9-704-027 REV: J U L Y 2 0 ‚ 2 0 0 4 G U N N A R TRUMBULL LOUISA GAY Wal-Mart in Europe "Never resist change.. . We have to be able to place a store or club side-by-side with the competition and beat them every time. " -David Glass‚ Director and Chairman of the Board‚ Wal-Mart1 "In Germany‚ we know how retail is spelled." - Holger Wenzel‚ Director‚ German Retail Federation Introduction "What are the 10 worst things we can do to fail?"2 This was how Lee Scott‚ CEO of Wal-Mart
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DEMOCRACY AND GOOD GOVERNANCE: NIGERIA’S DILEMMA Ilufoye Sarafa Ogundiya Department of Political Science Usmanu Danfodiyo University‚ Sokoto‚ Nigeria E-mail: oisarafa@yahoo.com‚ elegantlv@aol.co.uk Abstract Despite its enormous resources and huge potentialities‚ Nigeria remains grossly undeveloped. Consequently‚ political instability‚ abject poverty‚ acute youth unemployment‚ heightened crime rate‚ poor health prospects and widespread malnourishment have been the main features of Nigeria’s
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as well. After Emancipation‚ these uniquely African American traditions continued to grow. They developed into distinctive traditions in music‚ art‚ literature‚ religion‚ food‚ holidays‚ amongst others. While for some time sociologists‚ such as Gunnar Myrdal and Patrick Moynihan‚ believed that African Americans had lost most cultural ties with Africa‚ anthropological field research by Melville Hersovits and others demonstrated that there is a continuum of African traditions among Africans in the New
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"’The Supreme Court decision [on Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka‚ Kansas] is the greatest victory for the Negro people since the Emancipation Proclamation‚’ Harlem’s Amsterdam News exclaimed. It will alleviate troubles in many other fields.’ The Chicago Defender added‚ this means the beginning of the end of the dual society in American life and the system of segregation which supports it.’" Oliver Brown‚ father of Linda Brown decided that his third grade daughter should not have to
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Toyota: A Transnational Case Study Toyota is one of the worlds leading car manufacturers and is the third largest in the world. Although based in Japan‚ Toyota produces most of its cars in its transplants in Georgetown‚ Kentucky‚ and Burnaston‚ Derbyshire. Toyota is a typical transnational corporation who understand that considerable gains can be made by locating manufacturing plants outside their country of origin. Toyota expanded to Europe in 1992 in order to achieve the benefits associated
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Its undeniable.. There are significant differences between the male and female brain. For example‚ the picture above shows a humorous diagram about what most males and most females think about in their spare time. Could this have an impact on school? Do males and females think differently? It seems that over the past few years American students are failing to live up to their educational expectations. Recent research has focused on gender-based performance. We should have single gender classrooms
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Affirmative Action: Race‚ Gender‚ Ethnicity‚ and the Politics of Inclusion‚ edited by Nicolaus Mills Steele‚ Shelby. 1990. The Content of Our Character. New York: St. Martin’s Press. Smith‚ James P. and Finish Welch. 1989.“Black Economic Progress after Myrdal.” Journal of Economic Literature 27:519-564.
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Joseph Winn Suzanne May Redrafting the Maastricht Treaty The May-Winn Act The Maastricht Treaty was signed on February 7‚ 1992 in Maastricht Netherlands. The treaty led to the creation of the euro‚ and created what is commonly referred to as the pillar structure of the European Union. The treaty established the three pillars of the European Union: European Community‚ Common Foreign and Security Policy‚ and the Justice and Home Affairs. The convergence criterion that member states would
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contemporaines; Briquet and Sawicki‚ (eds) Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. Merton‚ R.K. (1957): Social Theory and Social Structure; Glencoe‚ Illinois: the free press. Moody-Stuart‚ G. (1997): Grand Corruption; Oxford: Worldview publishing. Mundt‚ R.J Myrdal‚ G. (1968): Asian Drama; An Enquiry into the Poverty of Nations‚ vol. 11. New York: the Twentieth Century Fund. Noonan‚ J.T Nwala‚ T.U. (1980): “Changing Moral Values and Social Development in Nigeria” in Aucheazi‚ E.C. (ed.) Readings in Social Sciences
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___________________________ On the Economics of Regional Powers: Comparing China‚ India‚ Brazil‚ and South Africa Robert Kappel No 145 www.giga-hamburg.de/workingpapers September 2010 GIGA Working Papers serve to disseminate the research results of work in progress prior to publicaton to encourage the exchange of ideas and academic debate. Inclusion of a paper in the Working Papers series does not constitute publication and should not limit publication in any other venue. Copyright
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