University of Tennessee, Knoxville Trace: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School 12-2009 Peeking Out: A Textual Analysis of Heteronormative Images in Prime-Time Television D. Renee Smith University of Tennessee - Knoxville, drsmith@utk.edu Recommended Citation Smith, D. Renee, "Peeking Out: A Textual Analysis of Heteronormative Images in Prime-Time Television. " PhD diss., University of Tennessee, 2009. http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/10
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213-255_Trevino_08p4.qxd 6/21/06 5:18 PM Page 213 PA R T IV ETHICS AND THE ORGANIZATION 213 213-255_Trevino_08p4.qxd 6/21/06 5:18 PM Page 214 CHAPTER 8 ETHICAL PROBLEMS OF ORGANIZATIONS INTRODUCTION In the third quarter of 2002, the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C., think tank, estimated that the corporate scandals that began with the Enron debacle in late 2000 would cost the U.S. economy $35 billion. That is the equivalent of a $10 increase
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virtually impossible for any institution to finance itself in the markets longer than overnight.” This occurred less than a month after Lehman Brothers (LB) collapsed, without bailout. Six months earlier Bear Stearns (BS) had been bailed out after JP Morgan Chase (JPM Chase) had bought it for $10 a share, at the regulator’s urging. After LB fell, who would be next? And if LB, who was not at risk? Despite the earlier U.S. government bailouts of the erstwhile government mortgage originators (and still
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A Tale of Two Londons Who really lives at One Hyde Park, called the world’s most expensive residential building? Its mostly absentee owners, hiding behind offshore corporations based in tax havens, provide a portrait of the new global super-wealthy. BY NICHOLAS SHAXSON Up until the 18th century, Knightsbridge, which borders genteel Kensington, was a lawless zone roamed by predatory monks and assorted cutthroats. It didn’t come of age until the Victorian building boom, which left a charming
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Module 1 Executive summary and Introduction A. Summary of the study People started using public transportation in a higher rate because of sky rising gas price, unavoidable traffic congestion and growing environment pollution. Current generation has calculated the time and money spent on everyday transportation and decided to leave their car back home or at nearby railway station while commuting to office or downtown. Hence the utilization of taxi cab service has increased over the time
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SALES OFFICERS IN A PRIVATE BANK (A CASE STUDY OF A PVT LTD YESBANK) BY KINSHUK DE CONTENTS Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 AIM 1.2 BACKGROUND 1.3 INDIA’S BANKING SCENE 1.6 EMERGENCE OF PRIVATE SECTOR BANKS 1.7 NATURE OF PROBLEM 1.8 JUSTIFICATION 1.9 ATTRITION 2. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 2.1 AIM 2.2 OBJECTIVE OF STUDY 2.2 RESEARCH TECHNIQUES
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Origins and Responses to the Crisis Barry Eichengreen University of California, Berkeley October 2008 Nearly two years after the outbreak of the credit crisis (which may be dated to March 2007 when major losses were announced by the U.S. subprime-based investors Accredited Home Lenders Holding and New Century Financial), key issues remain to be resolved. At the most basic level the questions are two. What caused the crisis? And in light of one’s answer to this first question, what should
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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY Nigeria banking sector has experienced a boom-and-burst cycle in the past 20-25 years. After the implementation of the structural adjustment programme (SAP) in 1986 and de-regulation of the financial sector, new banks proliferated mainly driven by attractive arbitrage opportunities in the foreign exchange market (Heiko 2007), but prior to the de-regulation period, financial intermediation never took off and even declined in the1980’s and 1990’s
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Table of Contents Executive Summary 5 Marketing Strategy 6 Background 6 Company 6 Products 7 Situational Analysis 7 Market Share 8 Goals 8 Strategy 9 SWOT Analysis 9 Strengths 10 Weaknesses 11 Opportunities 11 Threats 12 Customers 12 Competitors 14 Positioning 14 Competitor Market Share 15 Collaborators 15 Role of Partnerships 15 Complimentary Businesses 16 Climate 16 Political/Legal 16 Economic 16 Technological 17 Social/Cultural 17 Issues Analysis 17 Personal Computer
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Welcome to OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT Operations Management is important, exciting, challenging, and everywhere your look! Important, because it’s concerned with creating all of the products and services upon which we depend. Exciting, because it’s at the centre of so many of the changes affecting the world of business. Challenging, because the solutions that we find need to work globally and responsibly within society and the environment. And everywhere, because every service and product that
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