EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Two big events will frame the year ahead: America’s presidential election and the summer Olympic games in Beijing. The race for the White House will be a marathon, from the front-loaded primary season in January and February to the general election in November. The betting is that the winner will be a Democrat—with a strong chance that a Clinton will again be set to succeed a Bush as leader of the free world. China, meanwhile, will hope to use the Olympics to show the world
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October 2011: 1 | | Cabinet approves Bill to share mining profits | * Mines and Mineral Development and Regulation (MMDR) Bill, 2011 * Provides for mining companies to keep aside 26% of their net profits for a Mineral Development Fund to be used for development and rehabilitation of project-affected people in the tribal areas of the country * For the non-coal companies, amount will be equivalent to the royalty they pay * Appointed a regulatory body for overseeing the functioning of
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H8032-Prelims.QXD 7/1/06 11:08 AM Page i CIMA’S Official Learning System CIMA Certificate in Business Accounting, 2006 Syllabus Certificate Level Fundamentals of Ethics, Corporate Governance and Business law David Sagar Larry Mead Philippa Foster Back H8032-Prelims.QXD 7/1/06 11:08 AM Page ii CIMA Publishing is an imprint of Elsevier Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP, UK 30 Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington, MA 01803, USA First edition 2006
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"Oh, shut up!" says Claudia, blushing."1 may read the astrology column, but I certainly don't believe it. I just read it for fun. But, the fact is, during the past twenty-five years there have been thousands of alleged sightings of UFOs, and not a single one has led to any solid evidence of their existence. What do you make of that?" "I think we should look at this situation the other way around," Ralph says."Up until now, nobody has shown that UFOs don't exist, so I think we should give those people
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THE EC-PHILIPPINES STRATEGY PAPER 2007-2013 i TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS .......................................................................................... iii EXECUTIVE SUMMARY............................................................................................... 7 1. COUNTRY ANALYSIS ............................................................................................ 9 1.1. Analysis of the political situation....................................
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Mount Royal UniversityINBU 3301-007 | Market Entry Analysis | VIH Aviation | | Cassandra BianchiniMichael HaShoaib HasanLeo LamTaylor Smith | 12/1/2011 | EXECUTIVE SUMMARY VIH Aviation has built credibility for its well trained staff, well maintained equipment, safety standards, and technological developments. The performance of the organization has caught the attention of some foreign firms, and additional business ventures will analyzed. China’s second-largest airline has proposed
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Investigating the Complementary Polysemy of the Noun ‘Destruction' in an English to Arabic Parallel Corpus Hammouda Salhi University of Carthage, Tunisia hammouda_s@hotmail.com Abstract: This article investigates a topic at the interface between translation studies, lexical semantics and corpus linguistics. Its general aim is to show how translation studies could profit from the work done in both lexical semantics and corpus linguistics in an attempt to help ‘endear’ linguists to
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The Identity of Religious Minorities in Non-Secular States: Jews in Tunisia and Morocco and Arabs in Israel Author(s): Mark A. Tessler Source: Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Jul., 1978), pp. 359-373 Published by: Cambridge University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/178359 Accessed: 13/07/2009 10:36 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms
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Fedoroff Agric & Food Secur (2015) 4:11 DOI 10.1186/s40066-015-0031-7 Open Access REVIEW Food in a future of 10 billion Nina V Fedoroff* Abstract Over the past two centuries, the human population has grown sevenfold and the experts anticipate the addition of 2–3 billion more during the twenty-first century. In the present overview, I take a historical glance at how humans supported such extraordinary population growth first through the invention of agriculture and more recently
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SOMETHING for NOTHING The Causes and Cures of All Our Problems and What You Can Do to Save the American Dream BRIAN TRACY Eagle House Publishing Corporation 2004 Eagle House Publishing Corporation 1117 Desert Lane, Suite 1228 Las Vegas, NV 89102 USA www.eaglehouse.biz eaglehousepc@hotmail.com Copyright © 2004 Brian Tracy. All rights reserved. First Eagle House Publishing Corporation electronic edition 2004 ISBN 0-976123-92-4 To my wonderful wife Barbara, who has encouraged me to write
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