What is an Interest Group? An interest group (also referred to as advocacy groups) is an organization organized by a special set of people with specific skills to lobby for or against a specific interest to benefit their cause. They usually lobby for one or more shared concerns to manipulate public policy and opinion especially in the U.S. Congress to benefit their cause‚ supporters‚ or one segment of society. They include a vast array of organizations such as: charitable organizations‚ civil right
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temptations is the sweetest‚ and will prove the safeste. For such tryalls as fall within compasse of our callinges‚ it is better to arme and withstande them than to avoide and shunne them. -John Winthrop There‚ in Winthrop’s own words‚ is the Puritan dilemma of which Mr. Morgan speaks here‚ "the paradox that required a man to live in the world without being of it." Superficially Puritanism was only a belief that the Church of England should be purged of its hierarchy and of the traditions and ceremonies
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memories and breaks down walls‚ page by page You are what what you eat eats‚ so you are all walking corn chips People might say that you are what you eat‚ but we always see that as a figure of speech. After reading Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma‚ I no longer do. Shocking as it might seem‚ Pollan proves page by page that we literally are becoming what we eat. Well of course‚ I thought‚ if you eat a lot of French fries and hamburgers‚ you become fat. If you eat plenty of salads and fruits‚
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Discuss what government policies can be used to overcome a recession A recession is two or more consecutive quarters of a year that experiences a decline in GDP or has negative GDP growth; recessions are believed to be caused by a widespread fall in spending. Employment‚ investment‚ household incomes and business profits all fall during recessions; while bankruptcies and the unemployment rate rise. Governmennts respond to recessions by adopting expansionary economic policeys such as the expansionary
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error in all print material about site effects of that drug. Marketing manager has an ethical dilemma‚ stop the marketing campaign and correct the “typo”‚ consequently future existence of his company will be in jeopardy‚ or to take a risk and go ahead with campaign without letting anyone know about the “typo”. This essay will describe ethical dilemmas and their characteristics‚ continuing by ethical dilemma marketing manager are confronted with. Discussion on defensible moral judgements after that
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PERSONAL INTEREST Every profession has sacred principles or ethics governing its operation or activities. Banking is no exception. Some of these principles defining sound banking behaviours are; 1. control mismatch between assets and liabilities 2. know your counterparty 3. expand cautiously into unfamiliar activities 4. avoidance of undue concentration of loans to a single activity‚ individuals and group But in a situation where banks all over the world are found wanting in terms
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Corrections Trend Evaluation Bebe Washington CJA/394 February 15‚ 2012 UOP Corrections Trend Evaluation In this paper the objectives that will be addressed are past‚ present and future trends of corrections. Also‚ analyze current and future issues facing prisons and prison administrators as well as the roles and issues of alternate correction systems as a developing trend. In today’s society the jails and prison pretty much function with the same protocol. In the past the history of the
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especially the risks arising out of the asset quality‚ market volatility and the global downturn.’’ The Minister talked about rising bad loans of the banking sector at a function to launch the 4001st branch of the Bank of India (BoI). Mr. Mukherjee inaugurated the branch at Manipur by pressing a button from here. NPAs of public sector banks stood at about 3.3 per cent of the assets in 2011-12 as against 2.3 per cent a year ago. Several companies are opting for corporate debt restructuring (CDR)
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Policy Brief November 2010 UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education GLOBAL TRENDS IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES TO REFORM EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES CONTENTS: Introduction The forces driving publication and use of open educational resources From open educational resources to open educational practices Impacts on educational systems Recommendations INTRODUCTION Open educa onal resources (OER) have become a major focus of discussion and ac on within
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Management trends come and go. They are good or bad depending on many variables: industry; company culture; education level of workers; existing contracts and laws; etc. Mostly‚ however‚ they are good or bad depending on how well they are applied. You know the names of the most recent batch. We have all been impacted‚ in one way or another‚ by downsizing‚ re-engineering‚ restructuring‚ delayering and so on. Re-engineering is a solid business management tool‚ but applied incorrectly it can cause
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