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Can Starbucks sell coffee to the Italians?
Money & Business

Can Starbucks sell coffee to the Italians?

...open its first outlets in Italy in 2017. For Howard Schultz, who transformed the Seattle roaster from 17 stores focused on selling coffee beans into a global chain with more than 22,500 outlets, this latest opening is different. It was in Milan in 1983 that Schultz first experienced the theatre of Italian espresso bars and conceived the notion of opening similar...
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Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years
Health, Sports & Psychology

Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years

...Open University, Manchester City won the FA Cup when they defeated Leicester City 1-0 at Wembley Stadium. During The Open University’s 50th year they celebrated winning the League Cup for the fourth time in the previous six seasons. However, unlike the OU, Manchester City’s success has not been consistently achieved, and the past 50 years has witnessed many barren...
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The Silver Bridge Disaster: Eyebars in suspension
Science, Maths & Technology

The Silver Bridge Disaster: Eyebars in suspension

...opening day. Walter Carpenter My father was Vice-President of the corporation that built the Silver Bridge. It was a wonderful time to be a young American boy. The Roaring Twenties, they called it, and America had…had never been as prosperous, they just thought nothing but the best in the future and a wonderful time for America. The St Marys Citizens Band marched at the...
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How is Italy reinventing the co-op?
Money & Business

How is Italy reinventing the co-op?

...Open Group, a 300-member social cooperative, runs a dizzying array of programs out of a buzzing office near Bologna’s central train station. A bike lane is painted across their floor to underscore one of its numerous missions: making Bologna into Italy’s best city for bicycling. Other missions include: Rehabilitating drug and alcohol addicts; Providing services to...
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Asset allocation in investment
Money & Business

Asset allocation in investment

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Asset allocation in investment: References - CalPERS (2015) CalPERS Asset Allocation & Performance. [Online] Available at: https://www.calpers.ca.gov/ index.jsp?bc=/ investments/ assets/ assetallocation.xml(Accessed July 2015) CFA Institute (2010) Elements of...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...Anita Berber mit Hose – ÖNB/Wien. U-Bahn interactive map adapted from: http://www.berliner-verkehr.de/snetze.htm Don't miss out If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses....
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
What is a metal?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a metal?

...Open University course S111 Questions in science...What is a metal?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand metallic bonding and how it is related to metallic characteristics understand the role of metals in everyday life...What is a metal?: 1 What is a metal? - To begin, have a look at the following questions. Write down the...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Innovative efforts to raise wages
Money & Business

Innovative efforts to raise wages

...resources to maximise their personal and professional potential. James Surowiecki explores this possibility in his article The case for free money in the New Yorker. Of course, for many, these notions still appear rather idealistic. Could they work in reality? There remains a scepticism over the changing established wage policies. There is a commonsense assumption that...
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