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- 611: The Need for Federal Government Involvement in Education Reform
- ... greater accountability by taxpayers and as a vehicle for breaking with traditional ideas about how we teach our children. If implemented, this approach to curriculum development could change our schools more than any other reform proposal in the last thirty years. The focus of past and present curriculum has been on content, on the knowledge to be acquired by each student. Our language, literature, history, customs, traditions, and morals, often called ...
- 612: The American Education System; Cause for Rebellion
- ... and that teachers are more concerned with their pensions than their classrooms. Economists fret that a weak school system is hurting the ability of the U.S. to compete in the global economy. And despite modest improvements in test scores, U.S. students rank far behind most of their international peers in science and math (Mandel 66). With so many complaints about the current state of public schools accompanied by widespread ...
- 613: My College Plans
- ... that I would ever considering going to, I love this college with a deep passion. They have my favorite basketball team and the also represent Kentucky (The state in which I was born.). From its modest beginnings in 1865, when it was known as a State College, the University of Kentucky has grown into one of the nation's most outstanding institutions of higher learning. As a comprehensive land-grant university ...
- 614: Minimum Wage
- ... the burden on public-health facilities and hospital emergency rooms. According to Harry Holzer, who is the chief economist with the wage division of the U.S. Department of Labor disputes the notion that a modest increase in the minimum wage has a significant impact on either business profits or employment (Alpert, online). Because of the overall strength of our economy, which continued after the minimum wage was increased in 1997 ...
- 615: Tariffs and Trade Restrictions To Save Jobs
- ... hence, American workers. Profits, employment, and wages would rise. American firms win. American workers win. What could be better than that? Since I am writing this essay around noon, let me say that this fanciful proposal violates lots of economic laws, not the least of which is that there is no such thing as a free lunch. As it turns out, import restrictions do not save jobs, they cost them. The ...
- 616: The Merger of Trizec Corporations and Horsham Incorporated
- ... 10% of the equity and 80% of votes through ownership of multiple voting shares. Horsham Incorporated has assets including Clark Refining and Marketing Incorporated, 20% of American Barrick and real estate in Berlin.5 The proposal in 1994 had Horsham paying 500 million dollars to receive a portion of the debt that is convertible to common shares and then another 100 million dollars for additional equity. The deal put a total ...
- 617: The Wrong Way To Sell A New Idea
- ... 1/5th as much once fully phased in. These cost savings are equivalent to more than a $100 bil lion tax cut for the American people. No tax system is perfect, and no tax reform proposal is without flaws. In the end, the flat tax's greatest strength is that it would remove the current tax system's depressing effect on the economy. This over time, could make up for all ...
- 618: The Failure of NAFTA
- ... I think we are likely to see future policy action in the area of trade between the North American countries. NAFTA hasn’t worked well, so I’m sure there will soon be a new proposal on the table soon. I think the new policy will greatly be affected by the next presidential election also. Which party gains or retains the presidency will have a major impact on economics and trade ...
- 619: The Australian Dollar
- ... rate cut (despite easings from the US Fed, Bank of Canada and the New Zealand). Outlook: another look at the fundamentals: The A$ may have gained recently against the USD but the move has been modest, retrieving less than half of the decline from $US0.82 in December 1996. A number of forecasts have been published suggesting that further A$ appreciation is in prospect for the year ahead. While it is ...
- 620: The History of General Motors
- ... of exalted prototypes.) Other buyers found their appetites whetted for muscle cars like the Chevy Camaro and the Pontiac GTO. Combining lightweight bodies with powerful engines, muscle cars made speed and power available for a modest price. The Camaro--brought out in 1967--was partly computer designed. The 1963 Buick Riviera, the first personal luxury car, was a styling inspiration to the entire industry throughout the 1960s. Opel, Holden and Vauxhall ...
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