"The major companies must put aside their narrow interests and embrace the national interest."

Still, with sales of organic foods growing more than 20 percent a year recently, other big companies had already embraced health food.

"But increasingly, companies are embracing the fact that we have to do something."

I've also been privileged to watch huge companies embrace some of these ideas and run with them.

So why haven't more companies embraced the permission model?

He said the company would embrace local brands and flavors more than it had in the past.

The company embraced the idea, then new, of assembly line production.

The companies have embraced different operating philosophies over the years.

This idea that all companies should embrace open source is archaic and needs to die.

Some companies are embracing the new credo with more caution.