relations executive was enthusiastic on the phone. The IT Company he represented had started installing green data centres and energy-efficient computers. Would I like to fly to California to see for myself? That would be a 2‚500-mile round trip from my home in Midwestern Canada. According to the online calculator from Terapas‚ the trip would release 1.132 pounds (About 500 kilos) of CO2 into the atmosphere. ‘if you’re really into green technology‚ couldn’t we do a videoconference instead? ‘I asked. ‘Sure
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Over the past ten to fifteen years‚ there has been a major change in the way people communicate to each other due to the development of the internet. Because of this‚ there has been a massive effect on the amount of socialising between friends and family; using technology in online social messaging websites such as Bebo‚ MSN‚ Facebook and many more. Through these social messaging websites‚ more and more people can interact with their friends and family all over the world. An expert professor David
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"Home Sweet Home" There are hundreds of people‚ young and old that live in my apartment complex and each of them have a different and unique story to share. My story is that I come from the typical middle-of -nowhere suburbia‚ where the grass is always green‚ and all of the houses look the same. In that community it is easy to become too comfortable‚ and forget that things aren’t so "perfect" in the rest of the world. When my step-dad past away‚ we sold the house and moved into town changing
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The net domestic product (NDP) equals the gross domestic product (GDP) minus depreciation on a country’s capital goods. Net domestic product accounts for capital that has been consumed over the year in the form of housing‚ vehicle‚ or machinery deterioration. The depreciation accounted for is often referred to as "capital consumption allowance" and represents the amount of capital that would be needed to replace those depreciated assets. If the country is not able to replace the capital stock lost
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This experiment performed by the males and females in the Tuesday 4pm psychology lab‚ was done as a replication of the Halari et al experiment in London in 2005. The hypothesis in the original experiment was that women will‚ on average‚ gain a higher verbal fluency score than men and men will‚ on average‚ perform more accurately than women on mental rotation. The results obtained from Halari et al’s (2005) clearly prove this hypothesis correct. The results also rejected the null hypothesis which
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about the importance of home‚ and the comfort and security to be found there. Yet for many women‚ home is a place of pain and humiliation ... violence against women by their male partners is common‚ wide-spread and far-reaching in its impact. For too long hidden behind closed doors and avoided in public discourse‚ such violence can no longer be denied as part of everyday life for millions of women.[1] This background note is a guide to research and resources on domestic violence in Australia. It
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TITLE OF THE CASE: Pt. Multi Bintang Indonesia TIME CONTEXT: 1987 SUMMARY: Mr. Abeng joined Pt. Perusahaan Bir Indonesia in late 1979. A few months later‚ he became President Director. One of his earliest strategic undertakings was to rename the firm to Pt. Multi Bintang Indonesia. For several years‚ the company’s market share had been declining. The company had so many strengths to boast. But despite these‚ it had also many weaknesses. The company had no strategic plans.
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“A MULTI-CULTURAL SOCIETY IS A BLESSING” – REALLY? “A multi-cultural society is a blessing”. This is an assertion alleged by many. But is it true? Does the old regulation “The more‚ the better” really count here? And what on earth is a multi-cultural society? A multi-cultural society is a society containing several representations of different cultures. To understand it better‚ we also will need to be aware of what both a society and a culture really is. According to Wikipedia‚ a society is: a
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Intro Exporting and international business can be interesting‚ exciting and in some cases challenging. In all cases it should be profitable and help a business grow. Doing business internationally is not the same as doing business at home. There are new skills to learn and new knowledge to acquire about the country you will be going into. You will need to learn about the different laws and regulations‚ the different customer buying habits‚ and change your marketing strategies and materials to
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Compare and contrast standardized‚ concentrated and differentiated Global Marketing. Critically evaluate each strategy with an example from a global company to illustrate the differences There is a tendency for international corporate-level strategies to be substituted for global marketing strategies; namely‚ multi-domestic strategy to concentrated marketing‚ global strategy to standardized marketing‚ and transnational strategy to differentiated marketing. However‚ the borderline lies as the former
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