As work uniforms go, UPS delivers.(Columns)(The early 21st century may not be known as the golden age of uniforms, but these togs stand out)(Column) : An article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

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As work uniforms go, UPS delivers.(Columns)(The early 21st century may not be known as the golden age of uniforms, but these togs stand out)(Column) : An article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

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Title: As work uniforms go, UPS delivers.(Columns)(The early 21st century may not be known as the golden age of uniforms, but these togs stand out)(Column)
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Building business booming in a city of stand-outs. : An article from: Real Estate Weekly

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Michele Medaglia
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Title: Building business booming in a city of stand-outs.
Author: Michele Medaglia
Publication: Real Estate Weekly (Magazine/Journal)
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Creative advertising strategies: what retailers are doing to stand out from the crowd.(Cover story): An article from: Hardware Retailing

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Creative advertising strategies: what retailers are doing to stand out from the crowd.(Cover story): An article from: Hardware Retailing
Jesse Carleton
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Title: Creative advertising strategies: what retailers are doing to stand out from the crowd.(Cover story)
Author: Jesse Carleton
Publication: Hardware Retailing (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2007
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General Hardware stands out with personalized service.(PUTTING CUSTOMERS FIRST): An article from: Hardware Retailing

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General Hardware stands out with personalized service.(PUTTING CUSTOMERS FIRST): An article from: Hardware Retailing
Luke Dunscombe
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Title: General Hardware stands out with personalized service.(PUTTING CUSTOMERS FIRST)
Author: Luke Dunscombe
Publication: Hardware Retailing (Magazine/Journal)
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If You Can't Stand the Heat, Get Out of the Kitchen: Harry Truman and the Junior Service League of Independence, Missouri Cookbook

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If You Can't Stand the Heat, Get Out of the Kitchen: Harry Truman and the Junior Service League of Independence, Missouri Cookbook
Harry Truman
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"If You Can't Stand the Heat, Get Out of the Kitchen:" Harry Truman
Missouri Junior Service League of Independence
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Just a few special touches: fresh ideas to help your cafe stand out this summer. (Cup Service).: An article from: Tea & Coffee Trade Journal

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Just a few special touches: fresh ideas to help your cafe stand out this summer. (Cup Service).: An article from: Tea & Coffee Trade Journal
Amelia C. Levy
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Author: Amelia C. Levy
Publication: Tea & Coffee Trade Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 20, 2002
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Mesa College Stands Out Among Schools of Its Size.(San Diego Mesa College)(Brief Article): An article from: San Diego Business Journal

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Mesa College Stands Out Among Schools of Its Size.(San Diego Mesa College)(Brief Article): An article from: San Diego Business Journal
Mandy Jackson
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Title: Mesa College Stands Out Among Schools of Its Size.(San Diego Mesa College)(Brief Article)
Author: Mandy Jackson
Publication: San Diego Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 6, 2001
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More than a smile; delivering customer service that stands out from the crowd. (Taking Stock): An article from: Do-It-Yourself Retailing

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More than a smile; delivering customer service that stands out from the crowd. (Taking Stock): An article from: Do-It-Yourself Retailing
Mark D. Parrott
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This digital document is an article from Do-It-Yourself Retailing, published by National Retail Hardware Association on June 1, 1994. The length of the article is 722 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Information about the customer and their needs should be used in formulating a total service offering for the customer. A delivery system which would satisfy each customer's needs should be tailored by applying this information. Home improvement retailers need to present themselves to their customers the way customers see them as they should be and what they represent.

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Title: More than a smile; delivering customer service that stands out from the crowd. (Taking Stock)
Author: Mark D. Parrott
Publication: Do-It-Yourself Retailing (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 1994
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Playing the hiring game: today's job applicants are finding that it is harder to stand out when companies get flooded with resumes from the Internet.(Special ... An article from: San Diego Business Journal

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Playing the hiring game: today's job applicants are finding that it is harder to stand out when companies get flooded with resumes from the Internet.(Special ... An article from: San Diego Business Journal
Marion Webb
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This digital document is an article from San Diego Business Journal, published by CBJ, L.P. on June 14, 2004. The length of the article is 1410 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Playing the hiring game: today's job applicants are finding that it is harder to stand out when companies get flooded with resumes from the Internet.(Special report: human resources)
Author: Marion Webb
Publication: San Diego Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 14, 2004
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Volume: 25 Issue: 24 Page: 12(2)

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M. Shahid Alam presents an analysis of the evolution of global disparities that goes beyond the earlier neo-Marxist critiques of global capitalism. He inserts two additional asymmetries into the global economy--those created by "unequal races" and unequal states. The author analyzes not only the power of markets, but the powers that shaped these markets. More importantly he demonstrates that loss of sovereignty retarded industrialization, human capital formation, and economic growth.

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Superb critique of the new imperialism.......2001-07-18

Alam's brilliant and original book studies the growing polarisation between the economically advanced and lagging countries since 1760. He marshals extensive cross-country evidence and concludes, "The results showed a strong positive correlation between sovereignty and industrialisation."

As he writes, "Sovereignty did matter! Countries which had it would grow faster than countries which did not. The logic of it is simple. Colonization of lagging countries led, via forced integration, to the loss of manufactures, a shrinking comparative advantage in primary production, and the displacement of indigenous capital, skills and enterprises; it also led to monopolization and direct appropriation of their resources. Only sovereign lagging countries - free to structure their integration into the world economy - could avoid or minimize the adverse consequences of integration. Ergo, loss of sovereignty retarded economic growth. ... Countries will structure their international relations to develop manufactures and indigenous capital, enterprises and technological capabilities; they will impose at the outset, or gradually, policies that regulate the entry of imports and foreign capital, labor and enterprises. ... These asymmetries ensure that loss of sovereignty will produce lower levels of industrialisation, lower levels of productivity in the subsistence sector, lower levels of human capital, lower rates of taxation and public expenditure and, finally, lower growth rates of per capita income."

Countries winning their independence after 1945 achieved substantial increases in their manufacturing industry. 1980 saw the imperial counterattack; the international financial institutions, egged on by the key capitalist states, attacked the lagging countries and reimposed dependency. The Soviet Union's demise orphaned the lagging countries; they lost the most powerful counterweight to the USA.

World Bank and IMF policy packages are identical to the EU's demands: end fiscal deficits, privatise industries and services, open government contracts to foreign firms, end state subsidies, remove controls on capital accounts of the balance of payments, end barriers to foreign enterprises' entry.

Without economic sovereignty, all other forms of sovereignty are shadows. The economy is the root of sovereignty: without control over how we work and produce, we are slaves.

A Challenge to the Prevailing Economic Worldview.......2000-05-31

"Poverty from the Wealth of Nations" provides concrete evidence to support the argument that European imperialism devastated, rather than enhanced, the economic development of much of the rest of the world. The author, M. Shahid Alam, brings in the factors of sovereignty and racism to show that market mechanisms alone were not the only factors determining success or failure. Alam shows that the initial disparities between now advanced and now lagging countries were not as great as once supposed, and that the subsequent divergence was due more to exploitation and racist policies rather than to the innate qualities of particular peoples. In doing so, he challenges the prevailing, if unconscious, tenets of Eurocentric ideology.

The more sovereignty a state had, the more it was able to shape its economic policy to its own advantage. Sovereign countries usually did this by instituting protectionist measures to enable their nascent industries to establish themselves domestically and then get a foothold in the global market. Dependencies, quasi-colonies, and colonies were proportionally less and less able to do this, and were thrown into a vicious downward spiral.

Alam meticulously demonstrates the sovereignty differentials among these categories in terms of the countries' export orientation, industrialization, human capital, and growth rates. Non-sovereign countries' markets were forced open, providing a cheap source of raw materials to the imperial power, while cheaper manufactured imports prevented any domestic manufacturing sector from developing. Meanwhile, the colonial powers used their technological gains to create their own "import substitution" at home, improving their agricultural techniques and creating synthetic replacements for other primary goods (e.g., dyes), while denying these advances to the colonies, so that the colonies' range of potential exports progressively narrowed.

Infrastructure in colonies was designed with export in mind, causing markets for domestically produced goods to wither. Also, social policies were influenced to keep education, job advancement opportunities, and wages at a minimum, as this kept the prices of primary goods low as well, maximizing profits and savings for the colonial power. Over time, the cumulative effects of these phenomena brought about the extreme disparities in wealth between nations that we see today.

Alam's findings should be carefully examined by economists and other scholars who are willing to consider the possibility that our prevailing economic worldview is fundamentally flawed.

Globalization: What is New?.......2000-05-27

This is a very timely book. At a time when globalization is sweeping aside the sovereignty of developing countries and imposing free-trade regimes on their debt-ridden governments, this book provides a historical critique of these policies through a systematic examination of a similar globalization that swept across countries in Asia and Africa starting in the nineteenth century. It shows that the results of colonization and free trade were devastating for these economies. Thankfully, these results are established with a theoretical perspicacity and empirical rigor that are lacking in neo-Marxist critiques of the global economy. The strong parallels between quasi-colonialism and the IMF-WTO regime suggest that this new round of imperialism will also deepen global inequalities.

Poverty From the Wealth of Nations : Integration and Polarization in the Global Economy since 1760

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Poverty From the Wealth of Nations : Integration and Polarization in the Global Economy since 1760
M. Shahid Alam
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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ASIN: B000OT9O7C

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This comprehensive and accessible text fills the need for a political economy view of global environmental politics, focusing on the ways key economic processes affect environmental outcomes. It examines the main actors and forces shaping global environmental management, particularly in the developing world. Moving beyond the usual academic emphasis on international agreements and institutions, it strives to integrate debates within the real world of global policy and the academic world of theory.

The book maps out an original typology of four contrasting worldviews of environmental change -- those of market liberals, institutionalists, bioenvironmentalists, and social greens -- and uses these as a framework to examine the links between the global political economy and ecological change. This typology not only helps students understand and participate in debates about these worldviews but also provides a common language for students and instructors to discuss the issues across the social sciences. The book covers globalization and its consequences for the environment; the evolution of global discourse and global environmental governance; wealth, poverty, and consumption; the impact on the environment of global trade and trade agreements; transnational corporations and differential environmental standards; and the environmental effects of international financing, including multilateral lending and aid and bilateral and private finance. Brief, illustrative case studies appear throughout the text.

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Economic Theory for Environmental Policy.......2007-03-30

This potentially powerful book exhibits several weaknesses that will probably prevent it from realizing its potential influence. Fundamentally, the breakthrough of this study is the application of political economy theory to environmentalism. (Political economy focuses on the power relations that influence the production and consumption of resources, while striving to determine the role of control - thus combining the strengths of economics and political science while avoiding the inherent reductionism of both.) This leads to very informative results for the layperson who is interested in how environmental policy works, with in-depth coverage of a great many different aspects of economic theory and how they influence the politics of environmental policy formation. Another bonus of this book is its global coverage of influential environmental leaders and organizations on the international stage.

Unfortunately, there is a severe structural problem with this book's overall argument, as the authors parse knowledgeable environmentalists into four arbitrary categories - market liberals, institutionalists, bioenvironmentalists, and social greens - though there is deficient empirical support for the definitions of these four categories, or reasonable evidence that any concerned person would fit neatly into any one (or several) of the definitions. The authors actually admit to this limitation freely and state that the categorization is only meant for discussion purposes. Fair enough, but the entire book is structured strictly on the unproven existence of those four categories anyway, with each chapter introducing an issue and applying it to the supposed belief systems of each category. Another major structural problem with this book is its descriptive objectivity, making it almost entirely a compilation of existing information (though informatively presented, it should be noted), missing many opportunities for strong arguments. Thus, the book becomes an increasingly unreadable list of definitions, statistics, and acronyms with no compelling conclusions. Most fundamentally, the thinking environmental activist would find it difficult to make use of this book's information, except as background knowledge for understanding the motivations of differently-thinking allies. Environmental policy makers on the international stage could make more use of the theoretical information here, but whether the book was truly written for them, and how they could be inspired to make use of it, remain unclear. [~doomsdayer520~]

The Struggle for Accountability: The World Bank, NGOs, and Grassroots Movements (Global Environmental Accord: Strategies for Sustainability and Institutional Innovation)

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The Struggle for Accountability: The World Bank, NGOs, and Grassroots Movements (Global Environmental Accord: Strategies for Sustainability and Institutional Innovation)

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After a history of funding environmentally costly megaprojects, the World Bank now claims that it is trying to become a leading force for sustainable development. For more than a decade, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and grassroots movements have formed transnational coalitions to reform the World Bank and the governments that it funds. The Struggle for Accountability assesses the efforts of these groups to make the World Bank more publicly accountable.

The book is organized into four parts. Part I describes the NGOs and grassroots movements that are the book's central focus. Part II presents case studies of four projects that provoked the emergence of transnational advocacy coalitions: Indonesia's Kedung Ombo dam, the Mt. Apo geothermal plant in the Philippines, Brazil's Planaforo Amazon development project, and the remarkable campaign of Ecuador's indigenous people to influence national economic policy that led to their participation in the design of a development loan. Part III looks at the origins and politics of reform in four areas of broader World Bank policy: the rights of indigenous peoples, involuntary resettlement, water resources, and the World Bank's institutional reforms that are supposed to encourage public accountability. In the last section, the editors discuss issues of accountability within transnational coalitions and assess the impact of advocacy campaigns on World Bank projects and policies.

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Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of our Environmental Future : An article from: The Ecologist

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Gard Binney
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Governing the Global Environment (The Globalization of the World Economy, 12)

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The governance of the global environment is one of the major policy issues of the new century. Global environmental problems are increasingly important because of their impact on industrial activities, infrastructures, ecosystems, natural resources, biodiversity and human health. These problems can be managed and solved only through international co-operation, policy co-ordination, and voluntary, widespread, equitable participation in the decision-making process.

This authoritative new collection analyzes these issues from several different viewpoints. Political scientists, economists and lawyers provide ideas and analytical frameworks to deal with global environmental problems. Applications to climate changes, biodiversity, acid rains and ozone layer depletion are also discussed, thus providing information of interest to both academic researchers and policymakers.

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Paths to a Green World ; The Political Economy of the Global Environment
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Regulating Global Trade and the Environment (Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy)
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The World Environment & the Global Economy (Ideas in Conflict Series)

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