Kaleidoscope by Ray Bradbury I am fortunate enough to take a wonderful course that solely focused on Bradbury and his work‚ taught by his very own biographer. I’ve never read as many stories written by a single author before. Even so‚ I can safely say that he is one of the best writers I’ve ever read. “Kaleidoscope‚” which appears in Bradbury’s remarkable short story collection‚ The Illustrated Man‚ is a story that literally sends you up into outer space. The name itself gives us an idea what
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Top 10 Global Consumer Trends For 2015 1:47pm 78 80 60 F 1:47pm 78 F 80 60 1:47pm 78 F 80 60 Not to be distributed without permission. TOP 10 GLOBAL CONSUMER TRENDS FOR 2015 Daphne Kasriel-Alexander Consumer Trends Consultant‚ UK CONNECT WITH US © EUROMONITOR INTE R N AT ION A L Consumption in 2015 is increasingly being driven by the heart: consumers are making choices defined by their positive impact on the world and community through cause-linked buying‚ the thriving “sharing economy”
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Organization (WHO)‚ 19.3 million new cancer cases are expected to be detected per year by 2025‚ up from the 14.1 million new cases reported in 2012. The rapidly increasing incidence of cancer is the most important growth driver for the Tissue diagnostics market in the forecast period from 2013 to 2018. Advanced age is considered to be an important risk factor for cancer. People over 65 years of age account for close to 60% of all new cancer cases and close to 70% of all cancer deaths. The rapidly aging
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Urbanization Trends The world has experienced two major urban revolutions in the past‚ with the first one starting around 8000 B.C.E. and the second one starting around 1750‚ spawned by the Industrial Revolution (Macionis‚ 2011). The third urban revolution has now begun‚ however the rapid rate of urban growth is concentrated mainly in low-income nations. This trend is thought to be caused by falling death rates and migration of people moving toward inner cities in search of better jobs‚ education
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1. Executive Summary Breakfast cereals are an important part of the British diet and a key sector of the grocery market in the UK‚ with over 90% household penetration. In 2000‚ 414‚000 tonnes of breakfast cereals were sold in the UK‚ at a retail value of £1.1bn The breakfast cereals market is made up of two main sectors‚ firstly‚ the ready-to-eat sector‚ which consists of staples including corn flakes and wheat. Secondly‚ the hot cereals sector‚ which consists of cereals that require some kind
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Unit 2 Macro-Trend Analysis BUS 620 Larry Fiegle Tina Haller May‚ 3‚ 2012 Hybrid Vehicle Macro-Trend Analysis Introduction As gas prices continue to rise‚ people have started to trend toward more energy efficient means of transportation. Hybrid vehicles have an electric motor along with rechargeable batteries and have an increased efficiency of up to 50 percent. There is an onboard computer that switches between gas and electric power. The hybrid car runs on the energy of the battery when
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Trends Multi channel Global Shopping trends Submitted By: Bharat Bhushan Narang (Roll No 18) EPGDIB - 2012 - 14 Subject: IMM Indian Institute of Foreign Trade‚ New Delhi Faculty: Dr. R. M. Joshi 1. Introduction Multi channel Global Shopping trends 1. Background “91% of global consumers believe that companies must go beyond the minimum standards required by law to operate responsibly.” Cone Communications/ Echo‚ May 2013 “87% of global consumers believe business should place at least equal emphasis on social interests
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The long-term GYE forest recovery trend also differs by ownership. Forests on national forest land generally grow back faster than forests in national parks and wilderness areas. During the two decades following the catastrophic fires in 1988‚ national forests consistently had higher values of forest recovery than national parks and wilderness areas. Despite the short-term similarity to the wilderness areas in the first few years after the 1997 fires‚ forest recovery in the GYE national forests rapidly
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Hospitality Management 18 (1999) 427}442 Operational issues and trends in the hospitality industry Peter Jones School of Management Studies for the Service Sector‚ University of Surrey‚ Guildford‚ Surrey‚ UK Abstract This article makes some predictions about the future by considering operational issues in the "rst part of the next century. Hospitality operations management is considered at two levels * the "rm level at which strategic operations management takes place; and the unit level
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International Journal of Economic Practices and Theories‚ Vol. 2‚ No. 1‚ 2012 (January)‚ e-ISSN 2247 – 7225 www.ijept.org Current and Future Trends in Tourism and Hospitality. The Case of Greece by Soultana (Tania) Kapiki Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki tkapiki@tour.teithe.gr Abstract. This paper identifies some of the current and future trends affecting the tourism and hospitality industry‚ including globalisation‚ guests’ safety and security‚ the importance of offering outstanding
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