non-profit organization which aims to publish online submissions of classified information, news leaks 3 from anonymous news sources and whistleblowers.4 It unleashed the wrath of the U.S. government and a wave of recrimination and reprisals against WikiLeaks and its key figures. Twitter was the only Internet Company to support WikiLeaks while others cut off essential resources to WikiLeaks’ survival. The goal of WikiLeaks is "to bring important news and information to the public”. People publish
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The Impact of Television Food Advertising on Childhood Obesity Lara Klein Abstract Childhood obesity is a growing problem around the world, especially in the United State that is notably harmful as its effects are not only temporary but can have long term effects that can be taken into adulthood. Children’s food preferences are influenced by television advertising that focuses directly at children. It is furthermore concluded that children exposed to high amounts of television advertisements
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Instructor’s Manual CASE TEACHING NOTES The Global Pharmaceutical Industry Sarah Holland (Manchester Business School) and Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo (London South Bank University) 1. Introduction The case describes how the prescription pharmaceutical industry has changed since its modern beginnings in the early 1950s. The various forces affecting the competitive environment of the industry are discussed in terms of origins, immediate past and immediate future (2004 onwards). As a result, the
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2 II. Geography 4 III. History of the Country 6 IV. The Country's Financial System a. Historical Overview 10 b. Present Monetary Laws and Regulations 11 c. Types of Financial Institutions operating in the country 12 d. The Central Bank 12-13 e. Bank Regulation 13 f. Commercial Banks Operating in the country 15 1. Commercial 15-16 2. Savings & Mortgage Banks 17 3. Other Financial firms
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Today, ONGC is a flagship public sector enterprise and India’s highest profit making corporate, achieving the record of being the first Indian corporate to register a five digit profit figure of Rs. 10,529 Crore in the year 2002-03. The Indian government holds 74.14% equity stake in this company. ONGC has produced more than 600 million metric tonnes of crude oil and supplied more than 200 billion cubic metres of gas since its inception, thus fuelling the increasing energy requirements of the Indian
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Government in the Global Workplace March 2012 When considering the thought of government and the global work environment and its role, it is important to address the role of constitutional, federal and international trade laws and regulations that allow and support trade between the United States and countries abroad. The government has to interject itself into the global work environment as businesses choose to engage in international trade. It is basic economics; there is a demand for goods
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Founded in 1976, Apple Inc. is one of the largest, most successful, and most recognizable brands in the world that specializes in computer software, online music and entertainment services, and most notably consumer electronics. Currently valued at over $700 billion (USD), the growth in market share of just the iPhone alone contributed an estimated one-quarter to one-third of a percentage point to the annualized growth rate in the U.S. gross domestic product (Kuang, 2015). In addition to the wildly
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often increase the costs of government decisionmaking relative to private decisionmaking, because consumers have better incentives to overcome errors than government decisionmakers, consumers have stronger incentives to choose well when they are purchasing than when they are voting and it is more costly to change the beliefs of millions of consumers than a handful of bureaucrats. As such, recognizing the limits of human cognition may strengthen the case for limited government. INTRODUCTION An increasingly
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Management Information System Case Study Report Name : Angela Tanasha Class : BA XIV-52 Student ID : 13.53.01.0017 Table Of Content 1. Introduction 1 1.1 Objective of the report 3 1.2 Scope of the report 3 1.3 The Importance of Computerized MIS on Budget Airline 3 2. Body 4 2.1 PEST (International, Demographical) Analysis 4 2.2 SWOT Analysis 11 2.3 Porter’s Value Chain 13 2.4 Competitive Analysis / Porter’s 5 Forces 14 2.5 Online Reservation System 18 3.0 Recommendation
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