The laissez-faire economic model of the United States has led to a corporate cronyism where the top companies are allowed a large amount of freedom to police themselves and their own governance standards for things like executive pay, performance, and general corporate responsibility.
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At a time when peace is failing in many societies, UNESCO Director-General stressed the responsibility of all to defend human dignity by promoting quality education for all, building bridges of dialogue for respect and tolerance, and giving all individuals the capacity to fulfil their aspirations.
Mr Drakeford said the government would back the Conservative motion relating to responsibility in general.
Colombia's airforce chief, General Manuel Sandoval, took responsibility and resigned.
Instead, the administration relies on its own notions of its legal authority (courtesy of the White House counsel and the attorney general) and invokes its responsibility for protecting American lives.
The Justice Department's inspector general and its Office of Professional Responsibility have been conducting the investigation for more than a year, holding hundreds of hours of interviews and examining tens of thousands of pages of documents.
Mr Loughton said the Savile case and cases of gangs sexually exploiting children had given the issue its highest ever media profile, but the issue was losing out to other priorities in the Department for Education, which also has overall responsibility for children in general.
The director general, George Entwistle, has taken responsibility and resigned (though he has also taken an unsuitably large pay-off).
There are suggestions that the current NATO row is overblown and that the alliance's secretary-general, George Robertson, bears some responsibility for the fiasco.
Congress' watchdog agency, the General Accounting Office, called for consolidating government responsibility for food safety under one agency.
The Secretary-General said the international community also recognized the responsibility of the Afghan authorities to take the difficult decisions that were essential for good governance.
In addition to general oversight, the board's other key responsibility is to establish salary and other compensation levels for the key officers at rates that are in some way tied to performance.
The UN secretary general has reminded the leaders of Kenya of their moral responsibility.
And while a generous donation by an investment bank might not make the general public swoon, it can demonstrate a sense of ethical responsibility to its client base.
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And when social impact, responsibility and philanthropy come into the picture, was the general consensus, these answers begin to change.
On a related note, the Secretary-General is also exploring ways to strengthen United Nations efforts on the responsibility to protect, which may include the appointment of a separate adviser.
Over five years, the London salary rocketed, as did the responsibility, but something was gnawing at my conscience, a general sense of unease.
Mr Collier was said to have tried to deflect responsibility for the death on to others, and had a general disregard for health and safety matters.
If the responsibility for top pay spreads from the boardroom to the annual general meeting, will shareholders accept the arguments made by Lord Stevenson and others?
John Foss, commanding general, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (who had responsibility for U.S. forces in the Sinai).
There is a general consensus in the world of business that companies must engage in corporate social responsibility in giving back to their communities and their consumers.
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This would take over responsibility for prosecuting and for the police from the discredited attorney-general's office, which would be abolished, and the Interior Ministry (which runs some police units).
In general, employers conduct these checks for job seekers applying for positions with financial responsibility, for senior executive positions, and for those positions with access to highly confidential employee information, according to the report.
But Eric Ngaha, general manager of Union Sportive Douala, said his colleagues must share their burden of the responsibility for the problems in the league.
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"The NUT will not accept unqualified people having responsibility for whole class teaching as currently proposed by the government, " said general secretary Doug McAvoy in response to the ministerial speech.
One of the big employers at the event, Adrian Clark from Legal and General in Cardiff, which employs 1600 people, said there also has to be a responsibility on employers to provide training.
McCaffrey, who resigned Thursday as a four-star Army general, added that the term "war on drugs" is inadequate to describe his new responsibility.
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Opening the meeting, the League's Secretary General, Nabil al-Arabi, said the failure of international diplomacy had put a special responsibility on the league.
Back in the old days, when someone screwed up at General Motors, they usually were reassigned to a job with a big title and very little responsibility.
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Be the general and make sure there is a clear authority in the beachhead phase with full rights and responsibility to exploit opportunities as they arise and to guide the business through to the break-even point.
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