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Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2018, 13:54

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Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 13:40

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Ngày tải lên: 20/05/2014, 12:33

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Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 01:09

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Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

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Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

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Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

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Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

... stock of components and assembled computers at the end of the round, basically because the objective is to always have items on the store Then a mechanism for managing the inventory ... customer • The agent obtains its inventory a priori based on static daily amounts Then it has to optimally assign the inventory and the free duty cycles of the factory When the inventory ... notification of stock outs by companies to their customers The IT has enabled companies to more... but to deliver total satisfaction to the customer, of which the delivery of quality

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

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Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

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Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

... battlefield that is the stock market, there are the quick and there are the dead! The fastest way to take a bath in the stock market is to try to prove that you are right and the market is wrong ... upswing Eventually investors tend to buy at the top and sell at the bottom, because they invest with their stomachs instead of with their brains This pattern is repeated over and over, usually resulting ... be that way, if investors would only have had an investment plan that forced them to take profits as stocks kept going up, and they had placed stop-loss orders on their stocks to protect them as...

Ngày tải lên: 03/05/2014, 13:19

... Reagan appointed him Bank Board chairman in 1981 FOR THE BANK BOARD, THE RACE TO THE BOTTOM WAS A SHORT ONE The Bank Board was at the bottom of the federal financial regulatory heap before Pratt’s ... THE BEST WAY TO ROB A BANK IS TO OWN ONE THE BEST WAY TO ROB A BANK IS TO OWN ONE HOW CORPORATE EXECUTIVES AND POLITICIANS LOOTED THE S&L INDUSTRY WILLIAM K BLACK Copyright © 2005 by the ... the way predicted by “moral hazard” theory, which predicted that they would maximize their exposure to risk • The S&L industry did not capture the Bank Board during the debacle Indeed, each Bank...

Ngày tải lên: 04/11/2014, 10:44

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Ngày tải lên: 31/08/2013, 14:24

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Ngày tải lên: 14/10/2013, 14:51

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Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 14:16

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Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 22:20

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Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 16:37

... from the heart to all the parts of the body The coronary arteries supply fresh blood to the heart itself, so it can work Blood vessels that return blood from the body to the heart are called ... should “listen to my body.” If I really love myself and want to live a healthy life—physically and mentally—there are things I can to help make that happen Sure, I don’t always want to get a mammogram ... women the tools they need to be proactive about their own health, as well as the health of their children and loved ones.” —Margit Ragland, Health Director, Family Circle “Optimum health is key to...

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