Not only are customers confronted with the choice of carrier, they are also confronted with a choice of means of shipment. ... Countries such as China, which had been predominantly exporting countries, are now large importers of goods from all parts of the World. Since 1984 they have expanded service to over 300 cities within China.... The company has invested heavily in aircraft and development of strategic worldwide airline hubs. ... - FedEx Ship® software (now FedEx Ship Manager QuickShip) allows customers to process and manage shipping from their desktop. 1994 - UPS.com goes live....

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As the son of Emperor Taisho and Crown Prince, Hirohito found comforts in the studies of science, mathematics, ethics, geography, and literature often studying in his native Japanese as well as Chinese. ... Emperor Hirohito was avoiding a repetition of the Nikolaevsk Incident Despite his clear message that "a rash military expedition would antagonize the Chinese , and might well result in a replay of the Nikolaevsk Incident,"" Prime Minister General Giichi Tanaka proceeded to send the Kumamoto Division of the army to Manchuria. ... Because the Japanese controlled the railway, they used th...

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A bogy of the Cold War revival or its complete comeback is commonly a matter of a public discourse, triggering many different experts to take part in this issue. Is it really possible that the status quo from 80s and the revival of the Cold War is a fact? Or maybe the political reality, nowadays, has nothing in common with the situation from few decades back? In this essay I would like to take a closer look to that issue and make an effort to answer the questions above.1 To appropriately understand the subject being here discussed, one has to go far back of the historical processes. A conflic...

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Whether to intimidate Iran, prepare for the real thing, or possibly both, the U.S. has been building up its military capabilities in the Persian Gulf area, deploying two aircraft carrier battle groups in the neighborhood along with an assortment of air and amphibious-assault capabilities It should surprise no one that energy plays such a significant role in these conflicts. ...

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