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9549542 6 0 Contents 1. What are pesticides? 2. Why should I be concerned? 3. How do I know what pesticides my food contains? 4. How and why do pesticides end up in our food? 5. How can we avoid pesticides ending up in our food? 6. What about the effects on farmers and farm workers? 7. What are supermarkets doing about this? 8. Are pesticides in food and farming the only problem? 9. Who should pay to solve these problems? 10. Some good news stories 11. What can I do personally? 12. Further reading

to the customer is simple: everyday products at the lowest prices. (La prédominance des grands magasins discount sur le marché) This business model is profitable since it is based on the industrialization of the functioning and the operation of mass flows on limited references. Indeed, as the sales by reference are high, this distribution format has a very high assets turnover (stocks and turnover per square meter) and aggressive purchasing conditions to a limited number of manufacturers. (Georges

equity concept. The brand equity concept is an important marketing concept that arouse in the 80’s. Brand equity is a unified conceptual framework as a tool useful and essential to interpret the potential effects of several brand strategies. Clearly, brand equity is all about marketing effects exclusively attributable to a brand. In other words brand equity explains why different outcomes results from the marketing of a branded product or service than if it was not branded. Indeed brand equity explains

deficit would disappear. But it does not need a direct improvement of the status of the institutions which would lead to the excesses of majority-voting and of mass democracy considering the scale of the European project. But many EU regulatory policies have identifiable winners and losers and some allow choices with (re)distributive effects[8]: some people get better off, some other worse off. Hence there still is need for democratic, responsive and accountable decision-makers. There should be institutionalised

rise, deserts expanding, changing weather patterns causing mass migration with flooding in some places and droughts in others, and most of all, surprises. Its not only the global warming....our economy will destroy much more if we don t change the rules. depending the global warming... our Clima is a fragile balance...only a few parameters changed..and perhaps we drive into a complete changing of this system. Its similar too the effect, when you mix some colours ....there is a point when all

International (Canada Edition), Vol.164 Issue 5, 26-28. Louis Vuitton is huge, many people have original or fake logo-emblazoned products. It can be assumed that people who are sensitive with respect to aesthetic value do not want to be followers of mass trends2. This is why the case of Louis Vuitton is interesting considering the perception of the brand image, for this type of consumers it appears that counterfeit has a negative impact. Then, luxury brands lose their exclusivity because it is easy

celle des streez cops (E. Reuss-Ianni and F.A.J. Ianni, 1983). En ce temps-là, D. Bayley constata amèrement : « at the heart of law enforcement in the United States there are frustrated, cynical people dealing with neglected, helpless people — in effect, the strong and the weak, both alineated, locked in an intimate embrace» (D.H. Baylay, 1980). Puisque, ni les recherches pratiques de la LEAA, ni les recherches expérimentales de la Police Foundation n'avaient pu prévenir de telles évo lutions, les

marcoc@andrew.cmu.edu, or to Marco Da Rin, IGIER, via Salasco 5, 20136 Milano (Italy). Phone (39-02) 5836.3379, Fax (39-02) 5836.3302, E-mail: marco.darin@uni-bocconi.it. Abstract We contribute a novel approach to the existing literature on the effects of restructuring on R&D investment by focussing on a single industry, chemicals. The chemical industry is very research intensive and has experienced thorough restructuring since the early 1980s. By focussing on a single industry we are able to identify

utility: The value of technology is the combination of technological utility but also the customers. A minimum group of customers makes it possible for the product to get to the market: for it to get to the market and pass from a niche product to a mass market product. The third component is the availability of complementary goods or services. Innovation is also seen as a sequence going from invention through innovation to imitation. Imitation, because if innovation brings competitive advantage

project progress. This scheme is very helpful in order to manage the production; it is an important instrument for rationalizing labour and increasing production rate. To this “scientific management era” succeeded another era, that we could call “mass production era”. In fact, it is very inspired by Taylor’s work. Thus, Henry Ford and Charles Sorensen took scientific management to the extremes. In 1913, they created assembly lines. It was very innovative because, for the first time, it wasn’t workers