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Topic: Second McDonalds CEO dies in less than a year
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Walker
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posted 18 January 2005 09:17 PM
quote: Originally posted by worker_drone:
Wrong! Obviously, since he was CEO, he had his rich daddy pull in some favours from his buddies down at the golf and country club. That's the way these things work don't you know?
Um, not that I'm a spokesperson for Macca's, but Charlie Bell DID work his way up from crew member. Hard to believe but people are known to gain seniority via actual hard work.
From: Not Canada | Registered: Jan 2005
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kuri
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Babbler # 4202
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posted 15 February 2005 09:27 AM
I thought this might be a good place to post this update of the McLibel case here in the UK. The duo who were sued by Rotten Ronnie's challenged that their rights were violated by the UK burden or proof (on the defendant in libel if I remember right) and by the fact that they were denied legal aid. quote: In the Human Rights court case, Ms Steel and Mr Morris, both from Tottenham, north London, argued that the government breached their human rights by failing to make legal aid available and because the libel laws obliged them to justify every word of anti-McDonald's allegations contained in the leaflets they distributed.Their legal team said multinational companies should not be allowed to sue for libel because they wield huge power over people's lives and the environment and therefore should be open to scrutiny and criticism. But government lawyers argued that campaigners for social justice are subject to the same laws of libel as anyone else, even when wealthy multinational corporations are their targets. Reacting to Tuesday's decision, a spokesman for the Department of Constitutional Affairs said: "We are studying the judgement very carefully."
Yey Strasbourg!
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