AP U.S. Government: Chapter 9 and 10 Chapter 9: Interest Groups * K Street – where much political life occurs; a row of office buildings where nearly 7‚000 organizations are represented in Washington * The U.S. has many more organizations represented in its capital than other countries. These are interest groups (lobbies) who participate in politics. * Explaining Proliferation * Three reasons why interest groups are so common in this country * Cleavage in society * Divisions
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According to human resource experts‚ the average attrition rate is projected to grow at 31 per cent in Indian firms in the April-June quarter‚ a rise of 9-10 per cent from the preceding quarter (January-March). SPECIAL: Best companies to work for India In the April-June quarter of 2011-12‚ the average attrition rate was 27 per cent. Generally‚ employees would have received their annual appraisals during the April-June period and those not happy with their performance review or salary hikes
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because log(0.1) = -1 log(1) = 0 log(100) = 2 log(1000) = 3 So the graph will be much easier to read. Logarithms are used in a lot of places to scale numbers when there’s a big range between the smallest and the largest numbers of interest‚ which makes them easier to talk about. y=yi x e^-kt where: y - different between temprature of body and the constant temp of room yi - initial temprature difference of body and room e - eulers number (2.718...) t - time in mins k -
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rish IIreland Inflation Rate The inflation rate in Ireland was recorded at 1.20 percent in October of 2012. Inflation Rate in Ireland is reported by the Central Statistics Office Ireland. Historically‚ from 1976 until 2012‚ Ireland I.R averaged 5.3 Percent reaching an all time high of 23.2 Percent in October of 1981 and a record low of -6.6 Percent in October of 2009. In Ireland‚ the inflation rate measures a broad rise or fall in prices that consumers pay for a standard basket of goods. Ireland
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was the reason for the decreased crime rate from the 1990s to the 2000s? The increase in technology in the late 1980s-early 1990s made it easier for gangs and criminals to commit crimes. In the 1990s there was a lot of crime going on and many people though that it was going to keep increasing into the 2000s but to many peoples surprise the crime rate actually decreased. After the 1990s‚ which was a decade full of crime‚ many people thought that the crime rate would increase in the 2000s‚ but due
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INTERNAL RATE OF RETURN Many companies wants to have a return on their investment in a few years and begin to evaluate their projects optimistically calculating an internal rate of real return not yielding results in the end. This does not end up being expected by the companies; According to the article the authors John C. Kelleher and Justin J. MacCormack . They suggest that there is a tendency to a risky behavior‚ Companies started to run the risk of creating unrealistic numbers for themselves
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Assignment: Integrative Problem - Exchange Rate Behavior Data: Beginning of year Spot rate of £ = $1.596 Spot rate of Australian dollar (A$) = $.70 Cross exchange rate: £1=A$2.28 One-year forward rate of £1= A$.71 One-year U.S. interest rate = 8.00% One year British interest rate = 9.09% One-year Australian interest rate = 7.00% Question 1 Determining whether triangular arbitrage is feasible and‚ if so how it should be conducted to make a profit. Background: Triangular arbitrage
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The question of the week is why should you guys be interested in the NFL Draft? One of the many reasons why you should be interested in the NFL Draft is because it’s one of the most important weekends of the year. Therefore if any sports fan or even college fans that don’t care about the NFL but‚ care about their college team to see where their favorite players on their favorite college team will go and continue their careers. “It’s no secret that the NFL draft is catnip cut with Vicodin for
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The Murugan Temple situated at the top of the Palani hills one of the Six holy abodes The 16th Century Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health at the coastal town of Velankanni Tamil Nadu has the credit of having 34000 Hindu temples which are several centuries Old. The cities in ancient Tamil Nadu is believed to have revolved around the magnificent temples built by the Pallava‚Chola and Pandya empires and therefore most of the cities in the state have a lot of religious significance and
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to change relative to other currencies? Among the economic and political factors that affect the value of a country currency are: * Currency appreciation/depreciation‚ * Currency rate manipulation * When a currency is fixed (pegged) to the value of another currency * Interest rates & inflation * Speculation. All of these forces have critical political and social consequences for a country and its trade partners. As mentioned in the last question‚ there are always
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