THE ROUGH CROSSING by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) The Saturday Evening Post (8 June 1929) I Once on the long‚ covered piers‚ you have come into a ghostly country that is no longer Here and not yet There. Especially at night. There is a hazy yellow vault full of shouting‚ echoing voices. There is the rumble of trucks and the clump of trunks‚ the strident chatter of a crane and the first salt smell of the sea. You hurry through‚ even though there’s time. The past‚ the continent‚ is
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HAP IF but some vengeful god would call to me From up the sky‚ and laugh: "Thou suffering thing‚ Know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy‚ That thy love ’s loss is my hate ’s profiting!" Then would I bear‚ and clench myself‚ and die‚ Steeled by the sense of ire unmerited; Half-eased‚ too‚ that a Powerfuller than I Had willed and meted me the tears I shed. But not so. How arrives it joy lies slain‚ And why unblooms the best hope ever sown? --Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain‚ And
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Préambule : identifier et délimiter le marché : Le marché du jus de fruits fait partie du marché générique des boissons. Si l’on considère le marché du jus de fruits comme le marché principal‚ ses marchés environnants sont : les boissons rafraîchissantes plates‚ l’eau du robinet‚ l’eau en bouteille‚ les sodas‚ le lait‚ le sirop‚ le café‚ le thé et les boissons alcoolisées. A. Quantifier le marché ⢠La taille du marché en valeur‚ en volume‚ et en nombre de
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IKEA Christopher A. Bartlett and Ashish Nanda With a 1988 too much by attempting major new market entries simultaneously in two European countries (United Kingdom and Italy)‚ the United States‚ and several Eastern bloc countries. Finally‚ there was widespread concern about the future of the company without its founder‚ strategic architect‚ and cultural guru‚ Ingvar Kamprad. IKEA BACKGROUND AND HISTORY In 1989‚ furniture retailing worldwide was a fragmented industry in which small
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05-Volti-45440.qxd 11/12/2007 5 12:46 PM Page 79 Bureaucratic Organization A lthough modern societies are for the most part lacking in castes‚ guilds‚ and other socially embedded ways of recruiting‚ training‚ and organizing workers‚ personal connections and social networks are still highly relevant to many aspects of working life‚ especially in regard to the way jobs get filled‚ as will be noted in Chapter 7. In a parallel fashion‚ the rules and procedures governing the
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Harvard Business School 9-399-011 Rev. April 9‚ 2001 Acer America: Development of the Aspire In early 1998‚ Stan Shih‚ CEO of Taiwan-based personal computer (PC) manufacturer Acer‚ Inc.‚ was reviewing the first estimates of 1997 year-end results. With revenue of $6.5 billion from own brand and sales to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) such as IBM‚ the company was now acknowledged to be the third largest PC manufacturer in the world. Although the performance was respectable in the wake
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543 The Divergent Worlds of New Media: How Policy Shapes Work in the Creative Economy1 Susan Christopherson Cornell University Abstract “New media” workers have joined the creative economy as digital designers‚ web page designers‚ and producers of entertainment products. Like many creative commodity producers‚ their work lies at the intersection of the technical (in this case code writing) and the expressive (through design). It reflects the tensions inherent in this intersection and the conflicts
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Dictatorship‚ Democracy‚ and Development Mancur Olson STOR ® The American Political Science Review‚ Vol. 87‚ No.3 (Sep.‚ 1993)‚567-576. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0554%28199309%2987%3A3%3C567%3ADDAD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H The American Political Science Review is currently published by American Political Science Association. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR ’ s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at http://uk.jstor.org/aboutlterms.html
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The Importance of CCTV CHAPTER I The Problem and its Background Introduction CCTV‚ Closed Circuit TeleVision‚ is a TV system that does not broadcast TV signals to public but transmits them over to limited monitor(s). CCTV system usually utilizes CCD video cameras (to produce the video)‚ cable or wireless transmitters/receivers or Internet (to transmit the video)‚ and monitors (to see the video). CCTV system is not only applied to the security and surveillance purpose but also to the
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