43 résultats pour "consumer"
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Définition du terme:
CONSUMER, verbe transitif.
consum? dans le feu (Ponson du Terrail, Rocambole, tome 3, Le Club des Valets de coeur, 1859, page 119). Une bougie consum?e t?moignait de sa longue veille (Colette, La Maison de Claudine, 1922, page 115). ? emploi absolu. La chaleur consume, le froid conserve (ALEXANDRE ARNOUX, Carnet de route du Juif errant, 1931, page 265 ). ? Rare. [Le sujet d?signe une personne] Synonyme?: fumer (du tabac). C. consumait doucereusement un havane et s'enveloppait de flocons de fum?e blanche (PHILIPPE...
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Définition du terme:
CONSUMANT, -ANTE, participe présent et adjectif.
d?truire progressivement une chose par alt?ration ou an?antissement de sa substance. 1. Vieilli, litt?raire. [Le sujet d?signe un agent destructeur autre que le feu] : ? 1. Ici on voit des toits affaiss?s, dont les chevrons vermoulus et les fers consum?s par la rouille, annoncent l'antiquit? et la d?cadence; MICHEL-GUILLAUME-JEAN, DIT SAINT-JOHN DE CR?VECOEUR, Voyage dans la Haute Pensylvanie et dans l'?tat de New-York, tome 1, 1801, page 216. ? Emploi pronominal. [Le sujet d?signe une cho...
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Marketing.
Where advertising reaches a mass audience, personal or direct selling focuses on one customer at a time. That kind of individual attention makes direct sellingexpensive, but it also makes it effective. As the costs of personal selling have risen, the utilization of salespeople has changed. Simple transactions are completed byclerks. Salespeople are now used primarily where the products are complex and require detailed explanation, customized application, or careful negotiation over priceand paym...
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Banking.
loans, and some commercial loans in addition to checking accounts and time deposits. Credit unions, SLAs, and savings banks help encourage thriftiness by paying interest to consumers who put their money in savings deposits. Consequently, creditunions, SLAs, and savings banks are often referred to as thrift institutions. Of the various types of banks in the United States, commercial banks account for the greatest single source of the financial industry’s assets. In 2000 the 8,528commercial banks...
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Economics.
Malthus, nature's check was “positive”: “The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must insome shape or other visit the human race.” The shapes it took included war, epidemics, pestilence and plague, human vices, and famine, all combining to level theworld's population with the world's food supply. The only escape from population pressure and the horrors of the positive check was in voluntary limitation of population, no...
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Human Nutrition.
is one of the most preventable types of cancer. Nutritionists caution that most Americans need to eat more complex carbohydrates. In the typical American diet, only 40 to 50 percent of total calories come fromcarbohydrates—a lower percentage than found in most of the world. To make matters worse, half of the carbohydrate calories consumed by the typical American comefrom processed foods filled with simple sugars. Experts recommend that these foods make up no more that 10 percent of our diet, bec...
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L'encens
Consumé dans l'église en agréable odeur, l'encens la parfume de la
présence de Dieu.
répand la fumée en balançant l’encensoir. Le servant chargé de cet objet complexe, d’un maniement délicat, s’appelle le thuriféraire, “ porteur d’encens ” (du latin thus, “ encens ” et ferre, “ porter ”). Dans les églises de rite oriental, l’encens est très utilisé devant les icônes, et d’ordinaire assez parfumé (souvent à la rose). Les encensoirs ont des chaînes plus courtes.
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exposé anglais introduction to the Consumer Society
D : Introduction to the Consumer Society The consumer society refers to a social and economic order that encourages the purchase of goods and services in ever-greater amounts. It is characterized by mass production, advertising, and materialism, impacting our lifestyles and values. C : Google's scale • • • • • • Sergey Brin and Larry Page founded Google in 1996. It quickly gained popularity and remains the top search engine with a 91% market share as of January 2024. Google's br...
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Cuban Revolution.
Confederation of Labor, threw its support behind Batista. In the same month, the U.S. government cut off weapons sales to Batista’s government. U.S. envoys andpolitical moderates in Cuba tried to convince Batista to leave power peacefully, but Batista refused. Meanwhile, revolutionaries from Castro’s movement and from otherorganizations escalated violent resistance. During the second half of 1958, guerrillas seized ground in the countryside from the army. In the cities, several of Batista’sleadi...
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Biodiversity.
a common molecule, ribonucleic acid (RNA), and most also have deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). These molecules direct the production of proteins—molecules responsiblefor the structure and function of virtually all living cells. This is the evolutionary chain of life. All species are descended from a single common ancestor. From that ancient single-celled microbe, all inherited RNA. As time goesby, species diverge and develop their own peculiar attributes, thus making their own contribution to biodiv...
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Biodiversity - biology.
a common molecule, ribonucleic acid (RNA), and most also have deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). These molecules direct the production of proteins—molecules responsiblefor the structure and function of virtually all living cells. This is the evolutionary chain of life. All species are descended from a single common ancestor. From that ancient single-celled microbe, all inherited RNA. As time goesby, species diverge and develop their own peculiar attributes, thus making their own contribution to biodiv...
- 179072 Les sacrificateurs, les Lévites, la tribu entière de Lévi, n'auront ni part ni héritage avec Israël; ils se nourriront des sacrifices consumés par le feu en l'honneur de l'Éternel et de l'héritage de l'Éternel.
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Microeconomics.
changes in any of their underlying determinants. Thus, for example, fairly confident and precise predictions can be made about how changes in consumers' preferencesor in technology are likely to affect demand, supply, and equilibrium output, but only under conditions of perfect competition. Although the model of the firm under conditions of perfect competition is the starting point of the theory of supply in microeconomics, it is generally accepted thatmarkets are not usually characterized by pe...
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Advertising.
Advertising agencies make money in a variety of ways. When the agency uses the client’s advertising budget to buy time for an ad on the radio or on television or whenit buys space for an ad in a newspaper or magazine, the media outlet allows the agency to keep 15 percent of the cost of the space or the time as a commission. The15 percent commission has become an advertising industry standard and usually accounts for the largest portion of the agency’s income. Agencies also charge clientsfor the...
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Ferrum rubigo consumit
Ferrum rubigo consumit La rouille ronge le fer L'image, sous cette fo1111e, dérive de Quinte-Curce (7, 8, 1S) et elle rappelle que même ce qui paraît indestructible finit par disparaître : Quinte-Curce, dans le même passage, cite également l'exemple du lion qui sert parfois de pâture aux petits oiseaux (cf. n. 236), pour signaler que même les plus forts et les plus puissants peuvent avoir quelque chose à craindre des plus petits et des plus faibles; chez Properce (2, 25, 15 sq.) l'épée ma...
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Ukraine - country.
a major hazard, especially to Ukraine’s water supply. The Chernobyl’ complex was finally shut down completely in December 2000, with the financial assistance ofWestern nations. The funds were to pay for the completion of two other nuclear power plants that would produce enough power to make up for the loss of the powersupply from the Chernobyl’ plant. III PEOPLE OF UKRAINE The population of Ukraine was estimated in 2008 at 45,994,287, giving the country a population density of 76 persons per s...
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Taxation.
Thus, corporate income faces a higher tax burden than income earned by individuals or by other types of businesses. Tax legislation passed in 2003 in the United Statesattempted to address this issue by lowering the tax rate on dividends. Some economists have proposed abolishing the corporate income tax and instead taxing the owners of corporations (shareholders) through the personal income tax.Other students of the tax system see the corporate income tax as the price corporations pay in return f...
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Great Depression in the United States - U.
prices would continue to rise and they could soon sell their stocks at a profit. The widespread belief that anyone could get rich led many less affluent Americans into the market as well. Investors bought millions of shares of stock “on margin,” arisky practice similar to buying products on credit. They paid only a small part of the price and borrowed the rest, gambling that they could sell the stock at a highenough price to repay the loan and make a profit. For a time this was true: In 1928 the...
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« beauty culture » ( 20th) : tools, methods, and business practices of altering and caring for women's appearance ( p 2-3) images about afri-americ beauty standards in print advertising... indirectly characterized black women's beauty a a social issue ( p 4) Beauty Culture, Consumer Culture, and African Americans : 20th in US largely defined by consumerism ( p 6)
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Sonnet 24, Louise Labé.
Il s'agit d'abord pour la poétesse d'appeler à l'indulgence des dames, pour ce qui est de la faute d'avoir céder à l'ivresse amoureuse, en convaincant ses auditrices qu'elle n'est que l'honnête victime de Cupidon. Elle s'expose tout d'abord comme une amante pathétique exaltant son chagrin, sa souffrance, afin de mieux marquer sa repetance. Pour illustrer cet amour malheureux et déchirant, des motifs de l'amour pétrarquiste - amour non...
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Anthologie sur la mort
siècles. J’ai trouvé judicieux de rechercher des poètes actuels, vivants , pour intégrer leurs poèmes à ce travail. En ce qui concerne les deux autres siècles, ce sont les deux époques qui me touchent le plus : le XIX e siècle parce que c’est le siècle du Romantisme, et le XXe parce que de nouvelles formes, une nouvelle approche apparaissent grâce aux mouvements Dada et surréaliste . Pour les trois formes poétiques que nous devions choisir, le sonnet, (ici, un p...
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Fruto - ciencias de la naturaleza.
penetra en el óvulo, donde puede fecundarlo. Si lo fecunda, el óvulo se transforma en semilla y el receptáculo que protege el ovariose ensancha y forma la carne o pulpa del fruto.© Microsoft Corporation. Reservados todos los derechos. En los casos típicos, el fruto se limita al ovario maduro, como ocurre en la vaina del guisante (chícharo); en cambio, la manzana incluye ovario y receptáculo —el conjuntode las demás piezas florales soldadas—; la fresa es en realidad una infrutescencia formada por...
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Computer Memory.
been created, information can be retrieved but not changed. Newer technologies allow ROMs to be semi-permanent—that is, the information can be changed, but ittakes several seconds to make the change. For example, a FLASH memory acts like a ROM because values remain stored in memory, but the values can be changed. C External Memory External memory can generally be classified as either magnetic or optical, or a combination called magneto-optical. A magnetic storage device, such as a computer'shar...
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Business.
The most common form of ownership is a sole proprietorship —that is, a business owned by one individual. At the beginning of the 21st century, there were more than 17 million sole proprietorships in the United States. These businesses have the advantage of being easy to set up and to dissolve because few laws exist to regulatethem. Proprietors, as owners, also maintain direct control of their businesses and own all their profits. On the other hand, owners of proprietorships are personallyrespon...
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Conservation.
cancers, Hodgkin’s disease and leukemia. Unfortunately, human activities have greatly reduced biodiversity around the world. The 20th century encompasses one of the greatest waves of extinction, orelimination of species, to occur on the planet. The greatest threat to biodiversity is loss of habitat as humans develop land for agriculture, grazing livestock, industry,and habitation. The most drastic damage has occurred in the tropical rain forests, which cover less than seven percent of the Earth’...
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Patriae ;nserviendo cons•"'°'
Je me consume au service de ma patrie
Cette for 11111le célèbre, sans origine antique, fut inventée...
Patriae ;nserviendo cons•"'°' Je me consume au service de ma patrie Cette for 11111le célèbre, sans origine antique, fut inventée en octobre 1881 par Othon de Bismarck qui, dans une lettre du 6 novembre 1852, s'était servi d'une autre expression voisine. Aliis inserviendo consumor. ) et la même image était fréquemment utilisée dans la poésie médiévale de langue g~1111anique (cf. Hartmann von der Ouwe, Armen Heinrich, 5, 97 sq.; Hugo von Trimberg.. 5, 800). C'est entre le seizième et le dix-sept...
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lieux de pouvoir
nous montre bien comment l'image de l'Homme est importante. nous remarquons que depuis quelques années les marque utilise le culte de l'image en leurs faveurs pour vendre leurs produit au maximum. En primer lugar voy a subrayar el hecho de que orz ábamos viv íamos desde una cincuentena de a ños un cambio radical que nos obliga a seguir un modo vida centrado sobre el consumo de productos. Estudiamos un dibujo humor ístico " fibra consumista " de Faro que representaba bien el car áct...
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Synonymes de buisson, nom masculin.
Joseph Vilbort , En Kabylie , Projet Gutenberg Des buissons épineux ont poussé devant la fenêtre, et il faut se tortiller comme des vers dans une pomme pour l’atteindre. Roger Des Roches , Marie Quatdoigts , Québec Amérique Les pentes rapides qui 'descendent des montagnes sont en effet un fouillis inextricable de hautes herbes,de buissons épineux et de roches, où gîtent des tigres en grand nombre. Livres mystiques Un jour, il fit voler la cage du canari dans le buisson de lilas parce q...
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Dictionnaire en ligne:
EMBRASÉ, -ÉE, participe passé et adjectif.
fagot, des bûches; embraser et consumer. La servante avait coutume, en lui embrasant la cheminée, de l'arracher doucement à ce dernier sommeil (HONORÉ DE BALZAC, Le Curé de Tours, 1832, page 192 ). La région industrielle de la Ruhr fut embrasée par les bombes incendiaires et réduite en ruines par des projectiles (BLAISE CENDRARS, Bourlinguer, 1948, page 285) : Ø 1.... il roulait de ses mains fines et féminines des cigarettes qu'il embrasait vivement, à peine pincées par le milieu entre ses doig...
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Histoire de la Revolution française, IX
Le directoire, mécontent de Moreau, avait résolu de le rappeler, mais il reçut de lui une lettre qui fit la plus
grande sensation.
Ainsi finit l'une des plus belles et des plus intéressantes vies de la révolution. Cette fois du moins ce ne fut pas par l'échafaud. Hoche avait vingt-neuf ans. Soldat aux gardes-françaises, il avait fait son éducation en quelques mois. Au courage physique du soldat il joignait un caractère énergique, une intelligence supérieure, une grande connaissance des hommes, l'entente des événemens politiques, et enfin le mobile tout-puissant des passions. Les siennes étaient ardentes, et furent peut-être...
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Fotosíntesis - ciencias de la naturaleza.
Cloroplastos de raíz de cebollaLos cloroplastos son diminutas estructuras esféricas verdes esenciales para la fotosíntesis. La molécula de clorofila, un compuestoorgánico muy complejo de magnesio, carbono e hidrógeno, regula la absorción de las porciones roja, violeta y azul del espectrovisible.Richard Kirde/Oxford Scientific Films La primera etapa de la fotosíntesis es la absorción de luz por los pigmentos. La clorofila es el más importante de éstos, y es esencial para el proceso. Captura la lu...
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Business ethics project
B-The four CSR Models: The Economic, Philanthropic, Social Web and Integrative Model The Economic Model of CSR holds that the primary duty of business is to fulfill economic functions. Therefore, the social responsibility of business managers is simply to pursue profits but of course within the law. We usually refer to profits as a direct measure to see how well a business firm is meeting the society's expectations. Profits is in fact the best indication that the company is being effective a...
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La pratique et les fins
188 Le travail est-il une fatalité ? LILLE. JUIN 1983 :CET D. 189 Dégagez l'intérêt philosophique de ce texte d'après son étude ordonnée: «Dans la glorification du "travail", dans les infatigables discours sur la "bénédiction du travail", je vois la même arrière-pensée que dans les louanges adressées aux actes impersonnels et utiles à tous : à savoir la peur de tout ce qui est individuel. Au fond, on sent aujourd'hui, à la vue du travail,...
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Metabolismo - ciencias de la naturaleza.
Tanto los sistemas mecánicos como los orgánicos desprenden también grandes cantidades de energía calorífica y proporciones pequeñas de energía útil. El músculo animalrinde casi una caloría útil por cada cuatro desprendidas en forma de calor. Pero, en los organismos animales el calor no se desperdicia por completo, pues es muy necesario—sobre todo en los animales de sangre caliente— para conservar la temperatura del cuerpo y para inducir las reacciones metabólicas, que a temperaturas más bajas se...
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Collectibles and Collecting.
common blond and thus commands a higher price. If there are different variations to a collectible, the least common one is usually worth more. Often there areinteresting stories behind rarities, such as the highly sought-after 1909 Honus Wagner baseball card. At that time tobacco companies manufactured and distributedbaseball cards, and when the antitobacco Wagner complained, his card was pulled from production. Very few copies in good condition have ever been found. C Age Age is often an indic...
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Buenos Aires (city) - geography.
The city has produced or nurtured many of the most prominent Spanish-language writers of the 20th century, including Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, and ManuelPuig. Buenos Aires has long been one of the primary centers of Spanish-language publishing and printing, and it is home to major publishing companies. It supports theoldest English-language daily newspaper in Latin America, the Buenos Aires Herald, published since 1876. The arts have a long, rich history in Buenos Aires. This is mani...
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São Paulo (city) - geography.
universities include the State University Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1976), and the even larger University of São Paulo (1934), which incorporates the city’s famousand influential Faculty of Law. Important private universities are Mackenzie University, originally founded by Presbyterian missionaries from the United States (1870);the Paulista University (1972); the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (1946); and the University São Judas Tadeu (1971). The city is home to the São Pau...
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Burundi - country.
D Way of Life Most Burundians live in self-contained compounds of small round grass huts scattered over the country’s many hills. The rugo , the traditional Tutsi hut, is divided into sections and surrounded by an enclosure and cattle corrals. Families farm scattered plots of land on different soils at different altitudes to minimize crop failure. Thefloors of valleys are avoided due to higher temperatures and tsetse fly infestation. Social roles are largely determined by ethnicity, with the T...
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Dolphin (aquatic mammal) - biology.
Scientists have observed dolphins displaying three types of caregiving behaviors: standing by, excitement, and supporting. In standing-by behavior, dolphins remain inthe vicinity of an injured or ill companion without offering aid. In excitement behavior, dolphins swim swiftly in circles around an injured dolphin, responding aggressivelytoward threats to the injured animal. For instance, they may bite harpoon lines or charge boats that come too close to the animal. In supporting behavior, one or...
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Beetle - biology.
cut, or crush prey. Beetles that consume nectar from flowers use tubelike mouthparts to suck up nectar like a primitive straw. C Thorax The thorax, the body region behind the head, consists of three segments that provide attachments for the legs and wings. Each segment of the thorax carries a pair oflegs. The middle segment also bears the stiff wing sheaths called elytra, and the hind segment holds the membranous hind wings. D Legs Beetles have six jointed legs, each leg with five parts. The f...
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Africa.
The highest elevations in Africa are found in the various ranges of East Africa. After Kilimanjaro, the next highest peaks are Mount Kenya (5,199 m/17,057 ft), north ofKilimanjaro in central Kenya; Margherita Peak (5,109 m/ 16,762 ft) in the Ruwenzori Range on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo(DRC); Ras Dashen (4,620 m/ 15,157 ft) in the Ethiopian Highlands of northern Ethiopia; Mount Meru (4,565 m/ 14,977 ft), close to Kilimanjaro in Tanzania; and MountElgon (4,...
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Africa - Geography.
The highest elevations in Africa are found in the various ranges of East Africa. After Kilimanjaro, the next highest peaks are Mount Kenya (5,199 m/17,057 ft), north ofKilimanjaro in central Kenya; Margherita Peak (5,109 m/ 16,762 ft) in the Ruwenzori Range on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo(DRC); Ras Dashen (4,620 m/ 15,157 ft) in the Ethiopian Highlands of northern Ethiopia; Mount Meru (4,565 m/ 14,977 ft), close to Kilimanjaro in Tanzania; and MountElgon (4,...