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- 451: Commercial Vices
- ... and violence than all other drugs combined. The United States attempted to prohibit alcohol and failed. The Mafia made its money by bootlegging alcohol. The gangsters of the twenties and thiries were in the alcohol business just as the drug peddlers of today are in the drug business. Both settled trade disputes with gun fire. When alcohol prohibition was repealed and sale by licensed dealers was instituted, the Mafia went out of the liquor business and the revenue agents assigned to stop the illegal business went out of business too. The quality of regulated liquor became assured and taxed, not high enough to motivate bootlegging, became a source of ...
- 452: Implementing A CAD System TO Reduce Costs
- ... improving quality overall. By implementing a company wide CAD system, which would be networked together with each customer and all plants, these improvements could be achieved. Research will include interviewing various employees as to how business is done and what influences the winning or loosing of a contract. Research will also include study of both customer and competitors systems. Project Scope & Current Evaluation Goals Supported by CAD Initiative: In converting to ... easily accept electronic data; We must deal in manual drawings; We have many copies of similar drawings; We have multiple ECN levels; We have minimal CAD knowledge; We must perform manual volume calculations. Threats to Business: If procedures are not taken in order to improve on the present company weaknesses, there are bona fide threats which could potentially harm future progress and business. Once the weakness in the company have been effaced, the following threat to our business may be eliminated or greatly reduced. The immediate threats are: Suppliers may assume the design role; Competitors able to ...
- 453: Baseball Strike
- ... market teams such as Los Angeles, both New York teams, and both Chicago teams, are disregarding the smaller teams problems. They do not believe revenue should be shared among teams. They say it's a business. Revenue sharing would break the business. The truth is that teams with smaller revenues cannot keep up with players salaries, while the teams who can pay them more receive the high price, high talented players, who increase chances of winning and bring in more money. Smaller teams make a good point in saying that a business is not always a competition. They say that this business will not prosper until all aspects, and all job positions in the game are profiting. The only thing both sides agree on is that ...
- 454: Game Over!
- ... market teams such as Los Angeles, both New York teams, and both Chicago teams, are disregarding the smaller teams problems. They do not believe revenue should be shared among teams. They say it's a business. Revenue sharing would break the business. The truth is that teams with smaller revenues cannot keep up with players salaries, while the teams who can pay them more receive the high price, high talented players, who increase chances of winning and bring in more money. Smaller teams make a good point in saying that a business is not always a competition. They say that this business will not prosper until all aspects, and all job positions in the game are profiting. The only thing both sides agree on is that ...
- 455: Illuminating the Path of Progress
- ... children born to Samuel and Nancy Edison. Edison's early life was spent in Ohio near the nation's busiest grain port. He spent time exploring the canal and played near his father's shingle business. When Alva was a child, he had scarlet fever. The fever damaged his hearing and delayed his entrance into school. Edison was curious about the world around him and always tried to teach himself through ... could be controlled. This discovery is known as the "Edison Effect." It is the basis for the whole field of electronics. Edison did not pursue this field. Edison grew tired of the manufacturing side of business and wanted to devote his time to experimenting on new inventions. He moved the laboratory to Menlo Park, N.J., where he directed groups of employees working on various projects. The move to Menlo Park ... develop a method of extracting iron from low grade ore. Edison spent $2 million trying to develop a method of extracting iron. He spent almost all of the money he had made from his electricity business. He failed to develop a commercial process for magnetic ore separation. In 1898, Edison bought a large area of land and built a cement plant. By 1905 this new venture had become the fifth ...
- 456: Technology 2
- ... you can soon discover what you can do with computers to make life easier and more enjoyable. Being computer literate allows you to use many powerful software applications and utilities to do work for school, business, or pleasure. Microsoft is the current leading producer of many of these applications and utilities. Microsoft produces software called operating systems that manage and regulate the information processing cycle. The oldest of these is MS ... GUI's). Such operating systems include Windows 3.xx, Windows 95, and Windows NT Workstation. Windows 95 is geared more for use in the home for productivity and game playing whereas Windows NT is more business orientated. The article entitled "Mine, All Mine" in the June 5, 1995 issue of Time stated that 8 out of 10 PC's worldwide would not be able to start or run if it were ... 50). Microsoft's Encarta is an electronic CD-ROM encyclopedia that makes for a fantastic alternative to 20 plus volume book encyclopedias. In fact, it is so popular, it outsells the Encyclopedia Britannica. These powerful business, productivity, and entertainment applications are just the beginning of what you can do with a PC. Knowing how to use the Internet will allow you access to a vast resource of facts, knowledge, information, ...
- 457: A Tale Of Two Cities
- ... you, try stepping back and viewing him as a man, rather than an influence on the story. He's a complex, realistic character. We see him so clearly, working early morning hours on Stryver's business, padding between table and punch bowl in his headdress of sopping towels, that we're able to feel for him. Have you ever known someone who's thrown away his talent or potential, yet retains ... watch him grow stronger, regaining the sense of purpose he'd lost in the Bastille. -JARVIS LORRY All through the story Jarvis Lorry protests that he's nothing more or less than a man of business. "Feelings!" he exclaims, "I have no time for them." Mr. Lorry's time belongs to Tellson's bank, "the House," his employer for over 40 years. Yet behind his allegiance to business, Lorry hides a kind heart. When Dr. Manette responds to Lucie's marriage by falling into an amnesiac spell, Lorry deserts Tellson's for nine full days to look after his friend. How closely ...
- 458: Game Over!
- ... market teams such as Los Angeles, both New York teams, and both Chicago teams, are disregarding the smaller teams problems. They do not believe revenue should be shared among teams. They say it's a business. Revenue sharing would break the business. The truth is that teams with smaller revenues cannot keep up with players salaries, while the teams who can pay them more receive the high price, high talented players, who increase chances of winning and bring in more money. Smaller teams make a good point in saying that a business is not always a competition. They say that this business will not prosper until all aspects, and all job positions in the game are profiting. The only thing both sides agree on is that ...
- 459: Why You Should Purchase A PC
- ... you can soon discover what you can do with computers to make life easier and more enjoyable. Being computer literate allows you to use many powerful software applications and utilities to do work for school, business, or pleasure. Microsoft is the current leading producer of many of these applications and utilities. Microsoft produces software called operating systems that manage and regulate the information processing cycle. The oldest of these is MS ... GUI's). Such operating systems include Windows 3.xx, Windows 95, and Windows NT Workstation. Windows 95 is geared more for use in the home for productivity and game playing whereas Windows NT is more business orientated. The article entitled "Mine, All Mine" in the June 5, 1995 issue of Time stated that 8 out of 10 PC's worldwide would not be able to start or run if it were ... 50). Microsoft's Encarta is an electronic CD-ROM encyclopedia that makes for a fantastic alternative to 20 plus volume book encyclopedias. In fact, it is so popular, it outsells the Encyclopedia Britannica. These powerful business, productivity, and entertainment applications are just the beginning of what you can do with a PC. Knowing how to use the Internet will allow you access to a vast resource of facts, knowledge, information, ...
- 460: Artifical Intelligence
- ... media has been aimed at the flurry of advances concerning artificial intelligence (AI). What is artificial intelligence and what is the media talking about? Are these technologies beneficial to our society or mere novelties among business and marketing professionals? Medical facilities, police departments, and manufacturing plants have all been changed by AI but how? These questions and many others are the concern of the general public brought about by the lack ... can only create a brain the size of a fly (Butler and Caudill 5). It is surprising what a computer can do with that intelligence once it has been put to work. Almost any scientific, business, or financial profession can benefit greatly from AI. The ability of the computer to analyze variables provides a great advantage to these fields. There are many ways that AI can be used to solve a ... to be an expert in a particular occupation. A Massachusetts company specializes in teaching good judgment to new employees or trainees. Called Wisdom Simulators, this company sells software that simulates nasty job situations in the business world. The ability to learn before the need arises attracts many customers to this type of software (Nadis 8). Expert systems have also been applied in medical facilities, diagnosis of mechanical devices, planning scientific ...
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