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[Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship Blog] While he acknowledges that companies sometimes can do well by doing good, his view is more often that they can’t, and furthermore postulates that this “makes it more likely that we’ll ignore the real solutions to these problems.” He argues that if business had a meaningful role to play then societies’ pervasive and persistent problems would have been solved long ago by companies seeking to maximize their profits.” In his view the “real” solution to societal problems is a return to a world of more government regulation and intervention. As he notes, government regulation’s “greatest appeal is that it is binding.

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[What Do You Believe?] Zionists opposed to Irish Home Rule: It was the same policy of avoiding expense and trouble, political or military””the policy, in fact, of ”˜cutting the loss’””tricked out with the same humbug about ”˜magnanimity’ and ”˜conciliation,’ about trust in Boer (or Nationalist) moderation when in power, the same contemptuous passing over of the loyalists as persons of ”˜too pronounced’ views, or as ”˜interested contractors and stock-jobbers.’ 48 It was embodied in a Convention by which the ”˜inhabitants of the Transvaal territory’ were ”˜accorded complete self-government, subject to the suzerainty of Her Majesty’ under a series of limitations which, if enforced, would have implied a measure of British control in many respects greater than that exercised over a self-governing Colony, and with a number of guarantees to protect the loyalists. The Government was able to ”˜save its face,’ while its hesitating followers were able to quiet their consciences, by the reassuring phrases of the Convention.

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