In order to have a complete understanding of the politics of immigration in Switzerland, it is crucial to realize the impact direct democracy has in shaping public policy and public opinion. Hanspeter Kriesi and Alexander Trechsel, two prominent Swiss political scientists, consider direct democracy not only to be the “most crucial institution of the Swiss political system” but also the most developed system of its kind in the world, both in terms of significance and in terms of sheer numbers. Swiss
1. Executive Summary This report is to analyze the recent performance of Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS), focusing on its private banking business, in order to explore its financial features and products and services that on offer by UBS and past strategy and future prospects of UBS. Besides, there is a covering of the current global market of private banking as well as studying the main features of the market environment and UBS competitors and the recent trends of private banking industry globally
Homicide in the FBI’s Unified Crime Report The Uniform Crime Reporting program was started in 1929 by the International Association of Chiefs of Police. It is known to be the starting place for people like criminal justice students to find information on crime. There are four annual publications produced from data that is received from over eighteen thousand city, county, and state law enforcement agencies, but also uses universities and tribal information. This information can be submitted either
experienced in different ways depending on people’s membership in certain social groups. This is because stigma often builds upon existing prejudices, such as racism, sexism and homophobia, which shape different levels of vulnerability (MANET+ 2012: 18; VSO 2005: 7). As we saw in earlier chapters, prisoners are disproportionately affected by the disease burden (see Appendix, table #) due to poor institutions that also encourage illicit behavior such as MSM, all of which reproduce stigma. For this reason, prisons
JOHANNES VAN DEN BOSCH SENDS AN EMAIL Copyright 2000 by IMD - International Institute for Management Development, Lausanne, Switzerland After having had several email exchanges with his Mexican counterpart over several weeks without getting expected actions and results, Johannes van den Bosch was getting a tongue-lashing from his British MNC client, who was furious at the lack of progress. Van den Bosch, in the Rotterdam office of BigFiveFirm (B&FF), and his colleague in the Mexico City
IV of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. It is illegal to manufacture, possess, or sell diacetylmorphine without a license in almost every country, except the UK and Switzerland. It is also available for prescription to long-term users as a form of opioid replacement therapy in the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, and Denmark, alongside psycho-social care—in the same manner that methadone or buprenorphine are used in the United States and Canada—and a similar programme is being
high in caffeine such as green tea or coffee rather than peppermint or chamomile tea, which are known to be low in caffeine content. For nicotine, they all had to fulfill the criteria of reporting baseline data and report a change in weight or BMI. Additionally, the articles had to report nicotine or smoking
Introduction There are some foods that no one can refuse even if it’s forbidden for them. Chocolate is that sort of tempting item that most of the people can often resist. Old or young, every individual from different ages can not resist its sublime temptation. So, most people cannot resist the temptation of eating chocolates. Let it be a festival or an ordinary snack, chocolate may be there as one of the delicious dishes. The wonder of its taste is so wonderful that it develops even chocoholics
AND INVESTMENT ANALYSIS 8 IX. CONCLUSIONS & RECOMMENDATIONS 10 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This company profile provides a preliminary investigation and analysis of Novartis International AG, a multinational pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland. Novartis is one of ten companies the Investment Board will consider for further in-depth research for a multimillion-dollar investment. Novartis was created in 1996 from the merger of two Swiss-based chemical/life sciences giants;
willing to sort their trash (Tristana Moore, BBC, 2005) into the five separate recycling containers: yellow for packaging (like milk cartons), blue for paper and cardboard, three bins for clear, brown, and green glass, a bio bin for food and yard waste, and black for everything else or if one is just too lazy to sort these themselves. But wait, there’s more. Denmark regards waste as not just waste, but a resource (Thomas Buch-Anderson, BBC, 2005). Tough government standards have led the Danish to