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    Transportation innovation and conditions in San Francisco were not always created easily. San Francisco’s had an exceptional nightmare from a transit point of view. The obvious problem was San Francisco geographic makeup. Hills caused the early settlers to deal with the swamp-like conditions. San Francisco expanded population after the Gold Rush led to better-paved streets. In the 1870s Andrew S. Hallidie developed a rope and cable car technology that could drag ore and tools up hills by being pulled

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    year old company founded in the year 1902. In the beginning it specialized in orchard and farm insurance. However, in later years in entered into property-liability insurance and was among the market leaders for more than a decade in California. Golden Gate entered into the same market in 1970’s and gave intense competition to Manzana. Followed by price-war between the two companies, the interest rates have come down and stabilized at a rate same for both the companies.

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    Manzana Essay

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    two weeks. When Bill Pippin was in business school, he had become interested in applying production management techniques to service industries. He had interviewed with a number of financial service companies, including Manzana Insurance and Golden Gate Casualty, California’s two largest property-liability insurers. Ultimately, Pippin decided to join Manzana as assistant manager of the Fruitvale branch. (See Exhibit 1 for an organization chart.) After reading Tom Jacobs’s memo, he paused for

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    Electric Streetcar Timeline

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    Electric Streetcar Era 1892-Present Ownership Timeline San Francisco and San Mateo Electric Railway 1892-1902 Geary Street, Park & Ocean Railway 1878-1912 United Railroads 1901-1912 Market Street Railway Company 1918-1944 San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) 1912-present New electric streetcar technology proved cheaper to build and operate than the cable car, and capable of climbing all but San Francisco's steepest hills The San Francisco and San Mateo Electric Railway, the first electrically

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    Essay on Rochester Business Plan

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    A Marketing Plan to Retain Rochester’s Youth      Rochester’s 18-28 year old population has been leaving this city in mass amounts. This is common knowledge, and our plan is targeted towards the target audience in efforts to keep them here for a longer duration of time.      We feel that there are several beautiful attractions that make up the Greater Rochester Area of which this target audience is unaware. This marketing plan aims to get this market

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    Log Cabin Project Essay

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    Introduction This project is planning to build a perfect Log Cabin a small holiday house; it will be built in the house garden. It will have 642sq feet to living space for two bedrooms, a bathroom, a kitchen and 78sq feet of terrace of terrace as well garden with a budget of £39,824.7. The important of project is building cheap a log cabin that is to use materials obtained from own property, also using short time to build it and personal labor doing the work by hand will save most of the cost of

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    DISNEY: LOSING MAGIC IN THE MIDDLE KINGDOM Hong Kong Disneyland will provide guests with an immersive experience to re-ignite “the magic that is the Disney storytelling tradition”. The park will act as a springboard for our other businesses throughout China and the region. - Andy Bird, president of Walt Disney International, August 20051 Three years after its opening in September 2005, Hong Kong Disneyland had yet to gather sufficient momentum to catapult its attendance rate to a satisfactory

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    Throughout the course of history there have been many advances in the world of infrastructure, mostly occurring in the 1800’s and the 1900’s. Infrastructure is defined as the basic physical and organizational structure needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function. This definition shows how important infrastructure is to people’s lives today. It affects how people live, travel, and communicate with one another. Three men who

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    Internal Terrorism in India

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    Table of content Introduction 01 Chronology of major incidents 04 • Western india 04 • Jammu and kashmir 05 • Northern and Northwestern India 06 • Northeastern india 10 • South india 13 • Challenges before India’s Internal Security 14 Internal strategy 16   Introduction Internal terrorism has been an ugly scene in India probably for as long as we have known. The independence war saw the

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    Traffic Management N Mumbai

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    INTRODUCTION Traffic Management is a very serious issue today. Traffic in Mumbai especially is seen as a major drawback for the city. Everyone belonging to this city of dreams has at some point in their life faced a traffic snarl which has made them wish they lived anywhere else. The core reason for traffic is the buildup of several problems being neglected over the years. This includes, over population, bad infrastructure, lack of education, uncontrolled reckless driving etc. I personally feel that

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