cut up to 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months - including 1,400 immediately - due to a slowing economy and weak spending on technology. Microsoft employs 1,200 people at Sandyford in Dublin, but a spokesperson said the cuts would have only 'a very minor impact' in Ireland. It is believed fewer than 20 jobs will go. Microsoft said net profit fell by 11% in the second quarter of its financial year compared with a year earlier to $4.17 billion. Revenue was $16.63 billion, 2% more than the same period
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1. The decision makers from NASA and Morton Thiokol were under a litany of outside pressures to proceed with the launch. This particular launch had been delayed for over six months and rescheduled a handful of times. There was significant pressure placed upon the team by the U.S. government in order to compete with the space programs of rival nations. The longer the project was delayed the more expensive it became for the both the government and the private companies, resulting in intense economic
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years old, and even before he became their accountant, he knew the details of Sycamore City’s business. Case’s duties went beyond typical accounting work, and when the Williams were absent, he was put in charge of operations. In 1992, Case was made a vice president of the company, and a year later he was placed in charge of day to day operations. He also continued to serve as Sycamore City’s accountant. The relationship between Case and the Williams deteriorated, and in 1995, he resigned as Sycamore
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elements are spending a significant amount of time on the streets, making the street into a way of life and inadequate protection, supervision and care from responsible adults. The word street refers to places like bus stops, outside of the shops, minor and major roads of the towns, parking lots, garbage disposal places, markets, bars, shopping centers, and other public places where youths temporally or permanently stay in the form of shelter or seeking refuge. These are the places where street children
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Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction This research project serves as culmination to the problem involving the restoration of the Basilica. It seeks to summarize, explain and synthesize several highlights of the topic in dialogue with the assigned texts and other readings; it will force additional research and reflections as an instrument for clarifying, defining and augmenting the author’s understanding of the major issues addressed by the proposal. The scope of the study
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derogatory. As society has grown and changed, so have its tastes, and the fine line between what one person considers art and what another considers rubbish has shifted several times. This issue becomes more complex when the material is available to minors or included in the education of children. Debate over which books should be used in the classroom or made available in a school library can become very heated. Those who object to content of a particular book feel that
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INTERNSHIP REPORT ON Retail Banking Activities of City Bank Ltd Gulshan Branch of the year 2009, Dhaka 1 INTERNSHIP REPORT ON Retail Banking Activities of City Bank Ltd Submitted to: Syeda Shaharbanu Shahbazi Ahmed Senior lecturer, BRAC Business School BRAC University, Dhaka Submitted by: Md.Mozahidul Islam ID: 05304077 Date of submission: 20th December, 2009 2 Letter of Transmittal December 20, 2009 Syeda Shaharbanu Shahbazi Ahmed Senior Lecturer BRAC Business School BRAC
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family and personal care products. More than 20 of P&G's brands are billion-dollar sellers, including Actonel, Always/Whisper, Braun, Bounty, Charmin, Crest, Downy/Lenor, Folgers, Gillette, Iams, Olay, Pampers, Pantene, Pringles, Tide, and Wella, among others. It operates in America, Europe and Asia. It is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio and employs 138,000 people. P&G generated revenue of $68,222 million in the fiscal year of 2006. This is a whooping 20.2% increase from 2005. The net profits also
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Abstract Visionary leadership, culture of accountability, affinity for risk, and strategic agility are all key characteristics of a High Performance Organization (HPO). A visionary leader is one who inspires the team to move towards the vision and creates strategic momentum through connection between strategy and those who deliver it on the front line. In a High Performance Organization, leaders are aware and realize how accountability must be paired with authority for maximal results. Outstanding
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Pre-Socratics, very little is known of Anaximander’s life. He was born, presumably in 610 BCE, in Ionia, the present day Turkish west coast, and lived in Miletus where he died in 546 BCE. He was of the Milesian school of thought and, while it is still debated among Pre-Socratic scholars, most assert that he was a student of Thales and agree that, at the very least, he was influenced by his theories. He is infamously known for writing a philosophical prose poem known as On Nature, of which only a fragment has
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