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skills. Ten years later, China benefits from both solid domestic growth and international sales growth. This economical expansion enables many Chinese companies to enjoy double digit growth. Reasons are simple. Chinese production costs are much lower than in Occidental countries due to cheap labor force and also that China offers a good infrastructure level, such as roads and harbors, enabling good exportations. But, being the factory of the world is not good enough and cannot last forever.

software development project can be governed by a phased methodology that remains the same, so too can projects be governed. This ‘same kind of things’ approach applies not only to the technical aspects of project management, but also to the human side: staying ‘sane’, managing stress levels, managing your time, leading your people, and being a quality participant in the process as a team member. Projects can be ‘phased’; that is, broken down to a series of sequential steps. They can also have concurrent

‘Duty’ is a generic term used to describe a variety of taxes imposed on goods. Duty-free shopping enables international Crafting and executing an offshore IT sourcing strategy C Ranganathan et al 441 travelers to purchase foreign goods at lower prices. Merchandise such as liquor, perfume, tobacco products that are subject to high taxes and duties are hot products in duty-free stores. Duty-free shops are typically located in international airports, selected hotels, tourist attractions and

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certain the ship will wreck, but miraculously it lands safely on the shore. No crew is aboard except for the captain, who is dead, bound by rope to the wheel. The ship's cargo consists of fifty large wooden boxes. A large dog is seen emerging from the lower deck. It jumps ship, races up a nearby cliff and disappears. The ship's log describes how, one by one, the crew disappeared from the vessel. In the final entry, the captain describes a terrifying "fiend or monster" on board the ship. Mina is troubled

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individual elements (ommatidia) of which the eyes are composed are small (10-15 µm) and the eyes are well separated above the antennae, i.e. the female is dichoptic. In the male the eyes are much larger and touch above the antennae (holoptic), and the lower ommatidia are similar to those of the female but the upper ones are greatly enlarged, measuring 25-40 1µm. The short horn-like antennae are the same in both sexes and consist of small, disc-like segments, compacted together to give a beaded appearance

Advisors Club: Catherine LEJEUNE THE CLUB COMMUNICATION DEPARTMENT Press relations Manager: Mélanie BOSWELL Communication Manager: Françoise GRANDEAU INTERNATIONAL DEPARTMENT Senior Manager, Africa, North America, Eurasie, South Méditerranée, Middle East: Stéphane BOULET Manager in charge of Central America & Caraïbs, Europ: MarcOlivier FRITSCH Project Manager in charge of Pacific Asia : Mina GRESLEBIN International Unit Assistant: Marie-Christine CLAQUIN It has for vocation to offer to the Foreign

scenario is forecast, but rather that the possibility of things not turning out as planned is seriously considered and factored into the decision-making process. Sadly, the planning process in many companies all too often concentrates on the possible up-side only. Another very current example is the position in which many companies that went public in the last few years on the crest of the bull market wave now find themselves. With the decline in the 6 The Corporate Finance Environment markets

(or regexp) is a set of characters surrounded by slashes. /ruby/ , /[0-9]+/ and /^\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}/ are examples. Regular expressions are used to find words or patterns in text. The slashes on each side of the expression are pins. Imagine if you had a little word with pins on both side and you held it over a book. You pass the word over the book and when it gets near a matching word, it starts blinking. You pin the regular expression onto the book, right over the match and it glows with the