value for the contract. In May‚ it had received another contract from SBI‚ estimated at Rs 100 crore (Rs 1 billion)‚ which was part of the bank’s plan to more thoroughly computerise and link its sprawling 9‚000-branch network. TCS chief executive S Ramadorai told reporters after a news conference called to announce the contract that the business environment for tech companies continued to be uncertain and bagging contracts was taking longer than usual. "The impact of all this uncertainty is not
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Rubicon by Tom Holland traces the events and characters that sealed the fate of the five hundred-year old Republican government. Rubicon surveys the decades of the Roman Republic‚ from the civil war‚ with Rome’s Italian allies to the reign of Augustus Caesar. It starts with Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon‚ which ultimately leads to the Republic collapsing. Holland takes you on a trip through the last decades of the Roman Republic in the last century B.C. He tells the stories of the main players
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Tom McCarthy’s Remainder is a piece of metafiction that helps to “map the paradoxical remainder of the genre after everything novelistic has been subtracted from it”. It centres around a nameless narrator who‚ in the aftermath of an undisclosed accident‚ finds himself coming into eight and a half million pounds in compensation and uses said money to fund actors to replicate scenarios in order to find true authenticity. Marco Roth claims that the neuronovel “allegoris[es]the novelist’s fear of his
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though it was eventually changed to an indefinite suspension when a video of the altercation was released‚ Tom Brady got an initial suspension of 4 games for possibly deflating some footballs. Brady received double the amount of games suspended for a case that had an end result of “more probable than not” than a man who it was known for sure had beaten his wife. That is just one of many cases of the NFL and its string of incompetent commissioners not punishing its athletes fairly. Due to this notion
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Instrument used for measurement Making measurement by usisng some instrument or other is inevitable in physic.Hence‚ ensuring that careful and accurate reading are obtained for any measurement is of utmost importance.Table below shows some most commonly used instrument for making measurement in physics experiments. |Physical quantity |Instrument | |Length |Meter rule
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Tom Robinson entered rest in Wednesday‚ August 21‚ 1935‚ at 2:35 o’clock p.m.‚ Tom Robinson‚ spouse of Helen Robinson‚ father to their three children. He was the son of Terry and John Robinson‚ aged 33 years‚ a native and resident of this city. Relative and friend of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral‚ which will take place on Friday afternoon‚ August 28‚ 1935‚ at 3 o’clock‚ from the African American Church‚ 713 Clause Street. Mr. Bob Ewell died on Thursday‚ September 9th
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Why It Couldn’t Be The short story Cold Equations by Tom Godwin takes place on a ship called EDS. The space cruiser is piloted by a man named Barton. He has an order of killing the stowaway who snuck onto the ship because the weight on the EDS is too much for the ship to handle. In the process of hunting down the stowaway‚ he realizes it was a young innocent girl named Marilyn. Once Barton understands what kind of person Marilyn is‚ he doesn’t kill her immediately because he knows her reasons were
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racism. Two trials in particular are the Emmett Till case and a fictional case‚ which is the Tom Robinson case from Harper Lee’s novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird. Both men are similar because they were both being accused of sexual transgression and both were also victims of excessive violence. Both Emmett and Tom were African Americans who lived through the times of terrible racism in the south. Because both men lived through racism in the 1900’s‚ their lives were affected with the time honored code
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“‘Tom‚ I’ve a notion to skin you alive!’” (Chapter 19‚ page 120). The book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer‚ written by Mark Twain‚ is a book about a young life growing up alongside the Mississippi. Tom gets into lots of trouble with Huck and Joe‚ while also going for Becky‚ who he is “engaged”. The main theme of the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is that throughout everything‚ children will stick to their childish thinking. Every once and awhile‚ Tom and his friends forget what they’re doing
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Tom Sawyer is not a new story after all. The book ‚written by Mark Twain‚ is just made up of many different original stories. Tom is an adventurous character that is always getting into trouble. In the end though‚ he is always forgiven for his actions. This is like many traditional stories. One such is Beauty and the Beast. The adult point of view in this story gives a new perspective on the story. Lampwick from Pinocchio‚ is in many ways like Tom and the way he acts. The plot from Hercules is similar
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