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- 1041: Yum Cha: A Chinse Breakfast
- ... to drink tea. However, it means to have breakfast or a morning tea. To Yum Cha, is a perfect way to spend a Sunday morning, at a place to meet friends and to talk about business deals, or spoil yourself after a week of hard work, by treating yourself to the finest Chinese Cuisine. Yum Cha dates back to the 10th century, and originated in the south of China, (Canton province ... to 12pm. Usually after dinner, to Yum Cha is a similar to socialise in Australia, and it is also similar to a meeting place, where friends and relatives meet and chat or talk about their business. They usually eat little, but they usually spend a lot of money, because the restaurant managers know that the business men and young people came to Yum Cha in the evening are mostly rich, and overcharges. Yum Cha is served a differently in Australia. The restaurants usually serve Yum Cha between 11.30am to ...
- 1042: As A Technology, It Is Called Multimedia
- ... shadows will be mergers between: software, film, television, publishing, and telephone industries, each trying to gain market share in the emerging market. So far, most firms have rejected the hostile takeovers that marked the media business in the 1980s. Instead, they have favored an array of alliances and joint ventures akin to Japan's loose-knit Keiretsu business groupings. TCI's boss, John Malone, evokes "octopuses with their hands in each other's pockets-where one starts and the other stops will be hard to decide." These alliances represent a model of corporate ... on your headgear. Another break through in the home market is video telephony. These are telephone systems that also broadcast video images. Imagine being able to communicate instantly with voice, picture, and text with a business colleague or a loved one thousands of miles away. Interactive multimedia systems promise to revolutionize education. In a complex world of constant change, where knowledge becomes obsolete every few years, education can no longer ...
- 1043: Housing Discrimination And Hou
- ... of inferiority, to one of fear and misunderstanding. These attitudes take the form of what is now know as housing discrimination. Housing discrimination refers to the illegal methods used by those in the real estate business to segregate minorities into certain living areas. Housing discrimination is increasingly being seen as a problem and a major hindrance to the advancement of minorities in our country. Recently, many groups have been organized and ... agency boycotting. Essentially, rich, white suburb communities boycott real estate agencies that sell houses to minorities in their area. Since the real estates agents are trying to make money they cannot afford to lose the business of wealthy suburb residents, so they make an effort to steer minorities away from houses for sale in that area. Clearly the latter is a more overt and direct example of racism and deliberate segregation ... housing discrimination in the form of testing and will assist individuals in filing housing discrimination suits. In addition, the council provides services to real estate agencies that wish to incorporate fair housing into their daily business as well as providing education and outreach services to spread awareness. The Council was founded on the belief that "housing discrimination in the most formidable barrier to the achievement of our national goal of ...
- 1044: John Keats
- ... I am done explaining them. John Keats was born on October 31, 1795 in Mourfields, England. John was one of five children whose father was a stableman. John’s father, Thomas, ran an inherited family business. These stables, called the "Swan and Hoop", were located in north London and provided horses for hire to adjacent neighborhoods. (www.englishhistory.net) The business was merely a half-mile from their home. Thomas was riding home for the family dinner when his horse slipped on a cobblestone street, which threw him off and fractured his skull. Unfortunately, when a ... husband, William Rawlings, had a terrible marriage from the start. As a result, the children were sent to their grandmother’s and will later be joined by Frances when she left William with the family business. Frances died from tuberculosis when John was fourteen years of age. Frances’s death furthered financial problems for the family, which started when her father died. Now, John and his siblings were left with ...
- 1045: Germany
- ... passed the so-called Stage one Postal Reform which came into effect on January 1, 1990. The reforms included a division between jurisdictional and regulatory functions and entrepreneurial functions. The reform also resulted in associated business sectors making up telecommunications, postal services and postal banking. The aim of these reforms was to allow for more competition, hoping this would lead to more innovation and development in the telecommunication sector. The reforms ... ensure the rapid development of the telecommunications infrastructure in the GDR and guide a compatible merger of the two organizations' regulatory bodies. By March of 1990 (long before German unification had been decided) the two business enterprises had completed the Telekom 2000 program to develop infrastructure in the GDR, allowing Deutsche Post Telekom to start on the expansion of infrastructure in the GDR with the financial support from DBT Telekom. During ... of the GDR. They stematically reorganized structures inside the GDR telecommunication sector with this in mind. They anticipated Western German restructuring by seperating the GDR Post Ministry from Deutsche Post and by splitting up the business underytaking into three divisions. These same forces also prevented different regulatory political structures from developing during these hectic months. It is a fact that foreign network operators are known to have made offers to ...
- 1046: Sacred Cow, Holy Bull
- ... market, however it has turned out that only 30% of sales have been vegetarian products. They are also offering ground mutton and chicken in their hamburgers for the people in India who do eat meat. Business has been very good, and many people do not understand why other citizens are causing a fuss. They claim that they are not selling beef, so why should anyone be upset (Cooper 1). Many activists have been against the American business in their country. They do not want McDonalds to prosper in a poor country by selling junk food. Regardless if McDonalds is selling beef or not, they feel an American country shouldn’t be doing business there. Through Indian eyes, McDonalds would seem like an killer. “I am against McDonalds, because they are the chief killers of cows in the world. We don’t need cow killers in India,’ said ...
- 1047: Technology
- ... increases throughout the world. Simple tasks such as the automatic traffic signal, and railway air brakes (the first safe method of stopping trains) have advanced growing cities tremendously. As the technology increased, so did the business. Western civilization was the heart of industrial commerce. Men and women from all over the world traveled thousands of miles to the United States in hopes of seeking religious freedom. There upon the shores of ... well as warfare throughout the world. People can now communicate with the use of voice, data, video, and fax; crossing desktops, time zones and cultures with ease. Computers have become the source of all major business transactions. High-speed modems allow the business owner to track all sales and shipments made with the push of a button. Computers have also been a major factor in the development of weaponry. The Air Force and Navy have long exhibited ...
- 1048: The Great Gatsby 2
- ... that is another enigma all together. When Nick asked about his fortune he first said, "I inherited a good amount of money from my parents." Then when Gatsby mentioned, "I was in the drug store business and the stock market, but I am in neither of these any more," Nick caught him in one of his lies. Gatsby has gotten good enough to get himself out of situations like this one ... he worked after the "great crash." This tells us that he tried a few ways to get rich, but he makes it sounds they never worked. It can only be speculated on as to what business he is into now or even how he came into his wealth, but we can be sure that he wanted to keep it to himself. It was this defense mechanism that, in the end, destroyed him. Jay Gatsby had kept his business life such a secret that he couldn't let anyone get close enough to him to learn what he was up to. It was quite obvious that he did not like this loneliness, but ...
- 1049: Australia
- ... has held office since 1983. During that period, the government has carried out major restructuring of the economy (e.g., floating the Australian dollar, cutting tariffs by substantial amounts, reducing and simplifying regulations that affect business). Liberalizing trade and enhancing economic integration with Asia-Pacific countries are major tenets of the ALP and, in particular, of the incumbent Prime Minister, Paul Keating. The opposition Liberal-National Coalition is often described to ... up so strongly in 1994 that the government felt the need for fiscal and monetary tightening by year end. Australia's GDP grew 6.4% in 1994, largely due to increases in industrial output and business investment. A severe drought in 1994 is expected to reduce the value of Australia's net farm production by $825 million in the twelve months through June 1995, but rising world commodity prices are likely ... June 1993. Over the last decade, Australia has taken substantial steps to open the nation's economy through micro-economic reforms and significant tariff reductions. While some had worried that freer trade would hurt Australian business, in fact over the past ten years, while the effective rate of assistance to Australian manufacturing has fallen around 50 percent, Australian manufactured exports have increased by 23 percent. Australia has worked closely with ...
- 1050: The Murderous Miracle: Sherlock Homes - Creative Story
- ... to my shock I saw the townspeople all about in their daily hustle and bustle which was common to northern London preceding teatime. "Well, it appears you are right! People are at work, conducting their business and the like. I'm awfully sorry, I'm just rather irritable in the morning." "Quite alright my friend, it's understandable, tell me, what else do you see at the window?" Holmes calmly stated ... think of. My stomach slightly turned as I saw bloodstains in the carpet, but no other sign of the murder was visible. "This," Reginald Said "Is where the murder took place, I have some other business in town to attend to, so you may search to your hearts delight and perhaps make some sense of this inanity! And don't touch anything valuable! " with that he turned and left downstairs to attend to whatever mindless business he had. "So what do you think Dr. Watson? Do I perhaps see a smile on your face because you have already discovered the culprit of this crime?" Holmes said. "Well, if what he ...
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