Boycotts

The 1973 Yom Kippur war caused Arab oil producers to boycott oil exports to the United States and some allies. While the boycott may look like the culprit in the 1973 oil price shock, the cuts in exports actually did not last long, with the oil price increases continuing long after the Arab/Israeli war was over. The real reason why oil prices surged up and stayed there was because world oil demand was high, while Saudi Arabia and OPEC kept supplies low. OPEC used its market power to curtail its own oil exports in... 

But nuclear energy has problems in the U.S.. Since the 1973 Arab oil boycott there has been a surplus of electrical capacity in the US. and no large base load electrical plants have been ordered. Indeed, some 100 nuclear plants and some 80 coal plants on order were canceled after 1973. The sixty nuclear plants put on the line since 1973 (providing 40% of new electricity capacity) were all ordered before 1973. And because there was no urgent need, bureaucratic licensing procedures and litigious court attacks by anti-nuclear groups have led to construction times of a dozen to twenty years, and uneconomic costs. This compares to the four to six year construction times ofthe U.S. reactors built abroad and indeed to the four to six year construction times in the U.S. priorto 1973. 

Ilgner himself was descended from Swedish commercial travelers. The Swedish industrialists reminded him that Germany could hardly expect to sell to Jewish interests whose products all over the world had just been boycotted by Hitler, nor to others whom the boycott had influenced against the new Nazi government nor to many others who believed that their sales might come whizzing back across their borders some day. 

According to Ilgner, Ivy Lee protested against the German boycott of Jewish goods and advised Hitler to remove it. "When Lee had sufficiently informed himself, I took upon myself the practical application of his suggestions."... 

Consumers can also take a more aggressive response, which might be to demand restitution or to try and change the market structure by campaigning for new laws, guidelines, or regulatory systems. Both of these responses can critically wound an industry. In Australia, tainted metwurst caused several known deaths and resulted in an economic boycott of the entire metwurst industry. Now, many years after the fact, the industry is still decimated. 

PharmChem Laborities Inc. Boycott PharmChem for supplying the sweat patch. Jay Whitney or David Asheim can be reached at (415) 328-6200... 

December Smith Wesson enters into a legal setdement with the city of Boston. It resolves some of the issues in the earlier failed agreement, and is restricted only to Smith Wesson s products. However, a number of gun advocacy groups organize a boycott of Smith Wesson to protest what they view as caving in to antigun forces. 

The current marketing situation of GM cereals seems to be a result of hysteria in the popular press and, in the case of Europeans, a political move to boycott American imports. Taking a long-term and pragmatic view point, these issues may well disappear when time demonstrates they are incorrect in the first place and unfounded in the second. 

Selfishness Physicians have a duty to act in the best interests of their patients. Pharmaceutical companies have a duty not only to their shareholders, but also to the community at large. To fulfill their duty to the community, pharmaceutical companies must operate within the confines of socially acceptable behavior or risk loss of reputation, public boycotts, or legislative action. Socially unacceptable behavior by a company can ultimately lead to loss of business and become a failure in its duty to its shareholders. Both the physicians and the pharmaceutical companies or their employees must not compromise these public duties in order to gain financial or other material benefits for themselves, their families or their friends. 

Hydrocarbons can be produced from synthesis gas through the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. Because of poor economics the process was, however, practiced on large scale only under extreme conditions (wartime Germany, South Africa under trade boycott). 

My beau was eating an ahi steak. The fish from which it was cut had been caught the day before, by a man who lived down the road from us. He had caught the fish maybe a mile offshore in the ocean visible from our porch, then brought it back, sold it to the man who owned the little fish store on the highway—ten miles from the harbor and four miles from us—who cut it up on the table behind the counter and sold a piece to my boyfriend. Here were two things I believed in deeply, suddenly opposed to each other I could eat tofu and boycott death, or I could eat ahi and support a local food system. How to make sense of that ... 

Bech-Hansen NT, Naylor MJ, Maybaum TA, Pearce WG, Koop B, Fishman GA, Mets M, Musarella MA, Boycott KM (1998) Loss-of-function mutations in a calcium-channel alphal-subunit gene in Xpll.23 cause incomplete X-linked congenital stationary night blindness. Nat Genet 19 264-7... 

Syntex licensed norethindrone to Parke-Davis for development. Eventually, Parke-Davis decided not to market it because of fears about a possible boycott of their other products by groups who were opposed to birth control. Searle had no such concerns and brought its pill to the market in 1960 under the name Enovid. In the meantime, Syntex was forced to find another partner and finally settled on the Ortho division of Johnson Johnson. The norethindrone pill was first marketed in 1962 under the name Ortho-Novum. By 1965 the pill" was the most popular form of birth control. 

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