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    MN 4125 Management of Change Final Project: United States Postal Service Case Study Steve Mays Frank Sierra Joshua Kapp PART I History and Background Introduction The United States Postal Service (USPS) is an independent government organization that generates income through mail services. It is currently the second largest civilian employer in the United States. Its primary task is to deliver mail around the country‚ at a standard price‚ regardless of geographic location. Over the last

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    Republic of the Philippines Congress of the Philippines Metro Manila Fourteenth Congress Third Regular Session Begun and held in Metro Manila‚ on Monday‚ the twenty-seventh day of July‚ two thousand nine. Republic Act No. 9700             August 7‚ 2009 AN ACT STRENGTHENING THE COMPREHENSIVE AGRARIAN REFORM PROGRAM (CARP)‚ EXTENDING THE ACQUISITION AND DISTRIBUTION OF ALL AGRICULTURAL LANDS‚ INSTITUTING NECESSARY REFORMS‚ AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6657

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    Over the years the accounting profession has been subject to various forms of oversight with varying degrees of success. Nevertheless‚ it used to be self-regulating. But a series of financial scandals involving once prominent companies such as Enron‚ WorldCom and Parmalat lead the authorities to consider whether the accounting profession’s self-regulatory oversight system was appropriate to meet the necessary objectives. These corporate failures had shown that the self-regulatory system did not produce

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    Anti-Money Laundering Act R.A. 9160AMLA‚ As Amended by R.A. 9194 Subject: Business Laws and Corporate Practices Colegio de San Juan de Letran- Graduate School Submitted by: Michelle Ann G. Espisua Submitted to: Atty. Kriden Balgomera AMLA- Anti-Money Laundering Act R.A. 9160Anti-Money Laundering Act‚ As Amended by R.A. 9194 These Rules shall be known and cited as the "Revised Rules and Regulations Implementing Republic Act No. 9160” (the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2001 [AMLA]

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    The first of these two goals stems back to Fenno’s three goals of congressional members; reelection‚ influence‚ and good public policy. Originally‚ all three could be accomplished through the use of committees. Members would start out by working through their committees to develop solutions to a perceived problem‚ then work

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    Chapter 16 - Reconstruction: An Unfinished Revolution‚ 1865-1877 I. Introduction The end of the Civil War brought profound changes to the United States. Reconstruction changed some things‚ but it did little regarding social equality and political turmoil. In the end‚ the government established black suffrage‚ but this reform proved insufficient to remake the South or to guarantee human rights. II. Wartime Reconstruction A. Lincoln’s 10 Percent Plan Lincoln planned for a swift

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    As of April 2012‚ 169 remained in detention at GITMO (Sutton‚ 2012). An assumption made by the Bush administration in selecting this location was that it was beyond the jurisdiction of U.S. courts. The administration wanted to avoid any judicial oversight of how it handled detainees‚ characterized as “enemy combatants.” A possible legal challenge to indefinite detention with no formal charges or judicial proceedings might arise from the habeas corpus provision of the Constitution. POL 201 Week

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    slaveholding states and Free states. The slaveholding states feared that if they became outnumbered in Congressional representation that they would lack the power to protect their interests in property and trade. In 1819‚ the slaveholding territory of Missouri applied for admission to the Union. Northern states opposed it‚ feeling that Southern slaveholding states held too much power already. Congressional debates went on for a while until the District of Maine‚ originally part of Massachusetts‚ sought

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    The bicameral structure of Congress was designed to enable the legislative body and its members to perform certain functions for the political system. These functions include lawmaking‚ representation‚ service to constituents‚ oversight‚ public education‚ and conflict resolution. The first of the functions of Congress is lawmaking. Lawmaking is the process of establishing the legal rules that govern society. This function is one of the two most important functions Congress‚ without lawmaking‚ society

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    formed nation‚ therefore they adopted the republican form government. The trustee model of congressional representation consists of the congressional representative voting on issues based on his/her own views‚ whether or not they conflict with the views of his/her constituency. It is called the attitudinal view because they representative acts based on his/her own values. The delegate model of congressional representation consists of the representative voting based on the views of his/her constituency

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