balance-of-payments gap‚ the red carpet it rolls out is a little dusty. A year after rules were eased to permit foreign “single-brand” retailers to operate in India‚ Sweden’s IKEA is still waiting for the go-ahead to sell Nordic comfort food and furniture. India’s cabinet has yet to make its mind up about the flat-packed sort‚ it seems. The delay may become just another war story about foreign direct investment (FDI) in India. In the 1970s India chucked out IBM and Coca-Cola in a fit of nationalist
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anywhere. Put yourself in that situation‚ what would be the first thing you did after impact? If you say pick up the phone and call 911‚ you would be wrong. There are many crucial steps that need to happen before you alert anyone. Also you cannot react the same way in every car accident; it could mean the difference between life and death. Minor car accidents‚ like a “fender bender” still should be handled in the most serious fashion. In all car accidents the very first thing you should do is turn
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How Humans React to Something They Don’t Understand The movie Starman is a Science-Fiction about an alien that lands on Earth‚ and takes the form of a recently deceased husband named Scott of a widow in Wisconsin. Jenny‚ the widow awoke in the middle of the night to a bright blue light to find some sort of transformation happening with an end product of her dead husband. Scott explained to Jenny that he needed to get to Winslow‚ Arizona where the rest of his kind are waiting‚ so
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Corporation is the world ’s third largest automaker. It was established in Japan on 28 August 1937. Apart from its 12 plants in Japan‚ Toyota has 54 manufacturing companies in 27 countries‚ employs 246700 people and markets vehicles in more than 160 countries. Its capital as at March 2002 was 397 billion yen. Toyota is exposed to the fluctuation in foreign currency exchange as it operates mainly in America‚ Continental Europe and Britain. It is therefore affected by the fluctuation in the value of the US dollar
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Reasons of corruption appearance Corruption is a complex socio-economic phenomenon which has no single canonical definition. The concept of corruption is ambiguous. Some evidence can be attributed to it without any hesitation while the others are controversial (bribery of public servants‚ buffet for the press or potential partner). In business there is no single estimate of bribes‚ there are different opinions: "Normal" payment services; "Dubious" from a moral point of view; Act that deserves
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How to Stop Corruption|10 Tips for Prevention & Eradication Corruption is a habit and hence everyone who is in the position are susceptible to it. There are people who are ready to compete for those jobs with greater chances of corruption and those who don’t have the chance‚ expect to minimize the corruption and keep complaining about it. But prevention and eradication of corruption is an absolute requirement for better social and public life. This corruption takes an interesting turn in such a
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The issue that Ida Tarbell wrote about is the corruption and monopoly that is The Standard Oil company. John Rockefeller‚ the owner of Standard Oil‚ took over the oil industry‚ he would put his prices low so that everyone would buy his oil over the others and when that would happen the other businesses would go out of business and so Rockefeller would buy them out and jack up the prices because there was no one else to go to. This issue is very important to the people that buy the oil because the
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1- Compare and contrast how Romeo and Juliet react to the news of Romeo’s banishment. Romeo and Juliet react in different way to the news of Romeo’s banishment. Juliet is far more composed and mature after hearing the news. Her reaction is more rational than that of Romeo’s. After hearing the news‚ she is sad about the death of Tybalt‚ but thankful that Romeo’s alive. “Tybalt was my dearest cousin. Romeo was even dearer to me as my husband.” She states that “He’s a beautiful tyrant and a fiendish
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How do parents react to Your low grades? Sept 25 –Obviously grades are one of teenager’s major problems. Mostly; parents are the one to freak out when they learn about it. In my case‚ I’m always afraid to fail each test even to the smallest ones. I’m pretty sure my parents would yell at me. Normally they are very nice but when they find out that I got a low grades in a certain subject‚ they would immediately confiscate all my gadgets and they would make me study as long as they want
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September 1939 war breaks out in Europe. On the first of September Germany invades Poland‚ stating that the Polish were carrying out sabotage operations against German troops on the border. A couple days later Germany was given an ultimatum by Britain to not invade Poland or they would go to war. Ignoring the ultimatum Britain proceeds with Australia‚ Canada‚ New Zealand‚ and South Africa all declaring war on the Nazi’s. This ended with the Western Allies to create a naval blockade hoping to damage
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