Television News and Current Affairs: Contemporary Issues Facing Commercial and Public Services This essay will examine free-to-air television news and current affairs in Australia. ... The level of focus on world events can range from SBS where coverage is almost exclusively on world events through to channels Seven and Nine where local events are predominant. ... In television news and current affairs, the main players in the chequebook war are Channel Nine's A Current Affair and 60 Minutes and Channel Seven's Today Tonight. ... Current affairs is now dead on commercial televis...

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Wendy's currently has merged with Arby's and recently spun off their interest in Tim Horton's and sold their interest in Baja Fresh, two focus on the two brands and providing quality food and excellent service. ... The recent acquisition of Arby's by Wendy's will further enhance the potential for economic value added vis – a – vis the current strategy followed by Wendy's. The niche market provided by Arby's, i.e. roast beef sandwiches, will provide a broader menu base and further diversify the current menu line. Wendy's current strategy is on...

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In short, marketing focuses on exchange relationships with customers that lead to give and take relationships, meeting customer demands and attaining economic objectives. ... Each has valuable resources and may include current trends in research methodologies, research completed in various areas and access to other professionals" opinion and data. ... Because it provides national and international public relations news and information, it is a valuable resource for the study of current public relations practices. ... The publication examines changing concepts and occasionally challenges cu...

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Opinions and views upon currently available food safety information and their dissemination process. ... Post discussion sessions, the interviewer, will present a summary of minutes of focus group interview/discussions. The focus group has the right to clarify any discrepancies or doubts raised in the brief. ... Each focus group will consist of 5 inspectors. ... DATA COLLECTION METHOD AND INSTRUMENTS Data collection will be done by sample questionnaire and thematic analysis of focus group discussion. ...

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Starbucks success is based on innovation, product quality and the internal culture they have created as they continue to focus on making the world a better place, while serving coffee. ... Starbucks is constantly looking for ways to innovate by focusing on new products such as the Verismo System and most recently the single cup category (Starbucks, 2013). ... They focus on ethical sourcing, environmental stewardship, and community involvement. ... A continual focus on innovation and community involvement, and identifying the opportunities and solutions for investment, Starbucks strives to make...

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Abstract Western governments around the globe have become increasingly focused on the successful transition of young people from school to further education and/or training. It could be suggested that for many countries this is the key focus of their youth policies. ... (National Crime Prevention Council 1999, p. 40) Successful career and transition programs are of the key components currently linking communities with local schools. ... Ben-Shahar (2007) asserts that possessing a tangible career focus is synonymous with having hope and envisioning the achievability of one's personal succ...

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With these issues relating to attracting and retaining employees to Canadian companies, Canadian Human Resources professionals must develop innovative ways to maintain and grow their current work force of highly skilled workers. ... Current Industry Trends In an industry that has flourished over the past decade with the start of the Internet, the high-tech industry has finally realized its potential in the market place. ... The current situation in today's high-tech sector is being felt worldwide. ...

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Some of the major differences addressed in this essay are the methodology used, the objectives, the focus, the terminology, the measurement and the recognition criteria. ... However, due to the focus on the balance sheet, the revised Standard will include more deferred tax assets and liabilities. ... The objective of the Revised Standard is to recognise current taxes payable or refundable for the current period. ... The Focus of the Revised Standard is the Statement of Financial Position (Balance Sheet). In contrast, the focus of the Superseded Standard is the Statement of Financial Pe...

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Some of the major differences addressed in this essay are the methodology used, the objectives, the focus, the terminology, the measurement and the recognition criteria. ... However, due to the focus on the balance sheet, the revised Standard will include more deferred tax assets and liabilities. ... The objective of the Revised Standard is to recognise current taxes payable or refundable for the current period. ... The Focus of the Revised Standard is the Statement of Financial Position (Balance Sheet). In contrast, the focus of the Superseded Standard is the Statement of Financial Pe...

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This is followed by an analysis of Cirque du Soleil's resources, capabilities, core competencies, and current business and corporate level strategies. ... It is deemed low because of their ability to achieve a focused strategy enticing wealthier customers and people searching for a premium performance over a regular circus. ... Their closest competitor is the Joseph Aston Circus, who currently performing in Perth. ...

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Since 1983, when it launched the Nintendo Entertainment System™, Nintendo has sold more than 4.2 billion video games and more than 669 million hardware units globally, including the current-generation Wii U, Wii, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS, Nintendo DSi™ and Nintendo DSi XL™, as well as the Game Boy™, Game Boy Advance™, Super NES™, Nintendo 64™ and Nintendo GameCube™ systems. ... Since 1989, when it launched the first Game Boy, Nintendo has dominated the handheld gaming market and focused on a demographic of five to 17 year old males. ... Just as Sony was able to enter the con...

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Pandofandlejoie currently employs 45 people in its United States location and has plans of expanding into Australia, China or South Korea. ... We intend to implement a niche marketing strategy, focusing on certain target markets, particularly in view of Tsingtao Brewery dominance on the market. ... The company currently produces three main lines of products: Pando beer, Fandle beer and Joie Beer. ... Though there are breweries currently on the market, some of whom have been in existence for a relatively long period of time, we believe that there is a market need for one that particularly focus...

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A thorough analysis of the video game industry, as well as, the current status of EA was conducted in order to gain insight into how EA should approach integration into the online space. ... As of May 2005, EA had at least 25 games under development for next-generation systems, all of which would not be able to generate any revenue until November 2005, at the earliest Opportunities - Growing mobile & portable gaming - Growing online gaming & retail space - Gaming based online community - Increasing investments in new games for the next generation of consoles Threats - EA's competi...

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The following assessment is about current HR practices in India and how external and internal features have helped in shaping it. ... The current recruitment and training planning of the country is also illustrated. ... India is defiantly the country with fascinating past, but the current condition is quite complex. kusum sachdev holds a view that the India is the country with contrasts in of terms geography , education and politics.... (ghauri and cateora ,2010).hence Some facts and figures are presented to understand current India appropriately. ... The Current economic stability and...

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The following assessment is about current HR practices in India and how external and internal features have helped in shaping it. ... The current recruitment and training planning of the country is also illustrated. ... India is defiantly the country with fascinating past, but the current condition is quite complex. kusum sachdev holds a view that the India is the country with contrasts in of terms geography , education and politics.... (ghauri and cateora ,2010).hence Some facts and figures are presented to understand current India appropriately. ... The Current economic stability and ...

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Therapeutic communication is a practice that allows effective rapport-building between the medical personal, regardless of current role, and the patient. ... In the end, it allows our perspective to focus on the big picture rather than just the current situation. ... The simple contact can help a patient deal with emotional and physical loss, and can encourage clients to express grief about their current situation. ... Sometimes in nursing a patient or staff member may make an ambiguous comment that needs to be brought better into focus. ... " brings clearer focus to the patients situa...

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Based on current changes in the bicycle market, Cannondale has had to rethink its goals but has not experienced evident resistance to such ideologies and strategies. ... Cannondale, characterized as a prospector by the Miles and Snow Typology, realizes its current goal of producing an innovative motor-cross motorcycle. Using the Product Market Matrix Cannondale's strategy has historically focused on product development. ... Marketing Cannondale is distinguishing itself as the leading high-performance bicycle brand in the specialty bicycle retail chain, focusing on their innovatio...

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The government wanted to do more than just equitably divide up wealth; instead, it started focusing on creating economic growth. ... I will focus on the short-term effects of the change in the GDP per capita growth rates between 1980 and 1999. ... Although the current population is around 1.3 billion, it is estimated that the "current reductions in Chinese fertility have already reduced world population growth by 250 million" (Lee 11). ... China's current view on managing population continued to focus on aligning costs and modernization. In 1995, China's government released a W...

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This paper focus on the impact of wireless technology on the real estate business, how wireless networks make the real estate professional work much more efficiently, and what services and wireless technology currently available can provide benefits to the real estate industry over all. ... Once this has been established, the focus toward added benefits with Wireless technology versus the adequacy to the current technology will be addressed. ... These two segments are currently undergoing major changes in the way business is being done. ... Much of their job focuses on onsite tours and clie...

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The results showed that the reaction times were unreliable and it was not consistent with the current research. ... The recent researches didn't focus on how regular patients responded to pattern recognition and only tested the subjects' ability to memorize patterns and how it was recalled later. ... The current experiment used the idea of hemispheric specialization to study how the right hemisphere could have an advantage towards shape and pattern recognition. ... However this the current experiment didn't look at memory but looked at response time and recognizing tactile patte...

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However, these offenses are often reclassified back and forth between criminal and non-criminal acts depending on the current public opinion, the custom, or the religion of the time. For example, although the consumption of alcohol is currently legal in the United States, in the 1920s Prohibition made the ownership and consumption of alcohol illegal. ... Based on the seizures and average yield per plant, the current annual production is estimated to be about 800 tones (Statistics Canada, 2004). ... Given how widespread the current marijuana problem is, the criminal acts of supplying, distri...

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Executive Summary  Senior Human Resource Management should adopt some changes in order to combat the current growing nursing/healthcare personnel shortage. ... This report will focus on these issues and what options there are to help diminish the current nursing and healthcare professional shortage. As of May 2011, the demand for nurses in Texas alone has exceeded the current supply by 22,000. ... Purpose and Scope  The purpose of this report is to bring attention to the nursing as well as physician shortage and to help reach solutions for this ongoing matter while maintaining focus on the ...

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The second part of the study includes the limitation of the current study. ... The brand audit should be used to answer questions such as: Are the current sources of brand equity sufficient? ... Brand strength refers to the brand associations held by consumers, whilst brand values are the gains that accrue when this brand strength is leveraged to obtain superior current and future profits. ... Motorola's mobile phones" focus mainly on the low to middle end market, from $312 to $599(AUD). ... Samsung's product line ranges from entry-level ($300 AUD)to high-level(more than $1000 AUD)...

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Abstract Due to the rapid rise of the Smartphone industry in order to analyze the current issues in and out of the industry. In order to critically analyze, this report will begin with focusing on the external factors using PESTE analysis, followed by the analysis of the internal factors using Porters five forces analysis. ... These repercussions may be seen in terms of current government policy on the Smartphone. ... In the UK society, when deciding which Smartphone to buy, the British consumers are more focused on the appearance of the product than other features, which could be explained by...

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Founded by Erling Persson in 1947, it was initially called Hennes, the Swedish translation being "hers", and focused on selling just women's clothing. ... H&M has currently a vast number of competitors. ... As a global organisation with centralised design functions and procedures, H&M's products are not currently tailored to individual markets. ... Since H&M focuses on cost leadership/differentiation strategy, H&M has to keep the production costs low in order to achieve profitability. ... The changing demographics of H&M's markets, specifically the aging population and...

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