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right time. (Fr: maison d'acceptation) accommodation – money that is lent for a short time. account - a statement of money paid or owed; an arrangement with a firm that allows credit for payments. (Fr: compte) accountability - the state of being responsible to someone for some actions (company directors are accountable to the company's shareholders). (Fr: responsabilité) accountancy - the profession or business of an accountant. (Fr: comptabilité) accountant - person who keeps and checks an organizations

neighbors, and when I persisted in pestering them for an account of how things came to be, it was a crucial factor in getting an answer. A middle-aged informant, who spent many of his odd hours bemoaning3 his own unmarried state (he was actually responsible for the death of one of his wives), took pity on me, and revealed the local origin story "because you don't have a wife either, I'm sorry for you." My status as representative white man made my situation even more intriguing to my Daribi friends

parties and educational commentators raged. Widespread anger was voiced over the sheer waste of talent and the cost to the economy of failing to nurture so many of the nation’s gifted children. The greatest criticism was directed at the schools responsible for their education. Most low-income children attend schools funded by the state and it was concluded that these institutions were badly failing bright pupils. The contrast in performance between state and private schools received renewed public

in 1980-86; soared by more than 400% in 19871990; declined by about 50% in 1991-94; rose 450% between 2000 and 2008; and plummeted by 72% between June 2008 and February 2009. And third, while OPEC has been routinely castigated as a greedy bunch responsible for continually raising global oil prices, history shows that real (i.e., inflation-adjusted) oil price actually fell from 1974 through 2003! And temporary price rises thereafter have had nothing to do with OPEC’s effectiveness as a “cartel.” In

vue parfois inconciliables, il devient minimaliste dans le sens où il adopte une position minimale quant aux conditions de travail, souvent égale ou à peine supérieure au respect des lois locales (Blais, 2006). On peut citer à titre d’exemple le Responsible Care, dont nous présenterons les grandes lignes dans la section relative aux codes sectoriels, qui contient des règles de sécurité volontaire pour l’industrie chimique développées après la catastrophe de Bhopal notamment. g. Les gouvernements Les

interrogé dans ses bureaux Intellectual Capital Advisory Services11 (Intellecap), organisation de statut à but lucratif créée en 2002. Intellecap décrit sa mission ainsi: « To build intellectual capital dedicated to facilitating investments into socially and financially motivated businesses and to assist these businesses in becoming more profitable and achieving greater scale. » Les populations du bas de la pyramide représentant une niche avec un fort potentiel de croissance, et ce cabinet de conseil

BAIL, S., Le Luxe entre « business et culture », Paris, France Empire, 2011, « Le luxe éthique : une tendance durable », p.214, l. 24-29 50 http://fr.bulgari.com/department.jsp?cat=cat10130032 29 ratifié par une cinquantaine d’Etats51, et du Responsible Jewellery Council, dont font aujourd’hui partie les plus grandes marques de joaillerie (Tiffany, Piaget, Van Cleef & Arpels, Boucheron, Cartier…). Cartier est également partenaire d’une mine de commerce équitable au Honduras qui fait aujourd’hui

optics are secure and offer virtually unlimited bandwidth capacity. In the US the competitive landscape means operating companies are more aggressive than their European counterparts and are pursuing a fibreto-the-home (FTTH) strategy. Japan is investing at such a rate that half their public telephone network subscribers will be reached by 2010. China is also way ahead of Europe with at least 5 million super broadband connections to date and its role as an economic superpower has barely begun. At

regular but non-professional companies which survived into the Renaissance. The Basoche was made up of students and lawyer’s clerks, while the bourgeois laity formed the Enfants Sans Souci, though the two often overlapped. Between them, they were responsible for devising and staging a kind of play more appealing to urban audiences: the morality. The morality personified the battle fought between virtues and vices for the soul of Everyman, the World or the ‘Povre Peuple’. But some of the 80 extant moralities

year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Packaged Facts. An Influential Force with Buying Power Kids are also a financial force. Packaged Facts estimates that the buying power of 3 to 11year-olds totaled $20.1 billion in 2008, with 9 to 11-year-olds responsible for the greater share of kids’ purchasing power. Packaged Facts estimates that the kids’ buying power will grow at a compound annual growth rate of three percent to $22.8 billion by 2012. August 2009 © Packaged Facts 149 Chapter 5: