Recession hits local retail industry hard http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~gopez/story1.html San Diego County retail sales Home | Overview | The Data | Final Project | Story Highlights San Diego retail trade sales decreased 7.5 percent in 2008 when adjusted for inflation. Small and large retail businesses have made cuts to decrease losses. Economist says sales will remain stagnant in the near future because of debt‚ the collapse of the housing market and high unemployment Recession hits local
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from the channelnewsasia.com‚ is about the recession that hit Singapore back in 2008. In the said article‚ the recession in 2008 was so bad‚ that it left many Singaporeans jobless due to high rate of retrenchment‚ that was possible to reach as high as it was during the 1998 Asian financial crisis and 2001 economic downturn that left up to 30‚000 workers retrenched. Besides causing loss of jobs for many workers‚ the recession in 2008 subsequently affected the manufacturing sector‚ tourism‚ transportation
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I will be analyzing how technology has affected time and how it has helped our society advance by using numerous inventions. “To us‚ for example‚ the moment 8:17 can mean something – something very important‚ if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train”(Huxley 715). It has affected time by making our daily life more efficient by using different forms of technology to reduce the amount of time it takes to complete a task and increased the use of automated machinery. Technology has revolutionized
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IMPACT OF RECESSION ON INDIA Indian companies have major outsourcing deals from the US. India’s exports to the US have also grown substantially over the years. More people have sold the shares in the indian share market than they bought in the recent weeks. This has added to the fall of sensex to lower points. One danger meanwhile is of a dip in the employment market. There is already anecdotal evidence of this in the IT and financial sectors‚ and reports of quiet downsizing in many other fields
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The Great Recession has impacted on households‚ businesses and government departments with unequal force. Some sectors have been severely adversely affected while others have escaped relatively lightly. What are the main economic problems arising from these differing experiences? Explain carefully your arguments. The Great recession‚ which started in Britain in the second quarter of 2008‚ has affected national and sub-national economies in different measures‚ causing a great unevenness in the
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Explanation on the positive effects of a recession The recession is good for the economy. A recession means that there is a negative growth in GDP in a country during two successive quarters. During a recession people lost their jobs‚ companies go bankrupt and governments run deficits but these effects do not outweigh the positive effects of a recession. Education Education is feeling this sharply – whether you’re a school pupil‚ a university student‚ a teacher‚ a lecturer‚ a researcher‚ a library
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mankind has made incredible advances. However‚ man’s progress was not entirely due to human inventions and innovations. Physical geography influenced many of their choices and we are still affected by physical geography in the modern day and age.The development‚ dispersion‚ and alteration of cultures was also affected by physical geography. The emergence of agriculture due to favorable physical geography conditions was physical geography’s greatest gift to humankind. Through agriculture‚ the snowflake
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today. Today‚ I am going to talk about how Barbie was designed‚ how she has changed over the years‚ and how Barbie affects American culture. Here is Barbie’s story. In 1930‚ a young girl fell in love with a boy. The girl had high hopes of going off to college to become a success woman with a real job in the real world. Her parents weren’t very ecstatic because it wasn’t traditional for a girl to go off to college and not get married and raise a family. She goes to college and also marries the
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freedom has a different meaning for different people. Freedom to me means being free from a single ruler who dictates and who goes by his own rules. Freedom has affected America immensely and has brought upon many individuals for the thought of having freedom for the first time. We sometimes take our freedom for granted and do not think of how people dream of having freedom. America has freedom because it was fought for and lives were taken for the future generations to come and enjoy the freedom that
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personal level in terms of music‚ I believe that people and music have an extraordinary‚ dependent bond. Therefore‚ neither can truly exist beyond the conventional confines of life without the other. Based on my personal belief‚ music has significantly affected my life in a positive and powerful way. Among the numerous songs I have listened to‚ the following three songs have had the most significant impact on my life: “Calm The Storm” by Graffiti6‚ “Kyoto” by Yung Lean and “Deja Vu” by Twenty88. Each of
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