Chapter 5 1. What is the theoretical background of international R&D management? Research has suggested that large MNCs undertake between 5 percent and 25 percent of their R&D outside their home country. International R&D units may have originally been established to undertake adaptation work or because of host country demands‚ but increasingly the evidence suggests that they are becoming active contributors to the MNC’s global innovation effort‚ and even members of the core development
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1. For an 18-inch pipeline designed for 150‚000 barrels per day‚ what is the short-run cost per barrel (per thousand miles) of transporting crude oil if the throughput is (a) 50‚000 barrels per day (b) 100‚000 barrels per day (c) 150‚000 barrels per day? Using chart 7‚ a) Cost of transporting 50‚000 barrels would be 30 cents. b) Cost of transporting 100‚000 barrels would be 17 cents. c) Cost of transporting 150‚000 barrels would 16 cents. 2. Can a 16-inch pipeline with 10‚000 horsepower transport
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Manifest Destiny. The idea that the United States was destined to stretch across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Few thought of it as an actual goal and believed it to be something that would eventually happen in the future. It was one of those things that people knew would probably one day happen‚ but were simply going to let it play out. For the government‚ on the other hand‚ it was a set target they were trying to achieve. In 1844 James K. Polk was elected for President
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Explain how actors manifest their training on the stage. In your answer refer to your study and exploration of the approaches to acting and performance of TWO of the practitioners and texts set for study. Approaches to acting explores not only the practitioners but also the world in which their audiences are living. Brazilian theatre director Augusto Boal’s The Theatre of the Oppressed grew out of the chaos and oppression in Brazil in the 1950’s-70’s. The aesthetics of his approach to acting came
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The Westward Expansion: Manifest Destiny The Manifest Destiny is defined as a widely held belief in the U.S that settlers were destined to expand across North America . Before the American colonies won their independence in the Revolutionary War‚ settlers were moving West into what is now known as the states Kentucky and Tennessee‚ along with parts of the Ohio Valley and some in the southern regions. At the end of the War of 1812 there was the Indian Removal Act people had to worry about ‚ in 1830
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alienate many potential supporters? 10. What effect did the emergence of the Liberty Party have on the election of 1844? 11. Read Technology and Culture‚ The Telegraph‚ and answer Questions for Analysis: 12. Why did most expansionists favor Manifest Destiny? 13. Why did working class readers of the penny press (cheap newspapers) favor the continuation of slavery? 14. Explain President Polk’s objectives in initially demanding all of Oregon from Great Britain (“54-40 or fight!”) 15
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Manifest destiny is an ideal that can be found throughout the history of America. From the discovery of Columbus in 1492 until today. The portion of our history that is affected the most by this is the expansion‚ and settling land‚ west from the original 13 colonies. Not only that‚ but it also helped shape how we treated other people and laws in relation to them. The Collins English Dictionary definition states that manifest destiny is “the belief that the US was a chosen land that had been allotted
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would move to different locations in the country and live on a Tribal Reservation. This period of time was called manifest destiny and caused an everlasting effect upon the Native American’s in this country. The Native American’s went from complete freedom‚ which included being able to roam and move about as they wished‚ and each tribe valued in most cases other tribes land and laws. Manifest Destiny caused isolation and hardships in many ways for those that were native to America long before settlers
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Functions of Public Relation It has been reported that Public Relations or PR is the art of managing communication between an organization and its key publics to build‚ manage and sustain a positive image (“”‚ 2006)‚ and is an important function in the desire of any business organization or company to establish its reputation and brand image to its target market. For this reason‚ it is essential to determine the several functions of public relations‚ categorized as organizational and societal. This
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“The Manifest Destiny: America’s Greatest Yet Most Selfish Victory” In 1776‚ America gained its independence from Great Britain. Sixty-five years later‚ imagine being a poor Southwestern farmer. You have no way to raise socially with your current overused land. You read in the newspaper of something called the Manifest Destiny‚ a strange phenomenon that could give you unlimited land. You immediately get the desire to move West. In the mid 1800s‚ many people wanted to and decided to move West during
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