The Bofors scandal was a major corruption scandal in India in the 1980s; the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and several others were accused of receiving kickbacks from Bofors AB for winning a bid to supply India’s 155 mm field howitzer. The scale of the corruption was far worse than any that India had seen before‚ and directly led to the defeat of Gandhi’s ruling Indian National Congress party in the November 1989 general elections. It has been speculated that the scale of the scandal was to the
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A Scandal of Bias and Fact Over the past few years the NSA (National Security Agency) has been collecting massive amounts of phone call data from Verizon without the public’s knowledge. This information has just come to the public’s attention earlier this year‚ and has been covered by many news sources. Some sources stick strictly to the facts of the story and nothing more. However‚ other sources tend to focus more on their own bias rather than talking about the actual events that happened. There
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As Singapore is a small and relatively modern amalgam of Chinese‚ Malay‚ Indian and European immigrants‚ the culture of Singapore expresses the diversity of the population as the various ethnic groups continue to celebrate their own cultures while they intermingle with one another. For example‚ one can find a Malay wedding taking place beside a Chinese funeral. Singapore has achieved a significant degree of cultural diffusion with its unique combination of these ethnic groups‚ and has given Singapore
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The Enron Scandal One of the most popular business bankruptcies and collapses known to date is that of the Enron Corporation. Enron‚ once known as "America ’s Most Innovative Company" by Fortune Magazine six straight years from 1996 to 2001. Enron seemed to be doing very well until the summer of 2001 generating a lot of cash and new businesses‚ but in October of 2001 Enron was forced to disclose that their accounting practices had been very creative‚ and failed to follow generally accepted accounting
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"Strategic locations are places important to those with the power to make or break you. It thus follows that external trends‚ not local efforts‚ will always decide which locations thrive." Does the rise of regional hubs from Palembang to Melaka confirm or refute this theory? The Malay world first acquired high strategic value because improvements in shipping technology made seaborne trade more efficient than shorter land-based routes. Combined with the increase in demand for goods traded over long
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funds given or allocated to government officials in order to support and be spent on community projects and/or repairs and improvements. G. Luis Igaya of Institute for Popular Democracy defined pork barrel as “a practice of the Congress to divert national funds into their districts whether it be in the form of public works (such as highways or bridges)‚ social services (such as education funds or public school buildings)‚ or special projects (like livelihood programs or community development projects)
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Introduction The National University Hospital (NUH) is a tertiary specialist hospital that provides advanced‚ leading-edge medical care and services. They have high tech facilities as well as well trained and committed staff and have wide range of medical specialists. It includes Cardiology‚ Gastroenterology and Hepatology‚ Obstetrics & Gynaecology‚ Oncology‚ Ophthalmology‚ Paediatrics and Orthopaedic Surgery. Moreover it was chosen by the Ministry of Health in 2007 to develop two new national specialist
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See References for Sources of Photos# Assignment 1 (Part A)! # By: Samantha Morales‚ Cindy Wirianto‚ Keesha Chen‚ Rubon Kim and Jenny Zhu# # Marketing Foundations# # To: Harveen Kaur# # Submitted on: August 29‚ 2014# Page 1 Table of Content! # # # Survey# # # # # # # # Introduction # # # # # # # # Consumer Demographics # # # # # # Consumer Psychographics # # # # # Consumer Perception of Brand # # # # # Direct & Indirect Competition Graph
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The Watergate Scandal Essay written by Unknown The Watergate Scandal was a series of crimes committed by the President and his staff‚ who were found to spied on and harassed political opponents‚ accepted illegal campaign contributions‚ and covered up their own misdeeds. On June 17‚ 1972‚ The Washington Post published a small story. In this story the reporters stated that five men had been arrested breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee. The headquarters was located in
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Introduction Singapore Airlines (SIA) has developed into one of the most respected travel brands around the world. Its mission statement: "Singapore Airlines is a global company dedicated to providing air transportation services of the highest quality and to maximizing returns for the benefit of its shareholders and employees". Singapore Airlines has grown from a regional airline into one of the world ’s leading carriers. They have a young‚ efficient fleet‚ an educated staff attuned to quality‚
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