5 Press Releases and Silent Critiques

2021 ◽  
pp. 107-126
Keyword(s):  
Press Releases

Rosyjska depesza kondolencyjna – wzorzec gatunkowy

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (XXII) ◽  
pp. 51-63
Author(s):  
Ewa Białek
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Frequent Pattern ◽  
Press Releases ◽  
State Official ◽  
Heads Of State

The aim of the study is to characterise a genre pattern of a condolence telegram in Russian. A telegram is one of many genres of diplomatic correspondence, used to give condolences and express sympathy and support on the occasion of calamities and natural disasters. The senders and receivers of telegrams are heads of state (official institutinal communication), as well as nations of both countries and people afflicted with the disaster. The study conducted on a corpus of 150 texts (50 telegrams and 100 press releases) analyses the structure and lexico-pragmatic features of texts to establish the most frequent pattern of telegram in the current textual corpus. The results of the study show that a condolence telegram is a highly conventionalized genre.

Petroleum geological activities onshore West Greenland in 1996, and drilling of a deep exploration well

1997 ◽  
pp. 17-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flemming G. Christiansen ◽  
Anders Boesen ◽  
Finn Dalhoff ◽  
Asger K. Pedersen ◽  
Gunver K. Pedersen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Summer ◽  
Summer Season ◽  
Source Rocks ◽  
Press Releases ◽  
West Greenland ◽  
Potential Reservoir ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Deep Exploration ◽  
Exploration Well ◽  
Shed Light

NOTE: This article was published in a former series of GEUS Bulletin. Please use the original series name when citing this article, for example: Christiansen, F. G., Boesen, A., Dalhoff, F., Pedersen, A. K., Pedersen, G. K., Riisager, P., & Zinck-Jørgensen, K. (1997). Petroleum geological activities onshore West Greenland in 1996, and drilling of a deep exploration well. Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin, 176, 17-23. https://doi.org/10.34194/ggub.v176.5055 _______________ The 1996 summer season saw continued petroleum geological activities in the Disko–Nuussuaq area, onshore West Greenland. These took the form of a geological field project led by the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), and continued commercial exploration by grønArctic Energy Inc. (grønArctic). In the second year of their licence, grønArctic carried out an airborne geophysical programme early in 1996 and drilled a c. 3 km deep exploration well on Nuussuaq, GRO#3, in the late summer (Fig. 1). Although the detailed results from grønArctic’s exploration are confidential (apart from the information made available at conferences and in press releases), it is evident that knowledge of the Nuussuaq Basin has greatly increased in recent years and that the basin has considerable exploration potential of its own (see Christiansen et al., 1995b, 1996a). The activities by GEUS and the exploration by grønArctic will significantly improve the understanding of the petroleum system of the basin; available data from the 1996 activities have shed light on the types and distribution of oils, source rocks and potential reservoir units.

Industry updates from the field of stem cell research and regenerative medicine in May 2020

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (9) ◽  
pp. 2045-2051
Author(s):  
Dusko Ilic ◽  
Mirjana Liovic
Keyword(s):  
Stem Cell ◽  
Regenerative Medicine ◽  
Stem Cell Research ◽  
Press Releases ◽  
Available Information

Latest developments in the field of stem cell research and regenerative medicine compiled from publicly available information and press releases from nonacademic institutions in May 2020.

Earnings Informativeness and Strategic Disclosure: An Empirical Examination of “Pro Forma” Earnings

2004 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 769-795 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara A. Lougee ◽  
Carol A. Marquardt
Keyword(s):  
Market Efficiency ◽  
Predictive Ability ◽  
Press Releases ◽  
Empirical Examination ◽  
Strategic Disclosure ◽  
Earnings Information ◽  
Pro Forma Earnings ◽  
Earnings Informativeness ◽  
Earnings Surprises ◽  
Pro Forma

This paper provides evidence on the characteristics of firms that include “pro forma” earnings information in their press releases, whether the usefulness of pro forma earnings to investors varies systematically with these characteristics, and whether the investor response to pro forma earnings is consistent with market efficiency or mispricing. Using a sample of 249 press releases from 1997–99, we find that firms with low GAAP earnings informativeness are more likely to disclose pro forma earnings than other firms. We also find that strategic considerations, measured using the direction of GAAP earnings surprises, are an important determinant of pro forma reporting. In addition, our examination of the relative and incremental information content of pro forma earnings shows that investors find pro forma earnings to be more useful when GAAP earnings informativeness is low or when strategic considerations are absent. Tests of the predictive ability of pro forma earnings for future profitability and returns are mixed, and we therefore cannot conclusively determine whether the investor reaction to pro forma earnings at the time of the press release is consistent with market efficiency or mispricing. The paper contributes to the growing literature on pro forma earnings and more generally to the literature on voluntary and strategic disclosure.

Mobilizing Public and Legislative Hostility against NAFTA

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara Kay ◽  
R. L. Evans
Keyword(s):  
Labor Unions ◽  
Fast Track ◽  
Mass Movement ◽  
Press Releases ◽  
Community Groups ◽  
Treaty Negotiations ◽  
Public Pressure ◽  
Local Politicians ◽  
President Bush ◽  
Additional Labor

This chapter examines how activists used outsider strategies and mobilized public pressure to increase legislative opposition to NAFTA during the substantive treaty negotiations that followed passage of fast-track reauthorization. It focuses on activists’ mobilization of a mass movement of NAFTA opponents during the year and a half of NAFTA’s substantive negotiations beginning in June 1991 until President Bush signed the agreement in December 1992. While the AFL-CIO and some environmentalists concentrated on insider strategies, labor unions and the majority of environmental organizations created a strong anti-NAFTA grassroots coalition and mobilized; they held local protests and rallies, wrote press releases, held forums with community groups and local politicians, and appeared in media outlets in over one hundred cities. The chapter also reveals how activists’ pressure led to the negotiation of additional labor and environmental side agreements.

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