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- 921: Cyberspace and the American Dream: A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age
- ... computers were the market, and America's dominance was largely based upon the position of a dominant vendor -- IBM, with over 50% world market-share. Then the personal-computing industry exploded, leaving older-style big-business- focused computing with a stagnant, piece of a burgeoning total market. As IBM lost market-share, many people became convinced that America had lost the ability to compete. By the mid-1980s, such alarmism had reached from Washington all the way into the heart of Silicon Valley. But the real story was the renaissance of American business and technological leadership. In the transition from mainframes to PCs, a vast new market was created. This market was characterized by dynamic competition consisting of easy access and low barriers to entry. Start-ups by ... as a nation seem no longer sufficient -- or even wrong? The incoherence of political life is mirrored in disintegrating personalities. Whether 100% covered by health plans or not, psychotherapists and gurus do a land-office business, as people wander aimlessly amid competing therapies. People slip into cults and covens or, alternatively, into a pathological privatism, convinced that reality is absurd, insane or meaningless. "If things are so good," Forbes magazine ...
- 922: Pan American World Airways, Inc
- ... south america. The company strives to provide the best service to all it's destinations than all the other carriers in general. Presently the airline is trying to achieve a "Corporate Image" to attract more business people thus increasing passenger revenues. ASSESSMENT OF COMPANY'S PERFORMANCE AND FINANCIAL CONDITION Overall, the short term liquidity of Pan Am seems to have a stable trend but is very poor compared to the average ... facilities and stop drawing on its cash balances. Some type of establishment of bank credit is needed. Since passenger revenues make up most of Pan Am's sales, the company should try to introduce a business image in order to attract businessmen and businesswomen since most of these people travel around a yearly bases. This should increase sales throughout the seasons instead of certain seasons. Offer better services in business class. Even in coach class more services should be introduced. Some type of advertising is needed to catch the passengers eye. As a result, management is aware of the financial difficulties Pan Am is ...
- 923: Racism In The Movies
- ... single person. Another conflict occurs between Mookey and one of of Sal’s sons. Sal’s son is an outspoken racist, or so it seems. He is always urging Sal to try to sell the business and leave the neighborhood to get away from “these” people (black people). Mookey forces Sal’s son to look at himself and examine his own values. He asks him who his favorite sports heroes and ... neighborhood and the Korean owners of convenience. Here there is a small language barrier that leads to some of the frustration. Another, larger part of the problem is that residents see the majority of the business in their (black) neighborhood as being owned by non blacks. This serves to create anger toward the owners of these business. The residents think that unfair that things are this way. A fourth incident occurs when a white male is walking his bike across the street and accidentally scuffs the kicks of one of the ...
- 924: The Firm
- ... for a Mafia controlled money laundering operation. Mitch later visits his brother Ray in jail, who refers him to a detective by the name of Eddie Lomax. Later Mitch goes to the Caimans on a business trip and was set up have sex with a hooker that appeared to be in distress. While Mitch was gone Eddie Lomax was killed. When Mitch returns, Tammy, Eddie’s secretary is waiting to meet him to let him know about what had happened. Mitch then went on another business trip and is contacted by the FBI, they tell him everything that is going on and Mitch agrees to help them by copying files. After the firm is busted Mitch and Abby moved to an ... Bendini, Lambert and Locke approached Mitch. Then accepting the offer he was given, he and his wife Abby then moved to Memphis Tennessee. During Mitch’s work term at the firm he went on several business trips to the Caymans Islands. The novel The Firm is a somewhat suspenseful but mysterious story of betrayal, cover ups, and lies. To Mitch, from the beginning, questioned why they offered so much and ...
- 925: 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 ...
- 926: Total Quality Management In Construction
- ... has always been the responsibility of management. Before the 1980's, U.S. management was broadly successful. Until then the dominant management model was that of the autocrat. Management, primly senior management, decided how the business was to operate, including what the policies and objectives were; how it was organized; what jobs were established; and how should they be done. It was an unquestioned axiom that if everyone did what the upper management required, the business would be successful. Organizations are composed of the people in them and the managers who lead them. People respond strongly to leadership expectations and rewards. If they are given little power in their jobs, they ... management was successfully used by W. Edwards Deming in the 1950's. Deming told the Japanese that they could become world-class leaders if they followed his advice and they did. He lectured top Japanese business leaders on statistical quality control. He proposed a system that would change the approach to management in many ways. Today, this system is the pillar of TQM philosophy. These components make up the strategic ...
- 927: My Antonia
- ... And Lena Lingard are excellent examples of such women. Frances Harling is one of the vast examples of what a strong woman can be. She is very responsible. She takes care of her father's business when he goes out of town, and on Sundays she would go to the office just to read the mail. Frances is very talented. She could play the piano with out a light and talk ... white-and-gold sleigh."(Page 117) Molly liked to have the best meterial goods in the town, and she liked to show them off. Mollys personality was the reason that her husband’s and her business did so well. Jim also said "…he knew that without her he would hardly be more that a clerk in some other man’s hotel."(Page 122) Molly would also go on all the business trips because she was the smarter one between her and her husband. Lena Lingard was not one of the most respected people in town, but she wanted to improve herself. She wanted to get ...
- 928: Deborah Tannen
- ... is not possible to remain completely unmarked, as styles and trends repeatedly change with different ages, generations, and geographic locations. In her study Tannen reveals that among four women and eight men present during a business meeting the women had several more features to observe compared to one another. However, Tannen's conclusions seem partially invalid for her findings are based on only one particular event. In a business-like environment, it is more likely to find conservatively dressed men with less notable markings than women. Even though women may not only be identified based on their apparent style but also how they choose ... men can choose style that are marked but they don't have to, and in this group none did." (231-2). Although Tannen makes the distinction between the style of men and women at a business conference, she fails to mention that their age and field of work influences what should be "marked vs. unmarked" and what styles appear appropriate vs. inappropriately. Clearly, Tannen states that all four women are ...
- 929: Industrial Revolution 7
- ... to return his rail road workers, he was arrested and the workers were forced to work. In 1890, for example, Congress passed the Sherman Anti-trust Act. This law’s purpose was to punish big business corporations that merged to eliminate competition. “Survival of the fittest” ideal of the social Darwinists were destroying the small businesses. Yet more and more it was being used as a weapon against unions. The factory owners used federal troops and state militia against strikers. They hired private armies against the strikers with an intent to maim and kill for stopping union strikes. These rapid changes in the ways of business caused a wide spread of socialism. Many common workers believed that the government should take full control of the big business and industries to regulate price, working condition, and enforce illegal ‘deals’ between industries to wipe out competition. I believe that total overthrow of the country’s economic system would not have accomplished the goal ...
- 930: Looking Ahead: The Future Of Post Keynesian Economics
- ... the fruits of risk, uncertainty, and ignorance. It is because particular individuals, fortunate in situation or in abilities, are able to take advantage of uncertainty and ignorance, and also because for the same reason big business is often a lottery, that great inequalities of wealth come about; and these same factors are also the cause of the Unemployment of Labour, or the disappointment of reasonable business expectations, and of the impairment of efficiency and production. Yet the cure lies outside the operations of individuals; it may even be to the interest of individuals to aggravate the disease. I believe that the ... deliberate control of the currency and of credit by a central institution... These measures would involve Society in exercising directive intelligence through some appropriate organ of action over many of the inner intricacies of private business, yet it would leave private initiative and enterprise unhindered. (Keynes, 1963, pp.317-318). This passage is as relevant today as it was when Keynes wrote it in the 1920s. Also this view provided ...
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