So this was truly a prediction rather than an attempt to explain the past. In the 1970s‚ however‚ persistent inflation provided a test of the Friedman-Phelps hypothesis. Sure enough‚ the historical correlation between inflation and unemployment broke down in just the way Friedman and Phelps had predicted: in the 1970s‚ as the inflation rate rose into double digits‚ the unemployment rate was as high or higher than in the stable-price years of the 1950s and 1960s. Inflation was eventually brought under
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Apple versus the Government of United States: What is Happening? Summary Apple’s move to release new encrypted iOS 8 for its iPhones‚ iPod‚ and iPads has received the maximum possible criticisms from both users and governments. While users are thanking Apple for the initiative‚ the U.S. government is not too thrilled about the same. Most of the iOS 8 coverage focuses on the visible features that users can interact with. But the one big change in new OS that has sparked happiness and rage in equal
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Business Processes 1. Consider the four definitions of information presented in this chapter. The problem with the first definition‚ “knowledge derived from data‚” is that it merely substitutes one word we don’t know the meaning of (information) for a second word we don’t know the meaning of (knowledge). The problem with the second definition‚ “data presented in a meaningful context‚” is that it is too subjective. Whose context? What makes a context meaningful? The third definition‚ “data processed
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This article focuses English-only policies that are imposed in the workplace and the effects/possible effects that it has on employees whose first language is not English. While many companies are aware that they need to be "multilingual friendly" from a customer services standpoint and will hire bilingual and multilingual employees to accommodate non-English speakers’ needs; they also impose rules that do not allow multilingual speakers to speak anything but English in the workplace‚ even within
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Mary was scared. What could have happened to Kirk‚ if Keith was abducted by ISIS? Losing Kirk was not in her itinerary. It was a good thing she had an extra key to Kirk’s suite. Mary opened the door. Kirk was not there and so was his phone. Mary had hope that his phone was still in Kirk’s person and not in the hands of ISIS. After trying three more times‚ Mary stopped calling Kirk. She called John instead. “Mary?” John said. “What’s up? How’s Iran?” “Not so good‚” Mary said. “ISIS is slowly overwhelming
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Preventing 9/11: Could it Have Been Done? September 11th‚ 2001: the American people will remember this day as the day the unthinkable happened: someone‚ or rather a group of people‚ infiltrated the seemingly impregnable American defenses and turned our own airplanes on us. Crashing several planes into different important federal buildings‚ these terrorists spread terror throughout the country. Nobody thought that the most powerful country in the world could be attacked so easily‚ and
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linen or garbage and injure other workers who encounter them unexpectedly. It is very common in the health care environment. When drawing blood from a patient‚ encountering an intramuscular or intravenous drug‚ or performing other procedures involving needles‚ it can slip and injure the nurses. This sets the stage to transmit viruses from the source person to the recipient. These injuries also commonly occur during needle recapping and as a result of failure to place used needles in approved
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Assesment 1 - What is youth policy and how does it influence the work of youth workers? By Ciara Davis Youth policy is a vital aspect of Australian society‚ and is constantly being re-written and altered. Policy is defined by the Oxford dictionary as “… A course or principle of action adopted or proposed by an organization or individual”. The term "youth" applies to young people roughly between the ages of 12 and 25 who are beginning‚ amidst‚ or towards the end of adolescence (Children and Young
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We Could Have Told a Different Story After reading many accounts from slaves and comparing them to the stories of the rich white folk of the same era‚ we can see that the true fanatics were indeed the Southerners who supported slavery. Many of the arguments put forth by credible slaveholders proved to be full of logical fallacies and completely void of any truth based on the reports from slaves. The first and perhaps most ridiculous argument presented by Southerners was that slaves were happy
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South eventually seceded from the Union launching the American Civil War. The South fought to become its own nation while the North fought to bring the nation back. Eventually‚ because of a significantly larger population‚ more supplies‚ and superior logistics‚ the North won and the South was forced back into the Union. Both sides were hurt badly by the war‚ losing a substantial number of people and resources. The South was left in a state of total destruction ranging from lawlessness to austere
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