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- 961: As A Technology, It Is Called Multimedia
- ... shadows will be mergers between: software, film, television, publishing, and telephone industries, each trying to gain market share in the emerging market. So far, most firms have rejected the hostile takeovers that marked the media business in the 1980s. Instead, they have favored an array of alliances and joint ventures akin to Japan's loose-knit Keiretsu business groupings. TCI's boss, John Malone, evokes "octopuses with their hands in each other's pockets-where one starts and the other stops will be hard to decide." These alliances represent a model of corporate ... on your headgear. Another break through in the home market is video telephony. These are telephone systems that also broadcast video images. Imagine being able to communicate instantly with voice, picture, and text with a business colleague or a loved one thousands of miles away. Interactive multimedia systems promise to revolutionize education. In a complex world of constant change, where knowledge becomes obsolete every few years, education can no longer ...
- 962: Affirmative Action
- ... pushed back to later dates. Phones are being answered, but put on hold for the next available representatives. The president of the firm puts out a notice of hire. The word is spread throughout the business community through the newspaper and the internet. Resumes are received every business day. The board members of the firm review hundreds of resumes that are received daily. They rate the applications according to qualifications and experiences. The names are disregarded at this point. A dozen of the ... our workforce. In the work place, people hired under special assistance may slow the process. If someone was hired over another simply because of the color of his skin, and not by his qualifications, the business loses as well. They must pay someone the same salary they would have paid a more efficient employee. Lowering standards in the workplace, to accommodate a race, is a step back to poorly made ...
- 963: The Search for a Better Tax System
- ... a tax is bad that discourages enterprise, hard work, and investment (Adams117). In Smith’s words "a tax that may obstruct the industry of the people, and discourage them from applying to certain branches of business which might give maintenance and employment to great multitudes" (Adams 117). In other words, It costs jobs by taxing too much. "You take away funds needed to create new business and employment" said Smith (Adams 117). Third, a tax is bad that encourages evasion (Adams 118) As taxes rise so does the temptation for evasion and avoidance. We usually think of tax evaders as criminals ... citizens through Odious examinations of the tax gatherer, and exposes them to much unnessicary trouble, vexation, and oppression. In other words, "if it’s direct" (Adams 217). It is better when the IRS audits a business to check sales taxes than when it audits individuals. Smith Said, "in some one form or another, these four ways taxes are so much more burdensome to the people than they are beneficial to ...
- 964: Introduction to Public Choice Theory
- Introduction to Public Choice Theory "Everybody's business is nobody's business." Russell Hardin, Collective Choice, 1982. The social phenomena discussed in this series of essays all center around the problem of individuals in groups faced with the choice of doing what is best for themselves or ... study fluids, and another to study solids. For another example of the lack of centralization, consider the early days of computers. When computer science first hit the universities, it was often covered by several departments; Business, Engineering, Mathematics, etc. It took awhile before the courses were (mostly) consolidated under one department. 2. See books and/or articles by Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken, and Will Rogers, for example. References: 1. ...
- 965: Spike Lee
- ... and Vito. This gives an appeal to Sal as a family man. Right from the start Sal is portrayed as a hard working, kind, and devoted individual. Just the fact that he owns his own business in these rough and tough times shows that he is a smart, efficient, and dedicated man. Later in the movie we learn that Sal did in fact build his pizzeria by himself from the ground ... to ask themselves if Sal is a racist then why does he own a restaurant in the middle of a black neighborhood. Well as Sal explains to Pino early in the movie it is purely business. Sal knows that he is not able to compete with the large restaurant chains, so he must travel to someone else's turf to make a go of it. This is a point that is ... he must be making a profit or he would have shut down years ago. The way I see it is that the main problem with Sal these days is that he isn't in the business for the love of it anymore, he is in it for the money. After all of these years making pizza he has lost some of the fire that always got him going. I would ...
- 966: The Inevitable Inequality in Modern Democracy
- ... post-secondary education as their wealthier counterparts. The impact of this likely phenomena is quite immense. Firstly, the individuals that attain under-graduate and perhaps even graduate degrees will pursue various careers including those in business and politics. Eventually, these same people will become CEO’s of large corporations and political leaders of prominent parties. The end result is that the wealthy will come to occupy all the important positions of ... the expense of wage earners. “In the last twenty years the tax burden has been shifted off corporations and onto individuals, off the wealthy and onto the middle class, off big corporations and onto smaller business, off large asset owners and onto people who depend on a paycheck.” (Collins 1999) Thus, through the intricate process that has just been described, the economically unequal do indeed suffer political inequality. Raymond Williams describes ... Chomsky/ChomOdon_Inequality.html. Accessed, 2nd October 1999. Collins, Chuck. (1999) Growing Inequality. WWW document. Available:http://www.stw.org/html/growing_inequality.html. Accessed, 4th October 1999. Friedman, Milton. 1970. “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits.” The New York Times Magazine, 13 September. Meanings of Democracy. (1997) Compton’s Interactive Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Softkey International Inc. Parenti, Michael. 1994. “Inventing Reality.” In Key Concepts in Critical ...
- 967: Problems in Air Traffic Control and Proposed Solutions
- ... government-owned-and-operated U. S. Air Traffic Services (USATS) corporation. According to the FAA, a corporation makes good sense. They say unlike other FAA functions, air traffic has many of the characteristics of a business. And it should be run like a business -- financing itself through the collection of users' fees. The corporation would be free from government procurement and personnel rules. As an independent corporation, it would be able to respond rapidly to changes in the aviation ... system; aircraft owners, pilots and the general aviation community. They are afraid they would be obliged to provide the revenue to fund the reformed FAA. Fee structure would be based on aircraft performance. Commercial and business jets would be charged for ATC services based on the above. Opponents to this measure ask, "If we want a higher altitude, will the controller ask for a major credit card?" (AP, 1995) FAA ...
- 968: Foreign Policy
- ... as a major power in the western hemisphere in the later half of the 19th century in order to compete with its European rivals. Although ethical motives had some impact on their decision-making, the business-favoring Republican Presidents tended to let economic interests guide their foreign policy in the period of 1891 to 1914. President McKinley and Cleveland based decisions concerning western (hemisphere) neighbors on moral grounds. Some people believed ... its foreign policy. McKinley's decision to go to war with Spain was, among other reasons already mentioned, a result of the pressures of those who had much to gain from the war. Many in business favored expanded foreign trade to obtain new markets for their products. Since a victory in the war guaranteed new territory, the war therefore stood as a promise for the new markets to easily develop and ... same approach with his "dollar diplomacy" foreign policy, which basically used foreign policy to protect Wall Street overseas capital. Thus, the mentioned US Presidents chose interventionist policies in order to further the interests of big business that upheld the economy. In conclusion, the same people who championed the Progressive movement, which focused on the reform of society within, ironically supported the new and rather interventionist and policing role of the ...
- 969: St. Francis Of Assisi
- ... one who broke Peter Bernardone’s heart. The boy turned on his father, and in a vicious event that eventually resulted into a public scene. St. Francis of Assisi stepped away from his father, his business and left his father in a state of immense emotional suffering. Francis joined the military at the age of 20. Prior to this date (1202), the favoured son showed his parents that he would like ... which as you see, is falling in ruin". Francis accepted the command for what it was. First, he needed money, which he could easily acquire from his father. Unfortunately for Francis, he left on a business trip. Francis went down to the shop, loaded his horse with cloth and left on his own business trip. He sold the materials and returned to the chapel of St. Damian. The priest who occupied the chapel was amazed by his youth. First, the young man kissed his hands, pressed a sack ...
- 970: Eliot Ness
- ... Emma Ness, were Norwegian immigrants who had earned a comfortable middle class life for their family by very hard work and practical living. Over the years, Peter had made his wholesale bakery into a thriving business. It is supposed that Ness gained his father’s work-aholic traits that drove him so hard later in life. Eliot was the youngest of the five Ness children. There was a huge age difference ... It is supposed that Eliot’s older brother in law fueled his need for adventure, which eventually drove him to civic duty. Young Eliot Ness attended the University of Chicago and earned a degree in business and law. When he graduated in 1925 he greatly upset those he loved by choosing a career in credit investigation rather that his planned path of business. During his short lived credit investigator career he studied criminology at night. Two years later Ness managed to be transferred to the Prohibition Bureau with some help from his brother in law. Here the ...
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