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re-evaluation of their security. In the months that have passed since the tragedy, states have inter alia increased the powers of law enforcement and intelligence institutions, including to interrogate and detain persons, to intercept private communications and to conduct searches of private homes and personal property without the normal procedural safeguards; have tightened border controls that impede access to their territory and adopted new, restrictive asylum and immigration measures that may

political factors, we can retain that the environmental protection laws affect the activities of retailers greatly. For example, politicians decide about the land-use planning system. It is a question of keep green field development in town centre. Government also affects the supply side of retailers via taxation business (VAT, fuel tax, road pricing). We can also quote other political and legal factors which also have a big impact. For exemple, the national minimum wage has an impact on customers’purchases

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the European Union's Thematic Strategy on the Urban Environment. The Working Group was chaired by Gabriele Langschwert, on behalf of the Government of Austria, and cochaired by Marta García Nart, of the Ministry of Development, for the Government of Spain, and Matti Vatilo, of the Ministry of the Environment for the Government of Finland. The three governments funded the inputs of consultants to this report. The Working Group employed a particular approach in drawing up this report. It encompassed

goods, or services by an identified sponsor. Advertising agency A marketing-services firm that assists companies in planning, preparing, implementing, and evaluating all or portions of their advertising programs. Advertising objective A specific communication task to be accomplished with a specific target audience during a specific period of time. Affordable method Setting the promotion budget at the level management thinks the company can afford. Age and life-cycle segmentation Dividing a market into

African or Asian countries. 2. A terrorist cell also needs for its members reliable channels of communication, including highly secret channels to its leadership, from which it receives its instructions. Although communications costs have been reduced considerably through the use of mobile telephones, pre-paid cards and e-mail (often sent from Internet cafés), the procurement and use of communication tools can entail significant expenses. 3. Training new recruits constitutes a large investment for

Studies, Johns Hopkins University Available wherever books are sold w w w. o u p . c o m /u s 3 2 Finance & Development March 2009 IN its capacity to provide timely and effective balance of payments assistance to its 185 member governments. The IMF has so far committed about $50 billion in lending to a number of economies affected by the crisis, including most recently to Belarus, Latvia, and Pakistan. With global growth expected to grind to a virtual halt in 2009, the IMF anticipates

Parliament. The Comptroller and Auditor General, Tim Burr, is an Officer of the House of Commons. He is the head of the National Audit Office which employs some 850 staff. He and the National Audit Office are totally independent of Government. He certifies the accounts of all Government departments and a wide range of other public sector bodies; and he has statutory authority to report to Parliament on the economy, efficiency and effectiveness with which departments and other bodies have used their resources

absolute support of the Governments of Brazil, the State of Rio de Janeiro, the City of Rio de Janeiro and the Brazilian Olympic Committee for the Rio de Janeiro bid to host the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Brazil is proud to have delivered the “best ever” Pan American Games. the most significant lesson that we have collectively learned while delivering this event is the importance of a united, tightly knit and coordinated team across all three levels of government in partnership with the sport

literature. Merritt (1969), in his study of territorially discontiguous polities, considered physical distance as an external environmental factor affecting the political relationships among nations. Accordingly, there is a likelihood of greater communication with neighbouring than with physically distant nations. Following the oil crisis of 1973, the emergence of a new set of geopolitical and geostrategic relationships was recognised by a number of political scientists (e.g., Kemp, 1977, 1978; Reynolds