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    Hotel Development Cost

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    JANUARY 2011 HVS HOTEL DEVELOPMENT COST SURVEY 2010 Elaine Sahlins Senior Vice President‚ HVS San Francisco Consulting & Valuation HVS Consulting & Valuation | 100 Bush Street‚ Ste 750‚ San Francisco‚ CA 94104‚ USA HVS Hotel Development Cost Survey 2010 Elaine Sahlins – January 2011 HVS has tracked hotel construction costs throughout the United States since 1976. The survey considers data for six lodging types: Economy/Budget Hotels‚ Midscale Hotels w/o F&B (without Food and Beverage)

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    S. (1999)‚ “Australia: Towns get by without their banks”‚ The Australian. pp. 3. Phillips‚ N. and Malhotra‚ N. (2008). ‘Taking social construction seriously: extending the discursiveapproach in institutional theory’. In Greenwood‚ R.‚ Oliver‚ C.‚ Sahlin‚ K. and Suddaby‚ R. (Eds)‚Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism. London: Sage‚ 602–720. How can responsible international mining and oil companies use their social investment funds? Nikolai‚ Bazley‚ and Jefferson Jones. Intermediate Accounting

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    New institutionalism Definition Nearly three decades ago‚ the first neo-institutional arguments were formulated by John Meyer and colleagues such as Brian Rowan in 1977 and Richard Scott in 1983‚ and by Lynne Zucker in 1977. This new orientation proposed that formal organizational structure reflected not only technical demands and resource dependencies‚ but was also shaped by institutional forces‚ including rational myths‚ knowledge legitimated through the educational system and by the

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    Anthropology 130

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    Cultural Anthropology: Test #2 Prep (Chapters 5‚ 6‚ 7 and 8) This Study Guide is for your information only. It is not a homework assignment and it does not have to be turned in. Test #2 questions will cover vocabulary and concepts from the textbook‚ videos and extra articles. All questions on this test are multiple choice (four answer choices) or True/False. Read the chapter notes and pay special attention to the ethnic examples and special studies sections in your textbook. Original Studies

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    Decision Theory A Brief Introduction 1994-08-19 Minor revisions 2005-08-23 Sven Ove Hansson Department of Philosophy and the History of Technology Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm 1 Contents Preface ..........................................................................................................4 1. What is decision theory? ..........................................................................5 1.1 Theoretical questions about decisions ......................

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    reputation towards the other end of the scale‚ Rubbish man.[41] Gift exchange thus has a political effect; granting prestige or status to one‚ and a sense of debt in the other. A political system can be built out of these kinds of status relationships. Sahlins characterizes the difference between status and rank by

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    EXAM TIME: WEDNESDAY APRIL 30TH‚ FROM 2-5 PM IN THIS ROOM Second Exam Review Sheet Think about the two ethnographies we have read: Unity of Heart and In Search of Respect. How does each author go about writing their ethnography? How do they present the people they are studying? How do they place themselves into the ethnography? How does the cognatic descent system of the Nanumea reinforce their egalitarian culture? The cognatic system is an inheritance system that encourages people

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    Jim Henson

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    James Maury Henson was born September 24‚ 1936‚ in Greenville‚ Mississippi‚ the second son of Paul Ransom and Elizabeth Marcella Henson. He grew up in nearby Leland‚ where his father‚ an agronomist‚ worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. His childhood was a happy one‚ as he explored both his artistic interests and the local countryside‚ whether alone or with friends. One of his childhood friends‚ Kermit‚ would later inspire the name of Henson’s most celebrated creation. When he was in fifth

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    actually exist or not is irrelevant – the fact that followers believe that such powers exist is what is important. Charismatic leadership has emerged in all places and in all historical ages. For example‚ we have the Kwaio ‘Big Man’ of Melanesia (Sahlins‚ 1963) compared to the black ghetto in Chicago (Kochman‚ 1960’s). First and foremost‚ since the task is to define how charisma can be used as a political instrument‚ it is important to discuss ‘functionalism’. Bronislaw Malinowski introduced the

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    hero in literature." Nuvvo. Savvica‚ Inc‚ n.d. Web. 1 Mar. 2014. . Ridgeway‚ William. "THE ORIGIN OF TRAGEDY: INTRODUCTION." Theatrehistory. N.p.‚ 2002. Web. 1 Mar. 2014. . Sophocles. Anitgone. Trans. Nicholas Rudall. Ed. Nicholas Rudall and Bernard Sahlins. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee‚ 1998. Print.

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