SPENDING PRIORITIES We continue to invest in our core strengths. First‚ we don’t skimp in understanding the consumer. Second is innovation. Our capital spending will go up in 2009 for new engineering and manufacturing technology. And third is branding. Although we actually are spending fewer dollars on advertising because the price of media has gone down‚ we’re delivering more messages to our consumers. ON PRODUCT FAILURES In our industry only 15% to 20% of new products succeed. P&G’s success rate
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The experiment “Play or Keep” conducted in class consisted of ten rounds. The professor gave four playing cards to each student‚ two of which were black and the other two were red. At the beginning of each round‚ every student had to decide on which two cards to put upside down on the top of the stack of cards from the rest of the class. After all students made a decision‚ the professor collected the two cards from each student. The student’s earnings depend only on the red cards‚ as the black cards
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and we use the media for everything‚ we can stay up-to-date with the conflicts that occur around the nation and world. But how was the media helpful in the past? Examples are provided by the essays‚ "In Defense of the Media" and "How the Media Helped Win World War II". If it hadn’t been for media‚ our history would be different and not for the better. Initially‚ I agree with the argument in the essay "In Defense of the Media". It starts with the fact that some people oppose the media‚ they think that
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Love and Loss over a Broken-Down Volkswagen Beetle in ’We Keep on Dancing’ By Monica Sztybel A Volkswagen Beetle serves as a reminder of a lost love in the Australian short film We Keep on Dancing by Jessica Barclay Lawton and Rhys Mitchell. Alan (William Gluth) is mourning the loss of his wife‚ Christine. It’s her birthday today and he was on his way to the cemetery to bring her gifts‚ driving her favorite old car. A breakdown cuts short his plans‚ and Alan pushes the car into the nearest garage
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How does culture affects a person’s identity? In what aspects of the youth’s life are influenced by culture? Is it necessary for people to imitate others before they can be original and creative? I’ve been puzzled about this issue. But for further clarifications‚ let me give my point of view to these questions. Culture is the pattern of thinking and behavior in which people living in a particular social group learn‚ create and share. Through this‚ others can distinguish to which society does a
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favorite part because I can never time myself just right to be able to make it with enough breathe‚ but I counted my strokes‚ 1‚ 2‚ 3‚ 4‚ 5‚ and then I flipped‚ pushed off the wall with as much strength as I had and glided through the water. I came up for another breathe of air and even though my arms ached and my heart was pounding for me to take a breathe‚ I knew if I took a breathe I’d falter and fall behind so I kept right on swimming. Kicking my feet as hard as I could and slamming my hands
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Euthanasia is defined as "a painless killing‚ especially to end a painful and incurable disease; mercy killing". It is one of society ’s most widely and hotly debated moral issues. This topic has pained and exhausted the courts in several countries throughout the world‚ for too long‚ questioning the ethics and morality of the issue. Euthanasia must not be legalized in Canada for many moral and medical reasons. Firstly‚ the legalization of euthanasia has proved to lead to involuntary killing
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television have torn us away from this idea. To keep Christ in Christmas things must be done‚ for instance quickly scrawling Merry X-mas on a card is totally against the idea‚ although more convenient then writing Christmas it suggests that Christmas is not a Christen holiday. Christmas is a time for presents and T.V. specials to little kids‚ it could be taught to them that it’s not what you get‚ but what you give in the first place. I no for a fact that Jesus died to save us‚ and not get praise from
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“Art will fly if held too lightly‚ Art will die if held too tightly‚ Lightly‚ tightly‚ how do I know? Whether I’m holding or letting art go?” Here the author was inserting the idea of the muse here which seemed to be harder than not‚without taking precautions. The quote at hand was originally an poem written by the rebound Oscar Wilde where he replaced “love” with “art”. The author states you can play around and exchange word for other words for “what happens when you spin like a firewall and a story
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Let Us Keep Our Guns! I don’t think that it is OK for the government to take our firearms away from us law abiding citizens. There are many reasons for us‚ as a free and undivided country‚ that I believe we should have the right to possess guns. First of all‚ it is in our constitutional amendments as Americans that we have the right to bear arms. Our second amendment states that we can and should not only own‚ but also carry our guns. People enjoy using firearms to hunt for sport and survival
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