operator Shangri-La Asia Ltd. said Wednesday its 2009 net profit rose 54%‚ lifted by higher property prices‚ though its core hotels business suffered from a sharp drop in demand due to the global financial crisis. » Jump to indexing (document details) Full Text (515 words) | (c) 2010 Dow Jones & Company‚ Inc. Reproduced with permission of copyright owner. Further reproduction or distribution is prohibited without permission. HONG KONG--Luxury hotel operator Shangri-La Asia Ltd. said Wednesday
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The Notorious La Cosa Nostra and Organized Crime Abstract When the term family business is named‚ you might think of a farming business‚ or maybe selling certain products‚ but the words prostitution‚ loan-sharking‚ narcotics‚ and racketeering are not the first things to come to mind. La Cosa Nostra is what family business was about during the 1920’s and early 1940’s. La Cosa Nostra‚ a criminal organization from Sicily‚ Italy‚ began terrorizing the U.S by
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Yasumasa Morimura went above and beyond in his appropriation of Velazquez’s Las Meninas. He derived five similar yet unique works from Las Meninas‚ but our group decided to discuss this piece due to its’ far-reaching tactics to go beyond appropriation. Morimura named this piece “Las Meninas Renacen de Noche 1V: Peering at the secret scene behind the artist”‚ an extremely appropriate name considering that the “original” Las Meninas is hanging due center of this piece. Almost the entire canvas is comprised
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living. The choice a person makes on how they want to live their life‚ ultimately determines their future. A person should choose to live in an illusion which leads to hope‚ rather then reality which leads them to despair. The musical play "Man of La Mancha"‚ written by Dale Wasserman‚ is a perfect example of this because in the play‚ there are characters who live in illusion and characters who live in reality. Illusion leads a person to hope‚ and hope gives a person something to live for. One persons
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La Película se nombre También La Lluvia. La película trata de una película que se filmó en Bolivia sobre Christopher Columbus El cineasta mexicano Sebastián y su productor llegan Cochabamba‚ Bolivia‚ con un reparto y equipo‚ preparado para crear una película sobre el primer viaje de Colón al Nuevo Mundo. La película fue filmada en el país más pobre de América del Sur. La gente es feliz de ganar dos dólares al día como extras en la película‚ y trabajar. Costa ahorra dinero al tener extras para hacer
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La Mesa Ecopark Submitted By: Gem Abegail Garcia Kristel Gem Rubio Daisy Ann Colasi Eileen Grace Aviso History of La mesa Ecopark and How to get there.. The La Mesa Ecopark is located within the La Mesa Watershed in East Fairview‚ Quezon City. It is owned by the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) and is jointly operated along with the Quezon City government‚ Bantay Kalikasan and other private companies. The La Mesa Ecopark is a 33 hectare park located in the La Mesa Watershed
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History of Las Pinas Las Pinas is a beautiful place and is also one of the fastest growing communities in Metro Manila. It’s one of the cleanest and safest cities to be found in the Philippines. Las Pinas’ history dates back many years and is an exciting tale of creation‚ redemption‚ and transformation into the city it is today. There are a diversity of professions available within its limits‚ such as foreign language teachers and technology-related jobs. For those interested in foreign language
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still many Americans that did not benefit and still continued to live a horrible life. The American Revolution got rid of the King‚ or the dictator‚ and replaced it with the idea of people participating in the political process. In the painting La Destruction de la Statue Royale a Nouvelle Yorck‚ poor people taking down the statue of King George III with ropes. Everyone was involved in taking down the statue‚ but the poor people seemed to be doing most of the work (Doc.A). The rich whites were treated
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Las Vegas‚ the pretty painted pictured city of lights Las Vegas is considered by many to be the city that famous entertainers live in .They live in the hotels casinos and they work in homes in the city. Tourist from all over the world come here to vacation and be entertained by the famous entertainers . My three point descriptive essay reads.Excitement‚ Characters and Happy endings. Entertainers that are discovered in United states and other countries are usually brought to
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Whisking in the wind‚ La Llorona walks softly in her ghostly form‚ looking for two young boys who remind her of the sons she drowned. Flashback to the early 1800’s‚ a woman by the name of Maria was said to be the most beautiful woman in El Paso. She was married to the richest man in the entire town‚ but was burdened by the two young sons she shared with him. On an eerie West Texas night‚ Maria is devastated when she sees her husband is leaving her for a younger woman. She watched the carriage carrying
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