Former US vice-president Al Gore has hit out at company bosses and fund managers for damaging the environment by focusing on short-term goals. Speaking at the National Association of Pensions Funds’ annual investment conference in Edinburgh‚ Gore warned that companies’ obsession with meeting short-term profit targets rather than taking a longer term view‚ was hampering work to combat climate change. Goals Goal-setting ideally involves establishing specific‚ measurable‚ attainable‚ realistic
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The immediate and long term effect of abuse. M1 &D1 Why do we need to spot the signs? So we . . . • Help and protect the service users • Follow the correct legislations – Equality and Diversity Act‚ Human Rights Act and The Care Standards Act • Follow the Care Value Base • Follow professional bodies codes of practice • Follow codes of conduct‚ policies and procedures in a health and social care setting M1 • Assess the likely immediate effects of two different forms of abuse on the health and
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INTRODUCTION HTC Corporation‚ formerly High Tech Computer Corporation‚ is a Taiwan-based manufacturer of smartphones founded in 1997. The company initially made smartphones based primarily on Microsoft ’s Windows Mobile software‚ but in 2009 it began to shift its focus away from Windows Mobile devices to devices based on the Android operating system. HTC is also a member of the Open Handset Alliance‚ a group of handset manufacturers and mobile network operators dedicated to the advancement of the
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Outsourcing in the Long and Short term Outsourcing is defined by Roberts as turning over to others the provision of goods and services that the firm formerly provided for itself (Roberts‚ 2007 p 191). Organizations seek to outsource for the purpose of cost reduction. This cost can been seen in terms of time‚ finances‚ products and service costs. (Tayaouva‚ 2012) Child explains that Outsourcing can offer a number of advantages in principal but in practice it can be seen to provide some disadvantages
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Long Term Causes World war one is a case of one thing lead to another. Although the fuse to the war was lit it didn’t go off untill the assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand‚ heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. Now the countries didn’t have the best relations with each other‚ which was also another cause for the war. When Astria-Hungery declared war on Siberia on 28 July 1914 they didn’t count on Russia to come to Siberia’s aid. Both countries had allies that where bound by treaty to come and
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Following World War I‚ revolutions in Russia spawned a fear of the spread of communism. The Bolsheviks‚ an extremist group‚ organized a coup d’état which saw the rise of the first communist government called the Soviet Union. The first red scare was from 1917 to 1921;
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benefits and dangers. Warren Buffet states‚ that ‘Growth benefits investors only when the business in point can invest at incremental returns that are enticing – in other words‚ only when each dollar used to finance the growth creates over a dollar of long term market value.’ We can say that it worked for Starbucks in the beginning‚ when growth also meant growth of the share price‚ and even though no dividends were paid‚ the company was still profitable over the years‚ but with the emerging of new competition
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While on the conquest of England‚ William of Normandy created a state on both sides of the English Channel. The English kings held the duchy of Guienne in France and they disliked paying homage to the French Kings. The immediate causes of the Hundred Years War were: England’s dissatisfaction with France not restoring a part of Guienne when they pledged to do so‚ England trying to control Flanders which was an important market for English wool and cloth‚ and Philip’s support of Scotland against
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The French and Indian War that began in 1754‚ eventually spread to Europe in what was know as the the Seven Years’ War. Back in America‚ several notable events happened. Britain attempted to institute several policies which‚ in the colonists view‚ had adverse effects. In an effort to replenish a diminishing army‚ Britain began forcefully enlisted colonists. This practice was known as impressment. Britain also instituted several other practices such as seizing supplies and equipment and demanding
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The Difference Between Short-Term and Long-Term Memory Short-term memory differs from long-term memory in two fundamental ways‚ with only short-term memory demonstrating temporal decay and capacity limits. Long-term memory however‚ can store vast amounts of information and is permanent. Short-term memory gives the ability for the human brain to keep information in the mind for a very short period of time‚ such as remembering a phone number long enough until you are able to dial it on our phones
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