From the landing of the dilapidated iron staircase, Gerald, peered through the pall of cigarette smoke into the noisy nightclub. Enviously he watched, as the girl in the pink spotlight captivated the audience with her song. In the business of show business, the girl was Goldie, but to Gerald, she would always be Marigold, her given name. He had long since dismissed the diminutive, as suitable only for a chorus girl. Gerald and Marigold, from their childhood, had been part of a musical comedy show
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Columbia disaster considers the space shuttle’s damaged left wing, which was hit by a loose piece of foam during launch, to be a problem. In the second step, the incident is broken down into causes; safety was impacted because all seven crewmembers lost their lives. The decision was made to allow re-entry because the risk of damage was considered acceptable: the program had a long history of foam strikes, and the extent of the damage to the wing was unknown because each time the foam hit the shuttle
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Midterm Conducting personal Business on Company Time Business 323 Professor Christine M. Seymour 26 March, 2013 With increasingly demanding jobs and workloads increasing in quantity, add to that a limited time in employees’ schedules, a lot of personal business and personal errands are now being run from the comfort of the office during company time. This is an observation that has been made by both employer and worker and
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Summer Assignment: Article Summaries Jose Reyes 9/1/14 AP Macroeconomics Mr. Garyn Summary of Article 1: “Small Business, Joining a Parade of Outsourcing” By Phyllis Korkki Feb. 15, 2014 - For smaller local businesses there is a cheaper alternative to getting one time projects professionally done. You can get someone from a foreign country to complete your one time project at a much lower cost than if you got someone from the United States with the same skill level. ODesk created
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Microsoft cuts jobs as profits fall US software giant Microsoft is to cut up to 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months - including 1,400 immediately - due to a slowing economy and weak spending on technology. Microsoft employs 1,200 people at Sandyford in Dublin, but a spokesperson said the cuts would have only 'a very minor impact' in Ireland. It is believed fewer than 20 jobs will go. Microsoft said net profit fell by 11% in the second quarter of its financial year compared with a year earlier
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and rescue of the lost trekkers Jatin Ashra DSV, Stockholm University Abstract Consider a recent incident of flight MH370, where even with state of the art GPS systems, we do not know the where about of the flight even after so many months. In today’s world, even with available latest technology, it has become difficult to search some things like an aero plane etc. Imagine how difficult the task of search and rescue team might be to locate people who might have got lost in the forest while
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about the bank being closed regardless of weekends (or) holidays. Also, it has become easy to advertise through the internet and thereby promoting the business in a faster way. While there has been a great interaction between ATM machines and banking customers in the modern days, there are also disadvantages of using ATM machines instead of dealing with the banking tellers in person. The most important thing is that we have to protect our debit card. If it is lost or stolen, it can be used by the finder
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Philosophy, Sanctions & Criminal Justice CJS/220 5/17/2014 Microsoft Christina Israel Our criminal justice system works on four different philosophies of punishment. They take those four punishment philosophies and apply them to the law of keeping others safe. Most of the philosophies are pretty self explanatory. I am going to go through them all and show how each affects the post-conviction process and how sections relate to the each punishment philosophy. The first one, which most
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Disaster plan | | | | 6/6/2010 | | Abstract This is a disaster plan that I created for the IST Department of XYZ Computers company in order to prevent any future problems that may arise such as the situation they had over the weekend when a major water pipe broke and flooded the first floor, causing extensive damage to the servers. Included in the disaster plan I will address a few issues that will aid the company in protecting against such things as any natural disasters that
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The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, is a novel that follows the maturation of Amir, a male from Afghanistan who needs to find his way in the world as he realises that his own belief system is not that of his dominant culture. It is the story of both fathers and sons; and friends and brothers. Through this journey of Amir’s, Khaled Hosseini’s depicts right and wrong and the nature of evil. The relationship between Amir and his ‘best friend’ Hassan was saddening. Not only is Hassan Amir’s best
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