In many ways modern advertising has come a long way since tobacco companies first introduced modern techniques in the 1920s to create mass demand to match the new mass production methods.
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Israel is no longer calling men out of their farm fields and orchards to fight, as it did in 1967 and 1973, but more often pulling them away from computer terminals in modern, globally connected companies that can ill afford their absence.
Ueltschi made his fortune through Flightsafety International, one of the first companies to specialize in modern aviation training methods, during the largest growth years for the aviation industry.
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With modern bank holding companies engaged in both the securities business and the commercial banking business (at its core taking deposits and making loans), how are the regulators going to mesh these laws together in their regulatory activities?
Kilroy said the vacancies are largely in older buildings, while Kilroy is betting entertainment and media companies need more modern office space and that tenants want to work in unique environments like Columbia Square.
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But, in an interesting illustration of how modern campaigns by activists against companies can gather momentum, the top-tier companies now complain that lesser ones get away with poor labour practices, and so impede progress in the whole sector.
The argument comes down to this: In order to spend the money needed for a modern Internet, companies need regulatory certainty.
Moreover, while infectious-disease scares may be a permanent fixture in the modern world, they have not been kind to drug companies.
That law created the modern generic drug industry by inventing a system in which generic drug companies get six-month monopolies on a copycat pill if they can overturn one of Big Pharma's patents.
In the 1990s several big pharmaceutical firms, including Bayer AG of Germany, Eli Lilly and Pfizer, formed alliances with Chinese research institutes or companies that specialized in traditional Chinese medicines, aiming to apply modern drug-hunting techniques to screen Chinese herbal medicines for potential Western blockbusters.
In the 1990s several big pharmaceutical firms, including Bayer (nyse: BAY - news - people ) AG of Germany, Eli Lilly and Pfizer, formed alliances with Chinese research institutes or companies that specialized in traditional Chinese medicines, aiming to apply modern drug-hunting techniques to screen Chinese herbal medicines for potential Western blockbusters.
Even in the poorer parts of the world, people will increasingly have to pay their own way. (In fact, a far higher proportion of health spending already comes directly out of patients' pockets in poor countries than in rich ones.) And the drug companies, their discoveries safely protected by patents, are the principal source of innovation in modern medicine.
Following the market's heyday as a location for entertainment companies from the 1930s through the 1950s, many firms relocated to larger and more modern buildings in Burbank and elsewhere.
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Yes, he was one of the richest men in America, but compare his willingness to serve without compensation to the behavior of modern CEOs who take over troubled companies.
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