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    Conflict Assessment Report BC 465: Negotiation and Conflict Management Xxxxxx xxxxxxx Jones International University March 30‚ 2010 Abstract This paper is an assessment of a conflict that took place between The Boeing Company and one of its unions‚ The International Association of Machinist and Aerospace Workers in 2008. Conflict Assessment Report Profile The Boeing Company is the world’s top aerospace company and the biggest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military

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    2007 Writers Guild Strikes

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    (amptp.org). On November 5‚ 2007 the Writer’s Guild of America East and the Writer’s Guild of America West initiated a strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (Cieply‚ 2007). The strike lasted 100 days and ended on February 12‚ 2008. The strike put the economy in Los Angeles under severe strain with losses estimated as high as $2.1 billion. The strike resulted from the regular renegotiation of standard contracts‚ or the Minimum Basic Agreement with the AMPTP. According

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    I chose to write about the "Reach for a LUCKY instead of a sweet" ad created by Lucky Strike cigarettes and how they appealed to the average American woman of the 1920 ’s. We ’ll be going over what the average American woman of the 20 ’s was as well as why they were so fascinated with smoking cigarettes. Didn ’t they know that cigarettes cause cancer? Didn ’t they know that they could die‚ and leave their loved ones behind because of cancer? Did they truly believe that cigarettes were the miracle

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    In the “The Knowledge Workers’ Strike” case‚ the main topic of discussion is a negotiation between the Software Engineers Guild (SEG)‚ a workers union for programmers in the gaming industry‚ and Detonation‚ a large virtual game producing company. The SEG is nearly half of Detonation’s employees and they are trying to rally together to get better pay and benefits (regarding revenue sharing‚ etc). On the other hand‚ Detonation is trying to shift its workers to profit sharing‚ rather than revenue

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    The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC) is a public sector company set up and fully owned by the Ministry of Railways. The IRCTC has been incorporated under the Companies Act 1956‚ has its Registered Office at 9th Floor‚ Bank of Baroda Building‚ Sansad Marg‚ New Delhi 110001. This company has been formed to function as an extended arm of the Indian Railways to upgrade‚ professionalize and manage the catering and hospitality services at stations‚ on trains and other locations

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    Drone Strike Research Paper

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    and Government Agency Support for Drones……………Page 11 Arguments against the Use of Drones……………………………………………Page 14 Drone Strikes Kill Large Numbers of Civilians and Traumatize Local Populations Drone Strikes Violate International Law Drone Strikes are Secretive‚ Lack Sufficient Legal Oversight‚ and Prevent Citizens from holding Their Leaders Accountable. Drone Strikes Violate the Sovereignty of Other Countries Executive Summary……………………………………………………………………………………………Page 18 Bibliography…………………………………………………………………………………………………………Page

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    Three strikes raises important questions about how sentencing laws need to achieve public safety. How are such laws made? Who do they target? And why did Michael Reynolds and Mark Klaas start out as allies and end up as bitter political rivals. Over the last two decades (1980-2000)‚ the US prison population has increased 450%. California has led the nation in prison growth since the early 1980s‚ and it incarcerated a higher percentage of its population than any nation on earth by 1994. The same

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    Indian Railways has a wide network throughout the nation. With the help of this widely spread railway networks‚ you can reach any place of India. Both passengers and freight can be transported to anywhere of India by the help of Indian Railways. This also creates impact on the Indian Economy. This article deals with how Indian Railways impact the Economy of India or the impact of Indian Railways on the Indian economy. India is a land of diverse culture as well as religion. In different parts of

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    The definition of the three strikes law is as follows. The third conviction for a felony results in a mandatory and lengthy prison term as defined by the American justice. This research paper will exclusively be written to follow the guidelines of the Caliornia version of the “three strikes and you’re out law” The exact application of the three strikes laws vary considerably from state to state. Although over twenty-three states have a three strikes law and many others have similar laws‚ none are

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    Strike refers to an act of abstinence from work for sometime in order to protest against some injustice or exploitation. It is a joint activity of a group of persons having a common goal to achieve. Originally‚ it was a major instrument in the hands of the labour union for establishing their demands to the proprietor of the concern. The labourers used to interrupt the work indefinitely until their demands were paid heed to. The causes of this strike were generally demand for a hike in the wage rate

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