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steel centre cf. Port Talbot). (ii) Age An ageing population (as in most W. European countries). For the first time, the number of people of retirement age is now above the number under 16. After two baby-booms (1944-49, 1959-69) the birth rate has declined steadily (20 births/1000 population to 16.6/fertility rate 2.95/women of birth giving age in 1964 > 1.96 today). (Replacement rate = 2.1).Causes: l children no longer bread-earners (laws vs. child labour, compulsory schooling) + better birth

Diet member and appointed by his or her colleague. Japan has five major parties which has the lead in the national government. Japan’s political climate is a mixture of feudal ideas which means that the man at the top has all the power, but since the 1960s the political parties had more to say and they dominated their position at the top. The man at the top (the emperor) became the symbol of the state and the Japanese politics has been dominated by the liberal democratic party (LDP) for 38 years

Oral production on the religion of islam In the novel of three cups of tea, Mortenson has fixed, has a goal and after a lot of circumstances, to build schools in the rural Pakistan and Afghanistan. Mortenson faced many difficulties on his road of building 55 schools in taliban territory. One of the difficulties he faced was that he had to deal with muslims. Muslims are the group of people who put their trust in the religion of Islam. Islam is one the religion who counts on one of the largest group

recovery since then, the downturn has taken its toll with many organisations reducing staff numbers and cost controls replacing investment in both business opportunities and human capital. Not withstanding the commercial strains faced, there have been unprecedented levels of scrutiny from regulators, governments, shareholders, and the public who have all sought to attach some blame for the financial crisis to inappropriate incentive practices in financial services. This has resulted in a number of pronouncements

Union and French legislation. The purpose is to describe this concept’s degree of “juridicity” (how and by what means does the concept of legal tender irradiate a national currency?) and to show that legal tender, the law of the exchange of money, has unexpected hidden effects in legislation (II). These dual regimes (antitrust law regulation and “legal tender” provisions in private and public law) of the regulation of the exchange of money seem to ignore one each other and at the same time reflect

monarchy: it is ruled by a king or queen who accepts the advice of Parliament. It is also a parliamentary democracy, a country whose government is controlled by a parliament that has been elected by the people. The highest positions in government are taken by elected Members of Parliament, also called MPs. The king or queen now has little real power. The principles and procedures by which Britain is governed have developed over many centuries. They are not written clown in a single document that

University International Development Consultant nour.rim@gmail.com Building and sustaining a knowledge economy has become a pillar since the Tunisian five year plan for the period 2010 – 2014 and as such the country needs to invest in an adequate environment to foster knowledge creation, transfer and sharing as a major driving force of economic and social development. Progress has been steadily observed in areas related to education and ICT access and use but there is still a long way to go especially

workplace from ‘personnel’ to ‘human resources’ to ‘human capital.’ Each stage of evolution has brought significant benefits to working people. And yet, all these stages of development have shared a fundamental assumption that workers are discrete units to be evaluated on an individual basis by the economic and/or psychological measures of the day. Similarly, an individual’s value to an organization has been inferred by simply collating individually derived, non-predictive metrics such as education

dreams have created a very competitive software and hardware computer industry. Bill Gates has had a huge influence on how the world processes information. Society has been transformed by a man will a vision. Bill Gates has transformed the computing world in the short 25 years interval since the first learned BASIC on the G.E machine. The development of MS-DOS, Windows and the introduction of the mouse has brought computing down to a personal level. Gates began to realize the expectations others

Chapter 31: from page 251 “ it must have been 12.15 by now” to the end of the chapter The passage I’m going to comment upon is the last chapter from the novel A Lesson Before Dying written by Ernest J. Gaines, and African-American writer. This author was born on a plantation in Louisiana at the beginning of the thirties. Louisiana has been a source of inspiration for his novel since he only writes about the life of black people in the south of the USA. This book won several prizes among which