experience the burden of interest expenses for many years. The majority of my friends did not want to give me a loan or were ready to give me only a small amount of money or were ready to give me a large sum of money but only for a short period of time. What I really needed is to a find a person who would agree to give me a long-term loan (1,5-2 years) on the amount of about 8000-10000$ without any interest expense. One day Dmitry Kurukin, an international chess master called me and invited me
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PHILOSOPHY OF TIME MGT Each of us has a personality-defining set of "resonant frequencies" (see link for details), and one thing I've noticed about mine are that I work best when I focus on one or a few things for a certain period of time. I do not juggle well. Therefore, I am inclined to think that I should chart out a small number of things to focus on for given periods of time. In particular, I would like to control my focus when I have specific meaningful deadlines. Letting deadlines slip
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measure the result. For example, if you run an ad in the paper, or send out a direct mail coupon, you can easily track your response rate. Depending on the amount of new business you generate, you can assess the effectiveness of the campaign. Most of the time, these strategies involve costly advertising, so you must be sure you are reaching your target market, as well as prompting a "call to action" from potential customers. Other examples of short term strategies are Internet websites, informational
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude Chapter 1 MANY YEARS LATER as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. At that time Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses, built on the bank of a river of clear water that ran along a bed of polished stones, which were white and enormous, like prehistoric eggs. The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them
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| The Importance of Business Strategy | MT460/04 | | Management Policy and Strategy Unit 2 Business Planning The Strategic Management Concept The concept of strategic management involves several different aspects of business. In the simplest terms, a company generates objectives and goals by which it would like to operate. The manner in which those goals and objective are accomplished and the strategic decisions made regarding those fall into the concept of strategic management
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2. Arises from past transaction or event Not recognized until incurred 3. Settlement expected to result in outflow of resources embodying economic benefits. Obligation must be to pay cash, transfer noncash asset or provide service at some future time Measurement of financial liability Initial: fair value plus directly attributable transaction costs Fair value: present value of future cash payment Present value: discounted amount of future cash outflow using market rate Conceptually, measure
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barriers is language. This is generally agreed upon that someone who does not speak the language you speak has a harder time understanding. This is a difficult one to overcome. Time Magazine wrote on November, 26 1956, Nikita Khruschev, The Communist leader of the Soviet Union, addressed the United Nations. His words were misinterpreted and translated as “We will bury you!” This was a time when the Cold War was at large and was believed to be a threat of nuclear annihilation, when in reality he was talking
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yourself so seriously; no one else does. 5. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip. 6. Dream more while you are awake. 7. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need. 8. Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner of his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness. 9. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others. 10. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present. 11. No one is in charge of your happiness except
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REACTION PAPER Prepared to: MS. AILEEN L. RILLON The Triumph of the Nerds is a documentary chronicles of the rise of the personal computer/home computer beginning in the 1970s with the Altair 8800, Apple I and Apple II and VisiCalc. It highlighted the progress and competitiveness of the market between companies like Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Xerox, and Lotus, just to name a few. It continues through the IBM PC and Apple Macintosh revolution through the 1980s and the mid 1990s, ending at the beginning
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customers and gain profits. It can replace the time consuming manual process by providing more accurate data. Every business should have a proper inventory system in order to track whether the store is running out of the stock of an important item or there are some items that are obsolete. Nowadays, automated system is used almost by all the retailers, grocery stores and manufacturing companies. A good inventory control system will alert the retailer when it is time to reorder (www.barcodesinc.com). Automated
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