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• Pacific Research InstitutePublisher of a November 2025 paper disputing the “mystery surcharge” on gross-versus-net margin grounds.
• Palantir Technologies 2003 –Data-analysis software company founded in 2003, first for US intelligence work.
• Palestine Liberation Organization 1964 –Organization of Palestinian groups; party to the 1993 Declaration of Principles with Israel.
• Palestine Royal Commission (Peel Commission) 1936–1937British commission sent in 1936 to find the causes of the disturbances in Palestine; it reported in July 1937.
• Pan American Sanitary BureauPredecessor of the Pan American Health Organization; it sponsored the Guatemala research.
• PandoraDanish jewelry maker; stopped using mined diamonds in 2021.
• Paramount GlobalMedia company; parent of CBS and CBS News. Taken over by Skydance in 2025.
• Paris Court of AppealFrench appeal court that reviews decisions of the Autorité de la concurrence.
• Parliament of EnglandThe legislature of the Kingdom of England.
• Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry on the P2 LodgeCommission of the Italian Chamber and Senate, 1981-1984.
• Paula's ChoiceSkin care brand founded by Paula Begoun in 1995; bought by Unilever in 2021.
• PayPal 1998 –Online payments company co-founded in 1998; owned by eBay from 2002 to 2015.
• PBF EnergyU.S. refiner; bought the Torrance refinery from ExxonMobil in 2016.
• Peat Marwick MitchellMerged with KMG Main Hurdman in 1987 to form KPMG Peat Marwick, now KPMG.
• Pennsylvania Historical and Museum CommissionPennsylvania state agency that keeps the state's historical markers.
• Pennsylvania RailroadRailroad company; the Park Service says it lost two suits over property lost in the Johnstown flood.
• People's Commissariat of Education 8 Nov 1917 – 1946Soviet Russia's department for schools, adult education and political education, set up after the October Revolution of 1917 and renamed a ministry in 1946.
• Personal Care Products CouncilU.S. trade group of cosmetics and personal care product makers; known as PCPC.
• Petroleum Market Advisory Committee 2014–2017Advisory committee of the California Energy Commission, 2014 to 2017.
• PfizerU.S. drug company.
• Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of AmericaTrade group of the large U.S. drug and biotech companies; known as PhRMA.
• Philidor Rx ServicesSpecialty mail-order pharmacy that ran a Valeant patient assistance program; a Senate committee asked about it in 2016.
• Philip Morris USAU.S. cigarette maker, formerly Philip Morris, Inc.; a subsidiary of Altria.
• Phillips 66U.S. refiner; owned the Los Angeles-area refinery at Carson and Wilmington.
• Phillips 66 Los Angeles refinery 1917–2025Los Angeles-area refinery at Carson and Wilmington; Phillips 66 stopped processing crude oil there in October 2025.
• Phillips Exeter AcademyPrivate boarding school in Exeter, New Hampshire.
• Pinkerton National Detective AgencyPrivate detective agency whose guards the Carnegie Steel Company engaged at Homestead in 1892.
• Pioneer Natural ResourcesTexas oil producer, the largest in the Permian Basin; bought by Exxon in May 2024.
• PivotalMelinda French Gates’s giving company (formerly Pivotal Ventures), an LLC.
• Plimoth Patuxet MuseumsMuseum in Plymouth, Massachusetts, with a teaching toolkit on the 1621 harvest feast.
• Plymouth Colony 1620–1691English colony founded at Plymouth in 1620.
• PNC Financial Services GroupAmerican financial services company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• Point72Investment firm founded and led by Steven A. Cohen.
• Polaroid CorporationCompany organised in 1937 by Edwin Land to make products from his light polarizers.
• PolitiFact 2007 –American fact-checking website run by the Poynter Institute.
• Pond'sSkin care brand of Unilever; its cold cream was sold from the early 1900s.
• Ponds Hindustan Lever Ex-Mercury Employees' Welfare AssociationAssociation of former workers at the Kodaikanal thermometer factory who petitioned the Madras High Court.
• Prager MetisAccounting firm; auditor of FTX.com’s group; settled SEC charges in September 2024.
• Preserve America PACSuper PAC that raised $105 million in the 2020 cycle, FactCheck.org reports.
• President's Strategic and Policy Forum 2 Dec 2016 – 16 Aug 2017Forum of business leaders set up by Donald Trump in December 2016 to advise him; disbanded in August 2017.
• Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical IssuesCommission that investigated the Guatemala experiments for President Obama in 2011.
• Presidential Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of SlaveryCommittee that reported on Harvard’s ties to slavery on 26 April 2022.
• Price WaterhouseOne of the Big Eight; merged with Coopers & Lybrand in 1998 to form PricewaterhouseCoopers.
• Princeton UniversityPrivate research university in Princeton, New Jersey.
• Procter & GambleU.S. consumer goods company; owner of Olay and SK-II.
• Project RAND 1946–1948Research project created by the U.S. Army Air Forces in 1946 within the Douglas Aircraft Company in Santa Monica; it became the RAND Corporation in 1948.
• Propaganda Due (P2)Masonic lodge led by Licio Gelli.
• ProPublicaNonprofit investigative newsroom, founded in 2007-2008.
• Public Company Accounting Oversight Board 30 Jul 2002 –Nonprofit created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002 to oversee audits of public companies; it inspects audit firms.
• Pujo CommitteeHouse subcommittee that investigated the concentration of money and credit in 1912–13.
• Pullman's Palace Car CompanyRailway sleeping-car maker and landlord of the town of Pullman, Illinois.
• Purdue PharmaMaker of OxyContin; pleaded guilty to federal felonies in 2020.
• PwCOne of the four largest accounting and audit networks; PricewaterhouseCoopers.
• PwC AustraliaAustralian firm of the PwC network.
• PwC Zhong TianShanghai-registered audit firm in the PwC network; auditor of Evergrande’s onshore unit.