Pete Vincent drifted through the magazine rack at a local retailer a
couple of days ago and observed:
> ...a company called "ABB", with which I am wholly unfamiliar.
Asea Brown Boveri
http://www.sverigeturism.se/smorgasbord/smorgasbord/industry/com/abb.html
http://www.abb.com/ (a nightmare of javascript)
Wanna build a US$300,000,000 power transmission grid? Automate your
global net of chemical plants? Build an integrated pulp, paper and
pharmaceuticals plant? Build a national waterworks? You found the
right place. :-)
When they decide to pipe Lake Winnepeg to Los Angeles, these are the
guys that will be bidding on the work.
> ...the company is a global corporation with billions of bucks and
> thousands of employees...
Just opened up a branch in North Korea this month.
> It proclaimed this corporation a signatory to a UN resolution on
> global corporate citizenship...
Is this the deal in which corporations "partner" with the UN in order
to guide the humble UN bureaucrats on the path of global
righteousness?
> ... approximate quote (from memory): "Putting bottom line profits
> ahead of the welfare of society is not just cynical, it is
> dangerous".
Um, well, the corporate home page doesn't mention that. They do claim
to have had a hand in cleaning up Boston Harbour. That's somthing,
for sure.
- Mike
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Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada
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