With increasing numbers of hotel mergers and management lease by large corporations, in conjunction with an already well-developed western corporate culture, it seems like globalization hit the hospitality industry with all its might. ... This creates great rifts in the ways management deals with staff from country to country. Service staff is the most troublesome of all. ... It is very hard for hotels to keep their service staff on a leash, mainly due to the fact that service staffs outnumber their managers with quite a high ratio, and that hiring more supervisors would be a costly issue....

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Moving onto production and investment, Hungary is quite detailed. ... By 1976 only about 37 percent of all freight was moved by rail, and 56.5 percent was carried by truck. ... Wholesale and international trade are state monopolies, and all but a small share of retail trade is conducted by state enterprises. ... Hungary's exports to Western nations have consisted mainly of foodstuffs, wine, and other agricultural products. ... Licenses to import Western goods must be obtained from the Hungarian government, which from the late 1960's provided them more readily than earlier. ...

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Since 1945, the United States and Western Europe had been fighting off Communism as if it were a plague. ... "Under true communism," argues the author, "all incomes are completely equal. ... And from our perspective, that makes complete sense. ... This is a western, individualistic way of thinking, but it makes sense. ... Of all the times from 1945 to 1992, when the only two superpowers in the world, the U.S. and the USSR, were at the height of their spying activities, the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 was by far the most important, militarily and diplomatically. ...

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Quite obviously, the presidential debate of the 1960s between John F. ... On October 4, 1957, a Soviet R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile launched Sputnik, which was the world's first satellite to be placed into the Earth's orbit.1 Sputnik was also believed to be capable of launching nuclear missiles to the U.S. territory from the orbit. Quite obviously, the launching of Sputnik was quite a shock to the Americans since their supremacy of technology over Soviet Union was disgruntled. ... Cuba and Fidel Castro The Cuban dictator, Fidel Castro established the first communist nat...

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In 1815, at the Congress of Vienna, Tsar Alexander was quite prepared to use the congress to pursue the traditional aims of foreign policy, in particular the aims of westward expansion and European dominance, which greatly angered the Western states. ... The socialist Bolshevik regime believed in all men being equal, although democracy certainly wasn't part of their intentions. The western powers looked on with horror at the Bolshevik Revolution. ... They were so far ahead of all the other countries in power and influence that they were called "superpowers". ... Both Washington and ...

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The concept of bribery and thievery has all came predominantly and originally from socialism, which resulted in shortages in the economy. ... They take what they want by force, and are feared by all. ... They have quite literally conquered Russia. ... There is evidence of Russian mafia activity in the US as well as in other western civilized areas in the world. They go to any and all extents to exploit money, and they will not stop. ...

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The Germans had an idea that was quite similar to one that the Americans had in its early days. This idea was manifest destiny, or the idea that Germany should own all land from ocean to ocean and that they were superior people and were able to conquer everyone in their path. ... It was held from July 17 to August 2, 1945. ... In Western Germany, a new style of government was introduced to the people. ... It united the three Western zones of Germany together into one economic zone (Prittie 30). ...

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He was exiled to Siberia in 1903, but escaped and returned to western Russia in 1904. ... Stalin's rise to power from the lower ranks was quite a journey. ... Stalin also killed nearly all of the elite members of his political party from 1934 to 1938 (Stalin Man 1653). ... First, he killed or exiled all of his political opponents. ... While many western scholars estimate the total number to be anywhere from 2 to 40 million, most Russian historians estimate the number of deaths to only be in the hundreds of thousands (The Unquiet 132). ...

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But not all countries of the camp of the winners were able to conduct this fight, since suffered serious losses in economic terms. ... This is primarily to assist in removing the United States from the theater of operations and the associated security investments. ... It was with these weapons the US administration has decided to pursue a policy of defending its national interests in the world, "the US military said this quite openly. ... However, by 1945 the country was far from the pre-war economic indicators. ... In addition, the Soviet troops were pushed forward away from its immediate bor...

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The Soviets wanted to spread the idea of communism while at the same time hinder western world capitalism, and the US was doing the same, just vice versa. ... Naturally, Pro-Soviet Cuba met these specifications quite conveniently. ... ("Causes") Not all the blame can be put on the USSR, however. ... Kennedy felt that a military confrontation was to be avoided at all costs. ... Although there were other factors that contributed to the removal of power from Khrushchev, major Soviet contempt began after he backed down from Cuba. ...

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Yet he is lord of all the animals. ... "(7) and "All men are enemies. All animals are comrades." (9). ... Jones is assisted by men from the bordering farms of Foxwood and Pinchfield, just as some western countries sent troops to help the Russian forces; the Battle of Windmill symbolizes the industrialization of Russia. ... The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." (118) The revolution had failed, and the animals were no better off from the days of Mr. ...

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The uniqueness of Poland's unfortunate geographic location led to a variety of political, ethnic, and other unified groups who all brought their personal agendas to the fight. ... The first priority was to establish radio communication within occupied Poland, followed by the next step of establishing a Polish courier system that would allow for messages to reach from eastern to western Europe. ... After the couriers were in place, they would develop Polish land and air forces to aid the Underground Army that had all the while been training and stockpiling in preparation for other orders....

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The specifics of communism's demise varied among nations, but similarities in both the causes and the effects of these revolutions were quite similar. As well, all of the nations involved shared the common goals of implementing democratic systems of government and moving to market economies. ... In Europe, on the other hand, the shift from communism was taking place in a different context altogether. The peoples involved were not looking to affect a narrow set of policy reforms; indeed, what was at stake was a hyper-radical shift from the long-held communist ideology to a...

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The Cold War Tensions with the United States and Russia have been around for quite some time. ... They all would come to the aid of the one threatened from an outside attack. ... With these two different pacts, Europe was torn in half, Western Europe being with NATO and Eastern Europe with the Warsaw Pact. ... The Army stayed in Germany until 1994 when the Prince said during a speech on October 28th, 1994, concerning the disarmament of the army: "the momentous events in Russia, Central Europe and Germany have brought changes for us all in Western Europe, almost all for the be...

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From 1948 onwards, a more or less clear-cut line divided Europe into two main political and military blocs: the communist bloc and the free world of Western Europe, resulting in an almost perfect bipolarity. ... How this took place during and after the Cold War is in many ways quite dissimilar. However, more importantly than the all encompassing quadrangle, it is the strategic geometry within the quadrangle that is most interesting and illustrates best, the changes and nuances in the transition from Cold War to post Cold War. ... As Mandlebaum suggests "Indeed in Asia, the structure of politic...

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If the Soviet Union were the face attack from these capitalist powers it would need a stronger industrial platform with which to launch a successful war effort. ... However, it is quite possible that Stalin overstated the probability of war deliberately to push through his ambitions and to strengthen his personal power within the party. ... These concerned were expressed at both high and low levels and the five-year plans were seen as both a revolution from above and a revolution from below. ... The N.E.P had created a large amount of friction within the party at all levels and this was beginn...

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Today, the U.N. is an all-inclusive body. All but four of the world's nations belong to the United Nations at present. ... However, it branches all across the world. ... The entire history of the U.N. has been quite inexpensive. ... It is rather upsetting to realize that a better world for all is not far from reality: "Count out sixty seconds and thirty of the world's children will have died for lack of food and adequate health care. ...

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