MANILA‚ Philippines—The Philippines is still perceived as one of the most corrupt countries in the world‚ getting a score of 34 on a scale of 1 to 100 with 100 being very clean‚ according to the latest Corruption Perceptions Index of Transparency International. But the Philippines has at least outranked its neighbors Vietnam‚ Indonesia and Bangladesh‚ which all fared better than the country in the previous CPI‚ said TI‚ a civil society organization that promotes transparency and accountability.
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Executive Summary of Too Big To Fail Andrew Sorkin wrote a book titled Too Big To Fail. This book focus on the collapse of the investment bank Lehman Brothers‚ Merrill Lynch was sold by Bank of American‚ Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae was nationalized‚ and the government took 80 percent of AIG that took place on the weekend of September‚ 15‚ 2012. Significantly‚ he examined the financial markets reactions to the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers. It starts with the failure of Bear Stern‚ one of the biggest
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renowned acquisitions of the “Big Four”‚ namely the American Express Company‚ The Coca-Cola Company‚ The Gillette Company‚ and Wells Fargo & Company. The total cost to purchase the stocks of the four companies was $3.832 billion‚ and by year-end of 2004‚ the total market value of the stocks were $24.68 billion‚ which is equivalent to a time weighted return of (24.68/3.832) ^ (1/12.5) -1 = 16.07% per annum from 1992 to 2004. The portfolio has outperformed the S&P 500 index‚ which had achieved a time
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Portfolio Project December 7‚ 2010 Martha Jimenez Case 1 Hudson Bay Company and IBM 1. Difference between the three types of server virturalization using the first video. Hypervision- can run of virtual instances with several different operating systems at the same time. OS Virtual- need not to be aware they are running in th virtualized environment and they require ongoing maintenance. Paravirtualization- offers a conservable performance approved. 2. Why is virtualization important to
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In the 21th century‚ human beings have witnessed the rapid improvement of technology. 3D printer is a desktop device that can print out an actual thing‚ such as entire cars‚ shoes and even blood vessels‚ and the price of this device is getting less costly nowadays.（3D printing is an emergent technology that allows personalized and customized manufacturing of real 3D objects. So in the same way that desktop publishing allows the individual to print books( rather thatn going to a publishing house)）However
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The IPIP-NEO (International Personality Item Pool Representation of the NEO PI-R™) You can now choose between two versions of the IPIP-NEO The original IPIP-NEO The original IPIP-NEO inventory contains 300 items. Most people complete the inventory in 30-40 minutes. Over half a million persons have successfully completed this online inventory since it was first posted on the Internet. The original IPIP-NEO will provide somewhat more reliable and valid results than the shorter version
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PROJECT ON HUMUN DEVELOPMENT INDEX A brief history of india The story begins on 15 August 1947. Two hundred years of subservience to the British Empire came to an end with the Partition; the violent carving away of British India into Muslim and Hindu-dominated states. On 26 January 1950‚ the Constitution was adopted‚ defining India as a sovereign‚ socialist‚ secular republic. While shedding British domination‚ India chose to retain the British two-tiered parliamentary system‚ made up of a
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that is embarrassing and humiliating for all those involved‚ especially David Duchovny. His first feature film after his rise to television and Internet fame as Special Agent Fox Mulder of The X-Files‚ Playing God was supposed to launch the actor’s big screen career. Instead‚ Playing God is such a failure that it is sure to turn into what Point Break was for Keanu Reeves: a showcase of his worst acting surrounded by an even worse plot and characters. Duchovny plays Eugene Sands‚ a L.A. junkie who
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As a result‚ teens often put themselves in very dangerous situations because they do not think about the consequences of their actions. In the article “Big Brother Meets Big Mother‚” Ellen Goodman states‚ “But even if kids aren’t wandering in the neighborhood‚ they are wandering in the Internet with all of its unknown cul-de-sacs.What teenagers claim as MySpace‚ parents often see as an unmonitored public zone that
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Can banks become “too big to fail”‚ and should they be allowed to stay that way? On September 15th 2008‚ the investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. It was‚ and still is‚ the biggest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history ‚ with Lehman’s holding $691 billion in assets at the time. The event was the catalyst for the current financial crisis. By the end of trading that day‚ $700bn had been wiped off the global stock markets. The Dow Jones had plummeted 500 points‚ its biggest drop since
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