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Financial Crisis East Asia
1,323 words... d up. "This financial crisis will probably lead to loss of confidence by investors in Thailand's economy and a slow down and then a slump would ensue", she predicted. Unemployment. Unemployment is already a problem, concentrated for the moment in urban areas, and affecting both skilled and unskilled workers in Asia. It is expected that in Thailand an estimated 900, 000 workers will have lost their jobs by the end of 1999; in Indonesia, it is estimated that unemployment may have increased by ...
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Gdp Per Capita Ethnic Groups
894 wordsThe most populous country in Africa, Nigeria accounts for one quarter of Sub-Saharan Africa's people. Although fewer than 25 percent of Nigerians are urban dwellers, at least 24 cities have populations of more than 100, 000. The dominant ethnic group in the northern two-thirds of the country is the Hausa-Fulani, most of whom are Muslims. Other major ethnic groups of the north are the Name, Tiv, and Kanuri. The Yoruba people Christian and half Muslim. The predominately Catholic Igbo's are the lar...
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U S Economy Clinton Administration
1,044 words... is the world's largest importer and exporter. Trade accounts for 11 % of the U. S. economy and about 30 % of economic growth in recent years, the Clinton administration says. Trade-related jobs typically pay 13 % to 16 % more than other jobs. Exports alone have accounted for 30 % of the more than 20 million jobs created since 1986. Current WTO agreements -- to free up trade in everything from clothes to computers -- give the average family of four $ 1, 500 to $ 3, 000 in additional purchasin...
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Security Council Permanent Members
1,087 wordsUN Security Council is the organ with primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security, the UN Security Council must work constantly to enhance its potential for the prevention and settlement of conflicts. The Councils current structure is 5 permanent members (China, France, Russia, UK, the U. S. ) each with the right to veto, and 10 non-permanent members elected by the General Assembly for 2 year terms. Under the UN Charter, it is the only body that can take decisi...
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Declining Clarity Of A Jewell Exploring Lake Tahoe
2,172 wordsFigure One -- Tahoe Region Map Page 3 A Lake Clarity -- Introduction to Causes Page 5 Figure Two -- Sec Depth Chart Page 6 A Figure Three -- Population Graph Page 7 A Water Inflow and Algae Growth Page 9 Figure Four -- Water Cycle Flow Chart Page 10 A Maps and Graphs -- References Page 17 Lake Tahoe is the pristine jewel of the West Coast, known around the world for its beauty. The Lake Tahoe area was even in the spotlight for the winter Olympic Games at Squaw Valley in 60 's. Over the decades w...
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The Corruption Crisis Of European Commission
1,058 words... Commissioners are independent, but they are nominated by their governments and they can be re-nominated. The staff is coming from a particular administrative, political, educational background of a member state, which is by definition oriented at national interests. III. Questions of legitimacy in the European Commission One of the most important political and legal problem of the European Union is the so called democratic deficit. This system undermines the legitimacy of the EU. The lack of...
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Square Root Negative One
1,257 wordster> (c) 1998 by Daniel du Prie The resistance of dreams to the transparency of the eric consciousness, as opposed to structural meaning per se, lies not in their 'objective presentation', that is, in the way in which objects appear phenomenologically in terms of an eidos, under the order of the symbol. It lies, rather, in a noetic resistance, in an opacity on the order of the image, the imaginary: a lacking in the 'narrative' flow of meaning as it flows forwards in time, the non-confor...
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Cognitive Psychology Mental Activity
1,044 wordsConsciousness is understood in a variety of ways. In one belief, a person is conscious when awake, but unconscious when sleeping or comatose. Yet people also do things requiring perception and thought unconsciously even when they are awake. A person can be conscious of their physical surroundings, pain and even a wish or fantasy. In short a creature is conscious if it is aware of itself and that it is a physical and emotional being. Consciousness is a psychological condition defined by the Engli...
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William Stuntz The Pathological Politics Of Criminal Law
1,753 wordsWilliam Stuntz "The Pathological Politics of Criminal Law." INTRODUCTION While many factors that make positive sentencing reform rather problematic remain, different factors have come together at the beginning of the new century which made such reform more possible than it has been for a many years. On the other hand, as these critical factors are not likely to remain in adjustment for a long period of time, they challenge progressive reformers to work and react with dispatch. One of the prevale...
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Counter Power In America
1,469 wordsCounter Power in America. America created the harmonious system of the state management called power. Does power need to have any counters? The question is rather rhetorical. The very essence of democracy presupposes the counters to the power. Mass media, press are among them. What are the relations between the political system and the press? The main aim of mass media is to make the political system more transparent. This counter nature of the press is defined by its main objectives. Do they co...
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Foreign Investment Economic Effects
284 wordsIntroduction Explanation of the topic of the research and statement of the goals Body What is corruption and what forms it can take Concept of corruption How old is corruption Forms of corruption Source of corruption, what has gone wrong? Poverty Weak social values Lack of transparency and accountability Is corruption good or bad? Pro-arguments Cultural argument Counter-arguments How corruption effects the private sector (micro economic effects) Statistics Effects of corruption of registered fir...
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Test Tubes Cell Membranes
1,411 wordsChemical Stress On The Tonoplast Of Beta Chemical Stress On The Tonoplast Of Beta Vulgaris Taproot Cells. Abstract This is an experiment on how chemical stress effects cell membranes, specifically the tono plast of Beta vulgaris taproot cells. This experiment involved the treatment of the aforesaid cells with different concentrations of an acetone solution, and testing the resulting solution for absorbance of light by beta cyanine, using a spectrophotometer. It had been hypothesized that the hig...
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Cognitive Psychology Mental Activity
1,055 wordsConsciousness is understood in a variety of ways. In one belief, a person is conscious when awake, but unconscious when sleeping or comatose. Yet people also do things requiring perception and thought unconsciously even when they are awake. A person can be conscious of their physical surroundings, pain and even a wish or fantasy. In short a creature is conscious if it is aware of itself and that it is a physical and emotional being. Consciousness is a psychological condition defined by the Engli...
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War On Drugs Drug Cartels
1,749 wordsLatin America is a large region made up of many diverse countries. A large portion of these countries have enormous problems with corruption. Two of these countries, Mexico and Colombia. , have gained a great deal of attention due to their problems. The difficulties these countries have are even more complex in that they effect other more prominent countries immensely. When looking more closely at the two, it becomes interesting to observe the contrasting features of the corruption in each natio...
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Land Peasants Nobles
269 wordsRussia was the most backward of the 19 th century major powers (had little industry, an autocratic gov. w/ no constitution and mainly an illiterate peasant pop. ) Brought the Crimean War (against Franco-British forces) to an end. Instituted Liberalization processes Edict of Emancipation (1861): peasants had no obligations to nobles / peasants were given 50 % of the agric. land / the nobles were compensated through taxes for the loss of land / the commune (Mir) became a basis for tax collection &...
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Operating System Computer Network
290 wordsDistributed Operating System Computer architecture consisting of interconnected multiple processors are basically of two types namely (1) Tightly coupled system (2) Loosely coupled systems. Loosely coupled systems are more often referred to as distributed computing systems. The operating system commonly used for distributed computing systems can be classified as (a) network operating system and (b) distributed operating system. A distributed OS must be designed with the assumption that complete ...
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French Painter Open Window
1,129 wordsJuan Gris was born in 1887. He was a Spanish born French painter who went to the cubist school. Originally his name was Jose Victorian Gonzalez, he was born in Madrid and educated there. He left Madrid in 1906 and went to Paris, making the acquaintance of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and of the French painter Georges Braque. Gris first cubist paintings, generally more calculated than those of Picasso and Braque, appeared in 1912. He spent the next summer in C? et, France, with Picasso, and while...
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Council Of Ministers Corruption Scandal
2,093 wordsAbstract: The Corruption Scandal of the European Commission and its possible effects on the institutional balance and the question of legitimacy I. Defining Corruption The first chapter is an attempt to define corruption. It is important to divide overlapping and complicated terms such as corruption, scandal and fraud. Corruption is defined as an illegal transaction, where both actors benefit from their special position in the market or the government. Scandal is the public reaction to allegatio...
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