An offset agreement is a stipulation made between a foreign supplier and a company which requires the supplier to purchase a certain amount of goods from that country in exchange for a contract. Offset agreements can be direct or indirect‚ depending on what raw materials the country may have. These agreements are often required in order to award a foreign contract to a large company producing valuable goods. A direct offset agreement means that the supplier has agreed to buy something from the
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Preparing for the Toys for Tots Dance Three years ago my friend Amy and I were looking for a way to bring customers into Behm’s Sawdust City while helping the community. After about a month of throwing ideas around Amy came across an advertisement for Toys for Tots‚ and we decided that this would be a great way to bring people in and help the community. Little did we know that it would be a huge success! Every year we have had to become more organized. The first time we get together we decide
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{Do you think Amazon uses the long tail model? Through independent research‚ compare and contrast Amazon ’s approach to offering a "limitless selection" and that of Netflix} The long tail is a phenomenon whereby firms can make money by offering a near-limitless selection the term was coined by Chris Anderson‚ an editor at Wired magazine‚ and I feel both Amazon and Netflix have a long tail model since they can offer things that many stores don’t carry so there is always something for someone.
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1) Amazon’s constant expansion and thriving innovations prove to show Amazon and their employees are able and willing to collaborate productively. Amazon’s business lines can be grouped into thress major categories: Online retailing‚ Order fulfillment ‚ Cloud services ‚ including Kindles and online media. During the 2010 holiday season where orders were shipped to 178 countries and 9 million units being shipped during their peak order-fulfillment day (Kroenke 29). Based off the volume of those orders
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lesson at hand. Norms explain why people do certain actions in given situations. Violating a social norm is considered deviant or in other words‚ rude or unusual. For this assignment‚ I chose to violate my friends’ and various strangers’ personal space. Personal space is deeply valued and considered the area around yourself or others that is preferred not to be occupied by another person. When someone is facing us‚ they must be a certain distance away or we begin to feel uncomfortable. At the same
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Consignment Agreement Effective Date ____/____/______ Between Enter Store Name‚ further referred to as “[Seller]”‚ Located at Address‚ City‚ State And Company/Manufacturer‚ further referred to as “[Consignee]” Located at City‚ State Both parties agree to the following terms: The Seller agrees to place on display the mutually agreed upon item or items in a prominent area of his place of business. The Seller is entitled to retain 40% of the purchase price of each sale for such display.
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rich. Unfortunately‚ some students do not have a good education owing to the problems in terms of discrimination‚ hunger and contagion. Having an education may change according to cultures‚ even inside a particular country. When it is compared and contrasted between my country and the U.S.‚ there are not only several differences‚ but also some uniformity in the class. The first educational contrast between these two countries is the behavior of students in the class. In my country‚ from elementary
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The wage gap between US and China The importance of international trade increased dramatically for the US as well as China. The ratio of the sum of exports and imports to GDP approximately doubled from the early 1970s to the mid 2000s for the US. And there is a striking feature that China was involved in about 7% percent of world trade by the mid-2000s. There is no doubt that the international trade have influenced the wage level around the world. Do wages equalize between US and China? It
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like they were misunderstood and their issues are not as important as others. In The Trouble Between US ‚ Wini Breines expresses this idea by saying their goals “included a color-blind democracy and‚ for white women who became feminists‚ a universal sisterhood. But it didn’t happen that way between white and black women. White feminists discovered that their idealism was flawed‚ that there was trouble between
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the government is that the rate of the Amazon’s destruction fell in the 1990s to average levels around 4.5 million acres from more than 5 million acres in the 1980s. That is equivalent to about the size of Rhode Island. But 86 percent of original Amazon still stands. Experts estimates that we are losing 137 plant‚ animal and insect species every single day due to rainforest deforestation. That equates to 50‚000 species a year. As the rainforest species dissapear‚ so do many possible cures for life-threatening
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