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embrace the market and carried out sweeping economic reforms, from privatizing state enterprises and agriculture to devaluing the currency, from drastically slashing subsidies to eliminating thousands of state firms, from opening the country to foreign trade and investment to laying off almost a million workers. The Cuban regime chose a more cautious and less costly approach of adjustment and limited reform. Enticed by the prospect of rapid economic development, the Vietnamese were prepared for a bold

a different practice.’ ‘She was rather ill-tempered so I never went back.’ ‘The facilities were drab, so I went to a different one next to my office.’ ‘I felt rushed at his practice so didn’t go back.’ T hese were some of the remarks made by German consumers of healthcare in surveys conducted for this publication. If anything, the French were even more demanding. One French woman we spoke to told us that she had found some of the nursing staff in a French public hospital ‘rude and uncaring’

have found that Cultural Creatives are new as a real and recognized social group, but that they are rapidly growing. The main features of cultural creatives are the following: * Highly environmentally concerned * Pay really attention to the world social issues and want to help to solve it. * Want authentic products and are ready to pay more for it if of course, the product has been made with an ethical concern. * They don't like too much to watch TV and are suspicious about advertising

opaque derivatives accounting processes known only to the finance and accounting departments; capturing static derivatives data without audit functionality in Excel or Lotus spreadsheets; relying on internally generated market data; and consolidating trade execution and valuation duties in the same person or team. A few public companies even fake compliance and defy disclosure standards; for example, they may purposely mis-mark derivatives, fabricate market data, post-date effectiveness tests, or limit

Individual Essay Discuss the significance of the hospitality industry to the regional, national and global economies. Describe, with clear reference to a range of sources, how the hospitality industry may be classified into different sub sectors. Choose one sector of the industry from your classification above: * Demonstrate how your chosen area contributes to the hospitality industry as a whole. * Discuss some of the major players and their contribution to this sector. * Present data to support

decades each generation of satellites has been more complicated and expensive than its predecessor, taken longer to design, and required an infrastructure of expensive launch facilities, global monitoring stations, mission specialists and research centers. In recent years, however, improvements in electronics, solar power and other technologies have made it possible to shrink satellites dramatically. A new type of satellite, called CubeSat, drastically simplifies and standardizes the design of small

the fashion environment all over the world. The company Caroll, a French company want’s to expand and go on new market as China. This choice is due to the crisis that the purchasing powers are generally decreasing. So they want’s to take these opportunities to go on the market very growing and with a real future. Hence, it became really strategic for international brands to integrate this market that is going to become one of the most important of the world. France has a great image in this country

The Roman Empire is historically known as the most powerful and expansive empire ever seen in the ancient world. It conquered and subjugated the many cultures and nations found in Europe and around the Mediterranean Sea. The incorporation of the many traditions and beliefs held by these cultures made the Roman Empire a multicultural one. Through all this change, Roman religion stands out as one of the main factors that held the empire together throughout its history. Religion provided a structure of

The Iraq war, begun in 2003, has been justified through several different reasons. One of the primary causes was the fear of Saddam Hussein housing Weapons of Mass Destruction in the country, as the Iraq leader had repeatedly failed to disclose their number and location. In 2002 it was revealed that Tony Blair had agreed to support US President George W. Bush for an invasion of Iraq, with the aim of removing Hussein from power. Despite a UN investigation and refusal to support a US led attack on

गणराज्य Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also official names of India), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.18 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world.[16] Mainland India is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal on the east; and it is bordered by Pakistan to the west;[note] Bhutan, the People's Republic of China and Nepal to the north; and Bangladesh