http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/16/making-happen-goodwin-martin-review Making It Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew up the British Economy by Iain Martin – review The truth about the collapse of RBS makes shocking reading John Kampfner The Observer, Sunday 15 September 2013 Fred Goodwin: ‘He was obsessed with the executive car fleet. Each vehicle had to be a particular blue called Pantone 281.’ Photograph: Murdo MacLeod Do not read this book if you have high blood pressure
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How and to what extent was the post-war consensus on welfare challenged during the Thatcher years? The post war consensus was the period of political history which emerged in the difficult years following World War II. Britain returned home victorious from war but in a state of social and economic un-rest. The people of Britain had a strong sense of solidarity at this time and begun to reject previous decades’ laissez faire philosophy and non-interventionist government policy. The population’s expectations
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of 3 years and 14 years (Jan, 2009). Looking at the basic education system, it can be sub-divided into four basic sections each taking a different duration. The first part is the pre-school level. This level varies from country to country mostly running from two years to three years (Terri, 2000). This level is not compulsory in most countries but it is very essential since it creates the educational base for the child. In most countries, the teachers in this level are not employed by the government
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network. This consists of countless bridges, viaducts, embankments, cuttings and tunnels. Independent companies built the first railways in the 19th century. From midnight on 31st December 1947 the government took control of the railway industry and British Rail ran it. In 1994 the railway industry was privatised and its services franchised to train operating companies such as Virgin and First Group. Responsibility for the infrastructure passed to a new plc called Railtrack. In 2002, the government
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Why retail electricity competition is bad for small consumers: British experience Presentation to the international conference Restoring Just and Reasonable Electricity Rates Washington DC: 28-29 September 2002 Steve Thomas Senior Research Fellow Public Service International Research Unit (PSIRU) School of Computing and Mathematics University of Greenwich 30 Park Row London SE10 9LS UK Tel: 44 208 331 9056 Fax: 44 208 331 8665 Email: Stephen.thomas@gre
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Change of Money Wage Rates in the United Kingdom, 18611957, which was published in the quarterly journal Economica. In the paper Phillips describes how he observed an inverse relationship between money wage changes and unemployment in the British economy over the period examined. Wikipedia Table of contents Theory ................................................................................................................................... 2 Exceptions to the Phillips Curve rule ...
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advantage over the dollar. Europeans who have a very strong currency can easily step in and buy the oil which in short would be cheaper for them and more expensive for their American rivals. Another segment that I found interesting was about the long running debate on whether federal lawmakers should create a passenger bill of rights. A lot of people seem to think that airlines are not doing enough to meet people’s basic needs for enough food, water, hygienic toilets and temperature control. If these
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Introduction to Automobile Industry Automobile industry is the modern manufacturing industry including commercial vehicles (CVs), passenger cars, three-wheelers and two-wheelers segments. The automotive industry is playing a leading role in growth of economies throughout the world. * The first car ran on India's roads in 1897. Until the 1930s, cars were imported directly, but in very small numbers. * This sector is characterized by potential growth and intense competition. * The Automotive
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Should the Government Promote Positive Liberty? The idea of liberty, or freedom, varies between different theorists. One theorist, Isaiah Berlin, focused on the difference between two different ways of thinking about political liberty (Cherniss & Hardy, 2010). Berlin called these two different concepts negative and positive liberty. According to Berlin, negative freedom can be defined as ‘freedom from’, that is, freedom from constraint or interference of others. In contrast, positive freedom
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