For the purpose of U. S. regulation and Global Technical Regulations and for clear communication in safety and seating design, dummies carry specifically designated reference points, such as the H-point ; these are also used, for example, in automotive design.

Moreover, these organizations argue that companies can misuse the Global Compact as a public relations instrument for " bluewash ", as an excuse and argument to oppose any binding international regulation on corporate accountability, and as an entry door to increase corporate influence on the policy discourse and the development strategies of the United Nations.

To support his thesis, Rifkin notes that in addition to the EU having more people and a greater Gross Domestic Product than the U. S., the potential of the EU as an economic superpower is shown by having: 14 / 20 of the top banks in the world, 61 of the 140 of the top companies of the world as measure by the Global Fortune 500 ( the U. S. has 50 ), a homicide rate that is 1 / 4 than in the U. S., the 18 most developed countries in Europe all have more broadly distributed wealth than the U. S. ( the U. S. ranks 24th in the world ), higher lifespan than the U. S., higher literacy rates than the U. S., and higher quality of life than the U. S. Also, Europeans provide 47 % of all the humanitarian aid in the world, and are seen by Rifkin as being more effective in global economic market regulation, evidenced by the fact that the EU stopped the merger of General Electric and Honeywell, fined Microsoft for anti-trust, and blocked genetically modified food despite U. S. opposition.

“ What this study shows is the need for the Food and Drug Administration ( U. S. FDA ), which oversees regulation of both medications to help smokers quit and tobacco products, to approve only medications that have been proven to be effective in helping smokers quit in the long term and to lower nicotine in order to reduce the addictiveness of cigarettes ,” said co-author Gregory Connolly, director of the Center for Global Tobacco Control at HSPH.

From 1992 he focused more on the role played in British life by bureaucratic regulation and the European Union, forming a professional collaboration with Dr Richard North, and they subsequently co-authored a series of books, including The Mad Officials: How The Bureaucrats Are Strangling Britain ( 1994 ); The Castle of Lies ( 1996 ); The Great Deception ( 2003 ), a critical history of the European Union ; and most recently Scared To Death: From BSE To Global Warming, Why Scares Are Costing Us The Earth ( 2007 ), a study of the part played in Western society in recent decades by the ' scare phenomenon '.

* Eatwell, J. and Taylor, L. ( 2000 ) Global finance at risk: the case for international regulation.

( 2005 ) Global governance of financial systems: the international regulation of systemic risk.

With roots that can be traced back to the opium trade, today, Jardines is a Fortune Global 500 company that consists of Jardine Pacific, Jardine Motors Group, Jardine Strategic, Dairy Farm, Hongkong Land, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, Jardine Cycle & Carriage and Astra International.

The Ham Radio Global ALE High Frequency Network, which began service in June 2007, is the world's largest intentionally open ALE network for internet connectivity.

The uniqueness of the Seychelles ' ecology is reflected in the US $ 1. 8 million project of the Global Environment Trust Fund of the World Bank ( see Glossary ) entitled Biodiversity Conservation and Marine Pollution Abatement, that began in 1993.

After gaining this public notoriety, Zerzan began accepting speaking engagements and giving interviews around the world explaining anarcho-primitivism and the more general Global Justice Movement.

After being trained by former professional wrestler Boris Malenko and his son Joe Malenko, Waltman began his career as The Lightning Kid, working his way through various independent organizations such as Pro Wrestling America ( PWA ) and the Global Wrestling Federation ( GWF ), winning the PWA Light Heavyweight title, the PWA Iron Horse TV Title and the GWF Light Heavyweight Championship.

Beginning January 31, 2012, the AICPA in a joint venture with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants ( CIMA ) began issuing the Chartered Global Management Accountant ( CGMA ) credential.

Omid Kordestani, current VP of Global Business at Google, began his startup career with GO Corporation.

Progressive Games moved to Florida and began Global Distribution of the game while Dane Jones, Danny's son, operated the Nevada company for about six months.

* February 2012: Shaw Direct began implementing simultaneous substitution for the Global HD station ( ch.

In September 2000 the school began construction of a seven hectare campus on University Parkway, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City and this opened in August 2002.

Bhutto's interest in nuclear technology was said to be began during his college years in the United States when Bhutto attended the course of political science, discussing political impact of U. S .' s first nuclear test, Trinity, on Global politics.

However opponents point all the achievements where over 10 years, at time of Strong Global economic growth, Low oil prices and relative to other countries the achievements where average, particularly since a massive Balance of Payments crises began in 2008.

Beginning in February 2012, however, Shaw Direct began implementing simsubs for the Global HD network ( ch.

Mike Bullard's contract with CTV expired shortly after completing his sixth season of Open Mike with Mike Bullard, at which time he began talks with Global to move his show to their network.

The result was the incorporation of a company called Global Traffic Network, which began taking deliveries of Robinson R44 news helicopters in 2005.

In Robotech, development of the Valkyrie began at the end of the Global Civil War, when an alien spaceship crashed into Macross Island in the south pacific.

However, on February 12, just before CTV's coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics began, and before the CRTC was able to rule on the application, CHFD began carrying Global programming full-time.

Vocera received venture capital funding from a mix of venture capital firms and corporate investors, including Avalon Ventures, Cisco Systems, GGV Capital ( formerly Granite Global Ventures ), IDEO, Intel Communications Fund, Motorola Ventures, RRE Ventures, Thomas Weisel Partners, Vanguard Ventures and Venrock Associates, and began shipping products in 2002.

In January 2009, CHCH's Morning Live program began to be simulcast on former sister station CIII-TV due to low ratings leading to the cancellation of its own Global News Morning.

During this same period, CTV's profits began to decline, and by the early 1990s the network was posting losses, largely due to increased competition from the CanWest Global System and other independent stations.

The unstable feudal society that had evolved on Earth had been held together only by the powerful authority and capabilities of the United Earth Government ( UEG ) and the Global Military Police ( GMP )-but with both of these organizations crippled by the war, Earth began to slide into lawlessness as surviving cities became city-states and warred with one another and men and women rose quickly to positions of power only to fall just as swiftly.

Even after the shut down of WorldSpace services in India in December 2008, Sai Global Harmony continued to be broadcast over the satellite radio system, and gradually began to expand its services via internet streaming.

When Sai Global Harmony began, they used " to record audio files on to CD and send them to the uplink stations via Bangalore.

TechSoup Global ’ s efforts in Second Life began in 2005 with the founding of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life and include four virtual locations and membership spanning hundreds of organizations in dozens of countries.

Botswana, however, continues to benefit along with its neighbours in the region from USAID's Initiative for Southern Africa, now based in Pretoria, and USAID's Southern Africa Global Competitiveness Hub, head-quartered in Gaborone.

In a 2010 interview with the New Statesman, Lomborg summarized his position on climate change: " Global warming is real – it is man-made and it is an important problem.

Geophysicist Jack Oliver is credited with providing seismologic evidence supporting plate tectonics which encompassed and superseded continental drift with “ Seismology and the New Global Tectonics ,” published in 1968, using data collected from seismologic stations, including those he set up in the South Pacific.

* Clinical Global Impression, a scale to assess treatment response associated with mental disorders

The Global Ocean Sampling Expedition ( GOS ) is an ocean exploration genome project with the goal of assessing the genetic diversity in marine microbial communities and to understand their role in nature's fundamental processes.

* IEEE Global History Network A wiki-based site with many resources about the history of IEEE, its members, their professions and electrical and informational technologies and sciences.

In January 2010, Global Graphics completed a survey with 400 Chief Information Officers from organisations with over 1000 employees across the US and the UK that showed three quarters ( 76 per cent ) of large organisations use free software across the enterprise with over half ( 51 per cent ) planning to deploy more free software in 2010.

The aid package falls under the EU ’ s € 1 billion Food Facility, set up with the UN Secretary-General ’ s High-Level Task Force on the Global Food Crisis and FAO to focus on programmes that will have a quick but lasting impact on food security.

FAO ’ s Global Information and Early Warning System ( GIEWS ) monitors world food supply / demand and provides the international community with prompt information on crop prospects and the food security situation on a global, regional and country-by-country basis.

:* Comments on " The Question of Global Warming ", with a reply by Dyson, September 25, 2008

In January 2007 de Klerk was a speaker promoting peace and democracy in the world at the " Towards a Global Forum on New Democracies " event in Taipei, Taiwan, along with other dignitaries including Poland's Lech Wałęsa and now former Taiwan President Chen Shui-Bian.

He has also co-authored Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1, 500 Years ( 2007 ) with Dennis Avery, and Climate Change Reconsidered ( 2009 ) with Craig Idso.

GPS modernization has now become an ongoing initiative to upgrade the Global Positioning System with new capabilities to meet growing military, civil, and commercial needs.

This has led to a high rate of poverty in Ghana, estimated at 27 % of the population in 2011, and an increase in crime, with Ghana jumping from 42nd position in 2011 to 50th position in the 2012 Global Peace Index.

This comes with a similar project from Canadian start-up Global Alumina trying to come with a 2 billion dollar alumina plant in the same region.

* Table of Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points ( GSSPs ) with links to summary pages for each one: chart

* Global gecko association site with pictures, caresheets, species list

* Grzega, Joachim ( 2005 ), “ Towards Global English via Basic Global English ( BGE ): Socioeconomic and Pedagogic Ideas for a European and Global Language ( with Didactic Examples for Native Speakers of German ), Journal for EuroLinguistiX 2: 65-164.