a flourishing Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme “is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to separate investors from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors‚ rather than any actual profit earned.” This type of investment strategy is doomed from the start because there is never a plan to completely recoup the investor’s money; however‚ to the investor it seems like a good investment because it promised a higher short-term return. Madoff’s Ponzi scheme had been a well crafted
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Urban Politics Is Socioeconomic Urban Division a Factor in Public Service Delivery? Thursday‚ July 26‚ 2012 I. INTRODUCTION Since the creation of this county‚ there have always been various differences between the rich and poor. In terms of social-economic status/class‚ the rich and wealthy elites have always dominated every aspect of society. However‚ the low socio-economic class has always endured the worst conditions in
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METHADONE AND IT’S EFFECTIVENESS INTRODUCTION Methadone occupies a position of huge prominence in drug misuse treatment to date. It is estimated there are around 650‚000 illicit drug users receiving treatment globally (WHO 2008). Historically it was the earliest form of opioid replacement therapy and continues to be the most widely used form in the United States‚ Europe and Australia (Ward et al 1998). The most recent figures for Scotland show approximately 22‚224 people are receiving methadone
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A. Why do you want to give the Valedictory/Salutatory speech address? Being recognized as the Valedictorian at Urban Prep is one of the highest achievements attainable at the school. With the significance of this speech‚ it becomes vital that the selection committee chooses a senior from the class of 2018 at Urban Prep Englewood that will deliver not only an effective Valedictory speech address‚ but an entertaining one as well. Establishing a well engaged audience is one of the most challenging
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For example‚ frequent cancer screenings can be beneficial to only a few who are susceptible to it‚ while is a lot of investment on those who are not really endangered‚ similarly not prescribing drugs to patients with high cholesterol might increase their chances
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Total Quality Management is a management style based upon producing quality service as defined by the customer. TQM is defined as a quality-centered‚ customer-focused‚ fact-based‚ team-driven‚ senior-management-led process to achieve an organization’s strategic imperative through continuous process improvement. TQM principles are also known as total quality improvement‚ world class quality‚ continuous quality improvement‚ total service quality‚ and total quality leadership. The word "total" in
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Allen‚ R. S.; White‚ C. S. (2002). Equity sensitivity theory: A test of responses to two types of under-reward situations: JMI JMI. Journal of Managerial Issues. 14 (4)‚ 435-451. Buchanan‚ D. A.; Huczynski‚ A. A. (2010). Organizational Behaviour. 7th ed. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited. 819. Fadil‚ P. A.; Williams‚ R. J.; Limpaphayom‚ W.; Smatt‚ C. (2005). Equity or Equality? A Conceptual Examination of the Influence of Individualism/Collectivism on the Cross-Cultural Application of Equity Theory
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According to the report “ Email statistics report‚ 2009-2013” written by The Radicati Group‚ the number of email users in over the world is predicted increase from 1.4 billion people in 2009 to 1.9 billion in 2013. In 2009‚ there are approximately 249 millions messages sending each day and the percentage of business emails accounted for 37% of them. In addition‚ corporate workers have to spend about ¼ their working time to send and receive 167 messages per day. According to the article “Email
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how you would design a programme of fieldwork and research to investigate the effectiveness of coastal management schemes. Write as though you did it. Where did you do it? What specific fieldwork/ research did you do? What websites did you look at? Why did you do each technique in your investigation? What were you hoping it would tell you? In order to fully investigate the effectiveness of coastal management schemes‚ you need to carry out both primary and secondary data. There is a range of
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The Rise and Decline of Urban Brewing 1100-1700 Justin R. Crossno “Whether Scurvy-grass‚ Daucus‚ Gill‚ Butler‚ or Broom‚ Or from London‚ or Southwark‚ or Lambeth we come; We humbly implore since the Wine in the Nation‚ Has of late so much lost its once great Reputation; That such Liquor as ours which is genuine and true‚ And which all our Masters so carefully brew‚ Which all men approve of‚ tho’ many drink Wine‚ Yet the good Oyl of Barly there’s none will decline: That we as a body call’d corp’rate
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