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Multinational Languages (ML) + Multilingual Currencies (MC): Ex-colonial languages with Second and Foreign Language businesses and the currencies they support which exchange across other language territories in translation (English, French, German, Dutch). These currencies include the strong global currencies listed on the Stock Exchange – the Dollar, the Sterling Pound, the Euro. ! + ML and – MC: Some multinational ethnic languages (post-Berlin 1884) which affiliated to currency with legal tender

and comparable guest count growth, Systemwide sales growth, restaurant margins and returns. • Constant currency results exclude the effects of foreign currency translation and are calculated by translating current year results at prior year average exchange rates. Management reviews and analyzes business results in constant currencies and bases certain incentive compensation plans on these results because they believe this better represents the Company’s underlying business trends. • Comparable sales

fact that there are many other ongoing arguments in the field. Many of them appear in the following pages, but they represent only a small proportion of the large and growing number of debates in the study of globalization. While the fact of these exchanges does not promise any easy answers to the big issues in the field, it does reflect the field’s enormous vibrancy. TE Introduction to Globalization Debates RI AL 4 Mauro F. Guillén READING 1 Is Globalization Civilizing, Destructive

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IJET Travel Consultancy, PERC • Évaluations d’experts d’ONG et de centres de recherches: Reporters sans Frontières, Heritage Foundation, Freedom House, Amnesty International, Fondation Bertelsmann, Columbia University, International Research and Exchanges Board • Évaluations d’experts gouvernementaux et d’agences multilatérales: Index CPIA de la Banque Mondiale, Banque Européenne de Reconstruction et de Développement, Banque de Développement Africaine, Banque de Développement Asiatique, US State Dept

up their own customeronly lounges. Just one example: ABN AMRO’s Lounge at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam. Open to Preferred Banking clients from 6am to 10pm, the lounge offers a meeting space, online access, food and beverages, and foreign currency exchange. (Preferred Banking clients have savings or investments exceeding 50,000 euros, and/or a monthly income of at least EUR 5,000.) • As part of the company’s bonus card loyalty program which began in November 2007, Garanti Bank offers a free

: Dated FOB: Free On Board ICE: Inter Continental Exchange IPE: International Petroleum Exchange ISDA: International Swaps and Derivatives Association NYMEX: New York Mercantile Exchange OCDE : Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Economiques OPEP: Organisation des pays exportateurs de pétrole OTC: Over the Counter P&L : Profit and loss RMN : Risk Management SIMEX: Singapore International Monetary Exchange SONATRACH : Société nationale pour le transport et la

dette corporate dépréciés dans le contexte de crise du marché du crédit. Dans ce panorama d’ensemble difficile pour les acteurs de la gestion collective, rares ont été les marchés qui se sont développés. On peut cependant mentionner celui des ETF (Exchange traded funds), qui ont continué en 2008 à capter des flux d’épargne croissants en Europe comme aux Etats-Unis. Ce marché a bénéficié du mouvement de fuite vers la simplicité d’un nombre élevé d’investisseurs. Si la crise financière a pesé lourdement

distribution of these companies. These luxury stores like LV, Gucci and Vertu are mostly located in metropols or fashion-centered cities like Florence, Rome, Paris, New York, London, Palm Beach, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Dubai, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Singapore. We can see that the globalization helped the firms to penetrate not only the European and American but the Asian markets too (Gucci wants to expand in China and India, LV wants to open more stores in Japan and Vertu is already in partnership with