The Competitiveness Team produces a range of annual economic reports ( first published in brackets ): the Global Competitiveness Report ( 1979 ) measures competitiveness of countries and economies ; The Global Information Technology Report ( 2001 ) assesses their competitiveness based on their IT readiness ; the Global Gender Gap Report examines critical areas of inequality between men and women ; the Global Risks Report ( 2006 ) assesses key global risks ; the Global Travel and Tourism Report ( 2007 ) measures travel and tourism competitiveness and the Global Enabling Trade Report ( 2008 ) presents a cross-country analysis of the large number of measures facilitating trade between nations.

Global Competitiveness Index ( 2008-2009 ): competitiveness is an important determinant for the well-being of states in an international trade environment.

* Diploma Mills Are Easily Created and Some Have Issued Bogus Degrees to Federal Employees at Government Expense, Statement of Robert J. Cramer, Managing Director, Office of Special Investigations, United States Government Accountability Office, Before the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness, Committee on Education and the Workforce, U. S. House of Representatives ( 2004-09-23 ) ( discusses Hamilton University ).

* Competitiveness of Athenian commerce was promoted through revision of weights and measures, possibly based on successful standards already in use elsewhere, such as Aegina or Euboia or, according to the ancient account but unsupported by modern scholarship, Argos

In 1990, during his last year, he founded the W. Edwards Deming for Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness at Columbia Business School to promote operational excellence in business through the development of research, best practices and strategic planning.

In order to promote competitiveness, he laid down three policies derived from the treaties ; " Competitiveness and improvement of the business environment ( Art.

The programme was designed by the three institutes in consultation with industry bodies like Confederation of Indian Industry ( CII ), Japan International Cooperation Agency ( JICA ), the National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council ( NMCC ) of the Government of India and India's Ministry of Human Resource Development.

* Speech on ' The External and Internal Dimensions of Europe ’ s Competitiveness ' at IIEA, 26 February 2009

* Global Competitiveness in the Rail and Transit Industry

He moved to become Minister of State for E-commerce, Energy & Competitiveness at the Department of Trade and Industry on 9 September 2004.

He served as Minister of State for E-Commerce and Competitiveness and Minister of State for Energy, E-Commerce and Postal Services at the Department of Trade and Industry ; Minister of State for School Standards at the Department for Education and Skills ; Minister of State for Pensions at the Department for Work and Pensions ; and served as Financial Secretary to the Treasury, from 1999 to 2001, September 2004 to May 2005 and October 2008 to May 2010.

It was part of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, later was part of Ministry of Science and Innovation and now it is part of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.

* AURP-Battelle, Eileen Walker, " University Research Parks Contribute to Economic Competitiveness: AURP-Battelle Report ", http :// www. aurp. net / index. php? option = com_content & view = article & id = 46 & Itemid = 92

He was the founding president of the Global Consortium of Higher Education and Research for Agriculture, and is also on the boards of directors of the Association of American Universities and the American Council on Competitiveness.

* Center for Competitiveness and Prosperity Research

The institute also commissions a number of policy programs, including the Monetary Policy Council, Fiscal and Tax Competitiveness Program, Financial Services Research Initiative, and Pension Policy Council and Competition Policy Council.

Legal: The Legal EDHEC Research Centre has Legal Performance and Company Competitiveness as a subtitle.

The Armenian economy's competitiveness is low and stagnating according to the Global Competitiveness Index, in which Armenia's ranking slipped from 80th out of 132 countries in 2006-2007 index to 93rd out of 131 countries in the 2007-2008 index ( just below Libya, Namibia, Georgia, Serbia and Pakistan ).

In the World Economic Forum 2008 / 2009 Global Competitiveness Report, the country ranks first in Africa and 36th globally for economic competitiveness, well ahead of Portugal ( 43 ), Italy ( 49 ) and Greece ( 67 ).

The company is controlled by Paul Desmarais, Sr .. Paul Desmarais, Jr. is one of thirty members of the North American Competitiveness Council, a group whose advice directs the policies of Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America ( SPP ).

She was a member of the EU Competitiveness Council ( 2008-2009 ) and of the EU Employment and Social Affairs Council ( 2007-2009 ).

USSOUTHCOM exercises its COCOM authority through the commanders of its components, Joint Task Forces / Joint Interagency Task Force, and Security Cooperation Organizations.

Erik Hollnagel has developed this line of thought in his work on the Contextual Control Model ( COCOM ) and the Cognitive Reliability and Error Analysis Method ( CREAM ).

* Transport, Telecommunications and Energy ( TTE ): Created in June 2002, through the merging of three policies under one configuration, and with a composition varying according to the specific items on its agenda.

The Counter Sniper Unit ( CS ): Created in 1971, the CS unit's purpose is to provide specialized protective support to defend against long-range threats to Secret Service protectees.

The Canine Explosives Detection Unit ( K-9 ): Created in 1976, the mission of the K-9 unit is to provide skilled and specialized explosives detection support to protective efforts involving Secret Service protectees.

* Yale ( 1942 ): Created by the U. S. for battlefield communication and used in the influential Yale textbooks.

* ShareBuilder ESA ( Education Savings Account ): Created to help pay for the education of the beneficiary of the account.

* Douji and Hime of Amikiri ( 19-20 ): Created by the BlackPuppet to avenge the Bakegani slaughtered by Todoroki.

* Douji and Hime of Bakeneko ( 26-27 ): Created by the White Puppet, they have no battle form and have feline mannerisms as they sadistically enjoy playing around.

* Reiner Smolinski, " How to Go to Heaven, or How Heaven Goes: Natural Science and Interpretation in Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana ( 1690-1728 )," in, The New England Quarterly 81. 2 ( June 2008 ): 278-329

Philosophy of Science 63 ( June ): 262 – 277.

2 ( June ): 135 – 51.

2 ( June 1962 ): 115 – 138.

* Solstice-related observances ( also see June 20 ):

* St John's Eve and the first day of the Midsummer celebrations ( although this is not the real summer solstice, see June 20 ) ( Roman Catholic Church, Northern Europe ):

I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky ( 1995 ): A stage piece with libretto by June Jordan and staging by Peter Sellars.

On 26 June 1950, the National Assembly supported a crucial bill written by Milovan Đilas and Tito about " self-management " ( samoupravljanje ): a type of independent socialism that experimented with profit sharing with workers in state-run enterprises.

Electronic Musicological Review 4 ( June ): Federal University of Paraná, Brazil.

# Benedict V ( 22 May – 23 June 964 ): reigned for 33 calendar days

American Historical Review ( June ): 749 – 770.

" Civil War History 15 ( June 1969 ): 116 – 32

In Lee's Resolution on the 7th of June 1776 during the Second Continental Congress, Lee put forth the motion to the Continental Congress to declare Independence from Great Britain, which read ( in part ):

" Nature 474 ( 23 June ): 419.

It was recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle that the Northmen raided the important island monastery of Lindisfarne ( note that the generally accepted date is actually 8 June, not January ):

* June 21 ( killed in Mississippi ):

* June 18 ( killed at the Battle of Waterloo ):

* May 28 – June 1 – The Glorious First of June ( Battle of Ushant ): British and French ships battle to a draw.

* June 17 – Anglo-Spanish War ( 1625 ): A Spanish expedition led by Fadrique de Toledo wipes out the English colony on Nevis.

* June 19 – Battle of Kalvskinnet ( outside Nidaros, Norway ): Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.

* June 14 – Anglo-Spanish War ( 1654 – 1660 ) and Franco-Spanish War ( 1635 – 1659 ): Battle of the Dunes: A Spanish force attempting to lift a siege of Dunkirk is defeated by the French and English.

The distinction between Luther and Melanchthon is well brought out in Luther's letters to the latter ( June, 1530 ): " To your great anxiety by which you are made weak, I am a cordial foe ; for the cause is not ours.