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paper by Franco Modigliani and Merton Miller has been justly hailed as a landmark in the modern theory of finance. What has not been sufficiently emphasized is the importance of the paper to the development of economic theory and practice. Indeed, it is ironic that a paper which purportedly established that one need not pay any attention to financial structure-that financial structure was irrelevant-should have focused economists' attention on finance. Merton Miller gives what must be part of the explanation

traveled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain. I hadn't been back in fiftysix years, and I remembered nothing. My parents had moved out of the city when I was three, but I instinctively found myself returning to the neighborhood where we had lived, crawling home like some wounded dog to the place of my birth. A local real estate agent ushered me around to six or seven brownstone flats, and by the end of the afternoon I had rented a twobedroom garden apartment on First Street, just half

demandait rien. Le bonhomme partit ; mais quand il fut arrivé, on lui fit un procès pour ses marchandises, et après avoir eu beaucoup de peine, il revint aussi pauvre qu'il était auparavant. Retour du père-le merveilleux Il n'avait plus que trente milles pour arriver à sa maison, et il se réjouissait déjà du plaisir de voir ses enfants ; mais comme il fallait passer un grand bois, avant de trouver sa maison, il se perdit. Il neigeait horriblement ; le vent était si grand, qu'il le jeta deux fois

English Project Prepared for : Le 11 december 2009 Prepared by : Laurence Peetremans and Violaine Brenez Date : Le 6 december 2009 Theme : Obesity in USA [pic] Introduction Why Americans are so fat? What do they do for that? It is an important question to raise today. With the economic crisis, a big Mac menu is cheaper than vegetables and fruits. The big companies take the lead on low prices. In a day-to-day life people don’t have time to sit down to have a meal. In spite of

information to advance public debate among consumers, media, policy makers, producers and researchers as part of the European Commission-funded Nanobio-RAISE project.1 It results from the combined contributions of natural and social scientists, industrialists, and governmental and public interest organisations across Europe. It is intended to provide information and does not represent the views or policy of the European Commission or any other body. Nanomedical sectors • Drug delivery

de LV1 (voir p. 22 et 23 du BO n° 43 du 24 novembre 2011). Nous avons procédé de la même façon pour ce qui est de la partie expression écrite : deux sujets sont proposés pour les LV2 avec une exigence de niveau B1. Ils sont accompagnés de la consigne Do both tasks et la longueur de l’ensemble est, à titre indicatif, de 300 mots. Le premier sujet est du type narratif et le second davantage orienté vers l’argumentation construite. Pour les candidats de LV1, deux sujets sont également proposés : au choix

gratefully acknowledged. We thank other participants in the project for useful comments. Address correspondence to: Ashish Arora or Marco Ceccagnoli, Heinz School of Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (PA)., 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890, ashish@andrew.cmu.edu, 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

research. Despite its early prominence in leadership research, it quickly fell out of favor among leadership scholars. Thus, despite recent empirical support for the perspective, conceptual work in the area lags behind other theoretical perspectives. Accordingly, the present review attempts to place the leader trait perspective in the context of supporting intellectual traditions, including evolutionary psychology and behavioral genetics. We present a conceptual model that considers the source of leader

understand the reasons behind Renault and Nissan’s decision, it is essential to define and the term alliance. An Alliance is sharing capabilities, such as R&D, marketing or manufacturing, between two or more firms with goal to enhance their profitability, their competitive advantages and creating a new business without losing their own strategic autonomy. An alliance becomes strategic when it is designed to enhance the partners’ strengths and when it allows to follow the objectives defined at a corporate

9). The scholars say that Mr Hinds' “weak spot” is that he's poor, and that it's for this reason that he gives the pupils private lessons for which he forces them to pay. If the child refuses, he gets beaten, but as the pupils tend to fear him (“It wouldn't have been so bad if Mr Hinds hadn't been so young and athletics”, page 8), they usually accept to pay for the private lessons. -Where? The story is set in Trinidad, at a Hindu school called Endeavour. -When? The author of the story tells