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... type of mythological, hybrid animal he was in the process of taking on an overseas journey. How quickly she had gone from seductress to a callow cal... ...den is so rich it isn't inequality that he hates. Tyrants like building up empires but he doesn't seem to want one-- just wants to destroy the west. ...

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...ia Company ‘It is the strangest of all governments but it is designed for the strangest of all empires.’ Macauley, 1833 On New Years Eve 160... ... by some of the more conservative Indian rulers, that the British sent their young Indian princes overseas to be educated in our schools and univers...

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...r yield nothing? Are we governed by destiny? Many of my opportunities for overseas study proved fruitless, despite my hard work. This seems to be a ... ...t mediocre people ask for trouble.) A root cause of the decline of all empires (None of them lasted, and they will never last indefinitely.) is t...

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...ren probably yearned to grow out of their age and adults dreamed of business empires, a corporate legacy from which to defy mortality. She knew that i... ...us tripped over itself directionlessly. But a week into contacting long-term overseas customers to advertise new cosmetics, reestablish relationships ...

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...Laura Kate O'Connell left her life of excitement as an overseas news correspondent to return to her Georgia hometown to raise her two young cousins. When Royce Lee, Laura Kate's attorney, supposedly commits suicide, too many pieces of evidence tell a different story. Her instinct...

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...y could figure.” “Who knows with men and women? Royce changed in the years I was overseas and I wonder, can a woman change a man that much?” ... ...school at Duke University. As scion to the Hartwell family’s media and agricultural empires, there was no question of him following his lover. And ... ...t a face that was alive with a vitality he hadn’t seen since she returned home from overseas. It was he who sent the telegram with the bad news of ...

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..., being absent from their own families. Where do you think the custom of All Empires neglecting their own colonies, and leaving them to fend for the... ...erally; all the war-like Zulus and Bantus, the Masai and Swahili’s that ruled empires in Africa before the White Man came were nomadic herders. Fo... ...e to be had. That is the fate of all long-term advantage and dominance which Empires suffer from. It weakens the culture you live in, it weakens yo... ...yles lasted until the 14 th - 16th Centuries with the end of the last Mongol empires. This was all an inevitable dynamic of overpopulation. I... ... banned was that the American chemical companies by then had found enough new overseas markets; that the American DDT market was no longer crucial t... ...hed, and made attractive. The battles of colonial empire-building were fought overseas. The Europeans did not have to face the actual costs of thei... ...g company The Crown took over the fort and it became an official an English overseas colony instead of a dirty get-rich-quick scheme that fell thr... ...and how long it took to make any money from it. So he tried to sell his idea overseas. But the British did not bite. They had learned that lesson... ...t American advertising campaign. The first selling of America as a total lie overseas. The War of Independence was fought over money. The Americ...

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...ericanism By: Dr. Sam Vaknin The United States is one of the last remaining land empires. That it is made the butt of opprobrium and odium is har... ...it is made the butt of opprobrium and odium is hardly surprising, or unprecedented. Empires - Rome, the British, the Ottomans - were always targeted... ...e most atrocious link in a long chain of brutalities inflicted by American soldiers overseas, the latest of which are taking place in Iraq. In all t... ...stinguishes four phases of distension: "First, continental expansion stage; second, overseas expansion stage; third, the stage of global contention ... ...rnold Toynbee, the distinguished historian correctly observed that the last days of empires are characterized by grandiose construction schemes, far... ...powers: world opinion and global capital. But first, Rome. The disintegration of empires is rarely the outcome of merely one or more external sho... ... its republic. Britain chose to democratize by letting go of its unwieldy holdings overseas. Both polities failed to uphold their erstwhile social ... ...rgest investor. The situation is not much different in the Czech Republic where the overseas sales of the German-owned Skoda alone account for one ... ...s sales in these parched lands have plummeted by 10 percent in 2002 alone. Pepsi's overseas sales flattened due to Arabs shunning its elixirs. Amer...

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...he more awe-inspiring because their financial history is limited to bull markets." Overseas - mainly European - selling was an important factor. So... ...ontext Housing and financial crises often precede, or follow the disintegration of empires. The dissolution of the Habsburg and the British empires... ...l Conference, the authors wrote: "Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of both overseas aid and the 'conditionality' employed by donors to incr... ...ften associated with credit-insatiable emerging economies, failed states, erstwhile empires, developing countries and polities in transition. Signs...

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... from having access to them). Build up "political capital" with government bodies; overseas, get "protection" from "the host government". 'Vertical... ... users. Few doubt that legalizing most drugs would have a beneficial effect. Crime empires would crumble overnight, users would be assured of the q... ... torture, illegal confinement, assassinations, and collusion with organized crime. Empires typically degenerate into an abyss of corruption, megalo... ... The annals of both Rome and Britain teach us that, as democracy grows entrenched, empires disintegrate fitfully. Rome chose to keep its empire by ... ... its republic. Britain chose to democratize by letting go of its unwieldy holdings overseas. Both polities failed to uphold their erstwhile social ... ...s it from external and internal threats. Social structures and human collectives - empires, countries, firms, bands, institutions - often commit su... ...d unsustainably in the developed nations of the world. This caused a shift of jobs overseas to less regulated and cheaper locations (offshoring and... ...purposes and excludes competitors (such as migrant workers, non-unionized labor, or overseas labor in offshoring and outsourcing deals). Increase "... ...re what matters. Organized labor regards migrant workers, non-unionized labor, and overseas labor in offshoring and outsourcing deals as the "compe...

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... from having access to them). Build up "political capital" with government bodies; overseas, get "protection" from "the host government". 'Vertical... ... users. Few doubt that legalizing most drugs would have a beneficial effect. Crime empires would crumble overnight, users would be assured of the q... ... torture, illegal confinement, assassinations, and collusion with organized crime. Empires typically degenerate into an abyss of corruption, megalo... ... The annals of both Rome and Britain teach us that, as democracy grows entrenched, empires disintegrate fitfully. Rome chose to keep its empire by ... ... its republic. Britain chose to democratize by letting go of its unwieldy holdings overseas. Both polities failed to uphold their erstwhile social ... ...s it from external and internal threats. Social structures and human collectives - empires, countries, firms, bands, institutions - often commit su... ...d unsustainably in the developed nations of the world. This caused a shift of jobs overseas to less regulated and cheaper locations (offshoring and... ...purposes and excludes competitors (such as migrant workers, non-unionized labor, or overseas labor in offshoring and outsourcing deals). Increase "... ...re what matters. Organized labor regards migrant workers, non-unionized labor, and overseas labor in offshoring and outsourcing deals as the "compe...

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...al Conference, the authors wrote: "Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of both overseas aid and the 'conditionality' employed by donors to inc... ...ntly established African Trade Insurance Agency or the more veteran American OPIC (Overseas Private Investment Corporation), the British ECGD, and ... ...nother 30 cases. Britain has persecuted successfully only one of its officials for overseas bribery since 1889. In the Netherlands bribery is tax d... ... glacially. The polities of central and eastern Europe were always constituents of empires - reluctantly or by choice. In some ways they are better...

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..., C. M. and A. H. Niehoff. 1964. Introducing Social Change: A Manual for Americans Overseas. Chicago: Aldine. Aspinwall, Leo V. 1962. "The Character... ...g."Public Opinion Quarterly 38, 548-61. Polanyi, K., C. Arsenberg and H. Pearson. Empires. Glencoe, Ill. : Free Press. Pol1ay, Richard W. 1968. " A...