How to solve the problem of bus bunching This story was first published in The Straits Times on March 22‚ 2013 By Alexander Erath For The Straits Times THE recent announcements by the Ministry of Transport bode well for the public transport system in Singapore - especially for bus services. Adding more bus lanes and enlarging bus bays will go a long way in improving service reliability. More importantly‚ the new bus quality incentive framework will spur the operators to run their buses
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So‚ we used to solve big problems. On July 21st‚ 1969‚ Buzz Aldrin climbed out of Apollo 11’s lunar module and descended onto the Sea of Tranquility. Armstrong and Aldrin were alone‚ but their presence on the moon’s gray surface was the culmination of a convulsive‚ collective effort. The Apollo program was the greatest peacetime mobilization in the history of the United States. To get to the moon‚ NASA spent around 180 billion dollars in today’s money‚ or four percent of the federal budget. Apollo
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Finishing high school is an important milestone in a person’s life‚ which not only marks the beginning of adulthood‚ but also opens up higher education and career opportunities. Unfortunately‚ the U.S.A suffers from one of the highest dropout rates in the developed world‚ with nearly 7‚000 students dropping out of high school every day. In 2012‚ nearly 22 percent of all students left school without a high school diploma. Dropping out of school can have disastrous‚ permanent effects on a person’s
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Dropping Out of School Dropping out of school is something that will affect you for the rest of your life. Education is priceless. Students in high school should realize how important those four years of their life will be. Dropping out of school might seem like a smart idea to a person at the time but in the long run will affect their future. Yet many still drop out for reasons such as drugs‚ financial needs‚ and the home environment. For example‚ some students just drop out because they think
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international education is more popular than ever before. However‚ overseas students will face a lot of problems when they are studying in a new cultural system. In this essay‚ some possible problems and methods that solve these issues will be shown. It is obvious that the problems‚ which overseas students face‚ are diverse. In the first place‚ the overseas students will face a problem that they have no place to live after they leave an airport. For instance‚ some students fail to hand in an
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attacked the U.S.A‚ more and more people consider the environmental problems as the most serious problem which human beings have to face in the twenty-first century. If humans keep standing by from protecting nature‚ then global warming will be the natural consequence of their inaction. Accordingly‚ people must try to find some suitable ways to prevent this situation. Currently‚ the three most efficient solutions of this problem are a moratorium of deforestation‚ a universal carbon tax and international
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Weeding Out the Problem 1. Before launching its new BoPal insecticide‚ what primary research tool could Umberto have used to gather market intelligence on the name of its new product. The best primary research tool Umberto could have used‚ in my opinion‚ was Focus Group which is a type of qualitative research. Compared to other primary research tolls including surveys‚ interviews and observation‚ “focus group research is the only setting available to the marketer for finding
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Why there are a lot of out of school youth here in the Philippines? Why are the children s’ right are deprive form this privileges‚ to have a free educational program of the Government? Here are some TOP 10 reasons why there is out of school youth here in the Philippines. 1. INCAPABLE GOVERNMENT‚ the sovereign Filipino people of the Philippines Government does not have the ability to give a good and standard education. Where funds for new projects that would provide the learners a good habitat
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answer questions about school drop outs due to higher minimum wages. This paper tries to answer questions like; do higher minimum wages cause high school drop outs among different students in various continents? Other questions include: does real income cause high school dropouts?‚ do the unemployment rates in the country cause dropouts of high school students?‚ how do teenage pregnancy rates cause high school dropouts? And how does education attainment among adults cause high school dropouts? These questions
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before graduating. For instance‚ in Viet Nam‚ there are approximately four hundred thousand people attend to university each year but then after 1 or 2 years the number leaving out is up to about 10%. There are two reasons why people cannot follow the higher education path till the end. The first reason that I want to show out is financial burden. University fee is a nightmare for most students who just receive little or no support from their parents. Besides‚ they have to cover not only tuition fees
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