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Questions for the Future is a debate television series aired periodically on financial news channels CNBC Europe, CNBC Asia and CNBC World in the US, currently focusing on the subject of energy. The programmes are produced in association with Shell, which advertises before, during and after each edition, although the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13294983 |
Questions for the Future Since the inception of "Questions for the Future", each episode has been preceded by a 'themed week' of short reports related to the subject to be discussed, filmed on location by the presenter. These reports are aired during CNBC's regular live broadcasts. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13294983 |
My way or the highway is a predominantly American idiom that dates back to the 1970s. It suggests an ultimatum like "take it or leave it", which indicates that the listener(s) (who are typically not in a position to challenge the options, e.g. employees or those lacking money) must totally accept the speaker's decision... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13295598 |
My way or the highway Sources close to him and his family say he had a bad temper and liked to talk by telephone with leaders even in the middle of the night. Lawrence Biondi was a controversial figure over the span of his presidency at St. Louis University. When asked about his approach to leadership for accomplishing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13295598 |
Supplier evaluation and supplier appraisal are terms used in business and refer to the process of evaluating and approving potential suppliers by quantitative assessment. The aim of the process is to ensure a portfolio of best-in-class suppliers is available for use, thus it can be an effective tool to select suppliers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13303547 |
Supplier evaluation If rejected the supplier is generally not made available to the assessing company's procurement team. Once approved, a supplier may be reevaluated on a periodic, often annual, basis. The ongoing process is defined as supplier performance management. There are various benefits associated with an effe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13303547 |
Supplier evaluation Web Electronic RFP / Tendering systems are often used for initial selection projects. Some products provide functionality for combining both initial selection and ongoing evaluation and benchmarking. Wider, within established procurement teaching, the Carter 10Cs model is an internationally recognis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13303547 |
Energy and Minerals Business Council The is a global business forum of mining and energy corporations formed in 2006 with an inaugural meeting at the Grand Hyatt Melbourne Hotel, in Melbourne, Australia on 18 November and 19 November 2006. The meeting was held to coincide with the 2006 G20 summit. Membership is compose... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13305657 |
Energy and Minerals Business Council Rodrigo de Rato, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund addressed the meeting of the Energy and Minerals Business Council. as well as Australian Teasurer Peter Costello. International Council on Mining and Metals | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13305657 |
Trade sale A trade sale is a common means of exit to a trade buyer. This allows the management to withdraw from the business and may open up the prospect of collaboration on larger projects. The term trade sale is mostly used in the context of venture capital funded businesses and refers to the sale of a company in its... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13306545 |
Memphis Furniture Manufacturing Company was the largest component of what was once the largest furniture manufacturing operation in the United States. It was founded in 1896 by Robertson Morrow and, despite a major fire in 1904, quickly grew to include Little Rock Furniture, New Orleans Furniture, and Oklahoma City Fur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13313986 |
Unified Code for Units of Measure The (UCUM) is a system of codes for unambiguously representing measurement units. Its primary purpose is machine-to-machine communication rather than communication between humans. The code set includes all units defined in ISO 1000, ISO 2955-1983, ANSI X3.50-1986, HL7 and ENV 12435, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13314856 |
Unified Code for Units of Measure UCUM refers to units that are defined on nonlinear scales as "special units". Common examples include the bel and degree Celsius. While these are technically not metric units, UCUM allows metric prefixes to be used with them where this is common practice. Binary prefixes are also suppo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13314856 |
Primavera (software) Primavera is an enterprise project portfolio management software. It includes project management, scheduling, risk analysis, opportunity management, resource management, collaboration and control capabilities, and integrates with other enterprise software such as Oracle and SAP’s ERP systems. Prima... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13317502 |
Primavera (software) 2 added capabilities for governance, project-team participation, and project visibility. Mobile PPM was introduced through Primavera’s P6 Team Member for iPhone and Team Member Web Interface, to streamline communications between project team members in the field and in the office. In addition, Prim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13317502 |
Personal shopping system A Personal Shopping System (PSS) is a system designed to help customers with their purchases in a supermarket or any kind of self-service retailer. In this system, when the customer arrives at a supermarket, instead of picking a shopping cart, he/she picks an equipment (PDA or similar) which pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13317906 |
Constitution (corporate) A constitution is the set of regulations which govern the conduct of non-political entities, whether incorporated or not. Such entities include corporations and voluntary associations. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13318391 |
Maker-checker (or Maker and Checker, or 4-Eyes) is one of the central principles of authorization in the information systems of financial organizations. The principle of maker and checker means that for each transaction, there must be at least two individuals necessary for its completion. While one individual may creat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13328912 |
Shopping directory An online shopping directory is a "Yellow Pages-Style" web directory that specializes in ecommerce sites (which are websites that sell products or services). Inspired by the organizational structure used in traditional shopping mall directories, online shopping directories organize ecommerce sites by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13329709 |
Shopping directory Coupon sites provide a niche web directory centered on deal aggregation by listing only ecommerce sites that offer additional savings to the user. Coupon sites are very popular with users but often are viewed negatively by merchants. Examples of coupon sites include: Retailmenot, Coupons.com, Groupon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13329709 |
Work systems Work system has been used loosely in many areas. This article concerns its use in understanding IT-reliant systems in organizations. A notable use of the term occurred in 1977 in the first volume of MIS Quarterly in two articles by Bostrom and Heinen (1977). Later Sumner and Ryan (1994) used it to explain ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13336525 |
Work systems The relationship between work systems in general and the special cases implies that the same basic concepts apply to all of the special cases, which also have their own specialized vocabulary. In turn, this implies that much of the body of knowledge for the current information systems discipline can be org... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13336525 |
Work systems An easily recognized triangular representation of the work system framework has appeared in Alter (2002, 2003, 2008, 2013) and elsewhere. The work system itself consists of four elements: the processes and activities, participants, information, and technologies. Five other elements must be included in even... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13336525 |
Work systems , 2006) In effect, business process is but one of a number of different perspectives for analyzing the activities within a work system. Other perspectives with their own valuable concepts and terminology include decision-making, communication, coordination, control, and information processing. Participants... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13336525 |
Work systems Products/services are the combination of physical things, information, and services that the work system produces for its customers' benefit and use. This may include physical products, information products, services, intangibles such as enjoyment and peace of mind, and social products such as arrangements... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13336525 |
Work systems Environment includes the organizational, cultural, competitive, technical, and regulatory environment within which the work system operates. These factors affect system performance even though the system does not rely on them directly in order to operate. The organization's general norms of behavior are pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13336525 |
Work systems The dynamic view of a work system starts with the work system life cycle (WSLC) model, which shows how a work system may evolve through multiple iterations of four phases: operation and maintenance, initiation, development, and implementation. The names of the phases were chosen to describe both computeriz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13336525 |
Work systems As the firm grows, the sales system becomes regionalized and an initial version of sales tracking software is developed and used. Later, the firm changes its sales system again to accommodate needs to track and control a larger salesforce and predict sales several quarters in advance. A subsequent iteratio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13336525 |
Work systems It is fundamentally different from the frequently cited Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), which actually describes projects that attempt to produce software or produce changes in a work system. Current versions of the SDLC may contain iterations but they are basically iterations within a project. More... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13336525 |
Work systems Ramiller (2002) reports on using a version of the work system framework within a method for “animating” the idea of business process within an undergraduate class. In a research setting, Petrie (2004) used the work system framework as a basic analytical tool in a Ph.D. thesis examining 13 ecommerce web sit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13336525 |
Work systems The latest version of the work system method is organized around a general problem-solving outline that includes: In contrast to systems analysis and design methods for IT professionals who need to produce a rigorous, totally consistent definition of a computerized system, the work system method: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13336525 |
Retained interest (also colloquially known as a "payout penalty") is future, currently unpaid, interest that some lenders add to the remaining principal of a loan to determine a payout figure in the event that the loan is terminated before the completion of the original term. When two parties enter into a loan agreemen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13337588 |
Retained interest Additionally, retained interest is generally not included as a fee on the loan documents, but instead listed within the Terms & Conditions of the loan contract. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13337588 |
Les Afriques is a weekly economical and financial African newspaper. In 2007, it claims to be the first Pan-African financial newspaper. It is published weekly and available in almost all French-speaking countries. The newspaper started its publication in July 2007. Its launch was announced on the French-language TV "J... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13338060 |
Besloten vennootschap A Dutch bv may be created by one or more individuals or legal entities, Dutch or foreign, with a minimum paid in capital of €0,01. A deed of incorporation is executed and filed. The deed must be in Dutch. It must contain details of the incorporators, and of the initial Members of the Board, their ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13344966 |
List of Burger King products When the predecessor of international fast food restaurant chain Burger King (BK) first opened in 1953, its menu predominantly consisted of hamburgers, French fries, soft drinks, milkshakes, and desserts. After being acquired by its Miami, Florida franchisees and renamed in 1954, BK began e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13349618 |
List of Burger King products The company began offering the first, nationally available grilled chicken sandwich product when it added the BK Broiler in the early 1990s. That sandwich would go on to be reformulated and renamed several times before settling on the current Grilled sandwich. The chain added a second chick... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13349618 |
List of Burger King products Due to its place in the marketplace, the Whopper has prompted Burger King's competitors, mainly McDonald's with at least six different products and Wendy's with its Big Classic, to try to develop similar products designed to compete with it. The company markets several variants of the burge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13349618 |
List of Burger King products Due to its success in selling 6,000 sandwiches within the first four days, Burger King decided to extend the promotion period an extra nine days, ending on 6 November. As the signature product of the company, it is often at the center of advertising promotions, product tie-ins, and even cor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13349618 |
List of Burger King products Specifically, the name ""Whopper"" is a registered trademark of Burger King Holdings and is displayed with the "circle-R" (®) symbol in all markets it is sold. The Big King sandwich is one of the major hamburger products sold by the international fast-food restaurant chain Burger King, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13349618 |
List of Burger King products A limited time offering (LTO) sandwich line known as BK Toppers accompanied the Stacker line briefly in 2012, including one sandwich known as the Deluxe topper a virtual clone of the Big King in its formulation. The Stacker and Topper lines were discontinued in the United States shortly aft... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13349618 |
List of Burger King products As far back as the 1970s, international fast food restaurant chain Burger King has attempted to introduce a premium line of burgers. These sandwiches are part of a system which eventually became known as the barbell strategy; a plan designed to expand Burger King's menu with both more sophi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13349618 |
List of Burger King products The Steakhouse Burger sandwich was eventually replaced with the Steakhouse XT/Angus XT burger, which used a new, thicker round patty among several other changes. This newer sandwich was made possible with the introduction of the company's new broiler systems which allowed varying cooking ti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13349618 |
List of Burger King products In Great Britain, the chain has also introduced a burger based on lamb and another based on Wagyu beef, while back in the United States it sold a turkey burger sandwich – all of which were limited time offerings (LTOs). To promote continuing interest in these products, Burger King occasiona... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13349618 |
List of Burger King products Additionally, as a major products in the company's portfolio, Burger King had registered many global trademarks to protect its investment in the products, most of which have since lapsed. The BK Stacker sandwiches are a discontinued family of hamburgers featuring the same toppings that targ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13349618 |
List of Burger King products The BK Stackers are a family of hamburgers, consisting of one to four hamburger patties, bacon, American cheese and the King Sauce used on the Big King served on a sesame-seed bun. The BK Stacker was introduced using commercials that employed groups of little people in the roles of members ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13349618 |
List of Burger King products The ads feature the tag line of "More beef, more value", with the television commercials utilizing images of the ingredients of the sandwiches as they are being prepared. The Rodeo sandwiches are a line of similarly topped sandwiches targeting the value conscious demographic. They are toppe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13349618 |
List of Burger King products The Rodeo cheeseburger was advertised using a parody of the Tom Cruise/Jack Nicholson film "A Few Good Men". In the commercial, Chip Hazard quoted Jack Nicholson's line "you can't handle the truth" as "you can't handle the Rodeo Burger." The Burger King Specialty Sandwiches are a line of sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13349618 |
List of Burger King products To promote continuing interest in the product, Burger King occasionally releases limited-time (LTO) variants in the line that have different toppings or ingredients such as ham, Italian sausage or pulled pork. Being one of the company's major offerings, the Specialty Sandwiches are sometime... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13349618 |
List of Burger King products Burger King was the first major fast food chain to introduce a grilled chicken sandwich to the marketplace, beating rivals Wendy's by six months and McDonald's by four years. These two chains also went through a series of reformulations and naming schemes for their grilled chicken products.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13349618 |
List of Burger King products With the introduction of the company's BK Broiler chicken sandwich in 1990, the fish sandwich became tied to the development cycle of the broiled chicken sandwich and was again reformulated and renamed as the Ocean Catch Fish fillet. When the broiled chicken sandwich underwent another refor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13349618 |
List of Burger King products Despite being one of the company's major offerings, the fish sandwich is rarely the center of product advertising for the company. As a major product in the company's portfolio, Burger King has registered very few global trademarks to protect its investment in the product. BK Chicken Fries ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13349618 |
List of Burger King products As one of the company's major offerings, the chicken fries are sometimes the center of product advertising for the company. The original advertisements were created by the firm of Crispin, Porter + Bogusky and were the subject of both criticism and legal action by the extreme metal band Sli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13349618 |
List of Burger King products The new sandwich was part of a series of new, updated or modified sandwiches and along with a revamped veggie burger, as a newer more healthier offering than its beef-based burgers. With the introduction of the sandwich, the chain became the largest restaurant chain to offer a turkey burger... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13349618 |
List of Burger King products Originally introduced in the late 1990s as the Chick'n Crisp sandwich, the name was changed in 2013. The company has released several variants on the original sandwich. The sandwich was introduced in 1998 as part of a menu expansion that added a value menu which the company dubbed the Great... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13349618 |
List of Burger King products The BK Veggie is a vegetarian soy-based meatless sandwich that is served at Burger King restaurants. The sandwich is not vegan, as it has dairy components, and is one of BK's health conscious oriented menu items. The BK Veggie is made with mayonnaise, lettuce, tomato, pickles, ketchup, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13349618 |
List of Burger King products The Center for Science in the Public Interest lauded the sandwich's low fat content, but derided the company's other menu items introduced at the time as being unhealthy. In 2005, CSPI observed, "too bad you can’t order it with less than 930 mg of sodium," which, while an increase from the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13349618 |
List of Burger King products " The use of a corporate cross-promotion helped drive sales by giving the Morningstar Farms brand increased exposure and sales opportunities, while Burger King promotes an existing, trusted brand name which aids marketing efforts and encourages consumers to try the BK Veggie. The name "BK V... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13349618 |
List of Burger King products Mac n' Cheetos is the combination of both macaroni and cheese and the Frito Lay snack Cheetos. Mac n' Cheetos was first introduced June 27, 2016. International fast-food restaurant chain Burger King and its Australian franchise Hungry Jack's have had a variety of breakfast sandwiches in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13349618 |
List of Burger King products This differs from the original sandwich that was served on a hamburger roll with no toppings. In February 2016, Burger King introduced hot dogs in the US. The hot dogs were marketed under the name "Grilled Dogs", were made from 100% beef and came in two varieties— Chili Cheese dogs and Clas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13349618 |
List of Burger King products Included in the new menu were a pulled pork sandwich and variations on its Whopper and TenderCrisp chicken sandwiches; each of these new products are based on regional barbecue styles from Tennessee, the Carolinas and Texas. Rounding out the products are an ice cream sundae topped with baco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13349618 |
List of Burger King products Leslie Patton of Bloomberg News speculated that the Whopperito represented an attempt by Burger King to compete with Chipotle Mexican Grill. Trademark information | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13349618 |
Automatic number plate recognition in the United Kingdom Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) is a technology for automatically reading vehicle number plates. The Home Office states ANPR is used by law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom to help detect, deter and disrupt criminality including tackling organ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13357851 |
Automatic number plate recognition in the United Kingdom "What we're trying to do as far as we can is to stitch together the existing camera network rather than install a huge number of new cameras," - Mr Whiteley chairman of the ANPR steering committee said. Some cameras may be disguised for covert operations but the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13357851 |
Automatic number plate recognition in the United Kingdom According to the National Policing Improvement Agency 25,000 hits per day against the ANPR database generate a transaction against the Police National Computer. The National ANPR Data Centre is connected to the Police National Computer to provide up-to-date lists... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13357851 |
Automatic number plate recognition in the United Kingdom Vehicles moving on the roads are open to police scrutiny at any time. The Road Traffic Act gives us the right to stop vehicles at any time for any purpose" - Frank Whiteley, Chief Constable of Hertfordshire and Chair of the ACPO ANPR Steering Group The National A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13357851 |
Automatic number plate recognition in the United Kingdom Mobile ANPR systems such as ProVida ANPR are becoming more popular, with forces having systems in traffic police intercept cars. The advantage of this is that officers can get real time 'hits' from passing vehicles as they are on patrol. In 2012, the government e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13357851 |
Automatic number plate recognition in the United Kingdom At its launch in May, Ch Supt Geoff Dodd of West Yorkshire Police, called the ANPR system a "revolutionary tool in detecting crime". In March 2005, plans were announced to set up a nationwide system of over 2,000 automatic number plate recognition cameras in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13357851 |
Automatic number plate recognition in the United Kingdom "Eventually the database will link to most CCTV systems in town centres, meaning that all vehicles filmed on one of the many cameras protecting Bedford High Street, for instance, can be checked against the database and the movements of wanted cars traced to help ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13357851 |
Automatic number plate recognition in the United Kingdom The final conclusion was that less than 10% of the expenditure incurred was recouped, with the Home Office claiming that the failure of drivers to pay fines contributed to this low figure, and continued to recommend the system be deployed throughout the UK. Repor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13357851 |
Automatic number plate recognition in the United Kingdom John Catt, an 80-year-old pensioner at the time and his daughter Linda (with no criminal record between them) - were stopped on 31 July 2005, had their vehicle searched under section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 by City of London Police and were threatened with a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13357851 |
Automatic number plate recognition in the United Kingdom Catt commented "That our participation in peaceful protest outside an arms factory led to our arbitrary stop-check for terrorist activities many miles away by another force is a very disturbing development of the 'police state'." "The Register" has noted that "in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13357851 |
International Colour Association The ("Association Internationale de la Couleur (AIC)", or "Internationale Vereinigung für die Farbe") is a learned society whose aims are to encourage research in all aspects of color, to disseminate the knowledge gained from this research, and to promote its application to the solution... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13358316 |
International Colour Association Interim and Midterm Meetings, instead, are thematically oriented; each meeting concentrates on a specific aspect of color. The papers presented at congresses and meetings are published in the proceedings, most of which are freely available at their website. The regular members of the AI... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13358316 |
Filing status Under United States federal income tax law, filing status determines which tax return form an individual will use and is an important factor in computing taxable income. is based on marital status and family situation. There are five possible filing status categories: single individual, married person fil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13360662 |
Filing status Certain married individuals, not legally separated or divorced, may still be considered single for purposes of filing tax returns if they are living apart. A married couple is not required to file jointly. If one lived apart from one's spouse for the last six months of the year, one may also qualify for h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13360662 |
Filing status To qualify for the head of household filing status, one must be unmarried and pay more than half the cost of maintaining a home for oneself and another relative who lives with that person for over half the year and can be claimed as the dependent. A "dependent" for these purpose includes grandchild and st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13360662 |
Filing status One must file the status honestly, or it will be considered fraudulent and penalties will be assessed. As a taxpayer, one must withhold at least 90% of the tax burden for the year and should make sure to withhold enough to avoid penalties. https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,id=105098,00.html Samuel A.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13360662 |
Evergreening is any of various legal, business and technological strategies by which producers extend the lifetime of their patents that are about to expire, in order to retain royalties from them, by either taking out new patents (for example over associated delivery systems, or new pharmaceutical mixtures), or by buy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13367504 |
Evergreening In 2002, an extensive and lengthy inquiry by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) found, in the wake of the Hatch-Waxman legislation or Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act (which was instrumental in establishing the US generic pharmaceuticals industry), as many as 75% of new drug applic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13367504 |
Evergreening In response, the Australian government passed anti-evergreening amendments in Sections 26C and 26D of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 (Cth) designed to prevent patent holders from manipulating the court system to lengthen the term of the patent and delay the entry of generic pharmaceuticals into the market.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13367504 |
Evergreening The patent holder then has 45 days in which to initiate an application in the Federal Court of Canada, seeking an order to prohibit the relevant Minister from issuing a Notice of Compliance to the generic manufacturer for a period of 24 months, or upon resolution of the court application, whichever is soon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13367504 |
Evergreening Some academics prefer to refer to them as TRIPS-minus due to their potential, but controversial and still largely unproven, deleterious impact on public health. Various laws have provisions to limit the practice, but as of 2018 the issue remains a concern among legislators. According to one study, 12 top-s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13367504 |
Evergreening The Office of Patented Medicines and Liaison is located in the Therapeutic Products Directorate, Health Products and Foods Branch, Health Canada. The Notice of Compliance Regulations it administers require the Minister of Health to maintain a Patent Register. This consists of patent lists submitted in resp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13367504 |
Evergreening In Australia, anti-evergreening amendments to the "Therapeutic Goods Act 1983 (Cth)"were part of the package of legislation required to be passed by the Australian Government as a precondition to entry into force of the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA). They provide that where a certif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13367504 |
Evergreening The argument is that the Australian anti-"linkage evergreening" legislation affects only pharmaceutical patents and is therefore discriminatory under TRIPS. On the other hand, international trade law recognises that where a unique problem arises specifically referable only to a particular field of technolo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13367504 |
Evergreening Further, there are a number of obligations imposed by the AUSFTA that relate to the enjoyment of patent rights for pharmaceuticals alone, including extension of the terms of a pharmaceutical patent to compensate the patent owner for unreasonable curtailment of the effective patent term as a result of the m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13367504 |
European Civil Service The is a generic term applied to all staff serving the institutions and agencies of the European Union (EU). Although recruitment is sometimes done jointly, each institution is responsible for its own internal structures and hierarchies. The rules, principles, standards and working conditions of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13374290 |
European Civil Service These terms are sometimes erroneously used by the anglophone press, usually as a derogatory slur, to describe Members of the European Parliament, or European Commissioners. MEPs are directly elected representatives, whilst the European Commissioners, despite often being confused as civil servants... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13374290 |
European Civil Service The services have traditionally hired candidates with degrees in Law, Economics, or Audit; competition is tougher for graduates of all other disciplines, although the procedure for the open competitions, known as "Concours", is now under review. Staff are divided into a set of grades: from AD 5, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13374290 |
European Civil Service The major ranks used to be in the form of A8 (new appointment without prior work experience) to A1 (director-general). They receive a minimum of 24 days of leave a year (maximum of 30), . The lowest grades receive between €1.618,83 gross (FG 1 step 1) each month, while the highest grades (AD 15–1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13374290 |
European Civil Service In January 2010, The European Commission took the EU member states to court over the Member States' refusal to honour a long-standing formula under which wages for the staff of the European institutions are indexed to the salaries of national civil servants. The formula led to a salary adjustment... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13374290 |
European Civil Service Early retirement is possible as of 58 years, albeit with the pension being reduced by a fixed pension reduction coefficient per year before the pensionable age. For staff who entered service 2014 or later, the annual accrual rate is 1.8%, the pensionable age is 66 years, early retirement is possi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13374290 |
European Civil Service To mitigate the changes implemented as of 2014, transitional pension rules were put in place for staff in place on 1 January 2014, which included setting the pensionable age for staff between 55 and 60 years of age on 1 January 2014 to lie between 60 and 61 years. Transition measures applied also... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13374290 |
European Civil Service As one former servant, Derk Jan Eppink has put it, even after new staff had passed the tough entrance exams: "Those at the top counted for everything. Those at the bottom counted for nothing." One example of this was the chef de cabinet of President Jacques Delors, Pascal Lamy, who was particular... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13374290 |
European Civil Service It has been alleged that, for want of a common administrative culture, European Civil Servants are held together by a "common mission" which gives DGs a particularly enthusiastic attitude to the production of draft legislation regardless of the intentions of the Commissioner. They are also notabl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13374290 |
European Civil Service The Commission is divided into departments known as Directorates-General (DGs or "the services"), each headed by a director-general, and various other services. Each covers a specific policy area or service such as External Relations or Translation and is under the responsibility of a European Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13374290 |
Red Star Yeast Company, LLC is a joint-venture of Lesaffre, and Archer Daniels Midland Company. Red Star operates two plants in the United States- a plant in Headland, AL, and a new plant built in 2006 in Cedar Rapids, IA. Lesaffre Yeast Corporation (prior to the joint-venture) used to operate plants in Milwaukee, WI, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13384260 |
Red chip Red chips stocks () are the stocks of mainland China companies incorporated outside mainland China and listed in Hong Kong. These businesses are based in mainland China and controlled, either directly or indirectly, by the central, provincial or municipal governments of the People's Republic of China but liste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13384269 |
Part exchange A part exchange or part exchange deal is a type of contract. In a part exchange, instead of one party to the contract paying money and the other party supplying goods/services, both parties supply goods/services, the first party supplying part money and part goods/services. Whether a part exchange is a sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13384598 |
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