National Railroad Passenger Corporation ("Amtrak"): Acela Financing On April 30‚ 1999‚ Arlene’ Friner. CFO of Amtrak‚ instructed her treasury staff to review a leventged-lezise proposal from BNY Capital Funding LLC (BNYCF). Several weeks earlier‚ Amtrak and its adviser‚ Babcock & Brown Financial Corporation‚ had invited financial institutions to submit lease-financing proposals for Amtrak’s planned purchase of locomotives and high-speed train sets.’ The equipment would be utilized on the "Acela"
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PWCS 37 – Understand health and safety in social care settings Task 3 There are many accidents and sudden illnesses that may occur within a social care setting. Some of the most common ones are: • Slips‚ trips and falls • Burns and scalds • Sprains and strains • Choking and breathing difficulties • Diarrhoea and sickness • Cardiac arrest • Loss of consciousness These accidents and sudden illnesses happen to either the carers‚ service users or visitors. Sprain and strains usually
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or ‘right’ answer” (Ghillyer‚ 2008‚ p9). In other words‚ it is difficult to offer a specific answer of whether homosexual relationship should be accepted. For this essay‚ I will utilize Ghillyer’s (2008) three-step process to analyze and solve this ethic problem. 2. Consequences 2.1. Social Exclusion Actually‚ it is difficult to deny that homosexual suffer the social exclusion in the recent world. Silver (2007) defined social exclusion as “a multidimensional process of progressive social rupture
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The ‘Parable of the Sadhu’ discussed how a group hiking up the Himalayan Mountains encountered an ethical dilemma and how their decisions are similar to corporate ethics. This article presents a complex situation in which immediate action was necessary. In briefly‚ a group of multi-national individuals embarked on a trip of a life-time up the mountain. Along their journey up‚ Sadhu‚ an Indian holy man‚ was discovered naked and barely alive by the group of multicultural mountaineers. Each ethnic group
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Chapter 3: What‚ in your view‚ makes a company “good” or “bad”‚ particularly if you start with the idea that ethics is an important part of your evaluation? Why? According to the Webster’s dictionary‚ good is defined as a favorable character or tendency. Every company has the option of being good or bad. One wrong move can turn a good company bad and one right move can turn a bad company good. Companies that use cheap labor versus companies that use high paid‚ highly educated labor are not bad
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Contents P1 Introduction When working in a health and social environment‚ it is important that the surrounding nature is safe and free of any potential harm. A hazard is something that can possibly cause you this danger. Hazards range from something being misplaced to a broken object. When identifying a hazard‚ risk assessments would take place to find out the best and quickest solution to prevent any danger. The definition of a risk is the probability
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familiar‚ here ’s the idea: At 211 degrees...water is hot. At 212 degrees...it boils. And with boiling water‚ comes steam. And steam can power a locomotive. And‚ it ’s that one extra degree that... Makes all the difference. So many times‚ in business and in life‚ it ’s that one extra degree of effort that separates the good from the great. What I love about the 212° idea is that you can use it to fit your own needs. It may be 212° service that you ’d like to reinforce‚ or 212° attitude‚ leadership
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Mergers & Acquisitions: Hostile takeovers and defense strategies against them Bachelor thesis Samim Zarin 880825-5171 Erik Yang 890422-1176 Tutor: Harald Dolles Department of Business & Administration International Business Spring 2011 1 Bachelor’s Thesis in International Business Title: Mergers & Acquisitions - Hostile takeovers and defense strategies against them Author: Erik Yang and Samim Zarin Tutor: Harald Dolles Date: [2011-07] Keywords: Hostile takeover
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The Inside Man The film depicts a gang of robbers broke into a bank and seized customers as hostages‚ and threatened the police. "I have planned a perfect bank robbery"‚ the head of the gang said‚ this is a battle of wits‚ not a battle of force . Sure enough‚ the police have not used the "SWAT"‚ "lone hero" insist forcing‚ but got a hostage negotiation experts attempt to rely on rhetoric subdued. However‚ this did not work. Looks like the robbers who rob the bank when they faced the enormous
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References: http://www.idm-diversity.org/eng/dmanagement.html http://www.nation.com.pk/business/24-Jan-2011/Managing-workforce-diversity-in-Pakistan http://www.goethe.de/ins/pk/kar/uun/enindex.htm
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