Introduction and Overview The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) is an intergovernmental organization set up for the promotion of free trade and economic integration to the benefit of its four Member States [1]. The four EFTA States are world leaders in several sectors that is vital to the global economy are Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Iceland, and Norway. Liechtenstein, despite its small size and limited resources, is highly industrialized and specialized in capital-intensive and R&D driven
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Introduction The person who I have chosen to do a write-up about is Howard Shultz, the Chief Executive Officer of Starbucks Coffee Company. Shultz is a person who possesses excellent entrepreneurial skills, which is the main reason why I chose to do my write-up about him. Background Howard Shultz was born in 1953 to a loving family in Brooklyn, New York. He spent his childhood being brought up in the Bay View housing project that was known to be in an unpleasant condition at that time (bio., n.d
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Saputo History & Overview Saputo Inc. was founded in 1954 by Mr. Emanuele (Lino) Saputo, Chairman of the Board of Saputo, with his parents in 1954, and producing quality cheese for the Italian community of Montréal. During the seventies, Saputo acquired several production operations and food distributors, and developed its national distribution network, positioning itself in Canada as a leading producer of mozzarella. During the 1980's, Saputo established itself outside of Canada for the first
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ORGANIZED CRIME INVESTIGATION "Yes, Mr. Hoover, there is a Mafia" (Rudy Giuliani) Organized crime is in a class by itself. It's big, it's powerful, it's well-connected, and highly profitable. Mafia is the most common term used to describe the more profitable criminal organizations around the world, but other terminology exists, such as: international criminal organizations (military usage); transnational crime (United Nations usage); and enterprise crime (FBI usage). As the term is utilized
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´ NOELLE J. MOLE PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Living it on the skin: Italian states, working illness A B S T R A C T In this article, I examine the codification of an Italian work-related illness caused by mobbing, a type of psychological harassment that emerged at the moment neoliberal policies transformed Italy’s historically protectionist labor market. I trace how the medicalization of mobbing has expanded workers’ access to compensation, resources, and discursive tools for criticizing neoliberal
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VIDEO on FT.com Lionel Barber, Martin Wolf and Vanessa Friedman interview leading figures at the FT luxury summit in Monte Carlo FT.com/luxury-video SPECIAL REPORT | Monday June 15 2009 www.ft.com/business-luxury-2009 Slimming all the rage as belts tighten Haig Simonian investigates the problems faced by luxury goods conglomerates in the current market F or years, equity analysts urged Johann Rupert to spin off tobacco and turn Richemont, the company he chairs and controls, into a
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Early life[edit] Rosso was born in the village of Brugine in the Northeastern Italian region of Veneto. His parents were farmers and he grew up under simple conditions, regularly helping his father after school. Having seen the laborious life required for a farmer, Rosso aspired to do something different from his parents and in 1970 began studying industrial Textile Manufacturing at the Marconi Technical Institute in Padua. There, he produced, at the age of 15, his first self-designed garment, a
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Rap COINTELPRO: Subverting the power of Hip-Hop By FinalCall.com News Updated Jul 24, 2005, 10:53 pm One-on-One with BlackElectorate.com's Cedric Muhammad |[pic] | Political commentator Cedric Muhammad published a series of Rap COINTELPRO articles on his website (BlackElectorate.com) beginning in 2000 initially dealing with the suspicious circumstances surrounding the deaths of Tupac Shakur (2Pac) and Christopher Wallace (Notorious B
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1 The book Code of the Street is a book about urban city life in Philadelphia, PA, for African Americans and how unwritten laws are vital to abide and obtain in order to survive. In this book, Elijah Anderson captivates the reader’s attention by presenting extensive research on how Philadelphia natives adopt the laws of the code of the street and how and when to use these codes of survival. He provides several interviews with many different people who are either forced to enter the code of the
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accommodate the bulkiest American football players to stateoftheart intensivecare units that can nurse the tiniest premature Nina Simone: Don't let her be misunderstood babies. But the device that has captured the Prospero | 2 hours 55 mins ago heart of the centre's boss, Ashish Shah, is much less fancy: a handheld June 26th 2015 edition: Pick of our week, in audio electrocardiogram (ECG) called the Mac 400. International | Jun 26th, 16:15 The device is a masterpiece of simplification. Terror in the Middle East: A bloody day
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