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    2011 Annual Report TARGET 2011 ANNUAL REPORT Financial Highlights Total Revenues $69.87B $67‚390 $69‚865 $64‚948 $65‚357 $63‚367 EBIT $5.32B $5‚272 $4‚402 ( Earnings before Interest Expense and Income Taxes ) Net Earnings $2.93B $2‚849 $2‚920 $2‚929 $2‚214 $2‚488 Diluted EPS $4.28 $3.33 $3.30 $4.00 ’10 $5‚252 $5‚322 $4‚673 IN MILLIONS IN MILLIONS ’07 ’08 ’09 ’10 ’11 ’07 ’08 ’09 ’10 ’11 ’07 ’08 ’09 ’10 ’11 IN MILLIONS

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    ‘Faster‚ Higher‚ Stronger.’ Are the Olympic ideals still relevant today? FOR AGAINST De Coubertin’s idealism and humanistic goals have a shared audience The evidence is the fact that all nations attempt to participate Tales of Olympians overcoming adversity constantly underpin the Olympic spirit which confirms the goal of human aspiration and idealism Amateurism vs Professionalism De Coubertin did not wish for the games to be a showcase of paid professionals; rather hoping the higher ideals

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    first broke the long jump record while in high school. In 1984‚ he returned home with 4 gold medals after his first Olympics. Later‚ participating in the Summer Olympics of 1988‚ 1992 and 1996‚ he won another 5 gold medals and a silver one. He was also named ‘ athlete of the year’ 3 years in a row by Track and Field magazine and ‘sportsman of the century’ by the International Olympic Committee. B) Born October 14‚ 1952 in Vladimir‚ Nikolai Adrianov first signed up for gymnastic classes at the

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    The early Olympic Games were celebrated as a religious festival from 776 B.C. until 393 A.D.‚ when the games were banned for being a pagan festival (the Olympics celebrated the Greek god Zeus). In 1894‚ a French educator Baron Pierre de Coubertin‚ proposed a revival of the ancient tradition‚ and thus the modern-day Olympic Summer Games were born. Host Greece won the most medals (47) at the first Olympic Summer Games in 1896. The United States has won more medals (2‚189) at the Summer Games

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    Antibiotic test‚ such as the Kirby Bauer Method‚ are used to determine susceptibility to various antimicrobials. Why are they not used to determine resistance? a. They grow a resistance to antibiotics and antimicrobials. Kirby Bauer is used to determine diffusion of a disk‚ to measure the effectiveness of antibiotics towards pathogenic microbes. 4. Compare and contrast the following terms: antiseptic

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    The book I read was Thirteen reasons why by Jay Asher‚ the style of this book is kinda mysterious. The book develop through the two narratives shifting between the two man characters Hanna Baker and Clay Jensen. The story of Thirteen Reasons Why takes place in a small town in present time. The town is not actually named in the book‚ but author Jay Asher explains that many of the places Clay Jensen visits from the map are places similar to those from his own home town.  The story begins with the

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    Olympics Games 2016 The excitement that the city of Rio experimented upon the announcement of hosting the 2016 Olympic games appears to have been short lived. The descent of excitement began once drug traffickers shot down a police helicopter. The government responded by heightening the crackdown on the city slums of the favelas. As a result many of the favelas in Rio are now under police control (Jazeera). The questions we are now asked is if the coming Olympics provided

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    Reason Why Children Lie

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    from being sad if parents tell them the truth. Now children do lie quite more than adults for their own reasons. The real question is why do children lie? Children lie often because they think the truth hurts people’s feelings and they are afraid of telling the truth. Parents teach their kids not to lie‚ but yet they allow their children to lie when it involves someone’s feelings. That is why children lie because sometimes they feel

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    Human nature in search for reasons behind what’s happening in their lives. Analysis of the Novel Thirteen Reasons Why By Jay Asher In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Course World Literature By Raz‚ John Benedict E. B.S. Electrical Engineering October 2014 I. Background of the Novel The novel Thirteen Reasons Why is a young-adult fiction by Jay Asher. According to Goodreads‚ he was born in Arcadia‚ California on September 30‚ 1975

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    owner and financial stability Goals: Degree‚ house‚ and debt-free Inspirations: My family Plan: Discipline‚ focus‚ and determination Reasons: I want to be an example to my kids‚ I want to grow personally‚ and I want financial stability for my family. Rationalization: being a mother of four with a high school diploma and some college education doesn’t feel satisfying. Reasons INTRO 1. Life can be very stressful‚ especially with the physical‚ emotional‚ and financial demands a person undergoes in a lifetime

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