... be integrated with other cargoes. This market is dominated not more than ten companies. As K-Line states, "It is a market of small number of manufacturers and a small number of carriers." Among these ten companies exist big car plant owning corporations such as Mitsubishi, Mitsui and Hyundai [Seatrade 2002]. Eight main operators ... remaining by the others [WWL Global Research and Development] The share of NYK has fallen from 25% in 2000 to 18% over the years. The numbers of the market were similar in 2002 with a difference of Hyundai Merchant Marine with 69 ships of 292,000 ceu. In 2003,...

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... it became known was ushered in by a strong economy and strong economic optimism. It was created by a generation that was relatively small in number and thus relatively favored economically. If the economic theory that a prosperous economy produces an increased birth rate is true, then this was certainly ... young generation of consumers, and fueled the nations manufacturing industries. Twenty years later when the Baby Boomers entered the work force, their large numbers decreased their relative wages, devalued their increased years of education, and for many their desired standard of livi...

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... in society was very simple. The Internet has been a very useful source for information, and a quick source at that. Not only have I found a number of articles pertaining to women and their social mobility, but I have also found web pages, which deal with many issues discussed here. The textbooks for the ... things. I expected to find that women were breaking out of traditional gender roles and moving up the social ladder, which I did find. But the numbers are still growing rather slowly. Men are still dominant in most power positions, although some women have taken over these positions....

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... slaving their entire lives for some noble who never gave them anything except more work to do. They began to leave their manors in huge numbers in favor of earning their own wages doing one of any number of things. Some became crewmen on merchant ships and traveled the world; others opted to live in towns and cities to become apprentices to ... recruit cheaper (albeit less-skilled) labor from the hinterlands than in the urban centers; he could use innovative equipment that had been banned by a guild; the only limit on the number of workers he could employ was the upper limit of his pock...

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... field. In the 14th century, when this disease was known as the Black Death, some plague infections were bubonic and some were pneumonic. The number of deaths was enormous, reaching in various parts of Europe two-thirds or three-fourths of the population in the first pestilence. It has been ... into the usual cycle. This cycle--rodent-flea-rodent--as a rule is enzootic in an animal community at all times but occurring in only small numbers of cases, but under certain environmental conditions it reaches epizootic proportions affecting many animals in any region at the same time. In some a...

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... parents than those who are doing well and have high educational and occupational expectations. Although the rate of teenage pregnancy is higher among low- income African-Americans and Hispanics, the number of births to teenagers is highest among white, non poor young women who live in small cities and towns (Calhoun 309). The questions of which teenagers become pregnant; the ... because fewer teenagers are having sexual intercourse and more adolescents are using contraceptives. " Researchers say that the recent trends in sexual activity and contraceptive use are the result of a number o...

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... and Hispanic gangs are much more likely to display their colors than are Asian gangs. Anglo gangs are often made up of white supremacists. Gangs can also vary tremendously in numbers and age of the members. The African American gangs tend to engage in murder or deviant sexual activities. It has been shown that the Hispanic gangs recruit girls into their ... degree of participation has rarely exceeded 10 percent. In addition, it has been reported that less than 2 percent of all juvenile crime is gang-related (Bodinger-deUriarte, 1993). Such low numbers, however, may camouflage the impact...

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... us by the time my granddaughter is fifty), this biological background will advance, ever more menacingly, toward the front and center of the historical stage. The problems of rapidly increasing numbers in relation to natural resources and to social stability- this is now the central problem of mankind (6). The idea that the human population could exceed the ability of the earth ... 's resources to sustain it was not invented by Aldous Huxley. In 1798 Thomas Robert Malthus in his Essay on the Principle of Population predicted that the number of the human species would increase in the rati...

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... the ban and "no longer sell in Europe any finished product with an animal tested ingredient. " Many people tend to forget the great numbers of animals that have suffered serious damage during the process of experimentation and are unable to understand the actual laboratory procedures and techniques that go into ... Research"). The truth is that animal testing can be expensive, uncertain and revolting, but thanks to the hard work of animal right's activists, the number of animals tested on has fallen by 50% in the past 30 years. Scientists use rodents rather than dogs and cats, and have b...

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... alternative use of that resource. Ex. Opportunity cost of absences = your grade. PRICE TAKER: Because of the assumption of the model (a large number of buyers and sellers, very large) no single agent's actions can change the market price in the pure competitive model. Therefore each buyer and ... out details. Should it happen that you have a problem, which differs from the model builder, which gave power to the model (or numbers produced by the model), may make use of the model or data inappropriate to your problem. ADVANTAGE-models leave out details. DISADVANTAGE- models ... in Phila...

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... of the disease within Europe, specifically in the realm of the United Kingdom, has led to the slaughtering of over two million animals. A great number of these animals were sheep and cattle. Such a massive decrease in the numbers of such commonly consumed produce have had far reaching effects on the supply and demand of said produce. Previously within Europe, and countries that ... related to meat and dairy produce has been altered in some way, shape or form by this illness. These changes within various Australian industries have affected the Australian economy in a number of ways. The ...

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... and Serbia, the conflict could have been avoided The arms race During the years previous to the war in 1914, there was a development in new and powerful armament in industrial numbers. That is why this war is known as the first industrial war. The countries were eager to buy and test the weapons, and the increase of armament of this time ... the danger of a war was becoming imminent. "The war will be over by Christmas"- Ignorance of the war conditions When the war was declared, most of the countries had a great number of young men who volunteered to become soldiers and protect their mot...

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... , flags flying, drums sounding led by officers in full dress. With the invention of new weapons such as the machine gun and long range-artillery these battles resulted in huge numbers of casualties. To avoid the firepower of these new weapons soldiers dug trenches and within a few months the two sides had dug 466 miles of trenches opposineach other and so ... the war nearly 50 percent of people working for the government were women11. Many women also contributed to the war effort serving as nurses at the fronts helping save countless numbers of lives. By the end of the war women made up ...

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... available public records. The editors were able to obtain birth dates, civil court filings, commercial loans and debts, corporate ties, driving records, home phone numbers and addresses, marriage records, neighbours' addresses and telephone numbers, real estate records, Social Security numbers, tax liens and vehicle and voter registrations. Not so long ago, only a few private detectives knew these tricks. When the common criminal becomes ... ...

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... actually died from the plague as the statistics from the time are merely based on fabrications, exaggerations and stories from chronicles. Historians generally disagree on their figures of the exact number of people who died from the plague between 1100-1542 and certainly between its peak years, 1345-1350. Particular areas in Europe faced severe fatality and were hit very hard ... in Europe in various ways. The most impact the plague had in Scotland and Europe was the huge decimation of people that where dying from infectious disease, and while the numbers are only estimates these are h...

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... . The British General, Sir Frederick Morgan established an American-British headquarters known as the Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander, also known as COSSAC. COSSAC developed and designed a number of plans for the Allies; most significantly Operation Overlord, a full-scale invasion of France across the English Channel. Eisenhower felt that operation overlord sounded like a good attack plan. After reviewing ... included 11,000 aircrafts, 154,000 British, Canadian, and American soldiers, and 23,000 paratroopers. Within 12 days 600,000 more men were sent along with 90,000 vehi...

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... war or slaves contributed greatly to Rome's social system. Slaves provided wealthy Romans with help around the household. "Imperial conquests and expansion eventually strained the native Roman workforce, so great numbers of foreign slaves had to be imported to fill agricultural labor needs". (1) Other sources for slavery were debtors selling themselves into slavery to make up for what they owe. As ... Rome. "Some scholars believe they were persons considered to be of inferior birth who flocked to the city as employees, hangers-on, or clients of the patrician families and whose number wa...

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... responsible for the commencement of World War I, but in drafting the Versailles treaty, the triumphant Allies bluntly asserted Germany responsible for this massive war. The outbreak was contingent on a determining number of factors. These factors include: nationalism that was spread throughout Europe before World War I, the arms race, and the alliance system. Although Germany was not all to blame for the ... planned out plan that fooled them all. This strong nationalism, in turn led to the arms race. Germany and Britain were fighting to obtain the world's best navy fashioning extensive ...

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... and the USSR the need to find a different modus vi! vendi, an alternative means of survival other than the arms race. The Cuban paradox led the two superpowers to reach a number of limited agreements that would set the pace for a period of thawing' in the Cold War. In 1963 an agreement in Geneva provided for the establishment of a hot line' , a direct ... ABM treaty, setting out limits on anti- ballistic missile for an indefinite duration, and the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT1), which was an interim agreement for 5 years, setting limits on numbers of land and sea based missiles...

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... Expeditionary force to be sent to the line to get the US directly involved in the war. When the Americans Finally made it to Europe, they showed up in flooding numbers. By November 11, 1918 over 2 million military personnel had arrived in France and half of then were combat effectives and the remaining men had already become casualties. At the busiest ... some of the poisonous gas he would be much more susceptible to a flu or pneumonia. It is unknown how many troops died as a result of post gas inhalation but the number must be high. A major factor in the war was the moral of a countrie...

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... but for an association of colors, which was including the color blue, that emphasizes the modest place blue took during the first centuries in most of the civilizations. For instance, numbers of philologers wonders if the Greek and the Romans could see the color blue because they did not have a word for it, they did not qualify the sea or the ... heraldic armories, which emerged in Europe at the time. For instance, M. Pastoureau in his Heraldic Treaty says that only 5 per cent of the armories contained blue in 1200 but this number grew to 25 per cent before1300 and 30 before 1400.This i...

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... , never giving them a choice to live or die. Attila's siege to the Eastern Empire, with a formable force including Gaseric, king of the Vandals destroyed everything in their path. "With great numbers of Ostrogoths, or East Goths, whom he had conquered in his army, Attila invaded Gaul and met Roman general Flanos Aetuis". (www.encarta.msn.com/text_761552863_1/Attila.html page ... , and all the Hun tribes in Europe assisted Attila's army. "Historians of the period estimated the losses of the army of Attila were from 200,000 to 300,000 slain, a number now believed greatly exaggerated". (www....

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... that care at the hands of midwives was comparatively safe. While it was concluded that births attended by midwives had a higher infant mortality rate, this was attributed to the high numbers of poor people attended by midwives relative to physicians.. The 1925 White House conference on Child Health and Protection concluded "untrained midwives approach, and trained midwives surpass, the record of ... programs followed. Programs designed to train black midwives to provide maternity care to poor, black women in rural Alabama encountered difficulties due to racism and closed after graduatin...

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... reality as in 1695 he embarked on his campaign against the Turks. Centred around the fort of Azov, the campaign was to take four long years and cost Russia a dear number of men. Apart from its strategic significance, being situated as it was at the mouth of the river Don, Peter had wanted the Azov campaign to bring to the attention ... several academies both military and academic in nature. Resource management was also brought up to speed. Russia had huge resources, which up until this time had remained largely untapped. Huge numbers of iron works and smelters were set up in order to pr...

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... he said, "an Iron Curtain has descended. Behind that line lie all the states of Central and Eastern Europe. The Communist parties have been raised to power far beyond their numbers and are seeking everywhere to obtain totalitarian control. This is certainly not the liberated Europe we fought to build. Nor is it one which allows permanent peace." There were more ... the Cold War because both sides had formed military alliances and it seemed as if they were preparing for something. To finally round off, the Cold War was intensified by a number of factors after 1945. Indeed the main reason...

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