While the CI has campaigned on issues including gambling, abortion and euthanasia, it is most notable for its campaigns against gay rights.

The CI shares some aspects of the real KM that is ideally and definitely human intelligence and experiences-based for more sophisticated qualitative analysis, creativity, prospective views.

The financial services generated CI $ 1. 2 billion of GDP in 2007 ( 55 % of the total economy ), 36 % of all employment and 40 % of all government revenue.

CI also works with and hosts the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue ( TACD ) – a forum of US and EU consumer organisations that develops and agrees on joint consumer policy recommendations to the US government and European Union to promote the consumer interest in EU and US policy making – at its office in London.

CI is concerned with how ICTs are used in practice and not simply facilitating " access " to them and the notion of " effective use " is a bridge between CI research ( research and analysis of the constituent elements of effective use ), CI policy ( developing enabling structures and programmes supportive of " effective use ") and practice ( implementing applications and services in support of local communities ).

* January 11, 1956: The CI & L officially adopts its longtime nickname, Monon, as corporate title.

However, the institutionalization of CI as a formal activity among American corporations can be traced to 1988, when Ben and Tamar Gilad published the first organizational model of a formal corporate CI function, which was then adopted widely by US companies.

In campaigning for the rights of consumers across the world, CI seeks to hold corporations to account and acts as a global watchdog against any behaviour that threatens, ignores or abuses the principles of consumer protection.

All Top Up TV Set-Top Boxes and CAM's allow access to ESPN whilst the CI + CAM and approved Set-Top Boxes allow viewers to subscribe to Sky Sports and ESPN UK.

Serum inhibin-B weakly indicates presence of sperm cells in the testes, raising chances for successfully achieving pregnancy through testicular sperm extraction ( TESE ), although the association is not very substantial, having a sensitivity of 0. 65 ( 95 % confidence interval: 0. 56 – 0. 74 ) and a specificity of 0. 83 ( CI: 0. 64 – 0. 93 ) for prediction the presence of sperm in the testes in non-obstructive azoospermia.

Consumers International ( CI ) is the world federation of consumer groups that serves as the only independent and authoritative global voice for consumers.

" After interviewing China scholars, journalists and CI directors, a writer for The Diplomat also found little support for the concern that CIs would serve as propaganda vehicles, though some of her sources did note that they would face constraints in their curriculum on matters such as Tibet and human rights.

Responsibilities may vary, but include administering daily medical coverage for selected intercollegiate athletic teams ( practice / event ); traveling with the assigned team, evaluation and documentation of athletic injuries, administrative responsibilities, serve as Approved Clinical Instructor ( ACI ) or Clinical Instructor ( CI ) in a CAATE – accredited ATEP, and other duties as assigned by the head athletic trainer.

Summer campaigns saw him not only retake, sometimes with brutal reprisals, what he had lost in the ' close ' season, but also seek to widen his sphere of operation — and we see him in action in the Aveyron at St. Antonin and on the banks of the Rhone at Beaucaire.

The background of this revolt lay in the Napoleonic Wars, when a number of well-educated Russian officers traveled in Europe in the course of the military campaigns, where their exposure to the liberalism of Western Europe encouraged them to seek change on their return to autocratic Russia.

Their campaigns stretch beyond the traditional arena of the conservation movement and seek to address the economic and development aspects of sustainability.

This section includes parties that primarily advocate single-issue politics ( though they may have a more detailed platform ), and / or may seek to attract protest votes rather than to mount serious political campaigns or advocacy.

While corporations or unions may not give money directly to campaigns, they may seek to persuade the voting public through independent expenditure groups.

In trading blocs such as the European Union ( EU ), the campaigns seek to influence policy across a number of member state governments.

The rising power of the Hittites eventually persuaded Mitanni to seek an ally, and there was definitely a treaty of some sort between Egypt and Mitanni by the time of Amenhotep's successor, but it may be that it was enacted after Amenhotep's campaigns, to try to prevent any more of campaigns of mass deportations.

Dr. Colin Martin has suggested that the Severan campaigns did not seek a battle but instead sought to destroy the fertile agricultural land of eastern Scotland and thereby bring about genocide of the Caledonians through starvation.

* Strong relationship ( especially in America ) to Social Movement Unionism and Community Unionism which ( respectively ) seek to ally the labour movement to broader social movements and to local community organisations-including for example, campaigns such as United Students Against Sweatshops and ACORN.

Planet Ark ’ s campaigns seek to drive positive action that directly changes people ’ s behaviour.

Advertising management is the process of overseeing campaigns that seek to inform and attract consumers regarding a particular good or service.

They also engage in several advocacy campaigns and actions that seek to deliver a coherent and well-funded European strategy for culture.

Many battles have been fought to cause an enemy army simply to retreat, or to suffer attrition ; and many campaigns have been waged to avoid rather than seek such a battle.

He visited England in 1579 to seek the Queen's financial support for his campaigns on behalf of the United Provinces.

J. P. Harris and Robert M. Citino point out that the Germans had always had a marked preference for short, decisive campaigns – but were unable to achieve short-order victories in First World War conditions.

To achieve this, John reformed the English feudal contribution to his campaigns, creating a more flexible system under which only one knight in ten would actually be mobilised, but would be financially supported by the other nine ; knights would serve for an indefinite period.

According to Professor Henry Jenkins, four steps should be followed to achieve successful campaigns based on that concept:

In Shu Han, Jiang Wei inherits Zhuge Liang's legacy and continues to lead another nine campaigns against Cao Wei for a bitter three decades, but he fails to achieve any significant success.

Despite some successes, these did not achieve any permanent results, nor did they force Basil to abandon his campaigns in Bulgaria.

Predictive dialing campaigns can achieve agent productivity of 50 minutes per hour and nuisance ratios of 3 % or less.

He went on to achieve fame during campaigns against Salé and Moor pirates ; laying siege to Saint-Malo ; and fighting in the West Indies against France during the War of the Spanish Succession.

To achieve these goals, the dukes allied with various neighboring states, mounted military campaigns of which the first Battle of Kremmer Damm in 1332 was the most important, and gave their lands to the Cammin bishops ( in 1320 ) and even to pope John XXII ( in 1330 or 1331 ).

The look was also to achieve what most bands call " Utter Brutality ", it was also unintentionally popularized in 1977 through a series of McDonald's print advertisement campaigns featuring black-and-white photographs of company mascot Ronald McDonald.

To achieve its goal of poverty eradication, War on Want works with grassroots partner organisations in the developing world, and campaigns in the UK to raise public awareness and change government policy.

Edward also fought campaigns in Scotland, but was unable to achieve strategic victory, and the costs created tensions that nearly led to civil war.

They did, and comfortably so ; in fact for much of the 1982 – 83 season it looked as though Fulham would achieve back-to-back promotion campaigns, however, their form after the turn of the year dipped.

Despite the poor league form, once again Pat's had another European run in the Europa League again progressing through two rounds of the Europa League, thus becoming only the second League of Ireland club ( after Cork City in 2004 and 2005 ) to achieve such progress in two consecutive European campaigns.

One policy of the network is to launch campaigns to help achieve their stated goals.

The Mahasabha's influence was hindered by its opposition to the widely-popular civil disobedience campaigns led by the Congress Party to achieve Indian independence from British rule.

She tries to follow the book's advice to gain political influence as her husband campaigns for mayor, but in the end, she fails to achieve the desired results and throws the book into a rubbish bin, where it is picked up by a lonely window cleaner.

The TWUA led numerous organizing campaigns in the union-resistant South, aiming to help textile workers achieve higher wages, health insurance and other benefits, and to ensure fair labor practices.

Bankers Life and Casualty Company Center for a Secure Retirement conducts studies and consumer awareness campaigns to provide insight and practical advice for how everyday Americans can achieve financial security during retirement.

During the war, he held the three main pillars of his policy: As Command in Chief, along with General José Félix Estigarribia, he led successful campaigns of the Army ; implemented a progressive system of expenses, and maintained a diplomatic directive with the strong desire to achieve peace with dignity.

In an article published by " Press for Change " ( a political lobbying and educational organisation, which campaigns to achieve equal civil rights and liberties for all trans people in the UK ), an advisor who helped studio writers at Granada Television with this storyline has given an account on its conceptualisation: " It was decided that Roy needed a girlfriend, but what kind of woman would go for Roy, or vice-versa?