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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting
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To: scratchmyback who wrote (53014)6/30/2006 3:33:02 PM
From: quartersawyer  Read Replies (1) of 197013
 
one would have thought that Finland would be....

aaaaah, scratchmyback--- you have to read the parameters, the methods and materials of any study to see if you agree with how it's been done, can't just jump to the conclusions. Way more than half are done with an agenda which becomes transparent on close examination.... Goldman and Meyers , most of the handset/cancer studies, Vioxx....

This CPI list is according to "the degree to which corruption is perceived to exist among public officials and politicians." The organization defines corruption as "the abuse of public office for private gain". Things are on the up and up within the Finns' Land.

It says nothing about the operations of corporations in foreign cultures.
Besides, if Nokia (or Qualcomm) understand that the only way to gain favorable rulings is by pledging to plow profits into an Industrial Park or Research Institute in a target country, knowing that the money will be handled by corrupt people in that country, does that make N (or Q) "corrupt"?
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