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- 2441: Albert Einstein
- ... Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany on March 14, 1874. Before his first birthday, his family had moved to Munich where young Albert's father, Hermann Einstein, and uncle set up a small electro-chemical business. He was fortunate to have an excellent family with which he held a strong relationship. Albert's mother, Pauline Einstein, had an intense passion for music and literature, and it was she that first introduced ...
- 2442: It Is Time To Reaffirm Our Act
- ... philosophical ideology that serves as the core of Affirmative Action. That is preferential treatment based solely on race and gender, in the workplace. For instance, the following issue is commonplace in today's workplace: "Two business education teachers --one black, one white-- were hired on the same day by the Piscaway School Board. When the board was forced to fire one eight years later, it dismissed the white teacher rather than ...
- 2443: The Advantages Of Wealth
- ... lines and they are no longer privileged to the basic rights that the rest of society tends to take for granted. A family in poverty has little if any privacy as it suddenly becomes the business of greater society what that family does. The finances, the family decisions, and the living conditions are all subject to regulation by government and charity. Instances of child removal and repossession increase dramatically for poor ...
- 2444: Italian Mafia History
- ... in the US after World War II. All the others had either been successfully prosecuted and locked up, or murdered by rivals. By this time the Mafia's control spanned across almost all areas of business, and perhaps life, in America. Not only did the bosses control the criminal rackets, they also ventured out into legitimate businesses, partially to make more money, but mostly to launder the illegal millions coming in ...
- 2445: John Bates Clark
- ... kinds of non-human inputs under the general term "capital," which he then assumed that the broadened "capital" is homogenous. John took this Neoclassical approach one step further than others in applying it to the business firm and the maximization of profits. One of the results was a theory of the distribution which demonstrated that market outcomes were just. Clark also believed that technological change would lead to an increase in ...
- 2446: Adam Smith
- ... But in the end practical life also began to put this question. Capital had gradually become a power. Machinery had appeared on the scene and won its great triumphs; and machinery everywhere helped to extend business on a great scale, and to give production more and more of a capitalist character. But this very introduction of machinery had begun to reveal an opposition which was forced on economic life with the ...
- 2447: The Life of Jack London
- ... s alcohol problems. As Jack started drinking suicide was always in his head. One night Jack was so drunk that he went into a alcohol-induced coma. This made Jack decide to quit the oyster business. Jack than became more interested in writing. Jack's first writing piece earned him twenty five dollars. Jack went in debt again and decided to live like a bum. The police arrested him, because they ...
- 2448: Virtual Reality
- Virtual Reality Today Virtual reality allows people to study artificial worlds through simulation and computer graphics. Computers have changed the way we perform flight training, scientific research and conduct business. Flight simulators have drastically reduced the time and money required to learn to fly large jets. One of the most interesting capabilities of virtual reality is the ability to practice certain medical practices. Computers are ...
- 2449: The Birth Of An American Super
- ... A survey revealed that Superman, not the other characters made Action Comics so popular, so the summer of 1939 saw the debut of the publication of Superman #1. Superman had turned comic books into big business (Daniels 23). A collector friend of mine, Gregg Dabrow, told me that a mint condition copy of Action Comics #1 sold for $137,500 about five years ago. The stories about Superman in both publications ...
- 2450: George Washington: Summoned By A Country; One Man Stood Strong
- ... new. The exact subordination of the military to the civil power was new, and so too that most revolutionary of all experiments-the separation of church and state (138). After his retirement, Washington found his business affairs in poor shape. The only time his plantation prospered was when he was in charge. Old age saddened him. But as before, Washington was called to service shortly after retiring. Suddenly, the nation again ...
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