The oil crisis of the 1970s had a tremendous political‚ social‚ and economic impact on the United States‚ and its reverberations continue to be felt to this day. This event dramatically illustrated American dependence on fossil fuels‚ and raised a lot of questions about the country’s energy policy and the security of its energy supply. Several events combined to bring about the energy crisis of the ’70s. The first was a dramatic rise in energy consumption‚ with the United States consuming a huge
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| Nestlé: Sustainable Agriculture Initiative | | | Introduction Sustainability can be defined as the capacity to endure. Our world today‚ populated by nearly 7 billion people - number that will reach 9 billion by the year 2050 - is using more and more resources each day. Our main resource of energy‚ the oil‚ has already reached its climax‚ which mean that we will run out of it within 40 years; our forests are disappearing; our lands are degrading because of intensive farming.. All this
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The European sovereign debt crisis (often referred to as the Eurozone crisis) is an ongoing financial crisis that has made it difficult or impossible for some countries in the euro area to repay or re-finance their government debt without the assistance of third parties. In 1992‚ members of the European Union signed the Maastricht Treaty‚ under which they pledged to limit their deficit spending and debt levels. However‚ in the early 2000s‚ a number of EU member states were failing to stay within
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to say that‚ I certainly agree with Bourassa on this primary concern. The conscription Crisis was a main issue which occurred to the lack of the soldiers to take part in World War I. Therefore‚ Canada experienced complexity in attracting sufficient numbers of new soldiers to maintain their defense force‚ and they were coming difficult to find. Due to the prime minister Robert Borden‚ the conscription crisis of WWI was mainly stressful for the war in Europe and exposed issues in the Canadian society
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Though US agriculture seemed strong‚ it did not share in the prosperity of the booming 1920s. U.S. farmers were overproducing food‚ and they had done so since The Great War. At that time‚ Herbert Hoover was the federal government’s food administrator. He pushed for a large increase in American agricultural production since European agricultural production was weak and Hoover wanted Americans to supply them with food. The wheat production in the US was growing considerably by the end of the war‚ before
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The 2008 Financial Crisis The United States economy is built on credit and combined with the reality that greed played a large part in the events leading up to the Global Financial Crisis (GFC)‚ the United States experienced one of the its worst financial crisis in its history. Easy credit‚ the housing slump‚ banks holding risky mortgages and tax regulations all played a significant part in causing the GFC of 2008/09. The major cause of the 2008 Financial Crisis is the Subprime Mortgage and Subprime
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Subprime crisis Introduction The subprime crisis is one of the biggest disasters of the financial system. It originated in the US subprime mortgage market in 2006 and within a year it engulfed the financial sector of USA along with numerous mature economies. The weaker income groups comprising the Afro-Americans and the Hispanics suffered home losses. It is projected that the number of subprime foreclosures will reach 2 million‚ if measures are not taken to resolve the crisis. This
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TOYOTA RECALLS AND PROBLEMS Toyota and the Economic Crisis in 2008 2010 Camry RECALLED Toyota had aimed to sell 10 million vehicles a year by 2010 but suffered a severe set back when it t was stung hard by the global financial crisis in 2008 and 2009. Toyota sold 7.56 million units in fiscal 2008-2009—enough to outperform GM and make Toyota world’s largest automaker but 1.34 million less than the previous year. Toyota had originally forecast sales of 9.85 million in 2008 and 10.4 million in 2009
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Foreclosure Crisis: What Should the Federal Government Do? The mortgage crisis we are experiencing in the United States today is already ranking as among the most serious economic events since the Great Depression of the 1930’s. Hardly a day goes by without a story in the newspaper or on the cable news stations reporting about the increase in the number of foreclosures across the United States. The effects of this crisis have spread across all financial markets‚ where in the end all of us are paying
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NATIONAL POLICY DEVELOPMENT DIALOGUE ON AGRICULTURAL CO-OPERATIVE IN CAMBODIA Preah Sihanouk‚ Farmer and Nature Net (FNN) held a 2 days and a half dialogue known as “NATIONAL POLICY DEVELOPMENT DIALOGUE ON AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE IN CAMBODIA” from 15-17 February‚ 2011 in Kampong Sila district‚ and funded by Canadian Co-operatives Association. There were 90 participants (17 women) whom includes16 cooperatives from Kampong Speu province‚ Kampong Chhnang‚ Takeo‚ Kampot‚ Prey Veng‚ Svay Rieng‚ Battambang
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