The argument that changing the rules to allow greater consolodated media control by a handful of corporate conglomerates is justified because the web provides recipricol diversity of view points is flawed. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It was from one of the better known media conglomerates from the country, asking us to delete some 19 posts on Mediaah! as also refrain from writing about it in future. ❋ Unknown (2005)
But veteran executives tend to be resistant to change, and the many factions found in Japanese conglomerates often slow decision making because of the value placed on consensus building. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Armstrong, Ellington and Basie managed to thrive during the Depression and segregation, but label conglomerates, ❋ Unknown (2008)
Examples of groups that French classifies as conglomerates are the Democratic Party, the US Congress, the US army, the Red Cross, university faculties and business corporations. ❋ Jones, Peter (2008)
But we hear rumors as well: that the conglomerates are the ones doing the threatening, both privately and openly. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Rapid water deposits large boulders and gravels called conglomerates and breccias. ❋ John Clayton Nils Jansma (2001)
It is not by chance that the record, in general, for companies that have chosen extreme diversification—so-called conglomerates—is not nearly as good as for those who chose less extreme forms.11 Nor is it accidental that many of the firms that got caught up in the extreme diversification craze during the late 1960s and early 1970s are now retrenching. ❋ John P. Kotter (1985)
Below, I've compiled some of the major dividend-paying players that Yahoo Finance classifies as conglomerates, ranked according to their dividend yields:
Other top officials, including former Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet, who steered Vietnam through many economic reforms in the 1990s, complain that Mr. Dung appears more interested in building Vietnam's state-owned enterprises into the kind of conglomerates that used to dominate South Korea before their unwieldy debt plunged that country into crisis in the 1990s. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He said the Num would challenge the "conglomerates" who refused to listen. ❋ Unknown (1999)
After having taken this general view of the three classes of erupted, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks of the earth's crust, it still remains for us to consider the fourth class, comprising 'conglomerates', or 'rocks of detrius'. ❋ Alexander Von Humboldt (1814)
'conglomerates', which are met with in enormous masses in both hemispheres, testifies the intensity of the force with which the erupted rocks have been propelled from the interior through the earth's crust. ❋ Alexander Von Humboldt (1814)
In what was widely viewed as a politicized campaign to punish publications that criticized the government, the Korean tax agency investigated twenty-three media conglomerates and ordered them to pay multimillion-dollar fines. ❋ Daniel Treisman (2011)
