Transportation Expressions (1996)

Transportation Expressions (1996)
Author: Richard Feldman
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1998-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9780788175039

Compiles definitions of transportation terms used throughout the Department of Transportation and other U.S. government agencies. The terms are organized by their common name, with each term appearing in bold print and followed by its definition and the source citation. Specific documents, publications or databases used to compile the report are identified in a source index. Terms are cross-referenced within the document and within a term index.

The Lion Wakes

The Lion Wakes
Author: David Kynaston
Publisher: Profile Books
Total Pages: 771
Release: 2015-03-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1847658970

The Lion Wakes tells the modern story of HSBC, starting in the late 1970s, when the bank first broke out of the Asia-Pacific region with its purchase of Marine Midland Bank in the US. It follows HSBC's battle to purchase Midland Bank in 1992, the subsequent move of head office from Hong Kong to London, and the string of acquisitions that brought the bank to its pre-eminent place in global finance today. Acclaimed historians Richard Roberts and David Kynaston chronicle the bank's struggles as well as its successes: the last part of the book deals with the ill-fated move into consumer finance in the US, as well as the financial crisis of 2008 and its effect on HSBC. Impeccably researched and generously illustrated from the HSBC archives, this is a valuable addition to global financial history.

Strategic Planning and the Drug Threat

Strategic Planning and the Drug Threat
Author: William W. Mendel
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 185
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 1428913556

The authors illustrate how the principles and techniques of strategic and operational planning can be applied to the supply reduction side of our national effort to curb the trafficking of illicit drugs. They provide a detailed overview of the drug problem and discuss key ingredients and how an effective strategy can be formulated, including better ways to synchronize and sustain cooperative multiagency assaults on drug trafficking networks. While recognizing that eliminating the demand for drugs is the best and perhaps only lasting solution to the larger problem, the authors acknowledge that such can never be achieved without complementary supply reduction actions that curtail the international drug producers, the traffickers and the local pusher from selling their wares.

An Inspector Calls

An Inspector Calls
Author: Cedric Cullingford
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134986092

The UK government's education policy is based on the setting of targets, yet the fear and loathing that an Ofsted inspection can generate is widely known. This text critically assesses the role, impact and effect of the inspection body and dissects its usefulness.