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- 1001: Case for Legalizing Marijuana What
- ... else- not from the police. Marijuana is a common weed, easier to produce than the bathtub gin of the Prohibition years. It is not surprising that thousands of "dealers" have been drawn into the marijuana business. Despite the great risks they face, including bullying by other dealers and the threat of arrest, they are attracted by the profits. The law cannot change the economics of this market because it operates outside the law. All the police can do is to make it risky to get into the marijuana business. This is supposed to drive out the less courageous dealers, reduce the amount of marijuana available, and inflate prices. But even by this measure, the police effort has failed. As mentioned earlier, the price of ... without getting caught up in a policy debate. Meanwhile, the black market would disappear overnight. Some arrangement would be made to license the production of marijuana cigarettes. Thousands of dealers would be put out of business, and a secret part of the economy would come into the open. It is difficult to say whether this change would reduce crime because criminals would probably continue to sell other drugs. But it ...
- 1002: Philosophies In Voltaires Cand
- ... you kindly tell us why such a strange animal as a man was ever made? "( pg. 141) The dervish's response is: " What has that got to do with you? Is it none of your business? "(pg. 141). What Voltaire is saying here is that those type of questions are none of our business and should be left well alone. He believes it is Gods business to know, not ours. Next, Candide poses this question: " But surely reverend father, there is a great deal of evil in this world. "(pg. 141). The dervish responds: " And what if there is? When ...
- 1003: Walt Disney
- ... his many followers, this showed his true leadership. Walt had the ability to share his visions and dreams with others and persuade them to believe in him and his ideas. To open up his own business and start making cartoons Walt had to take many risks. He had to take an even bigger risk borrowing millions of dollars to open Disneyland. It took great leadership skill to build up the Disney ... leader that he is he did not quit when he went bankrupt, he started again. Walt Disney was a leader in the field of animation and a pioneer and risk taker in the amusement park business. He founded his own business and started making some of the first animated films. He opened Disneyland an amusement park like no other in the world and he created a huge international company. Without Walts inspiration and drive, ...
- 1004: Warren G. Harding
- ... near Marion, Ohio, in 1865, became the publisher of a newspaper. He married a divorce, Mrs. Florence Kling De Wolfe. He was a trustee of the Trinity Baptist Church, a director of almost every important business, and a leader in fraternal organizations and charitable enterprises. He organized the Citizen's Cornet Band, available for both Republican and Democratic rallies; "I played every instrument but the slide trombone and the E-flat ... limitations upon immigration. By 1923 the postwar depression seemed to be giving way to a new surge of prosperity, and newspapers hailed Harding as a wise statesman carrying out his campaign promise--"Less government in business and more business in government." Behind the facade, not all of Harding's Administration was so impressive. Word began to reach the President that some of his friends were using their official positions for their own enrichment. ...
- 1005: JFK: Was His Assassination Ine
- ... not be farther from the truth. Instead, it was the result of a complex combination of domestic and foreign events. When President Kennedy was in office, he had to deal with many issues, ranging from business and finance to crime-fighting and war issues. Perhaps it is not as important to decide who it was that killed him, but why. President Kennedy's decisions and courses of action were not popular ... MIC, war is the equivalent of winning the lottery. An aggressive president who does not hesitate to go into war is the ideal choice for the MIC. The MIC thrives on war, seeing it as "business", every time a weapon has to be replaced the MIC gets richer, and the taxpayer gets poorer. The MIC couldn't care less about Americans dying in war as long as the cash is flowing ... these groups were intimidated by the Kennedy administration. Kennedy tried to find a middle road between black and white radicals. His human-rights activities earned him the hatred of all racists. And as for big business, he angered them by obliging steel manufacturers to reverse price increases, as well as introducing a tax-reform legislation that would end unfair tax practices and would abolish the profitable oil reduction allowance. International ...
- 1006: Case For Legalizing Marijuana
- ... else- not from the police. Marijuana is a common weed, easier to produce than the bathtub gin of the Prohibition years. It is not surprising that thousands of "dealers" have been drawn into the marijuana business. Despite the great risks they face, including bullying by other dealers and the threat of arrest, they are attracted by the profits. The law cannot change the economics of this market because it operates outside the law. All the police can do is to make it risky to get into the marijuana business. This is supposed to drive out the less courageous dealers, reduce the amount of marijuana available, and inflate prices. But even by this measure, the police effort has failed. As mentioned earlier, the price of ... without getting caught up in a policy debate. Meanwhile, the black market would disappear overnight. Some arrangement would be made to license the production of marijuana cigarettes. Thousands of dealers would be put out of business, and a secret part of the economy would come into the open. It is difficult to say whether this change would reduce crime because criminals would probably continue to sell other drugs. But it ...
- 1007: Death Of a Salesman
- ... who stripped him of hope. The most obvious flaw in society is greed, the desire to get ahead of the next guy. This malady is present on a national level. It is the philosophy of business and comprises the dreams of man. Sometimes, this can drive man to great things, sometimes it can drive a man to ruin. Willy was driven to the latter. (Not his own greed for he was ... and his sons which reduced him to a failure. The next largest flaw in society is a lack of compassion. This could be as a result of almost overwhelming greed, the main culprit being big business. "I'm always in a race with the junkyard! I just finished paying for the car and it's on it last legs. The refrigerator consumes belts like a god-dam maniac. They time those things."(Act 2, page 73, lines 16-19) Willy's belief in this statement drew him to believe that big business lacked compassion. It is because of this that he is abandoned by Biff and disowned by Happy, left babbling in a toilet. It is this flaw which allowed him to die a slow death ...
- 1008: Mexico's Drug Trade
- ... Caribbean Islands to the "friendly" ports in Miami (Constantine 2). Federal agents eventually made a number of drug seizures and arrests, and forced the cartel to take immediate action. Instead of deterring the cartel's business, the government merely forced it to move. The Cali Cartel began transporting the bulk of its drugs through Mexico. This move proved to be even more profitable for the cartel, as Mexico provided a country ... demand and receive a portion of all drug shipments in exchange for their services. This resulted in Mexican drug trafficking groups substantially increasing their profits and gaining a foothold in the lucrative illicit drug wholesale business (Blair 3). According to Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) officials, Mexican drug traffickers have almost become as powerful as the Colombian Medellin and Cali cartels were at their height in the 1980s. The Mexican organizations ... of the U.S. government and the DEA in combating this hemispheric drug problem is often deterred by the drug trafficker's expeditious response time to their counternarcotics policies. Already expecting interference in their illegal business, traffickers build redundant processing facilities in case current ones are destroyed. Furthermore, these sophisticated drug traffickers often stockpile surpluses of their product inside the United States in case of smuggling interruptions (Boaz 58). Corruption ...
- 1009: Crime Prevention
- ... so many uncontrollable access points that it allowed offenders to commit a crime untouched and undetected. This approach is directed to identifying unsafe sites. Criminologists would look at specific sites that people frequent outside of business hours. Hotels and taverns, coffee shops, parking lots, change public washrooms, restaurants, and public places. The next thing experts would examine are places where people are waiting for transport. These would include buses, taxi, and ... and buses which deters crime because of their physical presence. Not all countries embrace this type of community crime-prevention. For example, Australian police forces feel that groups like the Guardian Angels interfere with police business. There are people who support the idea because they believe that the community can help themselves by actually doing something to benefit them. The local community can determine their own fate by addressing safety issues ... Justice Auxiliary justice is a system that calls upon the local community for support, parallel to the criminal justice system. The responsibilities would be shared among the (State) police and the community. Neighborhood watch and business watches are examples of this strategy. The idea is the increase in surveillance of unsafe and unusual activity. Another technique is the block parent program. This program is intended to give children who are ...
- 1010: Current State of the U.S. Economy
- ... showed that twenty-six percent of U.S. consumers expected their families income to rise in the next sixth months. Also less than thirteen percent said jobs are hard to get. Forty percent said that business conditions were good. This survey is based on a sample of 5,000 U.S. households. CONCLUSION There is not much argument that the economy is currently doing well but with the Asian crises who ... Introduction II. Inflation III. Interest Rates IV. Productivity V. Budget Surplus VI. Savings Rates VII. Trade Deficit VIII. Unemployment IX. Consumer Confidence X. Conclusion BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. The Dallas Morning News. Robert Dodge, February 25, 1998 Business 2. Newsweek. Jane Bryant Quinn, February 16, 1998 3. New York Times. February 26, 1998. Business 4. Newsweek. Robert Samuelson, February 16, 1998 5. The Washington Post. John M. Berry, February 24, 1998 6. The Washington Post. Paul Bluisein, February 20, 1998 7. The Washington Post. James K. Glassman, February ...
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