Findings 1 Changing Socio-economic circumstances 1.1 Increasing car ownership In 1950 there were 2.3 million cars on the roads now there are around 23 million with 70%1 of households one or more cars. ... So now areas that were not accessible in 1950 by train or bus routes are now available to the average family in modern Britain. ... Bombers were built to carry a heavy yet delicate payload, which is what modern commercial planes are also built to do. ... Figure 1 3.3 Package holidays A package holiday is a kind of no organisation skills required holiday. ... It showed them that ...

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No. Many personal information are collected and then sold. ... Yes and no. If you are posting them public on Facebook or Instagram, then that is your own fault. ... There is not much more you can do about it, except to protest for your rights. ...

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It was measured that there were high alpha coefficients at both times, and the correlations of both times remained stable. ... There were four hypotheses tested. ... The results showed that more key points were taken during the lecture when trainees were given accountability information before training than when they were given no accountability information or post-training accountability information. ... Each of these samples employs over 500 people, so there is no significant size difference. ... While there was no big differences on half of the practices, which suggest similarity in MNE...

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If a non-democratic regime performs these functions then why should we not consider it legitimate? ... However, if such offences were committed on a large scale in a non-democratic country there still remains the threat of popular unrest and revolution which helps to keep the regime in check. ... In a particular area or society (say, the Middle East) where there has been no historical basis for the growth of liberal, individualistic values it seems wrong to lay our values as a standard by which to judge their system and call it wrong. ... There is no need to rely on the benevolence or nous of ...

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This is distinct from tourism before the railway age when there were only two classes of people those who were on a holiday all the time and the masses whom never took a holiday. ... If the tourist destination is a seaside resort then the cruising ship is often used for pleasure rather than for function. ... There was no other transport mode that could compete with them for long distance travel. ... Since the last war there has been a shift from rail to road transport. ... Cross Channel trips in the UK are now very popular, in 1990 there were 65 million cross channel travellers which rose t...

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With the average 27 year old earning less then 20 thousand a year, it seems an impossibility. ... Drugs & alcohol for some wasn't even a factor, they are homeless because they cannot afford a home, without a home they cannot get a job, without a job they have no money and the cycle continues. ... Mortgage rates are at their lowest for years, This means people can afford much bigger mortgages than they could if interest rates were higher. ... Another solution was the possibility of interest free loans for nurses and teachers, but if they get the loans, then other workers are going to Wa...

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(See Bond, S. et al. (1996) 'Tax reform to promote investment', Oxford Review of Economic Policy, vol. 12, no. 2.) ... Contract research projects for HM Treasury on dividend taxation and the growth of institutional share ownership highlighted distortions in the taxation of company dividends that were addressed in the July 1997 Budget, and our work on surplus ACT highlighted distortions affecting UK-based multinational firms that were addressed in the March 1998 Budget. ... If a company makes a trading loss, then the loss can be carried back for one year to be set against profits ...

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Six studies were evaluated on the effect of CCTV cameras being introduced in car parks where there had previously been high incidences of vehicle crimes and there proved to be a 51% decrease in reported crimes in these areas. ... If any of these circumstances were present then the resulting sentence imposed could be towards the higher end of the spectrum in sentencing guidelines, with the judge or magistrate passing down a harsher sentence. Mitigating factors that the courts may take into account could include: a guilty plea when the offender is charged, the crime was carried out on impulse ...

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The tests that were used were unlikely to give an accurate picture of the males" and females" abilities numerically and linguistically. ... If I were to repeat this experiment I would divide the students into two groups (males and females) and allocate a number to each participant and then choose their number randomly using a computer in order to give each participant an equal opportunity of being chosen. ... However the participants" names were not announced until they were taken to perform the test. ... Another limitation would be that no attention was paid to order effect. ... The exp...

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Before the introduction of risk assessment methods in child protection in the 1980's the assessment and prediction of children at risk from abuse was a capricious business: care workers had no theory, or methodology and no strategy by which to determine which children were more at risk than others "they worked almost in the dark" (Corby 1990). When risk assessment strategies were introduced their enormous advantage was to give some orientation and means of prediction to social workers in their efforts to determine which children were at the highest risk. ... There were a total of 21,...

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You have no rights over them. ... I guess the answer would depend on whether you were asking a human, a researcher, or an animal. ... Then they must decide whether the benefits will outweigh the costs of the experiments. Scientifically, there are no correct answers to the question until the experiment has proven to be beneficial. ... In one year, 1.5 million people were hospitalized by medical treatment. ...

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For example in a care home if the tone of the person taking care of an older person was joking and they were talking about something important, it would send the wrong impression and the result of that would be the audience getting hurt, and feeling like they are a joke, not appreciated. Pace is an important verbal skill because rapidly changing the pace can confuse people, and if the pace is slow then it can bore and if it is too fast then the person may not be able to understand or follow the conversation. ... For example in an early years setting like a nursery, if a child talked to a teac...

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No, this was not a blockheaded statement of deliberate ignorance - a prelude to certain commercial disaster. ... There is a significant time delay between researching a need or market and actually bringing an offer to market. ... There are different types of knowledge and understanding. ... Having completed the investigations and gathered enough data, these data can then be used to construct a theory, which can then be turned into practice. ... They are both one way, subject-object, outside-looking-in, stimulus-response, theory then practice. ...

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In addition Mr Howe also suggested that falling sales in Europe were as a result of the Euro making prices uncompetitive. ... Over the last ten years there have been significant changes to many of the taxation policies of this country. ... There is therefore no discernable link between the performance of Rover, the car industry and government transport policy. ... Dealers are no longer fixed to just one brand and can source any vehicle they wish. Mechanical work no longer has to be carried out at dealers appointed by the manufacturer and spare parts will now be universally available. ...

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There are three reasons why governments believe they have the right to use capital punishment. ... All we have to do is take the evil doer out of circulation so that he or she can do no further harm. ... Then again we also created the sanctity of life and that is the basic human right, to live, no matter what the situation. ... But there is no evidence that supports this argument, in fact the evidence is to the contrary. ... If somebody knew that they risked the death penalty for the crime that they were to commit, wouldn't they be more likely to kill a witness? ...

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If there are barriers to entry then abnormal profits may persist in the long-run. ... However, in the long run a perfectly competitive firm will neither make losses nor abnormal profits, because if they were many new firms will be keen to enter the market. ... In long run equilibrium in perfect competition there will be the optimum levels of allocative and productive efficiency and there will simply be normal profit. ... If this continues, and the industry becomes non-competitive, then X-inefficiency will occur. ... In these circumstances forms may not be stretched as there is no comp...

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There is a strong negative correlation between low GPA scores and the amount of alcohol consumption in college students. ... There are two main treatment methods for alcoholism that are the source of controversy today. ... One of their slogans reads " first drink, then drunk" (Orford &ump; Keddie, 1986) referring to the solution of controlled drinking. ... There are several advantages in choosing abstinence over controlled drinking. ... Taking away the exposure by abstaining altogether from alcohol consumption might then lead to less of a craving for the substance. ...

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There are many different factors leading up to this stage. ... There may also be cases of child abuse, or trouble in the marriage. ... Once they feel that they have no future in the workforce they see no need to put effort into school at all. ... First, there is no cure-all solution. Second there has to be an understanding of the factors that...

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