MACRO. POLITICAL In 1965‚ a group of local farmers from Yorkshire created ASDA. The company defines itself as “ Britain’s best value food and clothing superstore”. At its 245 stores and 19 depots across the UK‚ ASDA employs 109000 people and it sells mainly food but has started over the last years to sell not only groceries but jewerly‚ music and clothes. By building stores at areas built before‚ ASDA looks after its environment reducing building time keeping disruption to a minimum‚ they
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Chicago to Raise Cigarette Tax Source: Chicago Sun Times Accessed: November 23‚ 2013 Posted: November 21‚ 2013 Word Count: 748 Written: November 25‚ 13 Microeconomics The city council in Chicago‚ Illinois is discussing a raise to the tax on cigarettes in an effort to cut the amount of people who start smoking each year. This type of tax is called a Pigouvian tax (meant to limit consumption of a good). Currently‚ the cigarette tax has been stuck at 68 cents a pack since 2006 and the
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quality over price (less price-sensitive) were segment A‚ B and C and the ones that preferred price over quality (very price-sensitive) were segment D and small-Volume customers. We decided to go for a business perspective focused on a quality premium product‚ which means that we will target mainly the segments A‚ B and C. Segment A is one that pays particular attention to the size of the motor‚ department in which MM is already very strong‚ having a 19% market share here. Our strategy is to‚ when selling
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Samantha Becicka Macro Study Guide Chapter 3 1 We have scarce resources so in our choices of consumption we wish to maximize the satisfaction we receive from those choices. The economist terms this maximizing the __utility_________ 2 Since it is unlikely that we can grow our own food‚ sew our own clothes or build our house‚ it would be better if we would __specialize___ in what we do best and __exchange_ for those needs that others do better 3 The term _product market___ is a place where and
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interest rate played an important role of government monetary policy. It can affect a lot of macro economy factors‚ such as the level of consumption and investment‚ inflation‚ exports‚ imports and aggregate demand (Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interest_rate 3.12.2011). In this assignment‚ I will discuss if the UK monetary policy committee increased the interest rate‚ what and how it will be affected in macro economy with two different views argued by Keynesians and Monetarists. Firstly the
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Environment Culture influences an individual’s attitude towards environment. Environment in this context refers to our physical surroundings and nature. Man’s attitude towards his immediate environment is largely based upon his cultural upbringings. Trompenar’s concept of attitude towards environment highlights how man controls nature by imposing his will upon it (reference). Large organizations impact the nature and environment in many ways. Corporate Social responsibility has become
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The Great Debt Shift from 2000 to 2012 The United States is facing a structural budget deficit in recent years. The fiscal situation has an increasingly dire and unsustainable outlook over the next 10 years and beyond. However‚ looking back ten years before‚ when George Bush took office at the beginning of 2001‚ the federal government was running a substantial budget surplus and projected rising surpluses. Here comes to a question: how did federal government get into this fiscal mess. My paper
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3.10 Results of Experiments After performing all the experiments with predetermined values of process parameters‚ the tensile strength is measured and the micro hardness is measured. The results are given in the table 3.5. Table: 3.5 Ultimate Tensile Strength and Micro hardness of SMAW & TIG for Experimentation Exp. No Groove Angle (Degree) Root Face (mm) Root Gap (mm) SMAW TIG UTS (MPa) Vickers Hardness (Hv0.1) UTS (MPa) Vickers Hardness (Hv0.1) 1 30 1 0 304 209 358 220 2 30 1.5 1 275 210
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Nano Aerial Vehicles and Micro Aerial Vehicles are primarily used for military applications which include Intelligence‚ Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR missions)‚ and used for both indoor and outdoor missions‚ which represents a challenging environment factor to overcome. The use of MAVs and NAVs reduce human risk as it does not require an on-board pilot for the mission‚ they also tend to improve the assessment of danger and have visibility in the dark when equipped with infrared cameras. Other
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A. Throughout American history there have been periods of financial boom and bust‚ economic growth and recession. The most recent recession from the third quarter 2007 to the second quarter 2009 seemed like an extraordinary period of recession. The S&P 500 shrank from about 1300 points to 666 points (50%)‚ evaporating capital in a matter of days. However‚ this recessionary period was quickly turned around to economic growth again. The average post-World War II length of economic contraction
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