| June 26, 2003 | - The World Health Organization was consulting with corporations such as Coca-Cola, Pepsico, Nestle, and McDonald's in order to devise a plan to encourage consumers to eat healthy food, lose weight, and exercise more.
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New York Times
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| May 2, 2003 | -
Enron, MCI, and other companies that overstated their earnings in order to inflate the value of their stock were in the process of filing for hundreds of millions of dollars in tax refunds from the government on the profits they fraudulently claimed.
| Source:
Wall Street Journal
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| April 29, 2003 | -
Salomon Smith Barney, Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse First Boston, and several other firms agreed to a $1.4 billion settlement for fraudulently enticing millions of investors to buy billions of dollars' worth of stock they knew to be essentially worthless.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 7, 2001 | - A couple in New York was trying to sell naming rights to their newborn baby boy to a corporation for $500,000.
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| March 13, 2001 | - Browne & Williamson Tobacco Corporation paid $1,087,191 to a seventy-year-old former smoker in Jacksonville, Florida, who lost a lung to cancer.
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| November 28, 2000 | - A federal judge told Quadrtech Corporation that it could not escape to Mexico to avoid the Communications Workers of America, which the company said it would do one day after the union was certified to represent Quadrtech's workers, who are largely female and Mexican and who assemble cheap jewelry for a minimum wage.
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| November 28, 2000 | - Aventis Corporation,
which recently got into trouble over its StarLink genetically modified
corn, announced that the unapproved StarLink protein Cry9c had shown
up in non-genetically modified corn that will soon reach the nation's
food supply. The company had no explanation for how the protein, which
is the result of genetic engineering, made its way into normal corn;
biologists pointed out that it was probably the result of natural
hybridization between GM and non-GM corn planted too close together.
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| October 31, 2000 | - Montrose Chemical Corporation agreed to compensate
Californians for a gigantic DDT deposit just off the coast of Los Angeles, the result of thirty years of offshore dumping.
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| October 17, 2000 | - The director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press announced that media pundits are less influential than researchers had thought: “There is increasing evidence the American public has an ability to ignore what the pundits say.” Two hundred million gallons of coal sludge escaped from the Martin County Coal Corporation's coal preparation plant in Inez, Kentucky; the blob of sludge was spreading through the area at a rate of ten miles a day, killing
fish and wildlife as it oozed through woods and streams.
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| August 29, 2000 | -
China was engaged in a $7 million American public relations campaign; the traveling exhibits and displays were partially paid for by corporations that do business in China.
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| August 29, 2000 | - Czech President Vaclav Havel said that multinational corporations “should listen more to the voices of the people.” A woman was boiled to death in a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park.
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| August 1, 2000 | - Over fifty multinational corporations, many of whom have been criticized for using sweatshop and child
labor in poor countries, signed a global compact to end the use of sweatshop and child labor in poor countries.
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