increases‚ wages‚ work rules and work patterns‚ chapter 11 bankruptcy airlines‚ excess capacity‚ a very capital intensive business and too many years as regulated airlines. In fact‚ during the Gulf war and recession in 1990-92‚ it took them four years to return to profit‚ even though traffic recovered within a year. The industry experienced a profit slump. From 1994 to 1997‚ airlines have had to recognize the need for radical change to ensure their survival and prosperity‚ after what happened last
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After Independence in 1965‚ the population of the country was growing at a rate that would seriously threaten the success of Singapore. The Government introduced the "Stop at two" policy to help control the rapid population growth. It was introduced in 1969. The policy had a very successful response; in fact‚ it was so successful that the population started to decline. Couples saw the benefits in having a smaller family‚ such as more money‚ higher quality of life and cars. The population increase
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REGIONAL AIRLINES Regional Airlines está estableciendo un nuevo sistema telefónico para manejar las reservaciones de los vuelos. Durante el periodo de 10:00 A.M. a 11:00 A.M.‚ las llamadas al agente de reservaciones ocurren en forma aleatoria a un promedio de una llamada cada 3.75 minutos. Los datos históricos del tiempo de servicio muestran que un agente de reservaciones pasa un promedio de tres minutos con cada cliente. Las suposiciones del modelo de línea de espera de llegadas de Poisson y
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Education is widely recognized as a critical mechanism for equalizing life and career chances for everyone‚ but particularly for girls and women. recent research on the social and the economic benefits of female education and considers the pathways through which women’s schooling leads to social gains. Female deprivation is particularly acute in the developing countries with high levels of poverty‚ though in affluent nations women also suffer low status due to conservative attitudes. The most dramatic
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Case: Porter Airlines Group: Issues: The issues facing Porter Airlines are whether or not the existing business model will remain valid during ongoing operations. The company needs to plan their expansion strategy and decide on how aggressively it can enter competitive markets. Analysis: Porter Airlines competitive position lies in its dominant position at YTZ as it is close to downtown Toronto‚ and is very attractive and attracts a higher yields ($/RPM – revenue per passenger mile).
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The incarceration rates of Norway‚ Australia‚ and Singapore can are much lower compared to the United States. In Norway the murder rate is less than half of that in Australia and robbery rate is significantly lower as well. The rates of all of the three first world countries i researched were surprising to me. I think they are surprising to me because Singapore have a very very low crime rate‚ and i would believe that is because they have very strict rules there compared to other places such as Australia
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CULTURAL POLICY IN SINGAPORE: NEGOTIATING ECONOMIC AND SOCIO-CULTURAL AGENDAS1 Lily Kong Associate Professor Department of Geography National University of Singapore Kent Ridge Singapore 119260 Email: lilykong@nus.edu.sg Fax: 65-7773091 Geoforum For Special Issue on “Culture‚ Economy‚ Policy” 2000 This paper was written while I was Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Culture‚ Tokyo University. I would like to record thanks to Assoc Prof Tong Chee Kiong for facilitating my
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The Life expectancy in Singapore has increased steadily by roughly 30% in the past 50 years—from 60 years at birth in 1960 to 80 years at birth in 2010. (Statistics Singapore‚ 2010) Since the last quarter of the twentieth century‚ the rise in life expectancy has been accompanied by a downward trend in fertility which results in an aging population. Similar to many developing countries with aging populations‚ aging populations indisputably brings challenges. The Government has many plans and policies
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union membership in Singapore and to provide suggestions on how to increase its appeal to the young people‚ the Generation Y‚ in the workforce. Generation Y refers to babies born after the year 1980 (Kuijsters‚ n.d.) The report will have an introduction of union in Singapore‚National Trade Union Congress (NTUC)‚ and analyse the existing strategies and positive aspects thathave been implemented to improve the union membership especially for the Generation Y. About Unions in Singapore NTUC isa central
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ABSTRACT In the contemporary world of today‚ elections have become the most accepted means of changing the government. Although history has shown that it is usually difficult to hold elections that are free and fair. But the importance of a good electoral act cannot be underestimated especially in a developing country like Nigeria where elections were reported to be marred by irregularities by foreign and local observers. It is on this basis that this paper critically observed‚ even with the electoral
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