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United Nations Command Military Armistice Commission United Nations Command Military Armistice Commission
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insider trading insider trading
insider trading stock market transactions made with knowledge of nonpublic information about corporate activity. In the United States, it has been illegal since 1934. The Securities and Exchange Commission regards it as unfair to investors who are not privy to such information. Several insider... Read more
Mass media industry Mass media industry
FCC (United States Federal Communications Commission) ¦ STEPHANIE WATSON The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), an independent government agency, oversees the media and communications industries in the United States. Included under the FCC's jurisdiction are radio, ... Read more
Municipal Corp.s Act Municipal Corp.s Act
Municipal Corporations Act, 1835. A corollary to the 1832 parliamentary reform was local government reform. As with the Poor Law, the Whigs prepared the way with a royal commission to investigate the existing municipalities. This apparent willingness to precede reform by systematic inquiry was less... Read more
George Woodward Wickersham George Woodward Wickersham
George Woodward Wickersham 1858-1936, American lawyer and government official, b. Pittsburgh. He began law practice in Philadelphia, and after moving (1882) to New York City, he became a prominent corporation lawyer. As U.S. Attorney General (1909-13) under President Taft, he successfully... Read more
Dawes Commission Dawes Commission
Dawes Commission commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, created by the U.S. Congress in 1893 under the Dawes Act with H. L. Dawes as chairman. Its aim was the reorganization of the Indian Territory by securing the assent of the chiefs to the extinguishing of tribal land titles and by allotting... Read more
Cone Mills Corp Cone Mills Corp
Cone Mills Corporation 1201 Maple StreetGreensboro, North Carolina 27405U.S.A.(919) 379-6220Fax: (919) 379-6832 Public Company Incorporated: 1891 as the Cone Export and Commission CompanyEmployees: 7,800Sales: $705.4 millionStock Exchanges: New YorkSICs: 2211 Broadwoven Fabric Mills Read more

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royal commissions
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History royal commissions. Though there was an...early examples of royal commissions. In neither case were they...social questions, royal commissions multiplied—11 in the...1834), municipal corporations (1835), employment...
Federal Trade Commission
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History Federal Trade Commission (FTC), an independent federal...of an earlier Bureau of Corporations and became the administrator...of America's regulatory commissions. It showed political staying...Interest: The Federal Trade Commission in Theory and ...
Municipal Corporations Act
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History Municipal Corporations Act, 1835. A corollary to the 1832...Whigs prepared the way with a royal commission to investigate the existing municipalities...paid post as secretary to the royal commission went to the government's principal...
McConnell v. Federal Election Commission
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States McConnell v. Federal Election Commission, 540 U.S. 93 (2003), argued 8 Sept. 2003, decided 10...is not speech (it is by association); and (3) speech by corporations can be abridged (it cannot). Moreover, Congress had no...
Municipal and County Governments
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...Englanders eschewed the municipal corporation, and none of the commercial...government. The closed corporation disappeared, and in all...finally accepted the municipal corporation, with six communities in...residents, became municipal corporations and ...
Challenger Disaster
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...Rogers to head a scientific commission to investigate the explosion. The commission's report, issued two...fireball. The Rogers Commission also discovered that NASA...Thiokol and the Rockwell Corporation on the evening of 27...
Radio
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...imperative, and the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was founded...Operated by the Westinghouse Corporation to encourage purchase of...established a Federal Radio Commission (FRC) to license and...the Federal Communications Commission (FCC, created in 1934 ...
Canals and Waterways
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...typically semipublic stock corporations supported by state and municipal...suspended federal aid to canal corporations. From 1815 to 1861 the total...called the Mississippi River Commission. In 1902, Congress extended...Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ...
mass media
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...British Broadcasting Corporation, and commercial ‘independent...the Press Complaints Commission); broadcasting control...Independent Television Commission), the Radio Authority...Broadcasting Complaints Commission, and the Broadcasting...
Granger Laws
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...and industrial society.The railroad corporations either ignored the Granger Laws or fought...the Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Commission (the agency established to administer...the newly created Interstate Commerce Commission, the nation's first independent regulatory...

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James VII
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...on its subjects. The Ecclesiastical Commission, set up to discipline Anglican clergy...government, army, law, professions, and corporations, seemed to indicate such an intention...deputies in the counties and the urban corporations.Some Whig and Tory notables established...
CEC
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations CEC California Energy Commission• Canadian Electrical Code (of standardization...cation exchange capacity• Church Education Corporation• Civil Engineering Corps• Clothing Export Council• Commission of the European Communities• Commonwealth...
AEC
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations ...Associated Equipment Company• Association of Education Committees• (USA) Atomic Energy Commission• (South Africa) Atomic Energy Corporation• (USA) Atomic Energy Council• Photog. automatic exposure control
HMC
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations HMC Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference• Her (or His) Majesty's Customs• Historical Manuscripts Commission• Horticultural Marketing Council• Hospital Management Committee• Household Mortgage Corporation
Hoover, Herbert Clark
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ...of relief initiatives (such as the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the earlier Federal Farm Board) left millions unemployed...executive branch of government, resulting in two Hoover Commission reports (1949 and 1955), many of whose recommendations...
common carrier
Book article from: A Dictionary of Computing common carrier In the US, a private business or corporation that offers to the public general communication services...carriers are regulated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and all services offered must charge according...
Roosevelt, Theodore
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ...In 1887 he became chairman of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, where he continued to emphasize merit as the basis for...condemning them as lackeys of the wealthy and by claiming that corporations were purchasing favors from politicians. In 1912, having...
Schlesinger, James R.
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ...Economy of National Security, and in 1963 he joined the RAND Corporation as director of strategic studies. In 1969 he became assistant...Budget); he later served as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission before being named director of the Central Intelligence Agency...
BPC
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations BPC Book Prices Current• British Pharmaceutical Codex• British Pharmacopoeia Commission• British Printing Corporation• British Productivity Council• (USA) Business and Professional Code• Chem. butyl pyridium chloride
entrepreneur
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...into employees whose earnings depend heavily on bonus and commission payments, or other incentive payments—such as sales personnel...of monopoly capitalism and the rise of the modern business corporation. However, the American economic sociologist Ronald S...

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council
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...local government, administration, executive, chamber, assembly, corporation. 2. the Student Council synonyms: advisory body, board, committee, brain trust, commission, assembly, panel; synod, convocation. 3. that evening, she...

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HENKEL CORPORATION COMMISSIONS FATTY ALCOHOL PLANT
PR Newswire HENKEL CORPORATION COMMISSIONS FATTY ALCOHOL PLANT CINCINNATI, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Henkel Corporation today announced that it has initiated...sources," said Fluke. Henkel Corporation, the Specialist in Applied Chemistry...
MANNESMANN DEMAG CORPORATION COMMISSIONS LADLE METALLURGY AND CONTINUOUS...
PR Newswire MANNESMANN DEMAG CORPORATION COMMISSIONS LADLE METALLURGY AND CONTINUOUS...turnkey basis by Mannesmann Demag Corporation of Pittsburgh, in conjunction...processing costs. Mannesmann Demag Corporation assumed direct turnkey responsibility...
Nevada Goldfields Corporation commissions second mine in Nevada in 1987;...
PR Newswire NEVADA GOLDFIELDS CORPORATION COMMISSIONS SECOND MINE IN NEVADA IN 1987...PRNewswire/ -- Nevada Goldfields Corporation (VSE, TORONTO: NGF) today...officer of Nevada Goldfields Corporation, the $5.1 million project...
Swedish Space Corporation commissions ECAPS to develop environmentally...
M2 Presswire M2 PRESSWIRE-2 May 2001-VOLVO: Swedish Space Corporation commissions ECAPS to develop environmentally friendly rocket fuel (C)1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:02052001 ECAPS has now received...
Power line cost pits lawmakers vs. Arizona Corporation Commission
Newspaper article from: Arizona Capitol Times The Arizona Corporation Commission decided three years ago...The Legislature and the Corporation Commission have been engaged...including Allen, say the Corporation Commission has overstepped...Constitution says (the ...
Funding shortage plagues Arizona Corporation Commission; Tucson office to close
Newspaper article from: Arizona Capitol Times The Arizona Corporation Commission voted on Oct...shut down the Corporations Division office...Kris Mayes, the commission's chairwoman...money to the Corporations Division from...changes that the Corporation ...
Arizona Corporation Commission takes $3 million hit and anticipates more cuts
Newspaper article from: Arizona Capitol Times ...discuss the Corporation Commission's obligations and expenses...to do." The Arizona Corporation Commission has three primary responsibilities: The Corporation Division maintains the public records of corporations; the ...
ARIZONA CORPORATION COMMISSION ISSUES UTILITIES DIVISION SPECIAL AGENDA FOR...
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News The Arizona Corporation Commission issued the following utilities...noticed herein. The Arizona Corporation Commission does not discriminate...of Pinnacle West Capital Corporation's Stock - Chairman Gleason...Commissioner Mayes 9. Qwest ...
Arizona Corporation Commission Candidates to Debate Issues Important to...
PR Newswire ...members of the Arizona Corporation Commission. The debates will be...members of the Arizona Corporation Commission. While the Corporation Commission is little...watchdogs that oversee our corporations and ...
KANSAS CORPORATION COMMISSION TO HOLD PUBLIC HEARING ON WESTAR ENERGY'S...
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News The Kansas Corporation Commission issued the following press release: The Kansas Corporation Commission (Commission) will...technical hearing contact the Kansas Corporation Commission's Office of Public ...

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