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- 9021: Money Laundering
- ... because although he/she will want to get as much back as possible, what he/she really wants is the money back clean. Money Laundering is said to be the third biggest industry by value world-wide. Research in the USA has shown that 90% of currency bills in circulation are contaminated with narcotics. In the UK, similar research showed 40% to be contaminated. In 1994, about 15,000 suspicious transactions ... a blind eye for the commission they will earn. Many advisers will be representing clients who appear to be running perfectly respectable businesses but are not. The dirty proceeds of drugs trafficking alone throughout the world are estimated to be around £500bn annually. £2bn each year is thought to be laundered through Britain. Businesses must know their legal obligations and in particular providers of financial services must be aware of the ... will grant diplomatic status to "investors", making them invulnerable to action by international law enforcers. This clearly becomes a haven for drug barons and crime bosses, where they can launder millions and escape prosecution. The world's third largest industry continues to grow rapidly and uncontrollably. Factors that affect this growth are the increasing emerging technologies, international barriers being removed, improved communications networks and last but not least individual/organisational ...
- 9022: Comparison Of Job And Odysseus
- ... words and skills were no longer effective as a means of control. Because of Polyphemos curse, Odysseus could no longer maintain his agency using his skills as a battle chief. We saw in the Trojan War how Odysseus used his cleverness to outsmart the Trojans and then his fighting skills to take their lives. This technique of using his prowess as a means of preserving his agency collapsed under pressure from ... Odysseus uses words as an attempt to persuade them to bypass the island completely: Shipmates I had forewarning from Teiresias and Kirke, too; both told me I must shun this island of the Sun, the world s delight. Nothing but fatal trouble shall we find here (book XII, lines 350-354). He again tries to assert some of his agency on the crew with words when he commands his men to ...
- 9023: Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
- In "Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey", Wordsworth uses imagination to help him and others to live in the physical world peacefully. He recalls playing in Tintern Abbey, a forest nearby there and played in it when he was young. Now he comes back for different reasons. He escapes the world which is individualism and goes to the forest to get away from all the burden. He tells his young sister that she can always come here to get away from her problems as well. In ... to his own country. He ends up completing his voyage and his journey. The Mariner has learned natures way of life on his voyage, and decides to teach it to common people around the world. While suffering for his moral error of having the pride to kill the Albatross, the Mariner blesses everything from his heart and lives on to tell the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, traveling from ...
- 9024: Managing the Transition from Maturity to Decline: Diamond Power Corporation
- ... of the soot blower. Diamond had the market to itself for a number of years, but eventually two competitors sprang up to challenge Diamond: Copes-Vulcan and Bayer Company. Competition did not become fierce until World War II, when the soot blower became a major commodity used by the U.S. Navy to clean boilers on board its ships. At this point, the soot blower industry became a seller's market and ...
- 9025: James Fenimore Cooper and His Writings
- ... more strongly with the emergence of a truly American literature. During this time, as Americans began to understand the meaning of being "American", they also began to grow culturally. This paralleled the time when, the world as a whole was experiencing a change in ways of thinking: there was a move from classical ideas to romantic ones. This change was taking place in all areas of culture around the world, including the arts, education, philosophy, and even science, but it was clearest in literature. Romantic literature became the vessel of thought for most of the American writers at this time. Among them was James Fenimore ... discover this truth, Emerson wrote in The American Scholar (1837), a man must "learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within." The main key to this inner world is the imagination. Man's imagination leads to expression. Our expression makes each of us a unique human. Romanticism became the way of expressing' for this generation of writers. Among the giants of this ...
- 9026: Lucent Technologies
- ... These units are designed to work together to provide innovative and cost-efficient solutions for customers. Bell Laboratories supports each group.9 Bell Laboratories is a research and development organization that is recognized throughout the world for its achievements in science and technology. Currently, Bell Laboratories is focusing on developing: Digital signal processor algorithms, Lightwave communications (photonics), Networking, Silicon chips, Software, and Wireless communications.10 Business Communications Systems design, manufacture, install ... rate of 33 percent.14 BUSINESS STRATEGY The worldwide demand for communications systems is booming. Lucent Technologies is predicting a 10% annual growth for the communications industry. The business is pursuing growth opportunities around the world and is trying to build on Bell Laboratories established global relationships with its key customers. 15 Much emphasis for advancement is being put on the areas of Wireless communications, Networking software, and multimedia convergence. With the increasingly mobile society, Lucent Technologies feels that there will be an increasing demand for wireless communications. The more sophisticated technology becomes, the greater the demand for smarter networks. One of the world's largest producers of networking software is Lucent Technologies. Multimedia devices deal with all kinds of communications. Lucent Technologies is trying to develop innovations on multimedia that the customers want.16 ADVERTISING STRATEGY The ...
- 9027: Alfred Nobel
- ... There his energetic and inventive father soon acquired a strong and respected position as an inventor and industrialist. Nobel subsequently lived in several countries and ultimately came to regard himself as a citizen of the world. Even so, he never gave up his Swedish citizenship. By virtue of the education he received in many countries, Nobel read, spoke and wrote fluently in five European languages: Swedish, Russian, English, French and German ... Nobel Foundation. The value of Nobel's original capital has increased in real terms, its market value in 1995 being some SEK 2.3 billion. The Foundation is not connected with the companies around the world which still today bear Nobel's name. The Nobel Prizes Experience had taught Alfred Nobel to dislike and distrust lawyers, and late in 1895 he made out his final will without any professional advice or ... capital, is transferred after December 10 according to the laureate's wishes. In 1995, the value of the Nobel Prizes was some SEK 7.2 million per prize. The awards are widely recognized as the world's highest civic honors. Besides spurring recipients and possible candidates to new efforts, they have served to make scientific and literary achievements, as well as humanitarian contributions, much more widely known than would otherwise ...
- 9028: Ulysses S. Grant
- ... to win him a steady following. Even his most faithful admirers, however, tend to end their studies conveniently at Appomattox, and one senses a wide regret that Grant's public career extended beyond the Civil War. Taking note of this trend, John Y. Simon observes that some biographers "seem to have wished that Grant had accepted Lincoln's invitation to Ford's Theatre" on the night the president was shot- the ... precursor to the future course of international affairs. The establishment of the principle of the international arbitration through the Treaty of Washington, would later be embodied in the Hague Tribunal, the League of Nations, the World Court, and the United Nations. Grant's desire for peace was evident to me from the beginning of my research, but I did not realize how far-reaching it was until I noted the steadiness ...
- 9029: An Investigation of Japanese Corporate Culture, Its Trends And Changes
- ... are evaluated by how much of a contribution they make towards the generating of this profit. The Western corporation is designed like a profit machine and operated like a profit machine. Within the Japanese business world, the corporation is not seen as been there for just profit. Profit is important, but it is not the only reason for the company's existence, but involves people and their future. The community factor ... will continue to be no foreseeable movement for change, this lack of development will bring about the end of Japan as a economic power or at least take away the influence it has on the world. However this change cannot just be a gradual change because if it is not quicker in the next 10 years than it was in the previous five, it is highly likely that it will not ... abroad, and this a massive move from what is seen as the 'norm' in Japan. This change to Canon's culture and operations became even more radical during the summer of '96. During this period, world responsibility for a series of key R&D projects was switched away from its headquarters in Tokyo to the US, France and Britain. Since this there have been more Japanese corporation follow this lead. ( ...
- 9030: Vegetarianism
- ... example; humans have no fang s or claws) and because are digestive system was not made to digest meat, a vegetarian diet is much easier and healthier for our bodies. Secondly, as known around the world, the most common cause of death is heart attack and the average man is at a 50% risk while a vegetarian man is at a 4% risk. Another fact most dont think about is ... Actually, more than 50% of rainforest destruction has been from animal grazing. Other than the destruction of rain forest, more than half of all water supplies goes to livestock production. Vegetarianism could even improve our world by preventing hunger for 1,300,000,000 humans could be fed by the grain and soybeans fed to livestock each year. Not only does meat eating help destroy our bodies but the world around us. When it all comes down to it, being a vegetarian is a wonderful, spiritual, and helpful way of life and it could be to all. It could improve health, spirituality, and even ...
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