FACTOID # 131: United we stand? The United Kingdom and United States are both in the top ten for Gross Domestic Product - and for child poverty.
 
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IAM may refer to:

  • Maroc Telecom (Arabic transliteration: Ittisalat Al Maghrib), the main telecommunication company in Morocco
  • IAM (band), a French rap band from Marseille created in 1989
  • International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, a North American labor union
  • Institute of Advanced Motorists, a charity based in the UK whose objective is to improve car driving and motorcycle riding standards
  • Initial Address Message, a message used in ISDN User Part
  • Identity and access management, a combination between Identity management and access management
  • Innovation Access Method, a high performance indexed access method for IBM's z/OS and OS/390 operating systems that provides a transparent alternative to IBM's VSAM
  • Indo-Aryan migration, the theory that speakers of Indo-Aryan languages migrated into the Indian subcontinent during the 2nd millennium BCE
  • The Institute of Advanced Media, a commercial web development school in Vancouver, BC.
  • Intellectual Asset Management, an intellectual property magazine
  • Interest at Maturity, a type of financial instruments where proceeds are paid/received at the end of the deal.
  • Internal auditory meatus, a canal in the temporal bone of the skull that carries nerves from inside the cranium towards the middle and inner ear compartments.

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IamsCruelty.com (0 words)
For nearly 10 months in 2002 and early 2003, a PETA investigator went undercover at an Iams contract testing laboratory, where a dark, sordid secret was discovered beneath the dog- and cat-food manufacturer’s wholesome image.
Caring consumers might never guess that lonely animals are confined to tiny barren cages in laboratories for years on end to test dog and cat food.
Iams Funds Cruel Researcher From Wright State University
PETA: Big Fat Corporate Lies > Let's Fight for Fifi (810 words)
Iams dragged its feet, reneged on promises, and made sorry excuses to her (not knowing she worked for PETA) as to why the animals shouldn’t be given such meager considerations as a place to rest off the concrete floor.
An Iams veterinarian, who came to see the first group of 49 Labrador retrievers the company had purchased for testing from a USDA Class B dealer, saw that one of the dogs had given birth in a cement kennel and that she had been provided with nothing to rest on to nurse them.
When our investigator reported that Humbug, an Iams dog, was limping, she was told by a vet tech that the laboratory had an x-ray machine that dated back to the 1960s but no film for it and that the director of the laboratory preferred to kill, rather than treat, animals with broken bones.
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