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    cough medicine. This happened several weeks ago. Yet‚ place these individual incidents alongside the unending onslaught of natural disaster‚ insurgency‚ terrorism‚ corruption‚ poverty‚ natural resource shortage‚ and disease. Now you can understand why so many Pakistanis suffer from PTSD‚ and are driven to desperate measures. In 2008‚ in one of the most harrowing pieces of journalism I’ve ever read‚ Newsline’s Shimaila Matri Dawood wrote of Pakistanis murdering their children‚ jumping in front of

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    Outsourcing Journey - Assignment #5 Question: Why do you think Lego’s outsourcing “failed”? (What factors explain the short-lived outsourcing relationship between Lego and Flextronics?) To answer this question‚ I want to state the fact that short-lived relationship between Lego and Flextronics was not a total failure. And to begin with‚ I want to list some of things that Lego learned through this outsourcing. From this list‚ we can also see why their relationship was short-lived. * There

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    Negative Effects of Prohibition Liquor was in everyday use. Parents were told by doctors to put alcohol on their finger and rub it on babies’ gums to reduce teething pain. The doctors also prescribed liquor to the elderly to reduce pain and aches. Some bosses paid their workers in alcohol and money (Lieurance). Prohibition broke down the economy and caused lots of problems. From here on‚ the 18th amendment prohibited alcohol to be sold‚ produced‚ or transported. This cut jobs and made people jobless

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    As Prohibition commenced in 1920‚ progressives envisioned an age of moral and social reform. As early as 1916‚ some 26 out of 48 states were already dry‚ and once the United States entered the first world war‚ Prohibition became identified with patriotism. This was the peak of progressive reform: to a generation of Protestant reformers‚ using the power of the state to regulate the anarchy of the industrial city and improve the lot of ordinary workers seemed only natural and reasonable. By December

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    Yemen: A Failed State at Risk of Civil War Some Facts about Yemen as a Failed State Yemen is one of the most water-scarce areas in the world. An estimated 80% of conflicts in Yemen are based on water. Up to 40% of water is used to grow ‘qat’ drug. Shortages will cause a major increase in internally displaced people. Yemen is the poorest Arab country. Nearly half the population lives on less than 2$ a day. Around 50% of Yemenis are illiterate. Yemen’s population will double by 2030. National unemployment

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    Prohibition The 18th Amendment‚ ratified on January 16th 1919‚ which prohibited the manufacture‚ sale‚ export‚ import and transportation of alcoholic beverages‚ happened because of the Temperance Movement. It was believed at the time that alcohol was the main problem in society and that it needed to be removed. This moral issue divided people up between those who were “dry” and those who were “wet”. Either way‚ it was eventually repealed because of the problems that came from it. While that was

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    Why did Nokia fail in Indian market? 1. Lession from the Corporate http://books.google.com.au/books?id=yPC5BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA339&lpg=PA339&dq=how+nokia+failed+to+connect+indian+market&source=bl&ots=M1GR8b7x_k&sig=VpqxqvlcvJ7Jb6Dgiq6tCqcEk9E&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nB5nVMaLK8O4mwWr64LgDw&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=how%20nokia%20failed%20to%20connect%20indian%20market&f=false Nokia vs Micromax (Developmental (NPD)‚ Distribution‚ and Price Flexibility): Although Nokia is still a major player of Indian mobile

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    The Cause and Effect of Prohibition in America In the wake of World War 1‚ the Roaring Twenties was an era for celebration‚ renewal‚ and a number of glamourized activities. Between flappers‚ the Charleston‚ organized sports‚ and jazz music‚ the people of the twenties lived joyous lives—until one of the most common activities came to a legal standstill on January sixteenth‚ 1920. Defined as the historical 1920-1933’s ban on the manufacture‚ storage‚ transportation‚ sale‚ possession‚ and consumption

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    WHY NOKIA FAILED AT SMARTPHONE SEGMENT AGAINST APPLE? According to my project I am going to explain two companies; which one of them is successful at producing and selling Smartphone and one of them is‚ can not success at production and sale of Smartphone. Firstly I am going explain Nokia which is leader of communication industry but going to fail at Smartphone sector and after that‚ I am going to explain Apple‚ that is best at producing Smartphone and proved its quality in last 4 years

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    that drove all people at the time. However‚ this time is also known as the Prohibition Era‚ as alcohol was banned at the very beginning of the decade. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ it is important to understand the historical context of the ongoing Prohibition and desire for increased status in the 1920’s to fully grasp the role alcohol played on the novel’s theme of social class. Despite the Prohibition of the 1920’s‚ alcohol flowed freely at Jay Gatsby’s parties‚ and thus attracted

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