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- 751: Labor In America
- ... a nation of growing cities, of coal and steel, of engines and fast communications. Though living standards generally rose, millions of industrial workers lived in crowded, unsanitary slums. Their conditions became desperate in times of business depressions. Then it was not unusual for workers to go on strike and battle their employers. Between 1865 and 1900, industrial violence occurred on numerous occasions. Probably the most violent confrontation between labor and employers ... concerned about labor's problems. They were alarmed by the growing use of court rulings to halt strikes. In 1890, for example, Congress passed the Sherman Anti-trust Act. Its purpose was to punish big business corporations that combined to prevent competition. Yet more and more it was being used as a weapon against unions. The Progressives were unhappy about the use of federal troops and state militia against strikers. They ... sought to control. Courts found legal openings in the Clayton Act and issued rulings against union activity. The courts also found ways to use the Sherman Anti-trust Act against unions. Opposed by public opinion, business and the courts, union membership fell. The number of AFL members dropped to 2,770,000 by 1929. This decline took place even though the number of workers in industry rose by almost seven ...
- 752: Celebrities And Their Salaries
- ... celebrities are not worth their enormous paychecks. Not only is it a ridiculous price to pay someone to stand in front of a camera but it has negative effects on the rest of the entertainment business. Due to the salary increases, production prices are rising, quality is lowering, and it is becoming increasingly harder for a television show or movie to become a hit. Making money at the movies is problematic ... Actors Guild's president, Richard Masur. "The top levels are sucking all the money up, and everybody else is jammed in at the bottom. If it continues, it will destroy the working heart of the business." It may be taking the heart out of the business but it is also affecting the quality of the movies being made. Movies used to be made when the material was ready to be produced. Today the studios are greenlighting a movie as soon ...
- 753: An Asian American In America
- ... in the process, my parents goals. I graduated from High School and I am a freshman in the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth in the College Now program. I am planning to major in Business Administration in accounting and hopefully succeed in that. I am planning to major in accounting because I want to work with the public and I like to work with numbers also. I choose it because ... more fundraising and will also plan to hold signs in areas that many people drive by. I could see myself in 5 years with a good paying full-time job and a bachelor degree in Business Administration. I can also see myself getting in my own apartment with a brand new car. This full-time position would be in Accounting where I can put my degree in good use. I am ... want to earn my Master Degree. Since I will owe a lot of money I will be working full-time and going to school part time. I will probably go to finish my master in Business and Administration in Northeastern University or Boston University.
- 754: The Seven-Years War
- ... not uncommon for a privateer captain to request one of the captured ships for the bulk of his compensation. He could take this ship, hire the best men from his previous crew, and go into business for himself. This resulted in a vacancy on his original ship, and experienced mates often moved up to the position of captain. Additionally, talented officers on a privateer owned ship faced great prospects for their ... officers could further their own careers. At the end of the revolution, there were privateers who had as many as ten ships in their service. These men would retire from commanding ships, and oversee the business of "corporate" privateering. This system quickly blossomed after the beginning of the war and was an economic boom for the maritime sector. This boom was due to the fact that American privateers were "damn good ... ocean, perhaps destroying some infrastructure in the colonies, but having no effect on British trade. The American privateers were quick to prove them wrong. The assaults of the privateers on British merchant ships cost English business eighteen million dollars throughout the course of the war. The estimated value of the ships that were captured totalled almost twenty four million dollars. Combined, this makes approximately forty two million dollars lost to ...
- 755: Accounting Ethics
- ... present the process of gaining a new, and retaining an existing, client has become increasingly costly and time consuming. One may then infer that once a client is obtained, a firm would wish to do business with that client for an extended number of years, in order to realize the benefit of expenses incurred. Put simply, a firm would not look kindly toward a partner who lost a new client. This ... largely the result of increased competition and a clientele which is increasingly more bottom line oriented. In order to compete firms must place more emphasis on marketing and accept it as a cost of doing business. The result of this will be more difficult penetration and an increasingly limited number of small firms in the business. Market pressures also are forcing creating situations where ethical issues such as independence and integrity are questioned making it imperative that the AICPA create guidelines from which the evolving profession must base itself. In ...
- 756: Henry Ford Essay
- The Success of a Man To say that Henry Ford dilly-dallied around before finally establishing a serious car company would be invalid. The 40 year old man had been acquiring valuable knowledge regarding business, engines, management, and most importantly cars. Now it was time to take a leap of faith. In 1903 the Ford Motor Company came to be. Ford, along with other investors including John and Horace Dodge ... 1913 he had established assembly plants in Canada, Europe, Australia, South America, and Japan. At this point, the Ford Motor Company was the largest manufacturer of cars in the world. In 1914 Ford astonished the business world by more than doubling the minimum wage for his workers, raising it from about $2.50 to $5. He argued that if his employees earned more, the company would sell more cars to them ... It was only two years later in 1943 when Henry Fords son, Edsel Ford died at age 49, and the president of the company. Henry himself was incapable of running the plants and managing business. He died in 1947 at the age of 83 in his hometown. He died a rich man; his fortune ranged somewhere between $500 and $700 million. Yet more importantly he died an accomplished man, ...
- 757: Asynchronous Transfer Mode Net
- ... will have the information he had previously went to the Internet for at speeds he could never image, even using a BISDN or T3 Internet connection. This glorious experience is secondly to the deliverance a business will have with ATM. According to many scientists, and business specialist, including Bill Gates, ATM will further business more in the next ten years than it has in the last fifty.
- 758: Hitler And World War I
- ... the Weimar Republic were closely aimed at specific socioeconomic interest groups. For example, the Social Democrats (SPD) were concerned with representing the working class and the German People's Party (DVP) was interested in big business. The inability of the government to work together led to a period of presidential rule. Also, continuous economic and financial difficulty weakened the Weimar Republic after the World War I. Germans faced high unemployment and ... were more likely to vote Communist instead of for the NSDAP. Nazi support was energetically increasing. Propaganda played as extraordinary role by influencing different parts of society. Nazis promised the small man protection against big business and large stores. On the other hand, it promised big business the destruction of the Weimar Republic and the restoration of management's right to manage. Moreover, the Nazis pledged to women the return of traditional moral and family values. Although Nazis were promising different ...
- 759: 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. ...
- 760: Software Piracy: A Big Crime With Big Consequences
- ... features that the copied software contains with absolutely no quality loss therefore making it an attractive means of both acquiring and distributing illegal software. There are to consequences to software piracy. Piracy not only hurts business but it hurts the legal owners of software. By stealing software the creators of the software cannot recover their losses nor can they make their program better. "Piracy harms all software publishers, regardless of their ... to them and then on behalf of the companies that are affected the S.P.A. takes legal action against those they see that are committing a gross violation of the copyright laws. One such business was a company in Winnipeg called Microplay. As I mentioned before the S.P.A. on behalf of its members sued the owner and proprietor of Microplay for the rental of software to its members. As of yet a settlement has not been reached. This is just one action of many that the S.P.A. spearheads. Don't think that major companies and business are affected by the crackdown on software piracy. The fact on Canadian copyright law infringement is not specific to software piracy. This is very dangerous because the first incident of piracy that is taken ...
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