Australia’s media ownership laws have remained unchanged for over a decade‚ debate on the desirability of reform has continued unabated. This debate has been fuelled by the advent of new media technologies‚ a number of inquiries proposing regulatory changes‚ and the self-interest of those media organisations that report the controversy. The Government has long indicated that it believed the rules to be anachronistic‚ and in 2002 unsuccessfully attempted to amend the cross-media ownership restrictions
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Employee ownership‚ motivation and productivity A research report for Employees Direct from Birkbeck and The Work Foundation By Jonathan Michie‚ Christine Oughton and Yvonne Bennion November 2002 Page 2 E M P LOY E E S D I R E C T R E P O R T N O V E M B E R 2 0 0 2 Contents About the authors/Acknowledgements Foreword‚ by Will Hutton Executive Summary 1. Introduction 2. Site visits and interviews 3. Follow-up surveys 4. Focus groups 5. Discussion and Conclusion References 3 4 5
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A Note on Direct Costs Garrison et al.[1] define direct cost as a cost that can be easily and conveniently traced to a specific cost object. They go on to say that the concept of direct cost extends beyond just direct materials and direct labor. This is a reasonably accurate definition but I think you need a little more information to help you understand how to use this concept. There are certain features of direct costs that I would like to explain with this note. In the problems in Chapter
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will have an opportunity to witness birth and the demonstration of a mother’s love‚ care and attention‚ as well as the added responsibility‚ which is to be shared by the whole family. The elderly on the other hand‚ benefit tremendously from pet ownership because it is a positive link between the owner and the outside world. Interactions with the pet can lead to social developments that might otherwise not have taken place. Pet owners have often confessed that it is the dog‚ which makes them
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Colorscope 1. Why would any customer‚ let alone large advertising agencies and departmental stores‚ go to Colorscope rather than go to large printers listed in Exhibit 3? Before desktop publishing became popular‚ Colorscope had a competitive advantage through its expensive proprietary computer equipment that could produce complicated print special effects. Colorscope had also been able to build strong relationships with valuable customers through the years and had a good reputation for providing
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The Control Bonding Theory is broken down into 4 elements or bonds to conventional society that explain why people decide not to engage in delinquent or criminal behavior. It does not mean that it never happens; each element just explains why the likelihood decreases. These 4 elements are the attachment‚ commitment‚ involvement and belief. The attachment element according to the lecture by Dr. Hoofman means to be attached to one’s family‚ school and peers (Hoofman‚ Unit 5c Lecture). In doing so
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of Travel Agencies. Travel Agency is one of the service intensive industries and indispensible among the tourism business. But what is the specific role of travel agency in the hospitality industry and how does it affect the whole industry. Travel Agency is defined as a retail business selling travel-related products and services to customers on behalf of suppliers such as airlines‚ car rentals‚ cruise lines‚ hotels‚ sight-seeing tours and package holidays. When we say Travel Agency they are the
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biblical worldview to think of ownership‚ we can see this in Job 41:11 and Psalm 24:1‚ “...The earth is the LORDS‚ and all it contains…” The Bible gives us this example letting us know that God is the owner of everything we have. In addition‚ “He is before all things‚ and in him all things hold together” (Colossians 1:17)‚ in this verse we see that He is in control of everything in the earth.There are business risks that we can relate to a biblical worldview. In the ownership risk‚ the risk is of claim
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official HHS website‚ the department works with almost one fourth of all federal government expenditures and administers more grant dollars than all other federal agencies combined. The Department’s programs are administered by 11 operating divisions composed of eight agencies in the U.S. Public Health Service and three human services agencies (TechTarget 2013). Unfortunately‚ there is a large population of Americans and legal citizens‚ alike‚ which do not have sufficient healthcare insurance or any
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The Self-Ownership Principle Self-ownership is a belief that almost all Australians or any human accepts. Self-ownership is a belief that any human being of any religion‚ race‚ gender orientation or nationality is the ultimate arbiter of the decisions that affects themselves and any coercive action that prevents this decision making is inherently immoral and unacceptable. The acceptance of respect for self-ownership is something that is natural and unquestionable for all humans and is demonstrated
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