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  • Internal Combustion Engines of the Future

    Internal Combustion Engines of the Future

    Internal Combustion Engines for the Future Horst Schulte, Martin Wirth Ford Motor Company ABSTRACT Future internal combustion engines for light duty applications will have to cope with a very complex set of customer, legal and business requirements. Customers are expecting further improvements in durability, reliability, drivability, fuel economy, and cost of ownership. Legal requirements are focused on significant emission and fuel consumption reductions. Additional manufacturing cost reductions will be essential to maintain, or better grow

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    Essay Length: 707 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 22, 2010 By: Jon
  • Meeting Planning Industry Issues

    Meeting Planning Industry Issues

    Meeting Planning Industry Issues I work in the meeting planning industry for t a non-profit medical organization. Meeting planners organize all the logistics of meetings; from the location, speakers, programs, handouts, audio-visual needs, and registration. Companies can have in house meeting planners or they can outsource the logistical aspects to meeting planning companies. Planners must consider the reason for the meeting and what message wants to be conveyed to the attendees. Once it is determined

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    Essay Length: 507 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 23, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Starbucks International Expansion

    Starbucks International Expansion

    The Original Store Expansion Strategy: In 1992 and 1993 Starbucks developed a three-year geographic expansion strategy that targeted areas with favorable demographic profiles, that could be serviced and supported by the company's operations infrastructure. A large city was selected to serve as a focal point for each targeted region. Starbucks professional teams were strategically positioned at these focal points to supervise opening of another 20 stores in each city in the first two years. Following

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    Essay Length: 369 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 23, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Internalism Vs Externalism

    Internalism Vs Externalism

    Internalism vs. Externalism Knowledge can be achieved either through the justification of a true belief or for the substantive externalist, through a "natural or law like connection between the truth of what is believed and the person's belief" (P.135). Suppose a man named George was implanted with a chip at birth, which causes him to utter the time in a rare Russian dialect. His girlfriend Irina, who happens to speak the same Russian dialect, realizes

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    Essay Length: 1,645 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: April 24, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • The International Response

    The International Response

    The International Response The problem of conflict diamonds was first made public thanks to the efforts of several international NGOs, who bluntly denounced the links between the diamond trade and the wars in the African continent. NGOs played a major role in denouncing the trade of blood diamonds and ultimately demanding a response from those responsible. Notable about this campaign was its success in uniting unofficial diplomatic channels with a number of official as well

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    Essay Length: 1,758 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: April 25, 2010 By: Monika
  • International Law

    International Law

    Introduction: International law has been regarded throughout history as the main system of rules regulating players of the international community, it applies to all states and imposes specific obligations and rights on nations, just as domestic law imposes them on individuals. Its purpose is similar to that of domestic law that is to eliminate chaos in the International community and set standards of behavior which states must follow in their dealings with each other. Many

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    Essay Length: 1,440 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: April 26, 2010 By: Andrew
  • An Analysis of the Origins of the Sino-Soviet Split and Its Influence on International Relations in the East and South East Asian Region

    An Analysis of the Origins of the Sino-Soviet Split and Its Influence on International Relations in the East and South East Asian Region

    A key factor to keep in mind when examining the Sino-Soviet dispute and its impact on foreign relations in South East Asia is that the region is characterised by shifting and fluid interactions and security arrangements (Yahuda, 1996: 9). This means coalitions can change, former enemies can become future allies and conflict is not easily defined. The Sino-Soviet alliance, based on a mutual belief in the ideology of Marxism-Leninism, degenerated over a period of more

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    Essay Length: 841 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 27, 2010 By: Mike
  • Ethical Issues Paper

    Ethical Issues Paper

    Ethical Issues Paper Charles Roberts Gen102 Frederick Lawrence, Instructor Code of Business Conduct and Ethics Introduction The TSYS Code of Business Conduct and Ethics (the "Code") covers a wide range of business practices and procedures. While it does not cover every issue that may arise, this Code outlines basic principles to guide all employees and officers of the Company and its majority-owned subsidiaries ("team members"). In addition, all members of the Company's Board of Directors

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    Essay Length: 2,085 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: April 27, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • The Big Issue

    The Big Issue

    Humanity is plagued with many moral issues each day. And when the announcement was made that a research facility in England had successfully cloned a sheep, many more questions arose. The overall question is, "To clone or not to clone?" Many groups worldwide, doctors, politicians, religious people, have been battling with this question. Many doctors believe cloning is an advancement to help save more people's lives. Although specific organs or rare blood types have

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    Essay Length: 1,011 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: April 27, 2010 By: Jack
  • International Trade Oppotunitiesnwith the Uk, Germany, and China

    International Trade Oppotunitiesnwith the Uk, Germany, and China

    INTERNATIONAL TRADE OPPORTUNITIES WITH THE UK, GERMANY, AND CHINA This assignment is about the trading opportunities and limitations between the UK, Germany and China. This assignment will outline how each country goes about trading, the regulations of trading, and their strategies. Germany Germany has one of the top ten largest economies in the European Union. It is a major source of direct investment, and one of the largest buyers of tourism services. Germany’s financial health

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    Essay Length: 2,549 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: April 28, 2010 By: Jessica
  • World Com: An International Company’s Questionable Ethics

    World Com: An International Company’s Questionable Ethics

    WorldCom was born in 1983 with the name LDDS (Long-Distance Discount Service) in Clinton, Mississippi. In 1985 Early investor Bernard Ebbers becomes chief executive officers (CEO) of LDDS. The company became public in August 1983 with the acquisition of Advantage Companies Inc. In 1993 LDDS acquired long distance providers Resurgens Communications Group and Metromedia Communications in a three-way stock and cash transaction that created the fourth-largest long distance network in the United States. The company

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    Essay Length: 951 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 29, 2010 By: July
  • Cloning - the Moral Issue

    Cloning - the Moral Issue

    Today, the topic of cloning generates more argument then it has ever created before. The controversy over cloning is based, in part, on the fact that there are extreme opposing viewpoints on the subject. Also a major factor in the debate over cloning is a fear of new technology. Throughout history, man has always been slow to adapt to a new technology, or a new way of doing things. We go through all the trouble

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    Essay Length: 1,261 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: April 29, 2010 By: Wendy
  • The War on Terror: The Americans War or a Real International Crisis

    The War on Terror: The Americans War or a Real International Crisis

    The aim of my essay is to argue whether or not America started the idea of the war on terror for its own selfish needs, which is widely believed to be oil, or whether it is a crisis that could have been avoided. I want to show that the Americans have used excessive force in dealing with the people believed to be responsible and who are mainly from Middle Eastern countries. The Americans have forcefully

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    Essay Length: 2,818 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: April 29, 2010 By: Bred
  • How Ethical, Legal and Regulatory Issues Differ Between B2b and B2c Web Sites

    How Ethical, Legal and Regulatory Issues Differ Between B2b and B2c Web Sites

    Like traditional brick-and-mortar business’s, business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) web sites face ethical, legal, and regulatory concerns. Although both B2B and B2C sites share similarities’ in web-based jurisdictional issues and general ethical considerations, each site has its own specific concerns due to the end user relationship of the consumer versus business (Schneider, 2004). Whether the end user is a business or a consumer, there is usually a transaction or sale of a particular product or

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    Essay Length: 618 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 30, 2010 By: Anna
  • International Business

    International Business

    Today’s world of rapid increase in and expansion of technology is the reasons for recent International Business growth. The rapid growth in international business makes an understanding of organizational behavior all the more important for contemporary managers. Businesses have expanded internationally to increase their market share, as the domestic markets were too small to sustain growth. Business transactions are also becoming increasing blurred across national boundaries. Companies engage in international business to expand sales, acquire

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    Essay Length: 810 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 30, 2010 By: Stenly
  • International Criminal Court

    International Criminal Court

    As an aftermath of World War 2, came an outcry for a judicial system that would handle the prosecutions of war criminals. Numerous tribunals were set into place to handle the prosecutions of ex-Nazi generals. Following the success of such tribunals, the idea of having an independent judicial court arose. The near half-century pursuit had come to a conclusion with a "1998 UN diplomatic conference in Rome, Italy, convened for the sole purpose of finalizing

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    Essay Length: 501 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 30, 2010 By: David
  • Re-Defining the International P.L.C.

    Re-Defining the International P.L.C.

    'Re-defining the International P.L.C. - Deception or Diagnosis?' Z. Dauhn MSP_7347 November 12, 2003 Abstract This paper assesses the current status of the PLC, both conceptually and its applications, in the context of changes in the international marketplace, for example the drastic shortening of 'time to market.' The paper considers other approaches to the international PLC, including incremental and evolutionary cycles. There is a special focus on the positioning of global brands in this

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    Essay Length: 2,689 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: April 30, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Race Issues

    Race Issues

    As African Americans fled the city, new dangers sometimes appeared. Mary Parrish later reported that as the group of refugees she was with "had traveled many miles into the country and were turning to find our way to Claremore," they were warned to stay clear of a nearby town, where whites were "treating our people awfully mean as they passed through".1 Similar stories have persisted for decades. Whites detained fleeing African Americans as well as

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    Essay Length: 10,223 Words / 41 Pages
    Submitted: May 1, 2010 By: Anna
  • Cobb, Anthony T. (1986). Political Diagnosis: Applications in Organizational Development. Academy of Management Review, Vol. 11 Issue 3. 482-497

    Cobb, Anthony T. (1986). Political Diagnosis: Applications in Organizational Development. Academy of Management Review, Vol. 11 Issue 3. 482-497

    Bibliographic reference: Cobb, Anthony T. (1986). Political Diagnosis: Applications in Organizational Development. Academy of Management Review, Vol. 11 Issue 3. 482-497 Abstract (Quoted from the article): The political side of OD intervention is receiving more consideration by those in the field. Most of this attention focuses on how the consultant can increase and use his or her power in the client system. Little attention has been given, however, to the diagnostic requirements of effective political

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    Essay Length: 2,089 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: May 1, 2010 By: Mike
  • International Gray Markets

    International Gray Markets

    Reference: Prince, Melvin and Davies, Mark. “Seeing Red Over International Gray Markets”, Business Horizons, March-April 2000. pp. 71-74. Summary/Description: International gray markets pose a real threat to manufacturers and their licensed retailers and they also represent a legit market that is just trying to get the end consumer the best quality product at the lowest price. It’s all a matter of who you’re talking to. An international gray market is an unlicensed or unplanned channel

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    Essay Length: 883 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 1, 2010 By: Bred
  • Ethical and Regulatory Issues

    Ethical and Regulatory Issues

    Ethical and Regulatory Issues Paper President Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996 into law in February 1996. The law modified earlier legislation, primarily the Communications Act of 1934. The legislation regulates broadcasting by over-the-air television and radio stations, cable television operators, satellite broadcasters, wireline telephone companies (local and long distance) and wireless telephone companies. The general intention of the Act was deregulation and competition. The Act removed barriers between telecommunications companies, thus fostering competition.

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    Essay Length: 1,615 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: May 2, 2010 By: Jessica
  • International Financial Markets

    International Financial Markets

    TABLE OF CONTENTS FORCES FOR RAPID GROWTH OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MARKETS 2 DEREGULATIOIN 2 THE MORE LIKELY FUTURE OF DEREGULATION 3 INNOVATION 5 SECURITIZATION 9 BENEFITS OF SECURITIZATION 11 INTERNATIONALIZATION 13 REFFERENCES. 16 The following complimentary forces have been responsible for the rapid growth of the international financial markets. International financial markets perform a vital function within the global economic system. The financial markets channel savings to those individual institutions needing more funds for

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    Essay Length: 643 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 2, 2010 By: Mike
  • America’s Gun Control Issue - Can There Be a Compromise?

    America’s Gun Control Issue - Can There Be a Compromise?

    AMERICA’S GUN CONTROL ISSUE CAN THERE BE A COMPROMISE? According to the F.B.I., 9,369 murders involving firearms took place in the year 2002 within the United States. We as Americans have the right to “bear arms,” however there can be some changes to at least try to minimize these casualties. The 2nd Amendment states “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a Free State, the right of the people to keep

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    Essay Length: 1,223 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: May 3, 2010 By: Mike
  • Personnel Issues

    Personnel Issues

    Abstract The purpose of this work is to outline the legal and ethical considerations that must not be taken lightly in the applicant testing process of an organization. Employee testing is an important part of the hiring process because it allows managers to select the best candidates for the job. Employees with the right skills and attributes will do a better job for the company. The time to screen out undesirable applicants is before they

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    Submitted: May 3, 2010 By: Max
  • Egypt Economic and Social Issues

    Egypt Economic and Social Issues

    Bread, Water and Birth Control in Egypt In September 2003, in an interview with Al-Ahram, the Egyptian government newspaper, in response to a question about economic problems with a reference to a current shortage of bread - President Mubarak of Egypt stated, once again, publicly and forcefully that rapid population growth in Egypt was the primary cause of the country’s economic and social problems. He added that the country was doing what it could to

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    Essay Length: 1,071 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: May 3, 2010 By: Mike