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The five billion dollar franchise: How much will Disney make from Star Wars merchandise
Money & Business

The five billion dollar franchise: How much will Disney make from Star Wars merchandise

...businesses including movies, television, consumer products, games and theme parks.” Vast empire The Walt Disney Company is the acknowledged pioneer and master of licensing merchandise and as media expert Janet Wasko (among others) has pointed out, the worldwide proliferation of Disney merchandise is perhaps the key feature of its vast empire. Throughout its history it...
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Year of the Horse: Chinese Lunar New Year
Languages

Year of the Horse: Chinese Lunar New Year

...business circles. If you want to be very clever and say ‘Happy Year of the Horse’, you need to say 马年快乐 (mă nián kuài lè). Check out the audio flip cards below to hear the correct pronunciations. @@PLUGINFILE@@/dialog-cards-6107.h5p Visit our innovative 30-credit module Beginners’ Chinese and study from scratch as part of a qualification or by itself for...
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COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant who hosted the 2023 climate change summit
Nature & Environment

COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant who hosted the 2023 climate change summit

...business model: extracting oil. Adnoc, along with the wider oil and gas industry, has invested in carbon sequestration and making hydrogen fuel from the byproducts of oil extraction. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), such measures, even if fully implemented, will only have a small impact on greenhouse gas emissions. The UAE was the first...
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EU Referendum - Sovereignty
Society, Politics & Law

EU Referendum - Sovereignty

...Business Secretary, Sajid Javid, has said he will vote to Remain to avoid short-term uncertainty for the economy, despite his ultimate sympathy for the Leave campaign. Longer-term concerns arise from the possibility of a Brexit restricting access to foreign markets, without could mean substantial downsizing for a UK financial sector that makes much of its profit from...
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A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list
Society, Politics & Law

A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list

...busy purging pro-E.U. “liberal élites” from national institutions and mainstreaming homophobia and anti-Semitism, would be thrilled by Rousseau’s warnings about the “cosmopolitans who go on distant bookish quests for the duties which they disdain to fulfill in their own surroundings.” Pitilessly ostracizing Mexicans and Muslims, Donald Trump may find much...
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A brief history of Harlem
Society, Politics & Law

A brief history of Harlem

...businesses. After being associated for much of the twentieth century with crime and poverty, it is now experiencing social and economic gentrification. As a settlement, it traces its routes back to the early Dutch pioneers - it's named for a Dutch city - and became part of the city of New York in 1873, after its value as an independent agricultural centre had declined....
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OpenMinds-Talk: What does Brexit tell us about Britain?
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OpenMinds-Talk: What does Brexit tell us about Britain?

...Business and Law , specialises in European Union Law and comparative constitutional law. Anne's research focusses on the constitutional construct of the European Union and the interrelations with the Member States. As a consequence, she is closely involved in current discussions and debates around the UK referendum vote on membership to the EU and the process of the UK's...
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What's the difference between a tall organisation and a flat organisation? The one-minute guide
Money & Business

What's the difference between a tall organisation and a flat organisation? The one-minute guide

...Business and Management courses and qualifications [A ray] Is this ray wise to keep things flat? Where there is a large number of levels in the management hierarchy, the organisation is said to be ‘tall’. This will tend to result in narrow spans of control. Where there is a small number of levels in the hierarchy, the organisation is said to be ‘flat’. Flat...
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