- Green Mountain Coffee's Trouble With Bean Counting
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, the Vermont-headquartered marketer of specialty coffees, has a market cap of more than $11 billion, and a sterling reputation as a good corporate citizen. Forbes has listed it as among the “200 Best Small Companies in America” and CR, the flagship publication of the corporate social responsibility movement, has in two recent years (2006 and 2007) named it one of the 100 Best Corporate Citizens. グリーンマウンテンコーヒーロースターズ、特製コーヒーのバーモント州に本社を置くマーケティングは、110億ドル以上の時価総額、そして良き企業市民としてのスターリングの評価を得ています
- Networking is a Business Best Practice
Having moved his law practice to Chicago in 1896, Paul J. Harris missed the friendly relationships he knew growing up in a small Vermont town. 1896年にシカゴに彼の法律事務所を移動した、ポールJ.ハリスは、彼は小さなバーモント州の町で育った知っていた友好的な関係を逃した
- In praise of … Bernie Sanders | Editorial
It was not technically a filibuster because Mr Sanders did not hold up Senate business. But he did generate an audienceNot many senators in Congress can claim in their time to have made C-Span, the cable equivalent of BBC Parliament, the hottest topic on Twitter. Such was Bernie Sanders' achievement when he spoke for eight and a half hours on the Senate floor. His fire was aimed at President Obama's Faustian pact with the Republicans which allowed the Bush tax cuts for the rich to continue for two more years. It was not technically a filibuster because Mr Sanders did not hold up Senate business. But he did generate an audience for his principal theme that America's besetting sin is to make the richest people richer still. And a marvellous performance it was too. It was not simply that he spoke from the heart. It was also that he was manifestly and abundantly right. One of the worst elements of the deal was an estate tax that would affect just 3,500 families. Government of the people, by the people, for the people ? Hardly. Mr Sanders is sui generis, as is the state of Vermont, which he has represented for 20 years. In a nation where liberal can be used as a term of abuse, he has no hesitation calling himself a socialist. He is an independent but caucuses with the Democrats and has been an Obama supporter. For all these reasons, no one should kid themselves that the Democrats will turn as a result of this intervention into a progressive party. But in a climate where congressmen are expected to mouth the lines their funders feed them, Mr Sanders reminds us that there are still people around who refuse to be bought.US CongressUnited StatesUS politicsguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Fe 氏サンダースは、上院の事業を保持していないので、技術的にフィリバスターされませんでした
- Relief for towns trapped by Irene
Swollen rivers began falling yesterday in much of the northeast of the United States, allowing relief crews to reach the last of the tiny Vermont towns that had been entirely cut off from help by Hurricane Irene's fast-moving floodwaters.The... 増水した川は、救済の乗組員は完全にハリケーンアイリーンの速いfloodwaters.Theでヘルプから切断されていた小さなバーモント州の町の最後に到達できるように、米国の北東部の多くで下がり、昨日始まった...
- Radioactive Tritium Leaks from Nuke Plant; Also Two Million EXIT Signs
The Vermont Department of Health said it has found radioactive tritium in the Connecticut River, which probably leaked from the nearby Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. 健康のバーモント州省は、おそらく近くのバーモントヤンキー原子力発電所から漏れたコネチカット川、中の放射性トリチウムを発見したと発表した
- Hurricane Irene blamed for 40 deaths
Hurricane Irene is being blamed for at least 40 deaths in 11 eastern US states and Canada, as Vermont and upstate New York suffered disastrous flooding.The toll includes six dead each in New Jersey, New York state and North Carolina,... バーモント州とニューヨーク州北部では悲惨なflooding.Theの通行料はニュージャージー州、ニューヨーク州とノースカロライナ州の6つのデッドそれぞれを、含んで苦しんだとして...ハリケーンアイリーンは、11アメリカ東部の州とカナダで少なくとも40人が死亡のために非難されている
- Hurricane Irene relief fund estimated at $1.5bn
White House says cost to taxpayer comes on top of $5.2bn needed to deal with other recent disastersThe damage caused by Hurricane Irene will cost $1.5bn in disaster relief, the White House has estimated.White House budget director Jacob Lew said the cost to taxpayers came on top of $5.2bn needed to deal with other recent disasters, including tornadoes that leveled much of Joplin, Missouri.Announcing the initial estimate, Lew said the $1.5bn relief fund should last through next year.More than 40 people were killed when Irene lashed the eastern easboard from the Carolinas to Maine. Despite being downgraded to a tropical storm as it hit land, Irene destroyed many homes and caused serious flooding in Vermont and upstate New York. The damage is expected to total billions of dollars but federal government aid does not include costs covered by private insurance.The costing came as the remenants of Tropical Storm Lee killed a man in Mississippi when he was swept away by floodwaters.John Howard Anderson Jr, 57, had been in a car with two other people trying to cross a rain-swollen creek. Tishomingo County coroner Mack Wilemon said he was told Anderson was outside the car and had been thrown a rope to be rescued, but he could not hold on.The storm was last night sweeping across Alabama and pushing into Georgia, where strong winds, possibly of tornado strength, sent trees crashing into homes and injured at least one person.Lieutenant Jay Baker of the Cherokee county sheriff's office, northwest of Atlanta, said one person was taken to a hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.By Monday afternoon at least 16,000 people were without power in Louisiana and Mississippi, which bore the brunt of the storm over the weekend.Hurricane IreneNatural disasters and extreme weather ホワイトハウスは、災害救援で15億ドルの費用がかかります、ホワイトハウスはestimated.Whiteハウス予算ディレクターヤコブルーは、納税者にコストが来たと述べている納税者にコストがハリケーンアイリーンによって引き起こされる他の最近のdisastersTheのダメージに対処するために必要な$ 5.2bnの上に来るだ初期推定値をMissouri.Announcing、ジョプリンの大部分を平らに竜巻を含む他の最近の災害に対処するために必要な$ 5.2bnの上に、ルーはアイリーンが非難した時に15億ドルの救援資金は40人が死亡していたより、次のyear.Moreを通して続くはずだキャロライナからメイン州まで東部easboard
- US politics: The party's not over | Editorial
The prospect of policy paralysis after the November elections is looming - and the primary results have not abated that fearIn an ordinary year, this week's midterm party primary elections in a group of American states stretching from Florida to Alaska might only be of interest to US political anoraks. Yet the politics of 2010 are hardly ordinary. With the US economic recovery again slowing, the prospect of policy paralysis in Washington after the November elections, with a weakened President Obama, is now looming larger, with consequences for issues from the fiscal stimulus to Middle East peace. These prospects have implications not just for Americans but for the world as a whole. This week's primary results have therefore been widely watched and have done little to abate the fear.At first sight this may seem an odd conclusion to draw, especially in light of Senator John McCain's victory in Arizona's Republican primary on Tuesday. Not very long ago, Mr McCain had himself looked vulnerable to a conservative challenge backed by Tea Party activists. This week, having tacked hard to the right and spent much more money to secure his position than usual, he won his party's renewed backing with plenty to spare. With Arizona's Republican governor also seeing off her own challenger, and with established Democratic candidates coming through in Florida and Vermont (the former in spite of a $20m personal war chest deployed by his businessman challenger), reports of a general grassroots political uprising against the establishment in this autumn's midterms might seem exaggerated.In other states, though, some of this week's contests confirm that 2010 is no easy year for incumbents, especially on the right. When all the votes are finally counted in Alaska, which is not in any sense a 11月の選挙後、政。麻痺の見通しが迫ってきて - プライマリおよびその結果、アメリカの州フロリダからアラスカに伸びるのグループfearIn例年、今週の中間党は予備選挙は米国内のみに関心のある政治的かもしれない減殺していないアノラック
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