It is a global not-for-profit group working in a federated structure of national organizations, under a Brussels headquarters.
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He's also founder of Protect Our Winters, an anti-global-warming group for which he dons a tie and lobbies Congress.
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"We'd be foolish to pretend that everything was going on as before, " said Peter Villani, a lawyer who works in the global mining group of Toronto-based Fasken Martineau.
The new real estate king is Jonathan Gray, the understated and media shy 42-year-old global head of real estate at the Blackstone Group.
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According to an Army report, the 19-year-old, from a hacker group the Army identified as Global Hell, changed some of the page's content and gained access to an unclassified network.
Recently, Universum, a global employer-branding group, released the findings from their annual Ideal Employer Student Survey.
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However, Dan Sontag, president of the global wealth management group at Merrill Lynch--now part of Bank of America--said in a press conference that the downturn is slowing and that the affluent are starting to spend yet again.
But Wiedemann, who founded the direct marketing unit of Grey Global Group (nasdaq: GREY - news - people ) and until a few months ago was running Responsys, a Silicon Valley online marketing firm, does the bidding of one of America's most implacable bosses: Chicago billionaire Samuel Zell .
The youngest newcomer is 40-year-old Ranjan Pai, credited with turning his Manipal Group into a global brand in education.
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Zap Mama has evolved over the years into a pan-global dance group, with Daulne's powerful vocals still in the lead.
The Global Good Challenge project is the brainchild of the Global Entrepreneurs Council, a group of successful under-40 entrepreneurs assembled to refresh the UN Foundation's image and find new ways to promote its programs by tapping into the social media set.
"Traditional recruitment processes, as they are understood in the West, only really started to be used in China after 1978, with the gradual liberalizing of China's economy, " said Mike Tims, the Asia, Middle East and Africa president at global human-resources consultancy SHL Group Ltd.
And most important of all, in terms of the health of British public life, a global audience witnessed a small cross-party group of Britain's elected representatives doing what they should have been doing for the last 30 years: holding the press, and Murdoch in particular, accountable for their actions rather than scurrying away like a bunch of frightened rabbits in the glare of News Corp.
The British group is already the third-biggest global gum seller, thanks to small acquisitions in Europe and China.
Dos Santos immediately spent much of the money on arms to fight rebels led by Jonas Savimbi, according to Global Witness , the London-based human rights group.
Manages six Gabelli group funds, including tech-laden Global Growth Fund.
In an attempt to make it harder for organised criminals to arm themselves, and in a nod to global counter-terrorist efforts, a group of ten eastern and central African countries, including Ethiopia, Rwanda and Uganda, which owe their liberation movements partly to the Kalashnikov, has agreed to harmonise gun laws.
Jefferies Group, an independent, full-service global securities and investment banking firm, surged 6.7% higher on Tuesday following reports of a much better than expected second quarter result.
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PlanetHospital is looking to work with Global Heart, a new Austin, Texas-based group that works with domestic and international hospitals to secure low prices for the uninsured.
Meanwhile, in the Asia-Pacific region, natural gas vehicle sales have grown at an average annual clip of 42% during the past decade, according to NGV Global, a trade group formed in 1986 to promote gas-friendly policies.
"The environmental issue is very much a strong driver of what's going on, and it's not just related to energy pricing, " says John Cavalier, the chairman of the global energy group at Credit Suisse (nyse: CSR - news - people ).
Avaaz is a global political action group, organizing petitions and campaigns on mostly left-of-center issues.
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Then there is the London-based TI Group, the global leader in making the tiny copper tubes found in brake systems and refrigeration components.
Of course, Asia-Pacific already had a publicly traded model for such a behemoth in Noble Group--No. 539 on the Global 2000 and home to the 2009 FORBES ASIA Businessman of the Year, its executive chairman, Richard Elman.
At the time cellular calls flitted from tower to tower under an electronic protocol later known as GSM (global system for mobile), a group effort whose three progenitors--Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola--had pooled their patents and didn't charge one another any royalties.
Increasingly, countries are dividing into one group that wants a new global treaty as soon as possible - the EU plus lots of developing countries - and another that prefers a delay and perhaps something less rigorous than a full treaty.
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"In 2010, we expect a two-speed global economy, " HSBC Holdings Group Chief Executive Michael Geoghegan said Monday in Hong Kong.
So DARA decided to shoot for the big leagues and out-ridiculous every alarmist global warming prediction the group had ever seen.
"It's a status quo document, I think, in virtually every respect, " said Bruce Blair, president of World Security Institute and co-coordinator of Global Zero, a disarmament group.
Tokyo had also invited the World Economic Forum, the Swiss-based group that brings together leading global companies and governments, to propose measures to address the global digital divide.
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