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THE ORIGINS OF COURT REPORTING SHORTHAND

February 14, 2010 | Admin

With our society at the most litigious time during any point in its history, court reporters are more in demand than ever. Court reporters provide a valuable service to the legal community, creating an official written record of everything that is spoken during trials, motions and depositions. But where did the court reporting industry start? And more importantly, what are the origins of the equipment and shorthand systems used today around the world?In order to track down the first official court reporter, one must go back to ancient time - 63 B.C. to be exact. It was in this year that a sla

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ECONOMIC REPORT ON CHINA

October 31, 2009 | Admin

Half a century ago nobody could even imagine the pace of growing that China is experiencing right now. Back then it was simply a country with a devastated by war economy that was just starting to recover from the most difficult periods in its history. Even a quarter of the century before when if was in the sunset of Mao period the future outcomes and opportunities for this country were not the best ones, they really looked unpromising. As of the beginning of this century China has the greatest pace of development among other countries of the world. Fifty years ago, no one could even closely es

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TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

October 14, 2009 | Admin

TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTKUMAH ERIC JUNIOR MARCH 2009ABSTRACT:In today's world, technology has invaded many aspects of human life. From its gigantic influence on our education and professional development, to the more subtle presence of little gadgets littering our homes, technology is almost everywhere.The reasons for such pervasiveness would boil down to some characteristics that technology by itself possesses. One such characteristic, which is of major interest to many scholars, is the seeming lack of barriers to the spread of technology. It easily penetrates societies and even

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THE THIRD WORLD DEBT CRISIS - “THE FAULT OF THE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES OR “IRRESPONSIBLE LENDING” BY THE WESTERN FINANCIAL BANKING INSTITUTION?”

May 14, 2009 | Admin

1. IntroductionThe debt crisis and loan defaults have been a constant feature of the global economy, the present size of the world debt problem overwhelms the imagination. It is clear that the countries in the Third World are in an inherently disadvantageous position. As primary exporters, they are at the mercy of price and demand fluctuations in international markets. These fluctuations are beyond the sellers’ control as they reflect the economic health of client industries in the West. The total world debt soared from approximately $100 billion in the early 1970s to nearly $900 billion do

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