On January 16‚ 2016‚ President Barack Obama declared the city of Flint‚ Michigan to be in a state of emergency due to the widespread lead poisoning of the city’s residents that later became known as the Flint Water Crisis (Southall 2016). The crisis began in April of 2014‚ when the officials of Flint decided that‚ in an effort to conserve dwindling funds‚ the city would switch their main water source from Lake Huron‚ to the Flint River (Southall 2016). Almost immediately‚ the residents of Flint began
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October Crisis The October Crisis denotes the kidnapping on 5 October 1970 of James Cross‚ the British trade commissioner in Montréal‚ by members of the FRONT DE LIBÉRATION DU QUÉBEC. The kidnappers’ demands‚ communicated in a series of public messages‚ included the freeing of a number of convicted or detained FLQ members and the broadcasting of the FLQ manifesto. The manifesto‚ a diatribe against established authority‚ was read on Radio-Canada‚ and on October 10 the Québec minister of justice
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TATA Consultancy Services‚ Beating the U.S Financial Crisis 2008 The American market is the hunting-ground for the Indian software companies. Most of its jobs are from the market of U.S. The subprime crisis and the subsequent freezing of purchase decisions in the U.S have brought home to the Indian information technology service (ITS) companies the recklessness of depending almost entirely on that one market. India’s top five ITS companies – TCS‚ Infosys‚ Wipro‚ Satyam and HCL Tech – collectively
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1 Final Draft Amy L. Jones WTS 100 Erin Fuller December 10‚ 08 “The Global Water Crisis” Africa It was a four hour journey and most of the woman and children walked that twice a day. Just imagine getting up before dawn to make this long journey to get a bucket of water filled with a little water‚ dirt‚ algae‚ cow and goat feces‚ bacteria‚ mosquito larvae and other insect eggs‚ parasites‚ and various waterborne diseases waiting for a host. They have no time for anything else in the scalding-hot
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between its business values and business practices is anyones guess. In order to assess the extent to which BP has been successful‚ we will equate its position with respect to the extrinsic factors like industry macro-drivers‚ strategy implementation‚ crisis management and intrinsic factors such as size‚ capital‚ costs‚ technology and location. It is the change of dynamics between these extrinsic and intrinsic factors that decides the amount of resources that can be allocated to bring about any change
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Role of Perception in Crisis Planning ABSTRACT: This article reveals that a company’s perceptions of crises have a profound effect on primary crisis management activities. Although briefly reviewing the technical aspects of crisis management‚ the research examines the effects that threat and opportunity constructs have on crisis planning. The article concludes with some recommendations concerning the communication of a crisis’s dual nature before‚ during‚ and after a crisis situation. John M. Penrose
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financial crisis‚ and who is it a crisis for? 1.0 Introduction The global financial crisis broke out in 2008 was most serious since the 1930s‚ it deeply affected various aspects and brought significant losses. Analyzing what is the global financial crisis‚ and who it is the crisis for has a important practical significance. 2.0 Causes Reasons for the outbreak of the global financial crisis are reflected in the following aspects. 2.1 Real estate bubble The global financial crisis ultimately
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Economic and Social Impact of the Financial and Economic Crisis on Egypt A Study Prepared for the ILO By Samir Radwan April 2009 Table of Contents Executive Summary......................................................................................................................................................................... 3 I. II. Introduction ......................................................................................................................................
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ENERGY CRISIS AND ITS S.T.JOSEPH’S CONVENT H.SCHOOL MEHIDPUR Name -Piyush Porwal CLASS -IX[9TH] SUBJECT-ENERGY CRISIS AND ITS SOLUTIONS POWERPOINT PRESENTATION SUBMITTED TO HIRENDRA SIR PREPARED BY PIYUSH PORWAL CONTENTS 1.WHAT IS ENERGY CRISIS? 2.PROBLEMS OF ENERGY CRISIS. 3.IMPACT OF ENERGY CRISIS. 4.SOLUTION OF ENERGY CRISIS. 5.CAUSES. 6.SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC EFFECTS. 7.CRISIS MANAGEMENT. 8.SURVEYS 9.EMEREGING OIL SHORTAGE 10.MITIGATION EFFORTS 11.HOW TO AVOID SERIOUS ENERGY CRISIS 12.CONCLUSION
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Introduction Crisis prevention course is not a just attending course or class for me. I gained a lot of experience form this class. I learned that how to handle crisis through better approach. I became more aware of my strengths and limitations regarding handling various crisis situations. In this paper‚ I am going to describe my experience and skills that I gained with the help of this class. Five things that I have learned from this course Triggers- Triggers can be defined as anything that
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