historic/existing pricing strategy of Lesser Antilles Lines (LAL) in the San Huberto* market? What is the objective of this strategy? Can this objective be achieved? The objective is to “run them out of the market”. It is a poor strategy given that there is a price inelasticity of demand so competing in prices is hurting performance at the expense of share. Moreover‚ it is a usual practice in San Huberto for importers to divide their order between both shipping lines‚ so lowering prices makes it even riskier
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started to question organisations ’ practices and their environmental‚ social and economic impacts. With this in mind‚ companies started to pay more attention to business sustainability in order to improve the company ’s reputation. The Triple Bottom Line (TBL) concept is a methodology that focuses on the 3 P ’s: People‚ Planet and Profit. It was first introduced by John Elkington in 1994 and has increasingly become a basis for business sustainability. Not only has the world ’s Green mentality influenced
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the Chorus declares that Antigone is going to die. I did not think there could be an affirmative case for any other character. During the interactive oral‚ one cultural and contextual consideration that was discussed was the philosophy of blurred lines with respect to the Tragic Hero’s identity. My attention was drawn to the fact that Creon also manifests many of the Tragic Hero’s criterion. The audience sympathizes
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The Psychology of Waiting Lines By David H. Maister Introduction In one of a series of memorable advertisements for which it has become justly famous‚ Federal Express (the overnight package delivery service) noted that: "Waiting is frustrating‚ demoralizing‚ agonizing‚ aggravating‚ annoying‚ time consuming and incredibly expensive." (1) The truth of this assertion cannot be denied: there can be few consumers of services in a modern society who have not felt‚ at one time or another‚ each of the
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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY‚ VOL. 54‚ NO. 4‚ APRIL 2008 1735 [31] V. Vovk‚ “Competitive on-line statistics‚” Int. Stat. Rev.‚ vol. 69‚ pp. 213–248‚ 2001. [32] M. H. Wegkamp‚ “Model selection in nonparametric regression‚” Ann. Statist.‚ vol. 31‚ pp. 252–273‚ 2003. [33] K. Yamanishi‚ “Minimax relative loss analysis for sequential prediction algorithms using parametric hypotheses‚” in Proc. COLT 98‚ 1998‚ pp. 32–43‚ ACM Press. [34] Y. Yang‚ “Adaptive estimation in pattern recognition
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the origin of the phrase “once in a blue moon” and what a blue moon actually is. “Once in a blue moon” today means “very rarely‚” though it used to mean something that was absurd‚ right along the lines of “when pigs fly.” The first known recorded use of a form of the phrase is in an anti-clerical pamphlet published in 1528 by William Roy and Jeremy Barlowe. In a conversation between two characters‚ one says‚ “Yf they say the mone is blewe/We must believe that it is true.” It appears to be a
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Audens Funeral blues The poem funeral blues is written by W.H. Auden in 1936 and its main themes are time‚ death and love. The lyrical I in this poem is a love one left behind‚ who describes the funeral of a man‚ the feeling involved and the future ahead. The poem is metrical since it has 4 stanzas with 4 lines each‚ the poem has end rhymes in every 2 lines‚ and the first and third line in every stanza contain the same amount of syllables same goes for the second and fourth line. Throughout the
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Value Line Publishing There are two leaders for retail building-supply industry: Home Depot and Lowe’s‚ the two companies captured more than third of the total sale of the industry. Home Depot hold 22.9% market shares of the industry and Lowe’s hold 10.8% market share. Two companies are head to head competitor but focus on different market‚ Home Depot focused on large metropolitan areas and Lowe’s focused on rural area. Two companies both maintained online stores. Lowe’s has its own Web site: “Accent
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“BLUE BOWL” The poem “Blue Bowl” by Jane Kenyon‚ tells a story how a family tries to move on after the death of their cat. The line: “We buried the cat with his bowl‚” shows by burying the bowl with the cat‚ the family attempts to avoid the continuous reminder of their loss. The line:” We stood and brushed each other off‚” shows that the family is trying to be more accepting of their loss. This is also supported by the line: “There are sorrows keener than these.” By continuing their routines after
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The book that I chose to present as my book talk was Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell. The genre of this book is fiction. There are many characters discussed in Island of the Blue Dolphins: Karana is the main character. She is a teenage girl whose father is the ruler of the island Chowig is the ruler of the island in the beginning of the story. He has a son and a daughter‚ Karana and Ramo Ramo is Karana’s brother and Chowig’s son. He is a young boy around the age of 10. Captain
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