly-owned broadband systems and blocking the development of new ones.
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Welfare groups say that the American Legislative Exchange Council is the moving force behind these laws.
Heavy interventions in the foreign-exchange markets always raise a stink at the groups, forums and committees where Japan's policymakers come face to face with their American counterparts.
By contrast, workers in groups with a lower frequency of favor exchange were only more productive when they received more favors than they gave.
And it can create conversations between wildly different groups of people: Witness this exchange between Canadian rapper Drake and the billionaire oil tycoon T.
Despite opposition from the Motion Picture Association of America and other movie groups, Media Derivatives counters that Trend Exchange will help smaller studios attract investor dollars by providing a way to offset the risk.
Parties usually deal with interest groups by giving them what they want in exchange for money and votes.
Such groups contend that internet advertising is a fair exchange, but the targeting of advertisement based on the browsing pattern of a machine is too much.
As technological progress allows the exchange of goods and ideas over longer distances and among larger groups of trading partners, other people become more valuable alive than dead.
Green groups are drawing that conclusion following a bizarre "Yes Minister" exchange I've had on the issue with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
He reminisces about how all the pop groups back in the day would play short riffs to one another and exchange ideas.
In exchange, Indonesia repeated its pledges to reform its economy and to get tough with the militia groups operating in West Timor.
Whether the means involve Federal Election Commission disclosure requirements, Securities and Exchange Commission rules on shareholder resolutions, or simply tagging those with opposing views as "hate groups, " the object is clear: to limit debate by forcing one side off the playing field.
The profile that users create for themselves, the information exchange they take part in, the pages they view, the comments they make, the groups they join, the videos they watch and the links they access, all generate heaps of data that can be analyzed to create a detailed individual character profile.
Regulators, politicians and industry groups are now poring over ways to improve the calculation of such rates (see Free Exchange).
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