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...opportunities through networking with CEOs from hundreds of top Asia-Pacific companies; and forge connections with economic thought leaders from aroun... ...reign affairs and trade, network with CEOs from hundreds of top Asia-Pacific companies, and forge con- nections with economic thought leaders from aro... ...lude income for APEC service and product providers (caterers, trainers, tour companies, etc.); tax revenue for the city and state; and improvements in... ...airport and city infrastructure. Q: What about long-term benefits? A: Local companies benefit through initiatives such as the Business Innovation Sho... ...lace for busi- ness and investment. As Ho pointed out in a recent interview, branding and marketing are common focuses in business, but communities ra... ...in-kind support, including legal, accounting and publicity services. Several companies have even loaned executives to the enor- mous project for its d...

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...rruption and Transparency XXXIII. Workaholism, Leisure, and Pleasure XXXIV. Nation Branding and Place Marketing XXXV. NGOs – The Self-appointed Alt... ...xpenditures and investments in research and development, machine tools, plant, and branding. To sum, though financial and human resources as well ... ...able television was dominated by a patchwork of thousands of tiny, family-operated companies. Today, a pending deal would leave three companies in ... ...hare have both the incentive and the wherewithal to invest in R&D and in subsequent branding and marketing. But oligopolies in deregulated markets ... ...of risk are booming industries. Governments, capital markets, banks, and insurance companies have all entered the fray with ever- evolving financial... ...nking sector, mergers with non- banking financial intermediaries (such as insurance companies), and the introduction of credit derivatives and other... ...r. Silverstein is being agonizingly introduced to it in his dealings with insurance companies over the September 11 World Trade Center terrorist att... ... match the capital assets, the marketing clout, the market positioning, the global branding, the sales organization, and the distribution network o... ... he. Witness the USA and witness the miserable failure of communism. Nation Branding and Place Marketing I. The Marketing Plan II. The Produ...

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...tes to every information product, no matter how superior. Web based media companies (such as Salon and Britannica.com) have been experimenting with p... ... Sam Vaknin Are content brokers - publishers, distributors, and record companies - a thing of the past? In one word: disintermediation The... ...the barriers to entry previously imposed by the need to invest in costly "branding" campaigns and manufacturing and distribution activities. Thi... ...similar labour market trends. But distributors, publishers, and record companies are not going to vanish. They are going to metamorphose. This is... ...ugh driven by crass commercial considerations, most publishers and record companies do apply certain quality standards routinely and thus are positio... ... effects mean that content brokers have to invest much less in marketing, branding and advertising once a product's first mover advantage is establis... ...s to entry previously imposed by the need to engage in costly marketing ("branding") campaigns and manufacturing activities. This trend is also lik... ...information from the Internet, ...live-in desktop environment providing co-branding and customization opportunities on and offline, a unique, private... ...e capital assets, the marketing clout, the market positioning, the global branding, the sales organization, and the distribution network of the like...

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... its experience to France, for instance. The LOI ROBIEN prescribes that companies should be spared social security obligations for 7 years if they... ...of whom 121,666 were women). In the economic sector: 235,206 (72359) In companies with social ownership: 185522 (70,094), of which 121,663 were in... ... Another general collective agreement covered all public services, public companies, state organs, local authorities and legal persons performing non... ...e the Dutch experience to France's, for instance. The Loi Robien exempted companies from some social security contributions for 7 years, if they agr... ...yment in the feverish markets of 1992-7. But the report found high growth companies virtually everywhere - and most of them were not "hi-tech" eithe... ...ly and irreversibly. Job insecurity coupled with job hopping and personal branding will transform most elite workers into free - but anxious - agent...

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...t - and so were privatizers in developing countries. What price should state-owned companies have fetched? This question is not as simple and strai... ...sales. New information, macro-economic and micro-economic, determines the value of companies. Greenspan testifies in the Senate, economic figures a... ...nd in the same industry) barely budges. Why not? We say that the stocks of the two companies have different elasticity (their prices move up and do... ...s is just to rename the problem. The question remains: Why do the shares of similar companies react differently? Economy is a branch of psychology a... ...n the company's performance and assets. The former models are applicable mostly to companies whose shares are traded publicly, in stock exchanges. ... ...ent of the brandname, its recognition and market awareness, market penetration, co- branding, collaboration with other suppliers – are all the respo...

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... How Many Segments? 47 Criteria for Segmentation 48 PRODUCT STRATEGIES 49 4 Branding 49 Packaging 50 Product Positioning 50 Product Differe... ... functions, some of which are listed below: Product Design Information Branding Packaging Classification and standardization War... ...heir mission is nonprofit. The obvious examples are foreign airlines and shipping companies"). A Tangible-Abstract Product Dimension The second... ...) lists profit-making services such as those offered by travel agencies, insurance companies, purveyors of the performing arts and any items from cel... ...r its casino (a service) in Atlantic City or the idea of legalized gambling. Oil companies, in what appeared as a strategy of the demarketing of th... ...st year they scored a major victory when the United States Supreme Court ruled that companies could campaign for or against state referendums (Graham... ...ies related to the things an organization offers to its constituents. It includes branding and packaging decisions, product positioning, study of t... ...romotion (Chapter 6), or distribution (Chapter 7) strategies. PRODUCT STRATEGIES Branding A few years ago a man named John Adams won the Republic... ...ty of the name (Newsweek, September 27, 1976, p. 36). The motivating objective in branding strategy is the creation of habitual purchase of the prod...

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...l Narcissistic Space FAQ # 31: The Inanimate as a Source of Narcissistic Supply (Narcissistic Branding and Narcissistic Contagion) FAQ # 32: The ... ... vested in psychiatry and psychopharmacology. The multibillion dollar industries involving drug companies, hospitals, managed healthcare, private cl... ...ion kiosks in Tel-Aviv, Israel. 1982 to 1985 Senior positions with the Nessim D. Gaon Group of Companies in Geneva, Paris and New-York (NOGA and A...

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... from human psychology and, thus, from reality. Managers will always rob blind the companies they run. They will always manipulate boards to collud... ...empirically fixed at 10% of the market in any one good or service. In other words: companies should be encouraged to capture up to 10% of their mar... ...capacity expansion in the industry (simply buying it, leasing it or taking over the companies that own or develop it). This serves to "deny competi... ...ined by God. The church was the extension of the colonial power's army and trading companies. It is no wonder that Hitler's lebensraum colonial mo... ... by capturing all capacity expansion in the industry (simply unionizing in all the companies that own or develop it). This serves to "deny competit... ...xpenditures and investments in research and development, machine tools, plant, and branding. To sum, though financial and human resources as well a...

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... from human psychology and, thus, from reality. Managers will always rob blind the companies they run. They will always manipulate boards to collud... ...empirically fixed at 10% of the market in any one good or service. In other words: companies should be encouraged to capture up to 10% of their mar... ...capacity expansion in the industry (simply buying it, leasing it or taking over the companies that own or develop it). This serves to "deny competi... ...ined by God. The church was the extension of the colonial power's army and trading companies. It is no wonder that Hitler's lebensraum colonial mo... ... by capturing all capacity expansion in the industry (simply unionizing in all the companies that own or develop it). This serves to "deny competit... ...xpenditures and investments in research and development, machine tools, plant, and branding. To sum, though financial and human resources as well a...

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...f spikes on the seat and back. Meanwhile another masked man was heating a branding iron in a fire. Hopefully the tickling of the spikes and the warmt... ...ur government is often directed by rich special interest groups, like oil companies, farmers, unions and even the Native Americans. We admit that lar... ...f oil increases by $5 a barrel? What effect will that have on large steel companies, on every utility, on the local baker, on pension fund interest o... ... they are usually immediately available. ―The U.S. citizens in big companies and in the public sector have health insurance. Older workers ha... ...workers have Medicare. The poor have Medicaid. But those working for small companies are often not covered. The federal government initiated a health... ...e best drug, especially if it is more expensive. Then in the U.S. the drug companies employ massive sales forces that run up the prices of the drugs....

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... serious?" "As cancer." "Okay then. Good as done." "Soon." "I'll call some companies tomorrow morning." Kelly nodded, relaxed in his chair. "Any other... ... intense earlier, giving and taking with unequivocal fervor, attacking and branding his body with her need, approaching their lovemaking with a desper...

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... and Outer awareness. Science practices this double standard. So do lumber companies and mining companies, and chemical companies. Their adverti... ... natural resources cheaply to other countries? Do they allow other country’s companies to come in and take over their own hydroelectric power plants... ...ations… so one company, one corporation can become more successful than other companies. So one person can become richer than another person. By ke... ... merely in order to force the Government to fund only one of the two business companies that were competing against each other to be the first one t... ...e American government allowed DDT to be banned was that the American chemical companies by then had found enough new overseas markets; that the Ameri... ...s a mark of ownership. People walk around with brand names on their clothes: branding them as being owned by named corporations. And the idiots are... ...re so empty, and meaningless: the only fucking way they can feel unique is by branding themselves with the labels of branded names on their clothes, ...

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...th each of us: a nod of her wig. I seriously suspected all their pattery, branding it half-hearted conspiracy, mistrust and defamation. The passage ... ...“We have seen our courthouse in chains, two battalions of dragoons, eight companies of artillery, twelve companies of infantry, the whole constabular...

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...n of the people, and the threatened enactment of a law compelling railroad companies to respect the rights of travel- ers. Hon. Charles Francis Adams ... ... them to know that a knowledge of their whippings, their scourgings, their brandings, their chainings, is not confined to their plantations, but that ... ...ot be willing to allow it—may be caught on his way, dragged to a post, the branding-iron heated, and the name of his master or the letter R branded in...

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...d with minever; then a deputation of aldermen, in their scarlet cloaks; and then the heads of the different civic companies, in their robes of state. ... ...again, and was sold for a slave—here on my cheek under this stain, if I washed it off, ye might see the red S the branding-iron left there! A SLAVE! D...

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...d an Italian and a Swiss.” “It is a Company?” “A Company of schoolmasters! Companies of all kinds are forming. Colleges are Companies. And they have t... ...ld; and she cared nothing for that man. Assur- edly she merited the stigma branding women as crack- brained. Yet she was not one of the fools; she cou...

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...wer of investi- gating estimates on a large scale. Mines were set on foot, companies established, and buildings commenced, and the results were only t... ...hwold baths. The close of the war brought a com- mercial crisis that their companies could not stand; and Mr. Dynevor’s death spared him from the sigh... ...s sums had been sunk with- out tangible return, and the liabilities of the companies far surpassed anything that they had realized. Lord Ormersfield w... ...the National Debt, and with the alternative of three months’ imprisonment, branding and contaminating for life, and destroying all self-respect? I pai...

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... jealousy exists, through the rivalry of each other. Several bill sticking companies have started, but have failed. The first party that started a com... ... dark to grope for the whip among the rusty fragments of the rack, and the branding iron, and the chains and gibbet from the public roads, and the wei...

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...rks for the remotest Indies of this living earth; why the Life Insur- ance Companies pay death-forfeitures upon immortals; in what eternal, unstirring... ...ose the fall of valour in the soul. Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may h... ... forces to descend on the whales, these three headsmen were as captains of companies. Or, being armed with their long keen whaling spears, they were a... ...re barbaric, heathenish, and motley set than any of the tame merchant-ship companies which my previous experiences had made me acquainted with, still ... ..., the Sperm Whales, instead of almost invariably sailing in small detached companies, as in former times, are now frequently met with in extensive her... ...for a moment 466 Moby Dick with the pain; “have I been but forging my own branding-iron, then?” “Pray God, not that; yet I fear something, Captain Ah...

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...barks for the remotest Indies of this living earth; why the Life Insurance Companies pay death forfeitures upon immortals; in what eternal, unstirring... ... 120 Chapter 26 Knights and Squires Men may seem detestable as joint stock companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may h... ...orces to descend on the whales, these three headsmen were as cap tains of companies. Or, being armed with their long keen whaling spears, they were a... ...re barbaric, heathenish, and motley set than any of the tame merchant ship companies which my previous experiences had made me acquainted with, still ... ..., the Sperm Whales, instead of almost invariably sailing in small detached companies, as in former times, are now frequently met with in extensive her... ...erth?” wincing for a moment with the pain; “have I been but forging my own branding iron, then?” “Pray God, not that; yet I fear something, Captain Ah...

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...de wood, are not eminently prepossessing, but are much less objectionable. There is a tramp-fellowship among them. They pick one another up at resting... ...throwing of stones at the windows of railway carriages in motion—an act of wanton wickedness with the very Arch-Fiend’s hand in it—had become a crying... ... far away. Facing eastward, I left behind me Smithfield and Old Bailey,—fire and faggot, condemned hold, public hanging, whipping through the city at ...

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...raction. The shop boys in the neighbourhood had long been in the habit of branding Noah in the public streets, with the ignominious epithets of ‘leat... ...est qualities of humanity; and that to none of those excellences, can mere companies’ beadles, or court of law beadles, or even chapel of ease beadles...

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...observe, a man is respected in Swit- zerland according to his alpenstock. I found I could get no attention there, while I carried an unbranded one. Ho... ...y had trusted Baedeker, and waited; consequently some of them got their seats for one or two dollars. Baedeker knows all about hotels, railway and dil...

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...alleys ready to descend on Brouage is confirmed as certain; they carry two companies of foot. M. de Mercure is at Nantes. The Sieur de la Courbe said ... ... enough, methinks, that I feel the misery and inconvenience of it, without branding me with malice, a vice so contrary to my humour. However, I derive... ... let a young man, in God’s name, be ren- dered fit for all nations and all companies, even to debauch- ery and excess, if need be; that is, where he s...

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...to good Nurse Jeanie; ay, and to Gorion, whom we blamed for his cruelty in branding my poor little lammie.” “Ah! but,” said Cicely, “did not yonder wo... ...been joined on the way by Babington (people always preferred travelling in companies for security’s sake), and that, as there was a packet from Sir Ra...

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...sters, shufflers, swindlers, and false witnesses; some not unmarked by the branding iron beneath their dirty braid; all with more cruelty in them than... ...use – Vol. One the satisfaction with which he sees them uninjured, and ac companies Mrs. Snagsby from the Sol’s Arms. Before night his doubt whether ...

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...sters, shufflers, swindlers, and false witnesses; some not unmarked by the branding iron beneath their dirty braid; all with more cruelty in them than... ...ouse – Dickens the satisfaction with which he sees them uninjured, and ac companies Mrs. Snagsby from the Sol’s Arms. Before night his doubt whether ...

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...lay on instruments (see 1 Chron. xxiii:4, 5). He further divided them into companies (of whom he chose the chiefs), so that each in rotation, at the a... ...might perform the sacred rites. The priests he also di- vided into as many companies; I will not go through the whole catalogue, but refer the reader ... ...red more free. Men, as generally constituted, are most prone to resent the branding as criminal of opinions which they believe to be true, and the pro...

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... its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism against the more advanced opposition par- ti... ... co- operation generally. He points out that in such cases the dif- ferent companies or authorities concerned each appoint a del- egate, and that the ...

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...dent, it is notorious that mere legal necessity and usage would compel all companies of actors, upon coming into any town, to seek, in the first place... ...Lucy the power to irritate a whole community like Stratford-upon- Avon, by branding with permanent disgrace a young man so closely connected with thre... ... of ‘diddle,’ I apprehend that he was too well acquainted with joint-stock companies!” Com. “And your opinion is, that he may have diddled Mr. Lamb?” ...

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...ainted with the Academy know that the corps of cadets is divided into four companies for the purpose of military exercises. These companies are office... ...t military post in the country at that time, be- ing garrisoned by sixteen companies of infantry, eight of the 3d regiment, the remainder of the 4th. ... ...her it consisted of seven com- panies of the 2d regiment of dragoons, four companies of light artillery, five regiments of infantry —the 3d, 4th, 5th,... ...ter the corral, the former with ropes to serve as halters, the latter with branding irons and a fire to keep the irons heated. A lasso was then thrown... ...o three brigades, with the cavalry independent. Colonel Twiggs, with seven companies of dragoons and a battery of light artillery, moved on the 8th. H... ...small bodies of men to go far beyond the limits of camp. They captured two companies of dragoons, commanded by Captains Thornton and Hardee. The latte...

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...ually death or banishment which often meant death, some- times maiming and branding, so that the offender might serve as a constant warning to others.... ...saves the situation; often luck alone compasses the destruction. Insurance companies know just when accidents will befall the insured. If a man lives ...

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...d, it was said, in the matter of bringing men with much money together to form companies. I saw the house An Odyssey of the North 81 they had lived i... ...Englishmen and Colonials, lean Yankee traders and rotund officials of the great companies, cowboys from the Western ranges, sailors from the sea, hunte... ...ing them and leading them down to the valleys. Again the sweat and dust of the branding pen stung his eyes and bit his nostrils. All his lusty, whole ...