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Carnegie Corporation of New York
Carnegie Corporation of New York foundation established (1911) to administer Andrew Carnegie's remaining personal fortune for philanthropic purposes. Initially endowed with $125 million, the foundation received another $10 million from the residual estate. By 1999 its assets exceeded $1.5 billion.... Read more |
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multinational corporation
multinational corporation business enterprise with manufacturing, sales, or service subsidiaries in one or more foreign countries, also known as a transnational or international corporation. These corporations originated early in the 20th cent. and proliferated after World War II. Typically, a... Read more |
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Corporate taxes
O VERVIEW Extremes and Contradictions The 1990s was a decade of extremes and contradictions. Americans built bigger and more-elaborate homes and drove more-expensive automobiles, but then worked longer hours than before to pay for them. The stock market and executive... Read more |
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corporal punishment
corporal punishment physical chastisement of an offender. At one extreme it includes the death penalty (see capital punishment ), but the term usually refers to punishments like flogging, caning, mutilation, and branding. Until c.1800, in many parts of the world, most crimes were punished thus, or... Read more |
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Headway Corporate Resources Inc
Headway Corporate Resources, Inc. 850 Third Avenue11th FloorNew York, New York 10022U.S.A.Telephone: (212) 508-3560Fax: (212) 508-3589Web site: http://www.headway.com Public Company Incorporated: 1986 as Phoenix Capital CorporationEmployees: 10,500Sales: $360.7 million (1999)Stock Exchanges:... Read more |
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new towns
new towns planned urban communities in Great Britain, developed by long-term loans from the central government and first authorized by the New Towns Act of 1946. The chief purpose of the act was to reduce congestion in the great cities (or at least prevent its increase) through the creation of... Read more |
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New Deal
New Deal in U.S. history, term for the domestic reform program of the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt ; it was first used by Roosevelt in his speech accepting the Democratic party nomination for President in 1932. The New Deal is generally considered to have consisted of two phases. ... Read more |
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Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
PORT AUTHORITY OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY PORT AUTHORITY OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is a self-supporting, interstate, corporate organization of New York and New Jersey. It was created in 1921 to protect and promote the commerce of New York Harbor and... Read more |
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Republic New York Corp
Republic New York Corporation 452 Fifth AvenueNew York, New York 10018U.S.A.(212) 525-6100Fax: (212) 525-5569 Public CompanyIncorporated: 1973Employees: 4,900Total Assets: $39.49 billionStock Exchanges: New YorkSIC(s) : 6712 Bank Holding Companies; 6021 NationalCommercial Banks; 6036 Savings... Read more |
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New Plan Realty Trust
New Plan Realty Trust 1120 Avenue of the AmericasNew York, New York 10036U.S.A.(212) 869-3000Fax: (212) 302-4776 Public CompanyIncorporated: 1961 as New Plan Realty CorporationEmployees: 125Sales: $76.3 millionStock Exchanges: New York ChicagoSICs: 6798 Real Estate Investment Trusts The... Read more |
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New York State Club Association v. City of New York
...State Club Association v. City of New York, 487 U.S. 1 (1988...v. U.S. Jaycees (1984), New York's city council sought to define...Benevolent orders and religious corporations were excluded. The New York State Club Association... |
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new rules
new rules, regulations governing the composition of urban corporations introduced in 1672. The original aim...toleration (see restoration). Members of corporations were to take the oath of supremacy...Tory mayor on the predominantly Whig corporation of Dublin ... |
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Corporations
Corporations Corporation law has traditionally...Supreme Court on corporation law until recently...Delaware and New York. Nevertheless...the place of corporations in American society...influence on corporation law, due partly... |
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New Amsterdam Theatre
...helped establish 42nd Street as New York's principal theatrical...restored until 1992 when the Disney corporation bought it and started to renovate...fixtures, and ornamentation of the New Amsterdam, and the result was...King (1997) became its first new (and ... |
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NEW ZEALAND ENGLISH
...relatively few RP-speakers in New Zealand, a larger proportion...detectable.Features of General New Zealand include: (1) Such...A policy of the Broadcasting Corporation that words and place-names...and wharfs, and in spelling New Zealanders like ... |
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New Deal Era, The
...favor of experimentation with new government programs. In those...Democratic Congress.The First New Deal. Among the acts of 1933 were...relief; and the Home Owners Loan Corporation refinanced mortgages. A massive...works projects in the West, the New Deal ... |
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Graves v. New York Ex Rel. O'keefe
Graves v. New York Ex Rel. O'keefe, 306 U.S...was a tax on the source of that income. New York imposed an income tax on a New York resident employed by the Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation, who paid the tax and then appealed on... |
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corporations
corporations. A large number of economic activities...organizations, the precursors of modern corporations, proliferated with royal charters granted...beneficiaries. The appearance of the new stock brought opportunities for speculative... |
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Municipal Corporations Act
Municipal Corporations Act, 1835. A corollary to the 1832 parliamentary reform was local government...municipal institutions, if local ratepayers approved. The powers of the new councils were narrowly limited and few of them showed much inclination... |
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Winstar Corporation, United States v.
Winstar Corporation, United States v., 518 U.S. 839...to meet capital requirements under the new rules. The United States court of appeals held...waiving its sovereignty—it could enact new banking regulations and pay damages. Respecting... |
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New Deal
New Deal (USA) The term used to...the 1932 election. The First New Deal Program (1933–5) aimed...in May 1933. An independent corporation backed by federal funds, it built...the ‘first phase’ of the New Deal were complemented in 1935... |
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new working class
new working class A term associated...workers in large industrial corporations, possess the potential to assume...engineers’ are in some sense a new revolutionary vanguard may be found in...between labour and capital, the new working class transcends the... |
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virtual corporation
virtual corporation A company which is formed from...such as the development of a new plane. Virtual corporations formed from physically distant...but the most trivial virtual corporation without such technology. |
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decomposition of capital
...Kenneth Galbraith (The New Industrial State, 1967...the scale of production, corporations become increasingly capitalized...the ownership of the large corporation. The number of individuals...manufacturing, and other commercial corporations all own shares in ... |
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bourgeoisie
...Gardiner C. Means (The Modern Corporation and Private Property, 1932...apparent in larger American corporations during the 1930s, economic...1960s, when in his book The New Industrial State (1967) John...Galbraith, the rise of the modern corporation has ... |
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boroughs
...represented and of who was entitled to vote. In 1835 the Municipal Corporations Act dissolved the corporations of nearly 200 boroughs, and replaced them by councils elected by ratepayers. New places were incorporated as boroughs, such as Birmingham and... |
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Liechtenstein
...reorientation towards Switzerland. A new Constitution was passed in 1921, and it...becoming a low-tax zone for international corporations and banks; in the early 1990s, with...home to around 40,000 holdings and corporations. Under the progressive Duke Hans-Adam... |
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Reith, John, 1st Baron Reith
...40 years of the British Broadcasting Corporation. The son of a minister of the Free...advertisement for general manager of the new BBC and was appointed. Reith created...an austere, sober, and responsible corporation, with important educational and religious... |
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BBC
BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation). The first Brit. broadcasting...constituting the British Broadcasting Corporation, its revenue coming from licence...extended to the commissioning of new works and the sponsorship of important... |
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Corporate Venturing Scheme
...investing through the CVS may obtain corporation tax relief (at 20%) on the amount...losses on the shares and deferral of corporation tax when a chargeable gain from the disposal of CVS shares is reinvested in a new CVS investment. |
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lead
...5. detectives were following up a new lead synonyms: clue, hint, tip...someone, show someone the way. 2. our corporation is leading the way in new technologies synonyms: take the initiative, break (new) ground, blaze a trail, prepare... |
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house
house • noun 1. a new development with 200 houses synonyms: residence, home, place of...tree. 4. a printing house synonyms: firm, business, company, corporation, enterprise, establishment, institution, organization, operation... |
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branch
...synonyms: division, subdivision, section, subsection, subset, department, sector, part, side, wing. 4. the corporation's New York branch synonyms: office, bureau, agency; subsidiary, affiliate, offshoot, satellite. • verb 1. the... |
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EMINENT DOMAIN POWERS DEBATED NEW CORPORATION RAISES QUESTIONS EMINENT DOMAIN...
A proposal to create a new nonprofit corporation to help spur economic development...and that would be the case with the new corporation. "The days of the old...develop a regional bus facility and new commercial space. "It creates one... |
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The New Corporation Limited reports record results for second quarter and...
...S. consumption/ THE NEWS CORPORATION LIMITED REPORTS RECORD RESULTS...QUARTER AND FIRST HALFD RESULTS NEW YORK, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire...operating conditions for The New York Post. In addition, Twentieth...Limited ADRs are listed on the New York Stock Exchange ... |
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PLAN DETAILS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SPIN-OFF NEW CORPORATION WOULD BE FORMED.(NEWS)
...public hospital into a private corporation. Released today, the 100...for-profit corporation: A new, not-for-profit corporation...Hospital Inc. will be formed. The new corporation will have a seven...will lease the hospital ... |
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Adding Web retail operations: a double success: a retailer went to the Web...
...use tax issues, this new ruling illustrates how...had to decide whether a corporation, engaged in the retail...the acquisition of a new or different business...the acquisition of a new or different business...3(c), in which corporation X had ... |
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Oglethorpe Power Restructuring Moves Ahead With Transfer Of Assets To New...
...PRNewswire/ -- Oglethorpe Power Corporation has transferred more than...million in assets to one of two new operating companies created...designed to position the corporation for future competition...Georgia System Operations Corporation (GSOC) was approved ... |
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New corporation may use cash method even though first year's gross receipts...
A C corporation or a partnership with a C corporation partner may use the cash method (unless inventories are...tax year do not exceed $5 million. Accordingly, a C corporation or a partnership with a C corporation partner can never... |
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Regulators, industry leaders prepare plan for new corporation to manage FSLIC...
...Committee that would establish a new corporation to manage and dispose of the troubled...Connell said the league envisions the new corporation would be funded initially...initially own all of the stock of the new ... |
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POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT ; NEW CORPORATION CREATED BY THE STATE BRINGS A...
...Empire State Development Corp., New York State's development agency...Irene Elia calls creation of the new corporation "the best news our city has had in generations." She said the corporation will help encourage businesses... |
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CARCO and Calbag announce new corporation to install new reverb furnace.
...Co. announced today the formation of a new limited liability corporation which will now operate Columbia Aluminum...Rosenfeld said the first undertaking of the new partnership is the installation of a new reverberatory furnace at CARCO which will... |
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MCC BOARD APPROVES NEW CORPORATION TO COMMERCIALIZE MCC TECHNOLOGY
MCC BOARD APPROVES NEW CORPORATION TO COMMERCIALIZE MCC TECHNOLOGY AUSTIN...unanimously approved the creation of a new organization to commercialize MCC technology...by MCC and by other investors. The new corporation will have access to MCC... |
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