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decision makers and across industries during March-April 2002. A purposive or judgemental sampling technique was used to identify a group of respondents who were subsequently interviewed. Respondents were exclusively senior management, although at varying levels of seniority (chief executive, director, senior manager). In order to qualify for inclusion in the sample the respondents had to have been recently involved in projects where consultants were brought in, and thus had experiences

Parliament voted the Westminster Statute by which the British Empire become Commonwealth. The British Empire was at its largest and most powerful around 1920, when about 25% of the world’s population lived under British rules and over a quarter of the land in the world belonged to Britain. It was said that it was an Empire “on which the sun never set's”. The growth of the British Empire was at first the result of competitions among Europeans nations, especially Britain, France, Spain and the Netherlands

stabilité ou croissance) qu’à l’ampleur de la variation numérique de l’indicateur. Log( od g ) = Log( modg ) + Log( mo ' d ' g ) − Log( mod ' g ) − Log( mo ' dg ) (1) En outre, le odds ratio odg a la propriété remarquable d’être insensi b le à une var i at i on d e la fréquence relative des origines sociales o et o’ et/ou des diplômes d et d’ au fil des générations. En ce sens, il constitue donc une mesure « pure » de la force du lien entre les origines sociales et niveaux de diplôme considérés. La modélisation

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interlinkages having made the Hundred Years’ Peace possible • Preconditions for a sustainable continental peace – In France, Italy and Germany public finances in a catastrophic state. – In Russia, Poland, Hungary and Austria a thing called budget hardly exists at all. Keynes and the Economic Consequences of Peace (cont.) • Mechanisms of the stability-creating financial apparatus badly disturbed – a head-start to Great Depression – an overture to WW II • 1919 Keynes leaves the Ministry of Finance Peace

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Sponsorship Barometer provides some insights 4 Insights into China’s elderly – the fastestgrowing segment of China’s population 10 Is Mobile Instant Messaging about to overtake SMS in China? 16 China’s TV shows tune into the Olympics 5 A look at China’s booming credit card industry 11 17 Short biographies of our TNS experts TNS China Source Book TNS is the sixth sense of business™ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Welcome to the China Source

on, to join in, to set up 14 To buy back, to get back to 16 To keep on, to follow up (on), to carry on 17 To take off 18 Verbes à particules mal identifiés 18 To do out, to hold out 18 To get back at, to run up, to take to, to see in 19 Synthese des resultats de la section A 20 B. Résultats présentation en narratif 21 Résultats globaux 22 Déductions 23 Analyse des verbes à particules employés 26

Morocco’s Constitution in 2011: institutional democratization On 17 June 2011, King Mohammed VI of Morocco presented the outlines of a draft Constitution to replace the 1996 Constitution. The draft text comprised 180 highly detailed articles aimed at consolidating the democratization of the country’s institutions. On 1 July 2011, Moroccan electors were asked to take Art. 136 : « L’organisation territoriale du Royaume repose sur les principes de libre administration, de coopération et de

we further enhanced the platform we provide for advertisers, merchants, businesses, and content and service providers to reach their global audiences." In a separate announcement today, Yahoo! said it has named Susan Decker, Global Head of Research at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, as Yahoo!'s new chief financial officer and senior vice president of finance and administration. Decker will join Yahoo! in June 2000, succeeding Gary Valenzuela, the company's current chief financial officer. Valenzuela