【答案解析】1. So much so, that some observers believe that by the end of this century, the 300 largest Corporations will account for more than half of the world"s industrial production.
2. They manufacture and sell their products where it is most profitable, by passing the formal boundaries of states as much as they can and dealing with the governments of states as little as they can.
3. The chair of Dow Chemical Company once expressed the wish that he could buy an island owned by no nation, on which to establish his World Headquarters so that the corporation could be truly on neutral ground.
4. Today there is widespread agreement that multinational corporations will have an important effect on international relations and world economy.
5. These business giants are referred to as "engines of development", because it is claimed that they to more to improve the economic life in less developed countries than all governmental foreign aid programs have ever done.