members‚ customers‚ and communities. We proactively seek to procure goods and services from minority‚ women‚ and disabled-owned businesses. Our Supplier Diversity team assists these businesses to access bid and contract opportunities through a combination of: [pic][pic] Outreach We actively seek to establish relationships with diverse suppliers through business networking‚ electronic and print communications‚ and participation in supplier event nationwide. Certification Support We encourage
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alter the underlying nature of the business combination. However‚ the two methods do result in substantial differences in the way the financial statements appear subsequent to the combination. The main objective of the dissertation is to investigate whether they have a different effect on the stock prices of acquiring firms during the combination period‚ and whether their abnormal returns (firms with different accounting treatments) during the combination period are different or not. The methodology
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Licensing‚ in the business world‚ is a contractual agreement to use a brand name‚ patent or property that is owned by another business entity. For example‚ a greeting card company can obtain a license to use images of Hannah Montana or "The Simpsons" characters on greeting cards. A franchise is a business that operates under an existing brand name. Many popular businesses are franchises‚ including McDonald’s‚ Subway and H&R Block. Franchising & Licensing - What are they? and how can you
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the IMF‚ its Executive Board‚ or its management. Staff Discussion Notes are published to elicit comments and to further debate. JEL Classification Numbers: E44‚ E52‚ E58‚ G38‚ H50 Monetary policy‚ Inflation targets‚ Zero lower bound‚ Fiscal consolidation‚ Fiscal multipliers‚ Financial stability‚ Macroprudential policy OBlanchard@imf.org; GDellariccia@imf.org; PMauro@imf.org Keywords: Authors’ E-mail Address: 1 This paper was written as background for a conference on “Rethinking Macroeconomic
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Antitrust Matters What is Antitrust Law Anti-trust law is a law designed to ensure free competition in an open market. The first anti-trust laws have emerged in the United States at the end of 19th century: some companies were so powerful that they had a monopoly or quasi-monopoly in the sector. Companies like Standard Oil and American Tobacco have been dismantled through anti-trust laws. In addition‚ the antitrust laws prohibit price fixing between competitors. In 1934‚ Boeing became a large
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Did Eisenhower’s nuclear threat end the Korean war? American Secretary of State John Foster Dulles often bragged about how nuclear brinkmanship by the United States finally brought the other side to agree to a negotiated settlement of the Korean War in July 1953. According to him it proved that the threat of massive retaliation or a "a bigger bang for a buck" could work. It is true that America let it slip that atomic weapons being placed in Okinawa‚ that Chiang Kai-shek was being permitted to
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The Influences of Lexical Approach on College English Teaching in China I. Introduction 1.1 Background In recent years‚ college English teaching research focuses on exploring more effective teaching methods to improve the students’English proficiency and self-learning ability. China ’s college English teaching find itself caught in a dilemma of time-consuming but low-efficiency. The undesirable language teaching situation drives the teaching researchers to make great efforts to innovate present
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Cox Communications‚ Inc. Applied Corporate Finance Prof. José Neves Adelino Prof. Carla Peixoto Prof. André Fernando Group 9 Ana Rita Miranda 472 Carolina Oliveira 423 Henrique Queiroz 453 João Santos 438 Tiago Pinho 403 Applied Corporate Finance Executive Summary By mid-1999‚ Cox Communications‚ majority-owned by the Cox family‚ was about to take its first step into a planned $7Bn acquisition spree‚ which would let it stand as a top-tier communication sector firm in the coming years
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THE CORPORATION CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES [Batas Pambansa Blg. 68] TITLE I GENERAL PROVISIONS Definitions and Classifications Section 1. Title of the Code. - This Code shall be known as "The Corporation Code of the Philippines". Sec. 2. Corporation defined. - A corporation is an artificial being created by operation of law‚ having the right of succession and the powers‚ attributes and properties expressly authorized by law or incident to its existence. Sec. 3. Classes of corporations. -
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One of the progressions impacts the installment of understudy loan consolidations‚ both for government and for private understudy loans. The installments will now be founded on the understudy’s salary. In the event that an understudy can demonstrate that he or she experiences ’incomplete money related hardships’ then the installments made month to month on an understudy loan consolidation will be constrained at around 15 percent taken from an understudy’s present salary‚ rather than a set cost for
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