with 20‚532 restaurants worldwide located in 72 countries. Restaurant locations continue to increase year over year from an annual rate of 4 percent in 1999 to 14 percent in 2003. Brand recognition grows as market geographically expands. The new Tuscany Décor reinforces the idea of a fresh‚ healthy and great tasting menu items. Recent additions such as the Atkins friendly sandwich wraps should establish a stronger association between just good tasting fast food to now healthy tasting fast food as
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As noted in more detail in the SparkNote on the Fall of the Roman Empire‚ beginning in the middle of the 3rd century CE‚ the Roman Empire faced increasing Germanic tribe infiltration and internal political chaos. Romans set up generals as emperors‚ who were quickly deposed by rival claimants. This pattern continued until Diocletian (r. 284-305) rose to power in 285. He and Constantine (324-337) administratively reorganized the empire‚ engineering an absolute monarchy. Constantine the Great patronized
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day of January in 1948 following World War II. GATT was designed to assist economic growth and includes the governments of Australia‚ Belgium‚ Brazil‚ Burma‚ Canada‚ Ceylon‚ Chile‚ China‚ Cuba‚ Czechoslovak‚ French Republic‚ India‚ Lebanon‚ the Grand-Duchy of Luxemburg‚ Netherlands‚ New Zealand‚ Norway‚ Pakistan‚ Southern Rhodesia‚ Syria‚ South Africa‚ Great Britain‚ Northern Ireland‚ and the United States of America. These mentioned governments entered into the arrangements with a mutual desire
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The Hundred Years’ War was a sequence of conflicts between the Kings and Kingdoms of England and France from 1337-1453. It was a seemingly endless war over control of the throne that ultimately led to England’s expulsion from all land in France except Calais. The Hundred Years’ War is known in history as one of the most significant conflicts of the Middle Ages. Over the course of several generations‚ the kings of the two opposing houses‚ Plantagenet and Valois‚ campaigned over the largest kingdom
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Artemisia Gentileschi: the first female artist The first female artist‚ Artemisia Gentileschi was born on July 8th 1593 and would die as the most important woman painter in Early Modern Europe. At a very young age‚ Artemisia was introduced into the world of painting by her father‚ Orazio Gentileschi. Orazio was a well-known painter as well‚ with much of his work consisting in a Mannerist style. Italian painter Caravaggio‚ had a tremendous amount of influence on both Orazio and Artemisia. His realistic
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1. Based on the articles‚ “Darden Restaurants” and “Why America is Addicted to Olive Garden‚” the Darden Company has a market orientation and adheres to the marketing concept. According to MKTG “market orientation is a philosophy that assumes that a sale does not depend on an aggressive sales force but rather on a customer’s decision to purchase product.” The “marketing concept is the idea that the social and economic justification for an organization’s existence is the satisfaction of customer
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After that he was appointed philosopher and mathematician to the Grand Duke of Tuscany. During the whole of this period‚ and to the close of his life‚ his investigation of Nature‚ in all his fields‚ was never stopped. Following up his experiments at Pisa with others upon inclined planes‚ Galileo established the laws of falling
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century. Due to its tolerance to various nationalities and religions the city was known as a one-time international center of Jewish culture and learning‚ often referred to as “Jerusalem of Lithuania”. Royal Vilnius - Old Town Walk The capital of Grand Duchy of Lithuania - Vilnius - dream town and homeland of many nations. The Republic of Uzupis Uzupis is the most romantic part in Vilnius. The place of artists‚ the Republic of Uzupis‚ is famous for its events and special atmosphere. A night with
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florence outside of Italy: 1453: Fall of the Eastern Roman Empire 1455: Printing Press Invented Florence! (actually not really. China to India to Constantinople to FLORENCE) The Medici Family leading merchants and bankers the line of grand dukes of tuscany until 1737 three popes two queens of france patrons of art‚ architecture‚ lit‚ and philosophy Lorenzo il Magnifico cool people brunelleschi (DOME) Donatello (the fem child david) Lorenzo de valla (he read about the donation of constantine
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and details on the moon. He published a book with all of his findings. Skeptics did not agree with him so he addressed the general public by publishing the Sidereus Nuncius which was met with more backlash. (Linder). In his letter to the Grand Duchess of Tuscany‚ Galileo says‚ "Showing a greater fondness for their own opinions than for truth they sought to deny and disprove the new things" (Galilei). He says that his fellow scholars do not care for the truth but instead what they already believe
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