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- 481: The Bay of Pigs Invasion
- ... lawyers, and the mafia, left Cuba for the United States. To prevent the loss of more capital Castro's solution was to nationalize some of the businesses in Cuba. In the process of nationalizing some business he came into conflict with American interests just as Arbenz had in Guatemala. ". . . legitimate U.S. Businesses were taken over, and the process of socialization begun with little if any talk of compensation." There were ... support? If the collapse of past regimes is any indication, they will eventually want more power. When Castro came to power in 1959, the major opponents in America to him, as with Guatemala, were the business interests who were losing out as a result of his polices. The major pressure for the Americans to do something came, not only from the Cuban exiles in Florida, but from those businesses. Today, the tables are turned and businesses are loosing out because of the American embargo against Cuba. It is estimated that if the embargo were lifted, $1 billion of business would be generated for US companies that first year. Right now, 100 firms have gone to Cuba to talk about doing business there after the embargo is lifted. Will American policy change toward Cuba ...
- 482: Computer Graphics
- ... of Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies) hired Catmull from NYIT in 1978 to start the Lucasfilm Computer Development Division, and a group of over half-dozen computer graphics studios around the country opened for business. While Lucas's computer division began researching how to apply digital technology to filmmaking, the other studios began creating flying logos and broadcast graphics for various corporations including TRW, Gillette, the National Football League, and ... of debt coming due on their overpriced centralized mainframe hardware. With their expenses mounting, and without the extra capital to upgrade to the newer cheaper computers, virtually every independent computer graphics studio went out of business by 1987. All of them, that is, except PDI, which went on to become the largest commercial computer graphics house in the business and to serve as a model for the next wave of studios. The Second Wave Burned twice by TRON and The Last Starfighter, and frightened by the financial failure of virtually the entire industry, ...
- 483: Technology And The Future Of W
- ... the mid 1940s the average American is consuming twice as much now. The mass consumption phenomena was not the inevitable result of an insatiable human nature or a phenomenon that occurred spontaneously, quite the contrary. Business leaders realised quite early that they needed to create the dissatisfied customer, and to make people want things that they had not previously desired (Rifkin 1996). Nations throughout the world are starting to understand the ... Yet the dream that science and technology will free humanity from a life of drudgery continues to remains alive and vibrant, especially among the younger generation. During the 1930s, government officials, trade unionists, economists and business leaders were concerned that the result of labour saving devices, rising productivity and efficiency, was worsening the economic plight of every industrial nation. Organised labour wished to share the gains by business, such as increased profits and fewer workers required. They joined together, to combat unemployment by fighting to reducing the working week and improve wages, thus sharing the work and profits amongst the workers and ...
- 484: Crime
- ... reported to the police. People who use the illegal services try to avoid the police because they do not want to be associated with that kind of people. When the crime syndicate invades a legitimate business or labor union, it uses terror, blackmail, and other methods to keep people from going to the police. Even when the illegal activities are discovered, prosecutors have difficulty convicting the gangsters because of the lack ... are arrested. Gangsters have two main goals and they are money and power. No one knows how much of each that they truly have, but investigations have shown that organized crime is a multimillion-dollar business and that gangsters have considerable political control. White collar crime originally included only criminal acts committed by businessmen and professional people while earning their living. The term referred to such crimes as stock market swindles and other kinds of fraud. Today, the term covers such acts as cheating in the payment taxes, which can be done in connection to your business. It may apply to petty thefts by employees, as well as to million dollar stock market swindles. It could also include a service stations owner's charging for an automobile repair that was not ...
- 485: Becoming A Professional Chef
- ... behind the education is learning basic food preparation, learning the styles of knife cuts and food presentation. Most importantly of all food preparation is sanitation. The importance of sanitation cannot be over emphasized. In a business based upon service and hospitality, reputation and indeed, livelihoods are dependent upon the customers good will. Food-borne illnesses fall into two categories, intoxicant and infections. An understanding of the causes and preventions will limit ... desserts. Being a chef can require the individual to have many skills, the brigade system demonstrates this. But this no more demonstrated when a chef decides to become a restaurant owner. The chef as a business owner not only requires them to be adept in the food service techniques, but knowledgeable in business practices. The primary purpose of being in business is what? To make money. There are professionals to handle such obstacles, accountants,tax advisors,employment agencies and lawyers. But the chef has a daily involvement ...
- 486: American Stores Antitrust And
- ... Clayton Act and would harm consumers throughout the State. It was decided by the court to grant the State a preliminary injunction requiring American to operate the acquired stores separately from the ones already in business until the outcome of the suit had been found. Although agreeing that the State had proved a likelihood of success on the merits and the probability of irreparable harm, the Court of Appeals decided against ... would be put in a position that would allow them to set prices more to their liking and would allow them to reduce the competition to the point that American Stores would generate the most business and would therefore put much of its competition on the verge of instability and maybe to the point that they would be forced out of business. The merger of American Stores and the other chain to me doesn t really supply any threat to customers in the state of California. Although, if the merger have given American Stores monopoly power, ...
- 487: History of the Internet
- ... Projects Agency (ARPA). It was the brainchild of Neil McElroy who was the secretary of defense for the Eisenhower administration. McElroy was a former CEO of Johnson & Johnson and had no prior military experience4. His business skill lead to the formulation of goals for ARPA. This agency was specifically designed for funding of governmental military projects. The goals that were laid out where command, control and communication. His vision was to ... want their children to have access to the Internet, because of the easy access to pornography, hate groups, and unsafe chat rooms. When the NSF pulled the plug on its jurisdiction of the Internet the business world would begin to revolutionize society with the changes it would make to the technology. Business would begin to develop a new philosophy in how they would conduct business in the newly forming informational world. "In earlier history, wealth was measured in land, in gold, in oil, in machines. Today, ...
- 488: Affirmative Action Programs
- ... employment, examples of affirmative action programs are recruitment and outreach programs to include qualified women in the hiring decisions. There are also training programs to give all employees a fair chance at promotions. For women business owners, affirmative action programs include laws that encourage people to do business with qualified women-owned companies, as well as programs providing financial and management assistance to women business owners. (National Organization for Women (NOW) Homepage) Many of the statistics that I found showed why affirmative action is definitely needed for women to gain the same privileges as men at the workplace. Women ...
- 489: Technology
- ... minutes to figure out what I had done wrong and fix it. I had truly been at the mercy of technology at this time. All in all I definitely feel that, in this case, a business is better off using technology than going without it. On the basis of his statement, Thoreau would probably disagree with me saying that this technology is only the beginning. Before long there will be robots and computers waiting the tables, cooking the food, and mixing the drinks. He might suggest that eventually only one person will be needed to run such a business, and that person is the one who supplies all of the capital and buys the equipment. Then the place would just run itself, while that person sits back and reaps the benefits. My counter-argument ... the job done "easier." As far as computers in the workplace go, in my example of having computers put to use in a restaurant doesn't cause the workers to become lazy. It enables the business to operate more efficiently, and that is something that everybody looks forward to, including the owners, managers, employees, and most importantly the customers. The morale of the employees where I work now is ten ...
- 490: Reasonable Accommodation in the Work Place Under ADA
- ... avoid providing the reasonable accommodation unless it would cause an undue hardship. Even then the applicant or employee should be given the option of providing accommodation himself. The employment provisions began to be enforced for business with 25 or more employees on July 26, 1992. This affected approximately 264,000 employers. The second phase of the employment provision went into affect July 26, 1994, and was implemented for the approximately 666 ... vague. The cost of "reasonable accommodation" has been a controversial topic since the bill's inception. Many feared it would force many small businesses under or at least add another barrier to entry for small business. In one example a Denver restaurant owner paid thousands of dollars in additional construction cost, legal fees, and fines to comply with the ADA. By the time he was finished these additional expenses amounted to more than half the original cost of opening the business. This is however by no means the norm. To the contrary, studies show that costs of installing required accommodations average less than one percent during construction. If the job had been done right at ...
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