guard of honor and was visibly impressed. Deciding that India should not lag in this respect either‚ the decision to induct women into the Indian Army was taken. Since 1993‚ the Indian Army‚ as well as the Air Force and the Navy‚ have been recruiting female officers. Today‚ there are a substantial percentage of women in the armed forces with the Army counting 2.44% of women in its ranks‚ the Navy 3% and the Air Force 6.7%. The induction of women into the armed forces has served to address the
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Measuring the Standard of Living Economists want to be able to make statements that compare the standard of living between different countries or between different time periods. This is quite tricky. As we have just observed‚ people enjoy a very different mix of products and services at different points in time. In fact‚ a likely reason that DeLong seized on the example of flour is that flour is one of the few products that we buy today that we can picture being purchased 500 years ago. Economists
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STANDARD OIL COMPANY Standard Oil Company Imperialism John D. was one of the world’s biggest monopolists. He began the Standard Oil Company in 1870 in Ohio. It began as an Ohio partnership formed by the well-known industrialist John D. Rockefeller‚ his brother William Rockefeller‚ Henry Flagler‚ chemist Samuel Andrews‚ silent partner Stephen V. Harkness‚ and Oliver Burr Jennings. John D. Rockefeller dominated the oil industry‚ for he was the single most important figure in shaping the new industry
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higher-level skills and values of critical thinking. Most significantly‚ it fails to consider‚ in good faith‚ viewpoints that contradict its own viewpoint. It lacks fair-mindedness. Another traditional name for the weak-sense thinker is found in the word sophist. Sophistry is the art of winning arguments regardless of whether there are obvious problems in the thinking being used. There is a set of lower-level skills of rhetoric‚ or argumentation‚ by which one can make poor thinking look good and good
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BS 3551:1962 BRITISH STANDARD Incorporating amendment issued August 1963 (PD 4964) Specification for Alloy steel shackles --`‚‚``‚‚````````‚‚‚``‚‚‚`‚``‚``-`-`‚‚`‚‚`‚`‚‚`--- [UDC 621.885.7:669.15] Copyright British Standards Institution Provided by IHS under license with BSI - Uncontrolled Copy No reproduction or networking permitted without license from IHS Licensee=BP International/5928366101 Not for Resale‚ 06/04/2010 04:58:11 MDT BS 3551:1962 Co-operating organizations
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English 101 02-17-2014 Double Standards Do you have a pet peeve? If so‚ what is it? Is it that of people talking on their cell phone while in the checkout line in a grocery store? Or‚ drivers not using their blinkers while changing lanes? Well‚ one of my biggest pet peeves is double standards or hypocrites. It really bothers me when people say one thing and with their actions do the exact opposite. In the book King Leopold’s Ghost‚ there are three characters that display the most hypocrisy
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STANDARD COSTS Setting a budget is never easy as it involves predicting the future and therefore uncertainty. The process is not about getting the budget absolutely right; it is about not getting it too wrong. This budget process may be applied to most revenue budgets that deal with income and costs‚ but there is also a requirement to produce a capital budget that covers the purchase‚ sale and replacement of fixed assets. There is normally an investment limit dictated by funding availability and
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Standard Deviation (continued) L.O.: To find the mean and standard deviation from a frequency table. The formula for the standard deviation of a set of data is [pic] Recap question A sample of 60 matchboxes gave the following results for the variable x (the number of matches in a box): [pic]. Calculate the mean and standard deviation for x. Introductory example for finding the mean and standard deviation for a table: The table shows the number of children living
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Kamikaze Who were the Kamikazes? During WWII there were pilots of the Japanese Navy and Army who would make suicide attacks. They would drive their planes straight on into carriers and battle ships of the allied forces. These men were known as the Kamikaze pilots. Most people ask‚ why? There were many different stories behind the word Kamikaze. The real meaning of this word is “divine wind.” Your probably thinking how did they get so many men to give their lives away like this. Well‚
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Merriam-Webster defines “Army” as: “The part of a country’s (in this case‚ The USA) military with soldiers trained to fight on land.” The US Army can be looked at as a “Society” by sociologists as opposed to just an organization. After having served myself‚ I can completely agree with the notion that the Army is definitely more of a society‚ in sociological terms‚ than an organization. Merriam-Webster defines “Society” as: “ people in general thought of as living together in organized communities
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