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WHITE COLLAR CRIME
White Collar Crime
White Collar Crime
History and Definition
The term white-collar crime only dates back to 1939. Professor Edwin Hardin Sutherland was the first to coin the term, and hypothesize white-collar criminals attributed different characteristics and motives than typical street criminals. Mr. Sutherland originally presented his theory in an ...
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CHURCH OF SAN LORENZO IN FLORENCE
Church of San Lorenzo in Florence
Church of San Lorenzo in Florence
Introduction
The House of Medici was a political dynasty, banking family and later royal house who first began to gather prominence under Cosimo de' Medici in the Republic of Florence during the late 14th century. The ...
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SIR EDWARD GREY
Sir Edward Grey
Sir Edward Grey
In his statement "The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime", the British Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Gray, provides an eerily accurate prophecy of what happened in the following thirty years. ...
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MEMS and Sensors
Abstract
It's been hard to miss the hype that's surrounded nanotechnology the past few years. On one side, industrialists and academics hype nanotechnology's wide-ranging potential applications, hoping to garner government funding. On the other side, advocacy groups agitate about the potential dangers of exposure to nanoparticles, working to stir ...
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Public Relations
Public Relations
Public Relations is the knowledge that relates to company's Public Relation policies and management, creating and managing company image by means of Press Release, advertising and company's presentations. There are some benefits of PR; it can build a strong sense of corporate identity by promoting its good ...
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Americas Contributions to Global Warming
Introduction
The term global warming refers to a warming in the earth's climate. Global temperatures have changed throughout earth's history; however, in common usage, the term global warming refers to the anthropogenic (human induced) warming that results from an increase in atmospheric concentrations of certain gases ...
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Should Women Mammograms At Age 40 Rather Then Age 50
Introduction
Seven years before, the United States Preventive Services Task Force said women should get mammograms every one to two years beginning at age 40. Now, the identical assembly is saying women should really start getting checked a ten years later. ...
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BUSINESS AND SOCIETY
Business and Society
Business and Society
More than half of all Americans volunteer for a mean of over four hours every week. Even if they were paid only smallest salaries for this free work their profits would considerably exceed $200 billion a year. Corporate America has performed a foremost function ...
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Headcount Reduction
Headcount Reduction
The focus of this paper is mainly on headcount reduction and employs such tactics as early retirement, transfers and out placement, buy-out packages, and layoffs. It is most often done by top-down directives, and almost always implemented across-the-board since the goal is to reduce headcount numbers quickly. The ...
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Social Partners
Social Partners
The social partners are the trade unions and the employers (or their representative organizations) engaged in social dialogue. The idea of social partnership is strongly founded in many European models of industrial relations and is now adopted across the European Union. At the European inter-professional level, the social ...