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This has caused many of the managers of these companies to go without a break for years and some of them have been without an extended holiday for four-year. The valid point here is how long with these managers be able to continue working like this Continue Reading...
Enron could engage in their derivative trading strategy with no fear of government intervention because derivative trading was specifically exempted from government regulation. Due in part to a ruling by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission' Continue Reading...
leadership is crucial for organizational success in a competitive marketplace. Gaps in leadership or conduct that could be interpreted as ineffective could have adverse effects on the reputation and overall competitiveness of a company. One company Continue Reading...
The American ambassador to the United Nations under the former President George W. Bus, ZalmayKhalilzad said that the threat perception on the issue of Iran's nuclear program of Washington is not the same as that of Beijing. He also tried to persua Continue Reading...
China and the World Trade Organization
On December 11, 2001, China officially became a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), opening the country's doors to change and a new economy.
One year after china's entry into the WTO, the country rep Continue Reading...
Singapore Economy
Singapore: Looking Back to the Past for Answers to the Future
Looking Backwards
According to the Singapore Ministry of Finance the world economy has created a challenging environment for growth in any nation. However, despite the Continue Reading...
Furthermore, Lebanon enjoyed a considerable increase (+26%) on the already positive trend experienced in 2003, despite a politically rocky patch following the assassination of former prime minister Rafiq Hariri. Minister of tourism, Joseph Sarkis, Continue Reading...
Wind Power
The greatest challenge of the 21st century is filling the gap between energy demand and supply with clean, reliable and green source of energy. Energy is very essential and it is in material form in everything that is around us. The oppor Continue Reading...
political scenario illustrated that governments all over the globe are making their immigration rules more stringent because of the rise in terrorism; the implication of this phenomenon is a decrease in international traveling, which endangers conti Continue Reading...
There have not been specific funding promises from the candidates for specific aspects of the Pickens Plan, either.
The final verdict on the Pickens Plan campaign will not be known for months, if not years. The new president will not take office un Continue Reading...
Wealth Inequality from a Macroeconomics PerspectiveIntroductionBoushey reports in Unbound that the very richest householdsthe top 1 percentsave 51 percent of their income, while those in the bottom 20 percent save just 1 percent.[footnoteRef:2] The i Continue Reading...
DEVELOPMENT RELATED CONTROVERSIES TAKING PLACE WITHIN GHANA or BETWEEN GHANA and OUTSIDE ENTITIES
Despite the promise of new oil revenues in the future, Ghana continues to struggle to allocate scarce resources in response to international issues i Continue Reading...
New Orleans is not alone in exposure to dangerous hurricanes and associated flooding. The worst hurricane in terms of loss of life was that in Galveston, Texas in 1905, which killed over 6,000 people. Galveston at the time was the second-largest ci Continue Reading...
Risks of Climate Change
THE RISK OF CLIMATE CHANGE: IMPLICATIONS FOR ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS
Climate Change Impacts on Engineering Infrastructure
Key Impacts on Water and Resources
Risk Management Analysis Coping Methods Possibility And Probabil Continue Reading...
S. would suddenly lose control of the Alaskan oilfields, that the Chinese would become highly opportunistic in terms of raising oil prices, and finally, selling Unocal to a Chinese-led corporation is tantamount to handing over trade secrets. Dobbs re Continue Reading...
Malaysia's Budget, 2011
Individual Presentation
At the time of its independence in 1957, Malaysia's economy was based on primary exports of agricultural commodities and raw materials such as rice, rubber, palm oil and tin. In a series of five-year Continue Reading...
Telecommuting
Technology has reached into the lives of each of us. Regardless of how we might try to avoid modern technology it affects cannot be denied. Cell phones, email, internet, GPS are just a few of the modern technological devices that have Continue Reading...
Global Financial Crisis
Since the early 2008, financial institutions started to go through chaos all over the globe. The stock markets were beginning to crash, businesses were shutting down, and investors were losing their money. This was to indicat Continue Reading...
Risk Crisis Disaster Management
Managing the problems related to global warming is quite different than responding to a damaging earthquake albeit both strategies require careful planning and coordination. This paper points to the contrasts between Continue Reading...
Another point of interest for the Congressman is the issue of the environment. The district he is representing deals with a lot of environmental challenges related to the condition of the ports, of the waters and the living creatures present there. Continue Reading...
As Geisel (2004) notes:
Income-tax deductions are worth the most to high-bracket taxpayers, who need little incentive to save, whereas the lowest-paid third of workers, whose tax burden consists primarily of the Social Security payroll tax (and who Continue Reading...
Cultural Differences With Spain
In June 2001, the United States and Spain signed a declaration celebrating their "traditional relations." The declaration pledged, among others, to strengthen the economic and financial cooperation between Spain and t Continue Reading...
Battlefield Contractors
The use of private contractors to assist the U.S. military forces in times of conflict is not a new concept. According to author Gordon Campbell, Washington has "always" used contractors in times of war. There are many contem Continue Reading...
Pipeline welding is a highly specialized field within the welding industry, pivotal for the construction and maintenance of infrastructure that transports oil, gas, water, and other substances across vast distances. The process of pipeline welding d Continue Reading...
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Ongoing research is inclusive of."..mechanical and instrumentations laboratories and test centers." (Ibid)
Electronics and Infocomm Technology - founded the Centre for Mechanics of Micro-Systems in 1999 which works in collaboration with the Data St Continue Reading...
Tonkin Gulf Crisis
The Debate over the Tonkin Gulf Crisis
The Tonkin Gulf Crisis 1964 ranks with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as events that David Kaiser of the U.S. Naval War College refers Continue Reading...