1. denise l faustman beats michaels boy's including tracy by miles. michael's gang kills, injures, cripples and maims by failing eg to regenerste cells as taught by faustman
faustmanlab.org, pubmed.org faustmanlab.org, udpto.gov inventor search faustman
the penslty of ignorance is the wasre of money and physical harm
do not be like mike
2 pubmed.org ristori + bcg google ristori + bcg beats tracy and the doeling gang hands down
believe in mike and pay the price in life and. money
3 ej ratner the lancet p106 jan 14, 1978 describes the treatment of the cause of causalgia
4 cancer patients in michael's empire are not offered metformin and aspirin to treat cancer and prevent its spread. michael says drop dead. see pubmed.org cancer+ metformin and cancer + aspirin
MICHAEL DOWLING has the veracity of a harley riding club member who ...
in michael dowling'sempire an md gave my father haldol in the emergency room after telling his other son who was holding his hand we want to give your father a sedative
guns are for killing but the human operator decides the tatget and the reason for shooting, if any
mike's hospital needs a bit of an open mind and a touch of humility
when i told ratner's coudin victor h auerbach that i was going to treat cancer with aspirin and metformin he hung up and called back within minutes after reading his email from the national cancer institute of trials adding metformin to conventionsl chemotherapy. see also publications. of james d watson regarding metformin
be careful who and how you kill but do not ask the armed robber how much he wants
CEOs Choose Sides on Gun Control at Their Own Risk
CEOs feel pressure from younger, digitally savvy consumers and from employees to take a stand on issues, but corporate reputation can suffer
When choosing a side in an emotional issue like gun restrictions, companies may find they alienate consumers on the other side. PHOTO: VICTOR J. BLUE/BLOOMBERG NEWS
It’s the newest question facing CEOs: Should they thrust their businesses into polarizing political debates?
In the two weeks since a gunman killed 17 people at a Parkland, Fla., high school, many companies have taken a stand on gun control, prompted partly by a movement with the online rallying cry #NRABoycott.
But when companies take sides in a charged issue, they often have to grapple with a new set of risks to their reputation and business, not least the risk of offending a sizable portion of consumers on the other side.
On Wednesday, Walmart Inc. and Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc. DKS -0.84% —two of the biggest gun sellers in the U.S.—joined the growing list of companies taking action after the Florida massacre. Both companies said they would raise its minimum age for gun buyers at their stores to 21. Dick’s also said it would stop selling all assault-style weapons at its 35 Field and Stream stores and would no longer sell high-capacity magazines of ammunition.
“We take seriously our obligation to be a responsible seller of firearms,” Walmart said in a statement. The retailer, which sells rifles, shotguns and ammunition in thousands of its stores, had stopped sales of assault-style rifles in 2015.
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“Gun violence is an epidemic that’s taking the lives of too many people, including the brightest hope for the future of America—our kids,” Dick’s Chief Executive Edward Stack said in a letter posted on Facebook and the company’s website. Many consumers took to Twitter and Facebook to either condemn or praise the move.
Rival Academy Sports + Outdoors, in Katy, Texas, though, defended its gun sales. It said it is committed to the legal and safe transfer of firearms and favors strengthening the nation’s background-check system.
Business leaders are increasingly under pressure, largely from younger generations of socially conscious and digital-media savvy consumers and employees, to take a stand on everything from immigration to gay rights to climate change.
Nearly half of millennials, a generation largely born in the 1980s and 1990s, believe CEOs have a responsibility to speak up about issues important to society, according to a 2017 survey by Weber Shandwick. In contrast, only 28% of Generation Xers, now in their 40s and early 50s, and baby boomers agreed.
Michael Dowling, CEO of Northwell Health, the biggest hospital chain in New York state with 66,000 employees, said he feels more responsibility now to speak up on social issues than when he took the helm in 2002.
“We are, at the end of the day, community leaders,” Mr. Dowling said. “We are people that other people look up to.”
In some cases, companies’ responses have unleashed an online backlash as heated as the initial social-media firestorm—a reminder to companies that in placating one consumer group, it’s easy to alienate another.
A recent survey found companies that have ended discounts for National Rifle Association members in recent days lost more than they gained in reputation. For example, while MetLife Inc.’s 45% favorable rating didn’t change after respondents learned it ended its NRA discount, the proportion of respondents with an unfavorable view of MetLife doubled to 24%. The poll of 2,201 Americans was conducted by market-research firm Morning Consult. A spokesman for MetLife declined to comment.
Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines Inc. incurred the wrath of Georgia’s lieutenant governor, Casey Cagle, after dropping its discount on flights to the NRA’s annual convention. He also threatened to kill a pending bill that would provide a jet fuel tax break at Atlanta’s airport, Delta’s main hub. Mr. Cagle called on Delta to fully restore its relationship with the NRA, which claims nearly five million members.
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“Corporations cannot attack conservatives and expect us not to fight back,” he tweeted.
Delta didn’t respond to requests to comment. When the airline ended the discounts, it said it supported the Second Amendment right to bear arms but cut the program to reflect its “neutral status” in the national gun debate.
The NRA lashed out at companies that canceled loyalty programs for its members, calling the moves “a shameful display of political and civic cowardice.” “These companies seem to have forgotten that using their businesses as political platforms…isn’t a particularly bright business strategy,” said Brad Lena, an NRA member and retired marketing consultant in Pittsburgh. “If companies are going to start punishing certain segments of their consumers, then consumers are going to realize they can also punish those companies.”
Georgia Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, shown adjourning the state Senate on Jan. 18, called on Delta to fully restore its relationship with the NRA. PHOTO: BOB ANDRES/ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wary of such vitriol, some companies tried to walk a fine line. Walking a fine line, FedEx Corp. said Monday it supports restricting assault rifles and large-capacity ammunition magazines to military use only, but would continue to offer discount shipping for NRA members.
“FedEx has never set or changed rates for any of our millions of customers around the world in response to their politics, beliefs or positions on issues,” the company said.
That didn’t sit well with DJ Hanson, co-owner of BlueprintNYC LLC, an event-planning company with offices in New York and San Mateo, Calif. BlueprintNYC suspended preliminary talks to have FedEx as a client, he said.
“We feel strongly about working with companies that share our values and beliefs,” Mr. Hanson said, citing the shipper’s decision to continue discounts to NRA members.
A FedEx spokesman didn’t respond to requests to comment.
Companies often beat legislators in pushing social change. The corporate world began offering same-sex couples health-care benefits long before politicians on either side of the ideological spectrum began endorsing same-sex marriage en masse.
Bill Penzey, the CEO of Wauwatosa, Wis.-based spice seller Penzeys Ltd., has written long online posts about the president, the NRA and Russia. He found taking on President Trump has, at times, jump-started orders. A July post on the company’s Facebook page promoting Mexican vanilla extract and accusing the president of racism resulted in the 32-year-old company’s best day of sales ever.
Penzeys has lost some longtime customers but gained new ones. Society no longer seems to find it strange that he’s selling politics alongside peppercorns, Mr. Penzey said. “I think we’re even getting to the point where those things are inseparable—business and social issues are inseparable.”
—Cameron McWhirter contributed to this article.
Write to Vanessa Fuhrmans at vanessa.fuhrmans@wsj.com and Rachel Feintzeig at rachel.feintzeig@wsj.com
Appeared in the March 2, 2018, print edition as 'CEOs Risk Speaking Up.'
