Back to the Future

happy to report that collectively we have achieved an enormous victory for great whales worldwide. A controversial proposal that would have legalized whaling for Japan, Iceland and Norway was defeated at last month's International Whaling Commission meeting in Morocco. Concerned individuals, animal lovers, and environmental groups worldwide fought to maintain the 1982 global moratorium on commercial whaling. Against all odds, we prevailed! After several years of closed-door negotiations, the Obama

For the period 2004-2008, the Australian hotel industry growth rate was 9.5% and represents in 2008 $12.1 billion. The domestic segment dominates the industry and constituted 63.8% in 2008. The identification of trends and changing occurring in the hotel industry environment is made through the analysis of the four components of PEST: Political, Economic, Socio-cultural and Technological. These aspects of the environment can affect negatively or positively the hotel industry. The five driving

baby boom It's official. The economy may be bust but the birth rate is booming. The latest count of Britain's population shows that they are the reason the country is fuller than it's ever been. Fertility rates have increased in the UK since 2001 (Roma Chapell, office of national statistics) when they reached a low of 1.63. Then, they have risen to 1.96 in 2008 and you have got to go all the way back to 1973 to find another year when fertility rates were higher in the UK. There were 791000 babies

PRESENT | PRESENT SIMPLE | * Vérité générale ou action répétée : - The earth travels around the sun * Présent à valeur futur après une conjonction de subordination : - When tou meet his mother, you will ask … | | PRESENT CONTINU | * Action en cours, au moment où l’on parle : He is playing rugby : BE+-ing | IMPARFAIT | SIMPLE PAST | * Pour les verbes réguliers : BV+ed * Pour les verbes irréguliers, voir liste. * MEMO : il s’emploi dès lors qu’il y a un indive temporel : yesterday

converts the energy of tides into electricity. First utilisation : the Middle Ages The first tidal power plant started operation in 1966. Not yet very used but tidal power has a big potentiel for future electricity generation inconvénient : there are few sites with sufficiently high tidal ranges ( 16 feet ) or flow velocities Tidal energy is produced through the use of tidal energy generators. These large underwater turbines are placed in areas with high tidal movements, and are designed to capture

Bankruptcy is Best to Save GM JoShua Rauh and LuiGi ZinGaLES N ot long ago, Alitalia was one of the largest airline companies in the world. Today it is a shadow of its former self, having burned massive amounts of taxpayer money before finally entering bankruptcy with few assets remaining. The principal culprit of this debacle was the Italian government. Trying to avoid the political pain a bankruptcy would have caused, the government continued providing subsidized financing to the money-losing

alliance? The alliance shaped in 2001 between Renault and Nissan was based on a quest for survival from both parties. Renault had been seeking a foreign partner; its’ focused strategy in Europe (middle class cars) was showing signs of tiredness. They had failed to expand to other regions organically (they withdrew from the US in 1987 and only had tiny shares in Asia) and they had failed to expand through alliance with another European carmaker to increase their position there (Volvo.) The most viable

INTO THE WILD In 1990, Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch), a college graduate from Emory University, rejects a materialist, conventional life, and his parents Walt (William Hurt) and Billie McCandless (Marcia Gay Harden), whom McCandless perceives as having betrayed him by entrapping him in a future of traditional lifestyle. It is shown that the family is rich but unloving. McCandless destroys all of his credit cards and identification documents, donates $24,000 (nearly his entire savings) to

innovation? * The introduction of a new or significantly improved product, process or method. * Create added value * Helps accelerate the recovery & puts countries back on a path of sustainable growth (jobs economy…) * Policies for innovation should reflect innovation as it occurs today: is gaining importance. Crisis <-> Innovation => new opportunities -> new ventures -> new businesses -> new jobs. policy principles for innovation Empowering people to innovate (empower

suppliers of athletic shoes, apparel and sports equipment… Nike is currently the world leader of this market, with 32% of market shares, and a high turnover which reaches 16 billion $ in 2006, while Adidas’s turnover reaches 13.625 billion $ the same year. Adidas’s market shares only attain 27%. Nevertheless, the completion between the two companies stay very closed. They almost sell the same products, practise in the same sport domain, and their marketing strategy more and more looks like each