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| | Advocacy group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | An advocacy group, interest group or lobbying group is a group, however loosely or tightly organized, doing advocacy: those determined to encourage or prevent changes in public policy without trying to be elected. | | | Some hold that only groups with members (for instance, Common Cause or the National Rifle Association) are interest groups. | | | Others feel that interest groups are any non-government groups that try to affect policy. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interest_group
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| | Civic Journalism Interest Group |
| | Here are the results of the vote on the proposal to change the name of the Civic Journalism Interest Group to the Civic and Citizen Journalism Interest Group. | | | The Civic Journalism Interest Group held its annual business meeting at the AEJMC convention in San Antonio on Aug. 11, 2005. | | | The Civic Journalism Interest Group is part of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. |
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http://www.has.vcu.edu/civic-journalism
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| | Briefing Package for Security Interest Group |
| | This Interest Group does not expect to depend on any pre-existing intellectual property, although members and W3C staff are free to discuss their own property under the usual rules for public disclosure. | | | The purpose of the Interest Group is to act as an information interchange mechanism among its participants. | | | The Interest Group is an advisory group to the W3C Staff and is intended to be an effective means of advising W3C on future activities in this area. |
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http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/users/jmiller/securityig.htm
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| | WebWire® ING agrees to sell interest in German private equity partnership |
| | ING Group has reached an agreement to sell its 100% interest in its German private equity fund Steadfast Capital Beteiligungen I, which is managed by Steadfast Capital, formerly known as BHF Private Equity. | | | INGs interest will be purchased by a Consortium led by AXA Private Equity as adviser of AXA Secondary Fund III, and including Paul Capital Partners and Credit Suisse First Boston Strategic Partners. | | | ING is a global financial institution of Dutch origin offering banking, insurance and asset management to over 60 million private, corporate and institutional clients in more than 50 countries. |
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http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=7285
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| | Pearson plc 1999 Annual Report |
| | On that pro forma basis, a 1% change in the Group’s variable rate US dollar, euro and sterling interest rates would have a £4m effect on its profit before tax. | | | On a pro forma basis, taking into account the disposal of the Group’s interests in the Lazard houses, that ratio was 74%. | | | interest rate risk : The Group’s exposure to interest rate fluctuations on its borrowings is managed by borrowing on a fixed rate basis and by entering into interest rate swaps, interest rate caps and forward rate agreements. |
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http://www.pearson.com/investor/ar1999/policy.htm
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| | The DIRECTV Group Announces Second Quarter 2004 Results |
| | The DIRECTV Group reported a second quarter 2004 net loss of $13 million compared to net income of $22 million in the same period of 2003 primarily due to the larger operating loss, partially offset in 2004 by lower interest expense as well as a tax benefit related to the loss from continuing operations. | | | On June 8, 2004, The DIRECTV Group announced the sale of its interest in Hughes Software Systems (HSS), a 55%-owned subsidiary of HNS, for approximately $227 million in cash, which was received in the second quarter. | | | The DIRECTV Group expects to record a pre-tax gain of $178 million at the close of the transaction which is expected in the third quarter of this year. |
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http://www2.cdn-news.com/newsnet/2004/08/05/0805057n.html
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| | Swire Properties Ltd v HKSAR [CFA] |
| | For, as we shall see in greater detail in due course, the Arbitrator declared that Swires were liable to pay premium and premium interest to the Government. | | | This clause provides that Swires would be obliged to pay premium and premium interest to the Government if the commercial gfa built on the Land exceeded any restriction which had been in force and effect immediately prior to the development which exceeds that restriction. | | | But in their pleadings Swires admit the paragraph in the Government's pleadings which avers that it was on behalf of those other companies as well as on its own behalf that Swire Properties Ltd covenanted and undertook as it did under the Deed and Undertaking. |
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http://www.ipsofactoj.com/international/2004/Part02/int2004(2)-006.htm
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| | STT Pressi.com |
| | The increase in the nominal value of the Groups bond debt following last years debt refinancing and the consequent reduction in coupon rates will result in an exceptional non-cash loss and reduced interest expense in the Groups UK GAAP accounts for the year ending 31 March 2005, as previously announced. | | | Land Securities uses interest rate derivatives to manage its interest rate exposure. | | | Land Securities will make full provision on its balance sheet for the latent tax on capital gains arising from the revaluation of its investment properties, regardless of whether these liabilities are expected to crystallise. |
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http://www.pressi.com/gb/release/94593.html
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| | Stanley Leisure |
| | Genting has held a beneficial interest in 3,620,086 ordinary shares, representing 2.8 per cent of Stanley's share capital, since November 2003. | | | The Genting Group listed entities have an aggregate market capitalisation of approximately US $8 billion. | | | Both Genting's acquisition of Maxims and Stanley's acquisition of an interest in Maxims are expected to complete in mid January 2005. |
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http://ww7.investorrelations.co.uk/stanley/ShowPressReleases.jsp?type=finnews&ref=78
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - open interest |
| | overview, archive articles, elimination of ceiling on interest rates, fixed interest rates, group responsible for controlling interest rates in the... | | | Interest, payment made for the use of another person's money; in economics, it is regarded more specifically as a payment made for capital.... | | | Open-end credit loans are loans for variable amounts of money up to a set limit. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/open+interest.html
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| | International Lottery & Totalizator Systems Executes Letter of Intent to Acquire Controlling Interest in Supplier to Philippine Lottery |
| | If none of the current Prime shareholders assign their interest in the transaction to Berjaya, Berjaya's percentage ownership of ILTS would be 38.7%. | | | In the event that the other current Prime shareholders assign their interest in the transaction to Berjaya, Berjaya's percentage ownership of ILTS would increase from its present 36.6% to 75.4%. | | | Berjaya presently owns 36.6% of ILTS and approximately 54.3% of Prime and has representation on both corporation's Board of Directors. |
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http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-08-1998/0000676727&EDATE=
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| | No. 02CA0216. Employment Television Enterprises, LLC v. Barocas. - August 12, 2004 - Colorado Court of Appeals Opinions |
| | Thus, we read the plain language of the agreement to require that MediaNews Group have actual financial ownership of a controlling interest in the newspaper, not merely managerial control. | | | DMC argues that because the newspapers in Salt Lake City and Charleston are each partially owned by an entity merging certain business and production functions of the newspaper’s operations with a local competitor, and MediaNews Group only owned fifty percent of these entities, it did not own a controlling interest in these papers. | | | To the extent the agreement appears to permit ETV to operate in a city not occupied by DMC if a newspaper located in that city subsequently is purchased by MediaNews Group, we agree. |
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http://www.cobar.org/opinions/opinion.cfm?OpinionID=4739
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| | SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Business -- Big Yellow Pages operation is sold |
| | Standard and Poor's credit analyst Anna Overton said the price Yell is paying for TransWestern is 16 times TransWestern's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization in 2004. | | | Yell Group, a British company that publishes the Yellow Book in the United States, is purchasing TransWestern Publishing of San Diego for $1.58 billion in cash. | | | Yell Group, which publishes 111 phone directories in the United Kingdom, including Britain's Yellow Pages, said the acquisition will establish it as the world's third largest publisher of phone directories. |
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20050518-9999-1b18yellow.html
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| | The Open Source Interest Horizon |
| | Open Source software trades the resource horizon for an interest horizon, the horizon over which a problem simply isn't interesting enough to attract a group of developers who burn to spend their Friday nights wrestling with, say, meter-reading software for a natural gas pipeline. | | | With Open Source software putting core set of functions in place, software companies will become more like consulting firms and consulting firms will become more like software companies, not duplicating the same basic functions over and over, but concentrating their efforts on the the work that lies over the interest horizon. | | | There will never be an Open Source billing system for a water utility, but there will be Open Source accounting and report-generating packages which provide about 80% of the functionality, meaning that the water works only needs to do pay for the last 20% of the work, not all of it. |
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http://www.shirky.com/writings/interest.html
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| | ICRA rating rationale - BPL ENGINEERING LIMITED |
| | Receivable are mainly from other group companies who have been stretching payments to BPLE to meet their own working capital needs. | | | The protective factors are strong and the prospect of timely payment of principal and interest as per terms under adverse circumstances, as may be visualised, differs from LAAA only marginally. | | | Since 1997-98, BPLE has been taking letters of credit (LC) from group companies and discounting these LC-backed bills with banks. |
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http://www.debtonnet.com/icrarr/mcaug97bple.htm
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| | Business Wire: AIB Group Subordinated Notes Issues |
| | The interest rate on the notes is fixed at 6.875%, interest payable on June 1 and December 1 of each year commencing December 1, 1999. | | | The securities qualify as Tier 2 capital for FMB and AIB Group. | | | The transaction was lead managed by Lehman Brothers and co-managed by CCF, Deutsche Bank and Paine Webber. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0EIN/1999_June_14/54872068/p1/article.jhtml
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| | The Advocacy Group: Guidelines to Effective Lobbying |
| | While all four types of interest groups may have lobbyists on their staff, all four also utilize the services of outside lobbyists to augment their activities. | | | As a channel of access through which people can present their views to public officials, interest groups afford people an efficient opportunity to take part in the political process. | | | Most groups understand the need to have representatives in Washington to protect their interests and to affect policy. |
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http://www.advocacy.com/guidelines.html
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| | Strategic Group Variable Universal Life |
| | A Strategic GVUL insurance program takes advantage of low cost of insurance rates and the convenience of group underwriting, which results in costs that are usually well below what an employee would be able to obtain individually. | | | All interest and investment income credited to a Strategic GVUL certificate is deferred from taxation while it remains in the certificate. | | | When you pay premiums for Strategic GVUL, you choose how net premiums are allocated among a number of diverse and professionally-managed investment options which cover a broad spectrum of investment objectives and risk tolerances, including one or more of the separate account divisions (subject to state availability) and the Guaranteed Principal Account ("GPA"). |
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http://www.massmutual.com/gvulperformance/sgvul.htm
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| | Interest Rate Calculator |
| | Access Group private loan interest rates vary quarterly and are based on the 3-month LIBOR, plus a fixed spread. | | | Estimate and compare private loan interest rates that are based on either the 3-month LIBOR or Prime Rate index. | | | If the interest rate is Prime &; 1.0%, enter the negative number -1.0 in the box next to Prime Rate. |
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http://www.accessgroup.org/calculators/rate.htm
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| | corpprofin.htm |
| | Travelers Financial is active in structured project financing for the energy sector, with particular interest in green and alternative energy projects backed by long-term power purchase agreements. Small hydro, biomass, wind, wave and community energy projects offer significant potential for contributing to Canadas future energy needs using under-utilized energy resources. | | | Travelers is also interested in securing financing mandates for the following requirements: | | | Construction and Takeout Financing may be offered in a combined facility, that offers the advantages of one-stop financing, with the option to lock-in a long-term rate at the commencement of the construction phase. |
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http://www.travelersfinancial.com/corporate/corpprofin.htm
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| | COMNAP - Environment - AEON |
| | The discussion section of the AEON Web site provides members with the opportunity to exchange information on topics of interest, contribute to the development of responses to tasks from COMNAP and refer to relevant reports, papers and reference documents. | | | An AEON password is required to enter the AEON editing site to update your country's information. | | | A password is required to view or add postings to the AEON discussion site. |
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http://www.comnap.aq/comnap/comnap.nsf/P/Pages/Environment
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| | The Week |
| | As the groups footprints in foreign markets grow, Tata Sons, which owns a controlling interest in the bigger group companies, is putting in place a structure and philosophy to institutionalise the process of inorganic growth. | | | Ishaat Hussains domain is financing requirements, especially since the Tatas favour internal generation of funds by companies, off-loading of equity or providing group support to finance their plans. | | | Once a group company spots an opportunity for expansion, acquisition or diversification, a team of key men in Bombay House and the Business Review Committeea subcommittee of the boardstep in to finalise the goals, priorities, budget and strategy with individual companies and provide a whole range of support. |
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http://www.the-week.com/25may15/currentevents_article10.htm
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| | Merrill Lynch - Markets & Research - /markets_news_story/0,2263,{EA6273D6-6450-407F-8A85-0D5EDA5EAA5B},00.html |
| | Chelsea and Shinsegae each have a 50% interest in the venture. | | | Since the completion of the first Shinsegae Department Store in 1929, the first department store ever to be constructed in South Korea, Shinsegae has grown rapidly and currently operates 7 department stores and 70 discount stores nationwide and 3 in China, with total revenue of more than $7.6 billion. | | | Shinsegae, a diversified retailer, is a market leader in South Korea. |
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http://askmerrill.ml.com/markets_news_story/1,2263,{EA6273D6-6450-407F-8A85-0D5EDA5EAA5B},00.html
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| | Mediobanca - Mediobanca acquires minority interests in Compagnie Monégasque de Banque |
| | Following this transaction, the Banks 100% interest in CMB will be carried at a book value of 371.5m, increasing the return on this investment to over 7% based on estimated net profit for the current financial year. | | | The deal is expected to increase consolidated net profit by around 3% for the twelve months to 30 June 2005, and forms part of the Mediobanca Banking Groups policy of investing free capital to strengthen its operations in private banking and asset management. | | | Deal expected to enhance group net profit for year to 30/06/05 |
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http://www.mediobanca.it/news_262_EN.htm
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| | 527s: Types of Advocacy Groups |
| | Many 527s run by special interest groups raise unlimited "soft money," which they use for voter mobilization and certain types of issue advocacy, but not for efforts that expressly advocate the election or defeat of a federal candidate or amount to electioneering communications. | | | Currently, the FEC only requires a 527 group to file regular disclosure reports if it is a political party or political action committee (PAC) that engages in either activities expressly advocating the election or defeat of a federal candidate, or in electioneering communications. | | | Non-Federal Group A group set up to raise unlimited contributions called soft money, which it spends on voter mobilization efforts and so-called issue ads that often criticize or tout a candidates record just before an election in a not-so-subtle effort to influence the elections outcome. |
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http://www.opensecrets.org/527s/types.asp
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| | JRD Tata: A life extraordinary |
| | Tata's personal interest in technology, combined with India's isolation in the 1950s and 1960s, spurred several group companies, particularly Tata Steel and Tata Chemicals, to innovate in their fields. | | | In 1939 the group included fourteen companies with sales of Rs 280 crore (Rs 2.80 billion); in 1993, the year of his death, sales were Rs 15,000 crore (Rs 150 billion) contributed by over fifty large manufacturing companies, besides innumerable holding, investment, subsidiaries and associate concerns, making it India's biggest business group. | | | As an industrialist, JRD Tata is credited with placing the Tata Group on the international map. |
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http://us.rediff.com/money/2004/aug/19tata.htm
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| | Weaponeers Group Buy Website |
| | If there are enough interested members then a group buy deal is made with one of our many vendors. | | | If there is sufficient interest it is then moved to the "Active Group Buy" section. | | | At that point the group buy closes and shipping costs are calculated if applicable. |
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http://www.weaponeer.net/faq_item.asp?fID=5
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