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says and she laughs. "I thought it might be yours when I first saw it." Then I laugh. She leans forward across the desk. "Say, how much would a car like that cost?" she asks. "I don't know exactly, but I think it's around thirty thousand dollars," I tell her. Fran catches her breath. "You're kidding me! That much? I had no idea a car could cost that much. Wow. Guess I won't be trading in my Chevette on one of those very soon." 3 She laughs and turns back to her typing. Fran is an "okey-dokey"

colliery.[109] Some 20,000 people were injured in the course of the strike.[110] 11,300 miners and their supporters were arrested and charged with criminal offences.[107][111] The NUM's failure to ballot and the picket line violence and intimidation cost the strike public support. A MORI poll in June 1984 found that 41% of people backed the Coal Board, and 35% the miners. By August support for the Board had risen to 46%, while support for the miners had fallen to 30%. The position remained unchanged

and became not surprisingly, at loggerheads with the Department of Industry. Law and regulations were put in place to control the activities of polluting companies. Countries began taxing certain undesirable activities in order to finance the social cost of dealing with pollution and unrestrained consumption of natural resources. The weight of new political measures combined with calls for change from social pressure groups made companies sit up and listen, as this was clearly not a short-lived

d'acheteur connaît une professionnalisation accrue Grâce à la démocratisation d'Internet, de nouveaux outils apparaissent: l'e-procurement et surtout l'e-sourcing révolutionnent le métier en termes d'organisation et de moyens. L'acheteur devient un cost killer, une image négative dont il mettra plusieurs années à se défaire. Au milieu des années 2000, le métier s'anoblit. Dans un contexte économique difficile, l'acheteur est celui qui permet à l'entreprise de conserver ses marges, de nouer des partenariats

the operation code and parameters from the request, and call the appropriate procedure. The result of the procedure has to be placed in the reply buffer. Placing parameters or results in a message buffer is called marshalling, and has a non-trivial cost. Different data representations in client and server also have to be handled. All of these steps must be carefully designed and coded, lest they introduce unacceptable overhead. To hide the marshalling and message passing from the users, Amoeba uses

activités spécifiques par rapport à un contrôle global. Par « extent » Geringer et Hebert entendent le degré de contrôle qu’exerce chacun des partenaires dans une coentreprise internationale. Cette notion de contrôle fait suite à la taxonomie de Killing (1983) lorsque, sur la base d’une étude empirique auprès de 37 jointventures, il décrit les concepts de « dominant parent versus shared management ». « Dominant parent management that is, they [des coentreprises internationales] are managed by one

spending on social safety-net programs as citizens lose jobs (as in many Western European countries). In the US, where healthcare reform is a top priority of the new Obama administration, budgetary pressures could be further exacerbated by the high cost of expanding healthcare access. As governments face increasing pressure to rein in healthcare costs, it seems almost inevitable that the scrutiny of drug prices will grow. Meanwhile, more people could become dependent on governments for health coverage

air campaign has been extended. 1967 226000 tons of bombs were dropped on Vietnam. Among other things, highly toxic napalm was used, resulting in heavy casualties among the civilian population. ,, The picture of the largest superpower in the world, killing 1,000 civilians a week or severely wounded, to force a small, backward country to submission of a highly controversial goal that is not beautiful, "McNamara acknowledged in May 1967. The aim of air strikes was to persuade the North Vietnamese to surrender

 more  out  of  less  in  Street  Fighter?    The  answer  is  simple.     You  need  a  mindset  shift  that  proves  to  you  that  the  game  is  not  about  killing   the  other  guy,  it’s  about  keeping  yourself  alive.    You  may  not  have  really   thought  about  it  before,  but  you  must  know  that  when  the  timer

(ex. : il y a de plus en plus de seniors en France), etc. 2. LES MÉCANISMES DE CONCURRENCE I Page 15 K Questions 4 à 7 À partir des documents 3 et 4 : — analysez la notion de « marché imparfait » ; — repérez le principe du low cost et recherchez une définition. E Reportez-vous au corrigé. Compléments Les marchés imparfaits : le monopole et l’oligopole En économie, le monopole désigne la situation d’un marché dans lequel il y a de nombreux acheteurs et un seul vendeur.