company was accused of bribing labor representatives on the supervisory board in order to gain their support for its policies. After the German authorities conducted raids on in Germany‚ investigations were initiated on Siemens in several other countries like the US‚ Greece‚ Italy and Switzerland for possible misconduct. As a fallout of this scandal‚ the CEO of the company‚ Klaus Kleinfeld‚ and the chairman of the supervisory board‚ Heinrich von Pierer‚ had to resign even though they were not directly
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Name: Belize; formerly known as British Honduras. Location: Belize is bordered on the North by Mexico‚ on the South and West by Guatemala and on the East by the Caribbean Sea. Currency: Population: Since the last census established in July 2008 a total of 301‚270 was recorded. Flag: The coat of arms shows: 1. A mahogany tree: the first European settlers in Belize became mahogany traders and the mahogany trade was once the economical
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a big effort ha s been made to make an plastic money as close as possible to real‚ physica l money. Okamoto and Ohta (1972) presented the following six properties of an ideal electronic payment system: • The security of plastic money does not depend on a special physical conditions. No special hardware is necessary and money can be sent over the network. • Plastic money cannot be copied‚ modified‚ or double -spent. • Anonymity and non-traceability. Privacy of user is protected. No-body can
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Abstract Country Profile Oman is a middle-income country with an economy primarily based on limited hydrocarbon resources‚ and a few significant recent gas finds. Crude Oil and natural gas has accounted for more than 85% of the government’s revenue in 2015. High prices of oil in recent times have bolstered Oman’s budget‚ trade surpluses‚ and foreign reserves. Oman has enjoyed a GDP growth of 4.5% in 2015‚ a large part was attributed to the price of oil which was around $100 per barrel. The financial
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AQA GCSE Science: P1a 1.1 How can science help us see in the dark? AQA Specification Link • Thermal (infra-red) radiation is the transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves. • All bodies emit and absorb thermal radiation. • The hotter a body is the more energy it radiates. Learning Objectives Students should learn: • The nature of thermal radiation. • That the amount of thermal radiation emitted increases with the temperature of the object. Teaching / Learning activities (including How
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Consumer expenditure Mini Case John Hawksworth “Opinion: Economic Trends - Saved by the consumer?”‚ Accountancy‚ London‚ Mar 2002 (with minor editing) How long can the UK economy buck the global trend just because our consumers keep spending money? Have we avoided the recession that has gripped the US‚ Japan and Germany over the past six to 12 months or are we just postponing the day of reckoning? And are we storing up worse problems for the future as a result of rising household debt levels
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and from my own experience people used to judge me by my color‚ in some countries people used to call me Arabian terrorist or Muslim terrorist what’s my fault if some Muslims who didn’t understand Islam did terrorist things‚ and in other countries people called me Mongolian boy which I didn’t know what it meant. I actually wouldn’t speak a word if im just facing verbal abusement‚ but Im also facing something called economic inequality which means having less chance to earn money‚ good job‚ good
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MC equals MR‚ the profit is maximized. From the above table‚ when output level is 140 minutes‚ marginal revenue equals marginal cost ($10000=$10000)‚ so the profit-maximizing level of output is 140 minutes. (d) When the industry exists positive economic profit‚ it will attract new firms to enter into the industry. However‚ no more licenses will be offered by government‚ so no any new firm entering the industry. (e)(i) Collusion is a formal or tacit agreement to limit competition by setting output
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Jazz Band CD title “Because of You”. It was recorded in December 1995 at the Ultrasonic Studios in New Orleans. Sony released it under the Sony Classical Listening Station label in 1998. The songs that I will use for my discussion are: “You Can Depend on Me” a tune written by Charles Carpenter‚ Louis Dunlap and Earl Hines. “Mama Don’t Allow It” by Sammy Cahn and Charles Davenport. “Petite Fleur” by Sidney Bechet.
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$117.99 per barrel. (Source US Energy Information Administration) Economics is the study of using resources in a productive manner and to allocate them in the best possible way. Economics is concerned with the production and consumption of goods and the transfer of money to create and get those goods. Economics tells us how people in the markets communicate in order to achieve what they desire and fulfill their goals. Economics deals with studying the wants and desires of people resulting in creating
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