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- 4561: The Challenge of Writing An Essay
- ... ever run into in my entire life. Why was everyone so nice and happy? Everyone there was on vacation. They were all relaxing. It was a big difference from the normal here, in the Washington D.C. area: everyone is working eight hours a day or more, running around in stressful traffic jams three hours to work and back, then spending the weekends cleaning house for the relatives coming into town for the holidays, or catching up on work that ...
- 4562: The Brokerage Industry and The Internet
- The Brokerage Industry and The Internet It is a new day on Wall Street. The Internet is changing the way the brokerage industry does business. Today more and more investors are electing to trade via the Internet and avoid contact with a broker all together. Are ... to handle 1.2 billion hits during January, approximately double the October 1998 level. It was also reported in a article by on Yahoos web page that Schwab
customers funneled 153,000 trades a day through its intent site in January, up 65% from 93,000 a day in the fourth quarter (ic1998).
customers held a record $521 billion in assets
Unlike Schwab Merrill Lynch has been the leader in the brokerage industry for many years. Until recently Merrill Lynch is has ...
- 4563: Black Thursday
- Black Thursday Thursday, October 24, 1929, has the dubious honor of being called Black Thursday because it was on this day that the New York Stock Exchange crashed. This event heralded the end of the "Roaring Twenties". In the 1920s, spirits were high in the United States and around the world. The rapid increase in ... fall out on Thursday, October 24, 1929. Prices dropped precipitously as more and more investors tried to sell their holdings. The New York Stock Exchange had lost four billion dollars by the end of the day. It took exchange clerks until five o clock AM the next day to clear out all the transactions. On the following Monday, once the realization of what had happened set in, a full-blown panic unsued. Thousands of investors, many of whom were ordinary working people ...
- 4564: Origin and History of Rice
- ... people came down from the hills where had taken refuge, only to discover that all the plants had been destroyed and there was little to eat. Due to hunting, animals become scarce. On a particular day, the people say a dog coming across a field, and hanging on the dogs tail were bunches of long yellow seeds. The people then planted the seeds and rice eventually grew. The origins of ... York, Chichester, Brisbane, Toronto, Singapore. Wiley-Intersecience Publication, 1984. Jacks, Graham and M. Kathleen Milme. An Annotated Bibliography of Rice Soils and Fertilizers. Chapter 2. Hapenden, England: Commonwealth Bureau of Soil Science, 1954. Luh, PH.d, and Bor S. Rice: Rice and Utilization. Westport, Connecticut. AVI Publishing Company, inc. 1980. Pratt, Parley M. Rice: Domestic Consumption in the United States. Chapters 1 and 2, Bureau of Business Research. Austin, Texas, University ...
- 4565: Tariffs and Trade Restrictions To Save Jobs
- ... gain much from restricting imports, as he receives lots of pro-tariff messages but relatively few against them. References: 1. U.S. International Trade Commission, The economic effects of significant U.S. import restraints, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, November 1993. 2. de Melo, J. and D. Tarr, "Welfare costs of U.S. quotas on textile, steel, and apparel," Review of Economics and Statistics, August 1990. 3. de Melo, J. and D. Tarr. A General Equilibrium Analysis of U.S. Foreign Trade Policy, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992. (page last updated February 8, 1999)
- 4566: Ford, the Company and the Man
- ... Model T made Ford the most successful auto maker of his time. Ford never forgot the little people (The workers) on Jan. 12th, 1914 ford raised the pay from $2.34 for a 9-hour day to an unheard of $5.00 for an 8-hour day. This led to record of a Model T put out every 24 seconds. Henry Ford was loved, and hated because of his wages, but Ford knew mass-production needed a multitude of workers and consumers. Ford made cars for the middle class and preferably his own workers. The $5.00 a day policy was adopted for women in Oct. 1916. Ford Motor Co. acquired the Lincoln Motor Co. for $8 million in 1922 ,Edsel Ford, son of henry ford, was named president of Lincoln Motor Co. ...
- 4567: The History of General Motors
- ... lacquer, an exterior body paint that not only gave richer, longer-lasting colors but reduced drying time--erasing a huge limitation on production capacity. Before Duco lacquer, an auto maker producing 1,000 cars per day needed 21 acres of covered space to hold 18,000 cars while they were undergoing drying and finishing, which took three weeks. Duco reduced drying time from 336 hours to 13 1/2 hours (and ... for the first time. THE 1930S: PITFALLS AND PROGRESS By 1931, Oldsmobile's new 85-acre complex in Lansing, Michigan, could send a new car off the line every 41 seconds, shipping 800 cars a day. When the Depression put the brakes on car sales in the early 1930s, many car makers went under. GM, though, not only survived--it continued making progress in design and manufacturing, giving buyers sleeker looking ... series of celebrations, sales records, anniversaries, and styling and engineering innovations. Decades of engineering and style improvements crescendoed in flashy gas guzzlers. Flamboyant fins and high-compression V-8 engines were the order of the day. Interest in road racing went into high gear. People got serious about collecting and restoring automobiles. Cars acquired an entirely new look through advances in glass manufacturing, which made possible features like wraparound windows. ...
- 4568: Casinos
- ... tell the number of tourists coming to the casino and then going to other businesses in the district to spend money it is know that on average casinos in Ontario attract 14,0007 people per day. With that many people going to these cities each day, who knows how many will be visiting other places to spend money. People may say that there are a lot of people that are becoming addicted to gambling each day, but the average person spends only $578 each time they visit a Canadian casino. Of course Ontario will have some gambling addicts, but we can create jobs to help these people, which in turn ...
- 4569: The World Bank
- ... bring up the question of why would the staff not rebel against this ideological training or simply quit. The Bank offers many perks. Bank workers receive a very tidy salary, with no taxes, twenty six day working vacation a year, paid home leaves, health and life insurance, language training, private gyms, and the list goes on and on (Faith 114). Not only do staff members receive indirect training to follow Bank ... time] has recently called communication his most difficult problem at the Bank" (Faith 120). Nevertheless no great changes took place in the Bank, as is shown by the research carried out by the Berkeley Ph.D. candidate (see above). One of the greatest upheavals experienced by the World Bank is termed the Reorganization. Allegedly the intention was to streamline and efficientize the Bank, but the reality was that the changes were ...
- 4570: Immigration and Its Effect on the Economy of the U.S
- ... to the general decline in American exceptionalism, American immigration continues to flow at a rate unknown elsewhere in the world" [Oxford Analytica 1986, 20]. Unlike earlier mass immigration periods to the United States the present day wave of immigration to the U.S. show "no sign of imminent decline" [Bouvier 1991, 18]. "In today's world setting, international migration is a discretionary action that is regulated by the specific actions of ... 1717. Borjas, George J., and Stephen J. Trejo. "Immigrant Participation in the Welfare System." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 44, no. 2 (January 1991): 195-211. Bouvier, Leon. Peaceful Invasions: Immigration and Changing America. Washington, D.C.: Center for Immigration Studies, 1991. Briggs, Vernon M., Jr. "Non-Immigrant Labor Policy in the United States. " Journal of Economic Issues 17, no. 3 (September 1983): 609-630.
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