Minimum Wages
.... majority of the 22,000 members of the American Economic
Association agree that increasing the minimum wage will increase unemployment
among young, unskilled workers. This 35% hike in the minimum wage paid by the
business will be one of the biggest increases in California history. And, it
will hit just when the state is recovering from a long recession. Approximately
2 million of California's nearly 13 million workers earn less than $5.75 per
hour. Most of these workers would be directly affected by this in .....
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Money
.... the better they are. It's all a power trip.
The people who do not make too much are not too happy. They do not have
that the nice new car that their neighbor has. They always want something that
someone else has because they think it'll make them better.
Now, those who have money are unhappy a lot. They can never get enough.
Everything that they have needs to be updated and when they get the item it's
already old so they end up replacing it. The rich never get to sit back and
enjoy what they have. .....
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Money And Inflation
.... else must suffer the consequences. In the
business world; the more they produce, the less they can sell for; the less they
produce, the more they sell the product for.
Profit margins can have a direct impact on the consumer. The more an item
cost, the less a consumer will want to purchase that particular good. Higher
profit margins may be able to balance a company's budget, but unless their
product is in very high demand, most people will want to buy the product. The
lack of people purchasin .....
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Money Laundering
.... of the proceeds of their criminal activities. If they are
successful they can then maintain control over the proceeds and, so, provide a
legitimate cover for their source of income. J.D. Mclean defined money
laundering in the International Judicial Assistance as:
"Although the proceeds of crime will be kept as capital for further criminal
ventures, the sophisticated offender will wish to use the rest for other
purposes. If this is to done without running a risk of detection, the money
which represents .....
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NAFTA
.... key provisions to facilitate the conduct of business among the
three countries, has been a benefit to Canada-U.S.-Mexico trade. The continent-
wide transportation system that binds this market together is efficient and
cost-effective. Carriers of all modes are investing in more sophisticated
technology and entering into strategic alliances to improve service. Border
crossings are becoming easier.
Canada provides an ideal location for serving the entire North American market.
Companies based in Canada hav .....
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NAFTA: Canada's & Mexico's Viewpoints
.... wealthy countries of the North and
less developed countries of the South. The challenge before them was both
exciting and daunting.
A little more than a year later, the three trade ministers met again in
Washington, to put the finishing touches on a new North American Free Trade
Agreement. In just over a year the negotiators from the three countries had
successfully met the challenge and put together a new trading frame work for
North America. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was set .....
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Netscape Analysis Report
.... -- in
the heart of the Silicon Valley. However, due to the nature of the global
networks its software transmits over, Netscape is able to sell worldwide via the
Internet. There are virtually no walls to its "retail outlets." Its software
products are also distributed through computer stores worldwide.
III. Product Line
Netscape Navigator is a software program to browse information available
on the Internet. It is available for all common computer system platforms,
including 16-bit PC .....
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Hal Riney & Partners, Inc
.... that
Hal Riney & Partners earns approximately $2.375 million to $4.75 million.
With the acquisition of several new accounts including Acer Group and Sprint
Spectrum, Hal Riney’s billing is now approaching $600 million. Management
Profiles -
The chairman and CEO of Hal Riney & Partners, Inc., is Mr. Hal Riney.
There are over 30 Sr. VPs and VPs holding various positions at the San Francisco
office alone. Some of the key personnel at the San Francisco office includes
Vice Chairman - James Travis; Ch .....
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Obstacles Toward Development
.... education. The gross national product (GNP) is the most commonly
used measure of the overall level of economic activity. The gross domestic
product (GDP) measures the total value for final use of output produced by an
economy, by both residents and nonresidents. Thus GNP comprises GDP plus the
differences between the income residents receive from abroad for factor services
(labor and capital) fewer payments made to nonresidents who contribute to the
domestic economy. Many Third World countries have .....
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Oligopolists
.... economical graph that shows why
oligopolists tend to adopt a common price -to achieve the greatest price and
output.
The Hilmer committe, estabilished 1993, is a government body who acts in
the interests of recommendations of National Competition policies.
In 1995, the Trade Practises Act (T.P.A.) was introduced. The T.P.A.
sets out the general responsibilities of sellers, such as the firms of
oligopolies, and out laws actions that may be unfair to the consumers. This
includes misleading advertising .....
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Operating Strategy
.... of a complex ailment in a private institution is more
time consuming and expensive.
· Economic liberalization : domestic and multinational companies - more
competition
· Demography : urban, high income as dictated by upper middle class and elite
class, neighboring countries.
· Psychography : Targeting people who can afford comprehensive high quality
service; who are ready to pay more money for the comfort and treatment by more
reputed doctors.
· Market Growth (income + segments growth) : Sizab .....
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Organizational Review Of Plant Automation Group
.... The one recommendation this task was unable to come to
agreement on was the location of this new Plant Automation Group (PAG). An
executive decision was made by the General Manager to center the PAG in the
Information Technology Department (ITD).
In September 1994, the Joint Board contracted with Ernst & Young to produce a
"Management Review of the Proposed Plant Automation Group for the Sanitation
Districts of Orange County". Their report recommended the location be with ITD
but noted that for the dur .....
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Penguin Books: Introduction To Modern Business
.... the whole of the Company's systems are
incorporated and networked.
During this period a new lists including the Twentieth Century Classics
Series complementing the Penguin Classics, Arkana, the New Age list and Fantail,
the mass-market children's list were introduced.
Internal change that took place during that year was the closing down of
the Penguin Bookshops (that expanded to include 12 shops during the last decade),
leaving just one, the specialist Beatrix Potter "House of the Tailer of
Gloucester" .....
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People Or Profits?
.... didn't choose its financial situation, or its
parents. That baby didn't ask to be born, and it wasn't given a chance to live.
It wasn't necessarily the doctors fault, and it wasn't even his or her decision,
because of business. Business has moved to the heart of health care, a place
once relatively cushioned from the pursuit of profit that drives the rest of the
U.S. economy. Throughout the history of the United States, medical institutions
have largely been non-profit establishments existing primari .....
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Poverty Vs. The Economy
.... index determined that families of
three or more person spend approximately one-third of their income on food.
Thus, the poverty level for these families was, therefore, set at three times
the cost of the economy food plan. For smaller families and persons living
alone, the cost of the economy food plan was multiplied by higher factors in
order to compensate for the larger fixed expenses of smaller households. The
poverty thresholds are updated every year to reflect changes in the consumer
price inde .....
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