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PICO RIVERA - A grassroots community group has filed a lawsuit against the city for allowing the Wal-Mart store in the Pico Rivera Towne Center to become a Supercenter that sells groceries.
Citizens for Political Responsibility in Pico Rivera is suing over the Redevelopment Agency's initial handling of the project's plans. It claims the Supercenter, under construction on Washington Boulevard, will cause the closure of smaller grocery stores, among other casualties, said attorney John McClendon of Laguna Hills, who is representing the group.
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Because of fundamental political, social, and market changes in the former Soviet Union, significant changes in education were necessary. Perhaps chief among them was the introduction of an entirely new area: professional business training. Previously, Soviet educational institutions were directed primarily toward scientific and technological disciplines, at which they excelled. Now, while the somewhat stoic institutions of higher education in Russia are reacting to changes largely driven by student expectations and political influences, a variety of independent business training programs have surfaced to meet more immediate economic development needs. Overshadowed by pragmatic business skills, environmental, ethical, and other social topics are largely ignored by these new programs. Th...
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AS the global energy landscape changes, how will national oil companies and international oil companies fare? In this last of a two-part series, we take a look.
THE SUPERMAJORS AND large independents remain attractive partners in a world in which projects are increasingly complex and multibillion-dollar in nature. Numerous other factors, including stringent environmental legislation and the increasing application of relatively new technologies, have also increased the level of project risk. Risk is a major concern for national oil companies (NOCs) and they often have a significant national- development responsibility. A project failure of scale could have highly undesirable, wide-ranging social and political ramifications. Consequently, NOCs need the support of trusted, capable partners...
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PICO RIVERA - A grassroots community group has filed a lawsuit against the city for allowing the Wal-Mart store in the Pico Rivera Towne Center to become a Supercenter that sells groceries.
Citizens for Political Responsibility in Pico Rivera is suing over the Redevelopment Agency's initial handling of the project's plans. It claims the Supercenter, under construction on Washington Boulevard, will cause the closure of smaller grocery stores, among other casualties, said attorney John McClendon of Laguna Hills, who is representing the group.
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To: POLITICAL EDITORS
Contact: Patrick Mitchell, +1-703-276-3266 or pmitchell@hastingsgroup.com, for Social Investment Forum and Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
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