Pre-September 2008: The AIG Crisis Over the years‚ AIG built upon its premier global franchises in life and general insurance by expanding into a range of financial services businesses. One of these‚ created in 1987‚ was AIG Financial Products Corp. (AIGFP)‚ a company that engaged as principal in a wide variety of financial transactions for a global client base. In 1998‚ AIGFP began to sell credit default swaps to other financial institutions to protect against the default of certain securities
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Out of the Crisis – W. Edwards Deming The “Red Bead Experiment” was an interactive teaching tool that W. Edwards Deming made use of in his four-day seminars. In the experiment‚ a corporation is formed from workers‚ quality control personnel‚ a data recorder‚ and a foreman. The corporation’s product is white beads‚ which are produced by dipping a paddle into a supply of beads. The paddle has 50 holes in it‚ and each hole will hold one bead. Unfortunately‚ there are not only white beads in the bead
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increased over the last two decades. Using drugs inside a prison is a terrifying thing to think about. How is it that under the order of law and in a highly restricted environment‚ drug use is still possible? It is due to a number of reasons: overcrowded prisons‚ stealthy smuggling‚ concealed manufacturing‚ prison gangs and corruption. Some of the ways drugs are smuggled into prison‚ is by human bodies. The drugs can also be thrown over the prison walls in tennis balls‚ dead birds‚ footballs or just about
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Iran hostage crisis The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States. Fifty-two US citizens were held hostage for 444 days from November 4‚ 1979 to January 20‚ 1981‚ after a group of Islamic students and militants took over the Embassy of the United States in support of the Iranian Revolution. Sixty-six Americans were taken captive when Iranian militants seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on November 4‚ 1979‚ including three who were at the Iranian Foreign Ministry
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The Climate Crisis Global warming: an increase in the earth’s atmospheric and oceanic temperatures widely predicted to occur due to an increase in the greenhouse effect resulting especially from pollution. Given the definition it may not sound as scary as it actually is. The whole process of global warming is a science in itself. It may also be known as `the climate crisis’ because scientists believe that the occurrence of such extreme temperatures will bring our earth to turmoil
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A New England Nun is a wonderful story about 2 people who fell in love with each other and became engaged 14 years ago. With the hopes of making money separating them for most of their engagement‚ Louisa and Joe decide to stay together with the hopes of eventually becoming married. As time went on the couple noticed that there was a lot of built up sexual frustration from being apart from each other and both had decided to deal with it in their own ways. Louisa used the power of sewing and gardening
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Chapter 1 Issues—The Software Crisis 1. Introduction to Chapter The term "software crisis" has been used since the late 1960s to describe those recurring system development problems in which software development problems cause the entire system to be late‚ over budget‚ not responsive to the user and/or customer requirements‚ and difficult to use‚ maintain‚ and enhance. The late Dr. Winston Royce‚ in his paper Current Problems [1]‚ emphasized this situation when he said in 1991: The construction of
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and Antisocial Personality Disorders. The is a graph located on pages 291 and 292 of the text book that illustrates the relationships between personaity style‚ mental illness‚ and issues that highlight several areas including a normal person in a crisis to a person with dementia. The classic cycle of physical violence in families was described in 1979 and a three stage cycle was introduced. The three stage cycle included tension building‚ violent acting out‚ and a period of calm and reduced tension
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Abstract Part 1: Crisis Scenario Development Develop a scenario describing a crisis situation. Possible topics for your scenario include school violence‚ workplace violence‚ terrorist attack‚ sexual assault‚ or natural disasters. Your scenario must include sufficient breadth and depth in terms of the details surrounding the incident you have chosen‚ to include: • Description of the crisis. • Description of the amount of damage. • Description of the victims (physical and psychological damage)
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The systematic and cultural subordination of women in 16th century England is demonstrated in the relevant documents and ancillary materials provided for this assignment. A tacit agreement on the inferiority of the female gender in this time heavily contributed to the objectification and abuse of women. Elizabeth I stood as an exception to the social norms of her time‚ ruling as a single female. Elizabeth’s thoughts on her rule walk a fine line between the legitimization of these archaic beliefs
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