S. and European industry leaders. Komatsu was less than 35% as large as Caterpillar (measured by sales), was scarcely represented outside Japan, and relied on just one product linesmall bulldozers - for most of its revenue. Honda was smaller than American Motors and had not yet begun to export cars to tbe United States. Canon 's first Tbe lesson is clear: assessing the current tactical advantages of known competitors will not help you understand the resolution, stamina, and inventiveness of potential
McCarthyism and the Conservative Political Climate of Today FOR ALMOST fifty years, the words "McCarthy" and "McCarthyism" have stood for a shameful period in American political history. During this period, thousands of people lost their jobs and hundreds were sent to prison. The U.S. government executed Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, two Communist Party (CP) members, as Russian spies. All of these people were victims of McCarthyism, the witch-hunt
MPIfG Discussion Paper 04/5 Varieties of Capitalism and Institutional Complementarities in the Macroeconomy An Empirical Analysis Peter A. Hall and Daniel W. Gingerich Peter A. Hall is Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies and the Director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. Daniel W. Gingerich is a Graduate Associate of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and a Ph. D. candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University
CRITICAL THINKING; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWOK The terms “Critical”, “Criticism” and “Critic” all begin from the ancient Greek word “Kritikos”, meaning able to judge, distinguish or choose In modern English, a “Critic” is somebody whose job is to create evaluative judgements, for example, on films, books, music or food. It means expressing a fair and unprejudiced opinion on something. As far as Education is concerned, critical thinking is a cognitive activity related to using mind. Learning to think in vital
Crucial to this argument is the idea that social life is process based, in a state of perpetual change, transformation and reconfiguration (see Harvey 1996). Starting analysis from a given geographical scale, such as the local, regional, national or global, seems to me, therefore, to be deeply antagonistic to apprehending the world in a dynamic, process-based manner. This has profound implications for the significance of
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