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	<title>Linguistic Solutions &#187; Globalization</title>
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		<title>Global Naming â€œGotchasâ€ Trip Up Microsoft and General Motors</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Later this year PC users in Latvia can look forward to a chicken on every disk when Microsoft releases Vista, which in Latvian means â€œfrumpy womanâ€ or â€œchicken.â€
Meanwhile, closer to home, Microsoft media users in Quebec raised their eyebrows last summer when the company announced its new Zune media player. It seems that â€œZuneâ€ sounds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAP Opens New Global Service Center in Brazil</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2006 14:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAP AG has recently announced the opening of a new SAP Global Service Center in SÃ£o Leopoldo, state of Rio Grande do Sul, where SAP plans to add 80 new employees by the end of this year. The new facility is located on the â€œUnisinosâ€ university campus and will focus on custom development and localization [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maryland Lost in Translation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2006 10:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ Web Globalization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask people which states have a horrible language problem, and they are likely to name Florida, Texas and California. Maryland won&#8217;t be mentioned.
It should be.
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In 2002, the Maryland General Assembly passed a law requiring all state agencies to offer oral interpretation and written translation &#8220;into any language spoken by any limited English proficient population that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Found in Translation: King&#8217;s &#8216;Dream&#8217; Plays in Beijing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2006 04:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For months now, Caitrin McKiernan has gone from place to place in this city to ask Chinese people an unlikely question: What does the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. mean to you?
The questions don&#8217;t end there, either. In most of these gatherings, she gets far more specific, burrowing into the history [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worry Over English Erosion Hardly New</title>
		<link>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2006/05/29/worry-over-english-erosion-hardly-new/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2006 03:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bilingualism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hispanic Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The way we English-speaking Americans see ourselves at home and in the world is necessarily changing. No matter how often we hear that we live in a big, diverse, multicultural country and a global economy, it still surprises us to see English as just one of our languages, not the exclusive one.
That&#8217;s because many of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fed Playbook Not Outdated by Globalization &#8212; Yellen</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2006 16:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cheap imports from China and the new global workforce shouldn&#8217;t cause the Federal Reserve to rip up its monetary policy playbook, Janet Yellen, the president of the San Francisco Fed said on Saturday
&#8220;My main conclusion is that globalization has no impact on the Fed&#8217;s ability to control inflation in the long run,&#8221; Yellen said in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UNICEF Chief&#8217;s Theme for Middlebury Grads is Globalization</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2006 08:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Globalization is not a prediction, it&#8217;s a reality,&#8221; Veneman began.
She cited the view of Thomas Friedman (&#8220;The World is Flat&#8221;) that international competition began with nations in the era of Columbus and other explorers, became competition between companies around the year 1800 when Middlebury College was founded, and now was between individuals.
To take part in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessible Globalization</title>
		<link>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2006/05/29/accessible-globalization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2006 08:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do firms continue to evaluate outsourcing and globalization? A 2005 study performed by IBMâ€™s T.J. Watson Research Center investigated the long-term effects of mature outsourcing organizations â€” ones that had outsourced a major portion of their IT infrastructure between 1998â€“2002 â€” and found that these companies continued to outperform their peers in Sales, General [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help is a Call Away, Ctizens Taught</title>
		<link>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2006/05/29/help-is-a-call-away-ctizens-taught/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2006 07:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Language Instruction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newcomers to Canada don&#8217;t always know how to reach emergency services or what to expect when police, fire or ambulance personnel show up at their door.
Some come from countries where the police are perceived as corrupt or oppressive.
That&#8217;s why Halton police have initiated a unique diversity program called Emergency Services Information to New Canadians (ESINC). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial Services Heads in Denial Over Impact of Globalization</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2006 05:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Financial services sector leaders are failing to acknowledge the challenge that globalization will pose in the next few years, accounting firm Deloitte &#038; Touche LLP said in a survey.
Of 175 chief executive officers of financial services providers interviewed, 21 percent thought their companies would gain over 50 percent of profit outside of their home markets [...]]]></description>
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