Has used to sort of convinced folks, their customers, to do things that arent good for them. And so the work of the investors at iccr and the challenge is that on the one hand we are investors. We have pension obligations and, in fact, when you think about investors theres always this tension about shortterm versus longterm. As faithbased investors i would argue we actually have the longest time horizon of eternity. So we take this stuff very, very seriously. And we are trying to not only encourage corporations across a number of mispriced externalities to change how they operate, but we are also absolutely convinced, and i think that the record bears this out, that by paying attention to these mispriced externalities, by sitting down with companies and talking about something that may not look like a profit oriented conversation, that we actually anticipate problems and opportunities in the marketplace. One of the reasons that Corporate America lets us into the boardroom, into the con
Nicholas freudenberg discusses how the food, tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceutical, gone and out of industries have negatively impacted Public Health. He offers space for the public to respond. This hourlong program is next on booktv. I am Marion Nestle and its my pleasure to start this panel. I want to say it to say it is a great honor to be here to launch next. Nick senate to me me for a blurb and i was really happy to get that. I get lots and lots of requests for blurbs, but i dont usually write them quite like i wrote this but. Would it embarrass you too much if i read the blurb . [inaudible] all right. Cover your face. Heres what i said. I meant every word. A superb, magnificently written courageous and compelling expoee of how corporations enrich themselves at the expense of Public Health and how we can organize to counter Corporate Power and achieve a healthier immerses edible food environment. They should be required reading for anyone who cares about promoting house, protecting Dem
In the strain of american political thinking to the right. Living. Other years ago. Or a hundred years ago. What happens when you get hung up on that. When you get wrapped up in the past and you cannot go forward. According to what we are saying is that there should be two kinds path ol geez living too much in the present moment. What is more productive for prosperity. And achieving your longterm goals would be to have the wherewithal and the outlook to look forward with your life and to decide what you will need to look forward to. And write your own script and have the wherewithal to forego the present satisfaction in the name of and the service of achieving the longterm goal. That would be botched up by getting hung up in the past. Froids definition of mental illness. Or being too much interested in the immediate Immediate Gratification or living in the present we dont even want our children to go to high school because fat highspirited highmindedness but we touch on somewhat playfu
With only three weeks until the IHSA state track meet, the Lake County Invitational was the first of some big showdowns for area girls track and field teams Thursday night at Stevenson.
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