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    Philippine Airlines

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    and Niche Market. b. Competitors Major: Cebu Pacific * The airline was established on August 26‚ 1988‚ and started operations on March 8‚ 1996. It is based on the grounds of Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Manila Terminal 3)‚ Pasay City‚ Metro Manila.The airline is a subsidiary of JG Summit Holdings. It is currently headed by Lance Gokongwei‚ presumptive heir of John Gokongwei‚ the chairman emeritus of JG Summit.Cebu Pacific carried more than 10 million passengers in 2010. Zest

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    John L. Gokongwei

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    John L. Gokongwei‚ Jr. was born August 11‚ 1926 in Gulangyu‚ Xiamen‚ Fujian Province‚ China is a Chinese Filipino businessman with holdings in telecommunications‚ financial services‚ petrochemicals‚ power generation‚ aviation and livestock farming. As of 2012‚ Gokongwei is the third richest entrepreneur in the Philippines with a networth of $3.2 billion‚ ranking behind only to Henry Sy and Lucio Tan. His parents are Juanita Marquez Lim and John Gokongwei Sr. Gokongwei being the eldest child among

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    rents/ http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/fallout.asp Contaminated Water Seeping Out It could be transported over long distances by ocean currents. mainly eastwards by the Kuroshio current system The great quantity of water in the Pacific Ocean will rapidly disperse radioactive materials This map showing the projected path of fallout across the western United States following a possible meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan began circulating shortly after

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    areas but I am going to focus on this specific area‚ where the usually south-easterly trade winds going from west of South America to Australia and Indonesia across the Pacific Ocean reverse or severely weaken. This occurs usually every 3-7 years and can last between 12-18 months. During an El Nino the warm sea in the western pacific migrate towards the South American coast because they are being dragged across by the winds. This stops the upwelling near South America and means that there are little

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    Geography Notes

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    Some celestial bodies do not have their own heat and light. They are lit by the light of the stars. Such bodies are called planets. Jupiter‚ Saturn and Uranus have rings around them. These are belts of small debris. These rings may be seen from the earth with the help of powerful telescopes. ‘Sol’ in Roman mythology is the ‘Sungod’. ‘Solar’ means ‘related to the sun’. The family of the sun is‚ therefore‚ called the solar system. My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pakodas. MY

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    Outsourcing to China

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    detrimental to the country as it is beneficial is effective in that the level of pollution carried across the Pacific Ocean from China ultimately defeats the purpose of outsourcing. According to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences‚ while the United States is benefitting from cheaper labor in China‚ the growing levels of smog wafting across the Pacific is not only harmful to cities in China‚ but is also taking a major toll on the quality of American air. Originally

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    lifeboat. He experiences a change of heart when helping the tiger onto the boat. Pi realizes that he is now posing a threat on his own life. With Richard Parker on the boat‚ Pi is faced with not only the fight to survive stranded in the middle of the Pacific Ocean‚ but the fight to survive living with a meat eating tiger. The change of heart that Pi experiences might possibly mean that he is an impulsive thinker. It may mean that he often does something on impulse without thinking it through‚ and then

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    Midterm Exam Review Chapter 1: * The Five themes of Geography: 1. Location- where a place is A) Absolute location-describes a place’s absolute address (latitude and longitude) B) Relative location-- what is actually at that location 2. Place- A) Physical characteristics- God-made B) Cultural characteristics- man-made 3. Human/environment interaction 4. Movement- earth’s plates‚ migration‚ ocean currents 5. Region- areas that have something in common (physical

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    Niggas

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    Plymouth‚ England to Plymouth‚ Massachusetts. 2.Using the scale on the interactive map‚ give the approximate distance in miles that Lewis and Clark traveled from St. Louis to Ft. Clatsop near the Pacific Ocean. Lewis and Clark traveled approximately 1‚400 miles from St.Louis to Ft. Clatsop near the Pacific Ocean. 3.Using the scale on the interactive map‚ give the approximate distance in miles that the transcontinental railroad covered from Omaha to San Francisco. The transcontinental railroad

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    International Date Line

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    The International Date Line (IDL) is an imaginary line on the surface of the Earth‚ that runs from the north to the south pole and demarcates one calendar day from the next. It passes through the middle of the Pacific Ocean‚ roughly following the 180° longitude but it deviates to pass around some territories and island groups. The International Date line is on the opposite side of the Earth to the Prime Meridian. The Prime Meridian helps to define Universal Time and is the meridian from which

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