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...ure; but she was still a woman down deep even if she denied it just as his American passport and name-change made him abstain from bits of himself. A... ...sed land he did not expect that even if he were to live somewhere in "Euro-American Bangkok" (Banglampool, Silom, and Sukumvit roads with their seven ... ... Then he obfuscated. "Didn't you read in an encyclopedia one time that the American president, Abraham Lincoln, said, 'In the civil war it is quite po... ...felt that it was strange that someone so dark should have parents who were entrepreneurs and high government officials. He also felt that it was stran... ...bly. He scavenged money from Kazem's pants and took a taxi to an abandoned railway station with its severed tracks where weeds or moss grew a little o... ...es when I mix the glue and the pills. Tracks, dogs, and the old abandoned railway station seem to be breathing. I don't have anyone else. Sometimes...
... have never been there. That morning, in Zurich, I climbed up a hill, next to the colossal railway, and rang an ornate bell at the gate of an unassu... ...ot out more and made an effort. I work as a consultant to small enterprises and desperate entrepreneurs, a lonely kind of living, not the type of j... ...ary Club Award for Social Studies (1976), and the Bilateral Relations Studies Award of the American Embassy in Israel (1978). Hundreds of professio...
... II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the United States III. Islam and Lib... ...pire V. The Democratic Ideal and New Colonialism VI. Add Me to the List VII. The American Hostel VIII. The Semi-failed State The War in Afghan... ...sons XIV. The Iraqi and the Madman XV. Just War or Just a War? The Roots of Anti-Americanism By: Dr. Sam Vaknin The United States is one of the... ...e infamous German "Lebensraum")? The author quotes James Jerome Hill, the American railway magnet, as exclaiming, during the US-Spanish War, that "... ...rom public toilettes to farming - are affordably provided by domestic, small time, entrepreneurs often aided by NGO's. Yet, an economy is more than... ...ies. Russia was also instrumental in convincing the North to agree to reactivate a railway line connecting it to South Korea. Kim Jong-il, the Nort... ...ussian firms made inroads into the construction of Chinese hydroelectric plants and railways. The two countries have "plans for the construction of ... ... early adopters of economic trends such as deregulation, equities, venture capital, entrepreneurship, privatization and hi-tech. Turkey was the fir... ...rn. Draft reconstruction plans call for tax incentives and soft loans for homebound entrepreneurs, investors and skilled manpower. There are many of...
...bour Divide - II. Migration and Brain Drain IV. The Labour Divide - III. Entrepreneurship and Workaholism V. The Labour Divide - IV. The Unions af... ...fits through the Employment Bureau. This is much like the very successful American and British schemes of “Welfare to Work”. I recommend linking ... ...separated from teaching basic literacy and numeracy skills. Additionally, entrepreneurship skills should be developed in small business skill traini... ...ms and in programs designed to enhance the management skills of existing entrepreneurs. All retraining and re-qualification programs should doubl... ...re is 10% and in Ireland – 3%. In each 5-year period only 25% of low paid Americans are in a poor family at some point (the figure is 10% in the UK)... ...fits through the Employment Bureau. This is much like the very successful American and British schemes of “Welfare to Work”. We will link the siz... ...gaps opening up among workers following botched privatizations (e.g., the railways, the post office). Bellicose, fogeyish, trade unions leverage the...
...Modern labour theories and practice. Covers issues like employment, unemployment, migration, brain drain, entrepreneurship, workaholism, and trade unions....
...is conducted at its sole expense and includes tours of its facilities abroad. The entrepreneurs – who sought to introduce the two types of investo... ...entations and negotiations with other firms, authorities, or persons. This is why entrepreneurs find it very hard to cohabitate with investors of ... ...o satisfy such needs. But the very personality traits which qualify them to become entrepreneurs – also hinder the future development of their firm... ...urs fail - in knowing when to let go. Return The Myth of the Earnings Yield In American novels, well into the 1950's, one finds protagonists us... ...all but impossible. There is no telling what were the contributions of drug barons, American off-shore corporations, or European and Japanese tax-ev... ...ten end up fostering a bubble. South Korean chaebols, Japanese keiretsu, as well as American conglomerates frequently used these cheap funds to prop... ...service. Predictably, failure ensued - from electricity utilities in California to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous crumbling of thes...
...s losing one‘s job. Sex makes us happier, as does enjoying one‘s job. The Americans, who spend much more time working are much higher on the happine... ...ed at home, in your neighborhood or in school is the truth, divine truth. Americans eat with their forks in their right hands, Europeans with the for... ...ies ate their meals together. She was appalled by the poor manners of the American students. Her mother had taught her good table manners at home, r... ...ill negatively affect all who have the best products or work the hardest. Entrepreneurs often develop products because of their own interests. But t... ...ufacturing, and the expense of a standing army. Then you have highway and railway building and maintenance. But these can be paid by ‗use‘ taxes on ...
...rs between the types of intermediaries are blurred. Barnes and Noble (the American bookstores chain) has, in effect, become a publisher. Many publis... ... will enable the site-owners to update and to maintain them and encourage entrepreneurs to develop new content and invest in it. Certain content agg... ...volutionized our lives. A century before the internet, the telegraph, the railways, the radio and the telephone have been similarly heralded as "glo... ... The result was a globe encompassing network of academic institutions. The American Pentagon established the network of all networks, the ARPANET. Ot... ...lterior motives of members of the ruling political echelons (the infamous American Paranoia), a lack of variety and of catering to the tastes and in... ...less Net will grant developing countries the chance to catch up. Astute entrepreneurs are bound to take advantage of the business-friendly profile ... ...09 volumes cost six shillings (compared to the usual guinea or more). The Railway Library of novels (1,300 volumes) costs 1 shilling apiece only eigh... ... the printing press was invented, it was put to commercial use by private entrepreneurs (traders) of the day. Established "publishers" (monasteries)... ... or the latter day equivalent of previous networks (telegraph, telephony, railways) • A new continent These metaphors prove to be very useful (e...
...archical and rigid, business resembles self-assembling, nimble, ad- hoc networks of entrepreneurship superimposed on ever- shifting product groups an... .... Pundits praise the virtues of the commodification and trading of risk. It allows entrepreneurs to assume more of it, banks to get rid of it, and ... ...uch as the recently established African Trade Insurance Agency or the more veteran American OPIC (Overseas Private Investment Corporation), the Bri... ...d a refund of all war and terrorist liabilities above $100 million per airline. The Americans later extended the coverage until mid-May. The Europea... ...nnovation generates the very tools that facilitate further innovation. The eminent American economist Robert Merton - quoted in Sigma 3/2001 - desc... ...nsider trading, double dealing, and outright fraud. But even honest and productive entrepreneurs often earn more money in one year than Albert Eins... ...service. Predictably, failure ensued - from electricity utilities in California to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous crumbling of th... ...nly the latest in a string of networks which spanned the globe (the telegraph, the railway, the radio, television). So, I went and had a look at ...
...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ...service. Predictably, failure ensued - from electricity utilities in California to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous crumbling of thes... ...titive. The Competition Laws aim to establish fairness of commercial conduct among entrepreneurs and competitors which are the sources of said comp... ...would accentuate attention to details, private enterprise, initiative, innovation, entrepreneurship, inventiveness, youth, status symbols, consumpt... ..., therefore, become a collective phantasm - at times a dream, at times a nightmare. Entrepreneurship involves massive amounts of dreaming and the ne... ...hone have been similarly heralded as "global" and transforming. The power grid and railways were also greeted with universal enthusiasm and acclaim... ...dvances (just recall the millenarian fervour with which electricity, the telegraph, railways, the radio, television and the Internet were greeted). ...
... existed in those days in Finland. I looked along the Phahonlyothin to the railway crossing; the countryside seemed to start beyond it. There, behind ... ...way crossing; the countryside seemed to start beyond it. There, behind the railway, near the village of Ban Srii Muod Klao, we found a home in the hou... ... rice merchant Kitti Hunkittikul. Our life in a strange country began. The railway level crossing is still there, it is as potholed as before, but the... ...al sector. Chinese shops in Lampang old centre, along with all other local entrepreneurs, are faced with the large international production and retail... ... very few people in the village making a living from farming, and they are entrepreneurs who grow commercial produce almost the whole year round. As i... ... employment or their own business. Ban Srii Muod Klao is a real village of entrepreneurs (Table 4:2). Some kinds of hand-made goods are produced in al... ...s to use genetic modification to produce and patent a variety suitable for American conditions. Potential cultivation of Jasmine rice by American supe... ... produced, and they have rather tended to be TV serials; cinemas show many American movies as is the case elsewhere in Asia. From citizen to gl... ... US army during the Korean war; sex trade has always flourished around all American military bases. In 1983, it was said that there was only one broth...
...s deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people. Besides the ordinary objects submitted to your care, it ... ...man Race in humble supplication that, since He has been pleased to favor the American people with opportuni ties for deliberating in perfect tranquil... ...y terror, intrigue, or venality, the Government may not be the choice of the American people, but of foreign nations. It may be foreign nations who go... ...ke itself as responsible to employees injured in its employ as an interstate railway corporation is made responsible by federal law to its employees; ... ...able safety device can be invented to reduce the loss of life and limb among railway employees, to urge Congress to require its adop tion by intersta... ... railway employees, to urge Congress to require its adop tion by interstate railways. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 234 ... ...eroes across a counter—and they are on both sides of that counter. There are entrepreneurs with faith in themselves and faith in an idea who create ne...