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- 391: General Motors - Financial Ratio Analysis
- ... 84 0.79 Sales / Total Assets DEBT Debt Ratio 0.88 0.92 0.96 Total Liabilities / Total Assets Debt Equity Ratio 1.59 2.97 6.16 Long Term Debt / Stock Holders Equity Times Interest Earned Ratio 1.78 1.49 0.48 Earnings before interest & Taxes / Interest Fixed Payment Coverage Ratio N/A N/A N/A PROFITABILITY Gross Profit Margin 0.25 0.22 0.20 (Sales - Cost of Goods Sold) / Sales Operating Profit Margin 0.07 0.07 0. ...
- 392: Revelation
- ... which was Calvinist in its hope for worldly improvement. The phrase "Calvinist millenarian," upon further examination, joins two sets of seemingly incompatible ideas without explaining the origins of this odd combination. Calvin himself expressed little interest in either history or eschatology. William M. Lamont has noticed that like St. Augustine, Calvin "viewed the Apocalypse with detachment: it had a circumscribed, allegorical significance, and that was all. Calvin remained wedded to a ... Robin Bruce Barnes, "the hint of progressivism in his thought left the way open for the frank meliorism and chiliasm of many later Calvinist thinkers."3 Luther alone among the magisterial reformers displayed a healthy interest in things apocalyptic, and even he only gradually overcame his disdain for the book of Revelation. In a 1522 preface, he condemned the text as "neither apostolic nor prophetic," and suggested that Jerome, who had taken an interest in it, should have devoted his attention to more worthy areas of scripture.4 He concluded a three-paragraph introduction with the decidedly uninspired opinion, "My spirit cannot fit itself into this book. There ...
- 393: Consumer Alert
- ... business sometimes digresses from their true duties of producing goods and services at an honest and decent price. Consumer Alert, founded in 1977, was founded with a single purpose in mind: "to advance the consumer interest through advocacy of free-market solutions to consumer dissatisfaction and scrutiny of any action which discourages competition in the marketplace." Consumer Alert was founded in 1977 as a national, non-profit membership organization for people ... full-time president, vice-president, and contracted legal counsel. Currently, their salaried executive officer is Frances B. Smith, and his office is where his lobbying is needed most, Washington DC. Consumer Alert has only one interest in mind, and only a single area where their influence can be fully realized. With a central office in Washington DC, Consumer Alert is always up-to-the-minute on news that effects the consuming ... the House Banking subcommittees on how changes to disclosure laws would make the mortgage process more understandable to consumers. Consumer Alert identifies consumer problems that can be solved through litigation and supplies information to public interest legal groups active in protecting individual rights and consumer choice. Consumer Alert was instrumental, for example, in fostering legal action that successfully prevented universities from forcing all students to fund causes with which they ...
- 394: Pride and Prejudice: Summary
- ... the home at the time, the matron of the family, Mrs. Bennet, is quite interested when news of a wealthy man moving to Netherfield, a place in the near vicinity. Mrs. Bennet, in the best interest of her daughters, soon after begins urging her husband to meet with the newly arrived neighbor, a Mr. Bingley, but he is quite reluctant to do so. Soon after, Mr.Bennet surprises his daughters and his wife by announcing that he had visited Netherfield and found Bingley to be "quite agreeable." The interest of the Bennet daughters arises when they learn that certain members of the Bingley party will be in attendance at an upcoming ball in Meryton. At the ball, acquaintances between the families are made, and ... his continual adulation of her. During a visit to town, the Bennet daughters and Mr. Collins meet a member of the militia, George Wickham. All find him handsome and Elizabeth expresses quite a bit of interest in his direction. She soon learns, however, that some bad blood exists between Mr.Wickham and Mr.Darcy, whom she now abhors. She learns the details at a party the following night at the ...
- 395: Building A Radio Empire-chancellor Media
- ... the number one expense of radio stations, and media moguls are cutting local news to cut expenses. News departments are being replaced with a top-of-the-hour generic broadcast with no local ties. Media interest is shifting from Libertarian view points, that of news being the fourth state, to intense corporate interest of the bottom line. Radio stations are moving from self-interest to investor interest. It is no longer how many listeners you have, but how many ad dollars can you pull. These mega corporations are overwrought with debt. Chancellor alone is $6.4 billion in ...
- 396: Disjunction vs. Communion in Raymond Carver's Short Stories
- ... writings, and the disjunction in his earlier writings, that distinguish the two types of styles. Communion within the characters of Carver's later writings, as in his collections in Cathedral, create much more depth and interest in his stories. It is within this scope of communion that Carver's stories seem to become more fulfilling with character affirmation. Communion occurs in Carver's stories when several conditions are satisfied. The difference ... she cannot identify the exact problem in the verbal gap. This lack of connection between characters transcends a sense of frustration to interact within the story. A direct connection within characters personifies the attention and interest one may feel within a story. Disjunction leaves the story unfulfilled, so that when finished the reader feels cheated not knowing the exact fate. Carver's mastering writings skills treat this evidence of disjunction skillfully ... watch the bond between the two grow. When such a str ong relationship is portrayed in a story, the reader, gains much more felt compassion between the characters. This felt compassion sparks a much greater interest between the reader's understanding of the story. When Marge begins to tell her life story , " I'm starting to tell how it was before we moved here, and how it's still like ...
- 397: Price Policies Have Wider Range of Destructive Demerits
- ... subsidies to traders to sell surpluses on the lower-priced world markets. (5) During the 1960's the price system was devised. The first problem with price policies is that of fluctuating and differing exchange rates. Green Money was the first solution to be developed to counter the problem of differing exchange rates. This, however, could be manipulated by politicians to achieve different price levels in the member states than those indicated by the common price level. The lowering of the green currency towards a depreciating average rate ... were only introduced for the dairy sector, production and surpluses in other areas continued to grow unchecked. Penalties for over-production were never really implemented and were easily avoided by raising prices and adjusting MCA rates. (14) An arable Set Aside policy was introduced in 1988. Producers can receive payment per hectare on each hectare taken out of production. Every producer must make more than a minimum area reduction of ...
- 398: Periodical Review Of Human Com
- ... articles. The new senior editor Cindy Gallois, in her editorial best describes the general direction and intent of HCR. One of the main goals is to encourage diversity so that HCR will have something of interest for every reader. She also says that HCR is moving with a general trend that is away from the databased research studies towards more theory-based research and rigorous interpretations of results. Although they are ... communication (both sender and receiver). These authors created Interpersonal Deception Theory (IDT) in the study.6 The research on suspicion led into another area of study where movement behavior displayed during deception was examined. Of interest was the fact that people tend to believe that one with deceitful intentions make more bodily movement than when telling the truth. In contrast, it was found that deception is really associated with a movement ... research is significant to HCR because the aim is to get a clearer grasp of human interaction behaviors both verbal and non-verbal as well as communication styles within and across cultures. Other articles of interest included the effects of pornography on aggressive behavior, predicting television extreme viewers and non-viewers, the cultivation effect (biasing of social reality perceptions on viewers), attachment styles and reactions to nonverbal involvement, and the ...
- 399: The Human Development Index
- ... prose", "document" and "quantitative" skills. This survey is divided down into 5 levels, with level 1 being the category with the lowest skill and level 5 being the highest. Developed countries usually have high literacy rates compared to the developing countries which is one of the main reasons for their success. Countries who have high literacy rates are more educated and therefor have the knowledge required to survive in the global economy. Unlike developed countries, the less developed countries have low literacy rates. This is perhaps the most important reason why the less developed countries are not technologically advanced, and therefor cannot compete economically with the developed countries. The new and improved human development index used by ...
- 400: Novelty Never Lasts
- ... hall almost every weekend and shoot pool until midnight; and we really enjoyed it. Now we only go the pool hall if there is absolutely nothing else in the world to do. My loss of interest in pool is not half as distressing as my loss of interest in traveling. My lack of interest in seeing new places is nothing short of a tragedy I feel, and it, like other things, is a result of doing it too much. Just about every summer, spring break or Christmas vacation ...
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