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- 3941: Economic Value Added
- ... estimates, compounded by SEC requirements driving conservative financial policies. The principal divergence is GAAP's treatment of equity. The cost of equity should be capitalized. The cost of borrowed capital shows up in a companies interest expense. "But the cost of equity capital, which the shareholders have contributed, typically appears nowhere in any financial statement-and equity is extraordinarily expensive" (Fortune, 38). Ehrbar contends that GAAP distorts economic reality in areas ...
- 3942: Economic Rebirth Or Social Sui
- ... currently have one or more. Casino promoters, clever accountants and smooth talking public relations experts, deliver the great news of untold benefits to the community: economic revival, reconstruction of a downtown area, and slashed unemployment rates. These are just a few of the enticements promised to local governments by the Gambling industry when it sets its sights on a location for new development. Casino proponents and politicians eager to pad their ...
- 3943: Canadas Shame
- ... There are many organizations working towards the ban of seal hunting such as the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), the Sea Sheperd Conservation Society (SSCS), the International Wildlife Coalition (IWC), and the National Animal Interest Alliance (NAIA). These organizations have publicized the clubbing of baby Harp seals for their white fur coats and succeeded in raising international involvement against the practice. As a direct result of massive negative publicity, the ...
- 3944: A Breif History Of Comics
- ... most of his cartoons, the school would not allow to be published. One of these featured, as the punchline, a puppy being thrown into a pit of hungry lions. The school counselor took a special interest in him after that. Amend attended Amhurst College where he majored in physics. After graduating college, he decided to pursue cartooning. He held a few small jobs in animation, and even a job with Industrial ...
- 3945: Advertising 3
- ... company had sold three million dozen stockings (Panati 346) (Encyclopedia). DuPont took a item that almost all women have and made them more durable and more appealing by making this new textile, and made the interest stronger by making women wait, dream, and fantasize about. Their doing this made their product more exciting and more desirable. If the stockings were distasteful, women probably would have still bought them, but the nylons ...
- 3946: Abortion: Roe V. Wade
- ... to Justice Blackmun, the decision to terminate a pregnancy is accounted for in the woman s right to privacy. However, he also contends that the state has a right to protect potential life, and this interest becomes compelling at the point of viability. Until a pregnant single woman, by the fictional name of Jane Roe, challenged the Texas criminal abortion law, the decision whether or not to terminate the pregnancy was ...
- 3947: Aids 2
- ... less than in 1995, and in 1997 it fell again by more than 40%. The new drug combinations could also stop healthy people who were H.I.V. infected from getting sick with AIDS, and rates of new AIDS cases began to fall--by 6% in 1996, 15% in 1997, and about 25% in 1998. The new drug combinations have worked so well in some people with AIDS that doctors predict ...
- 3948: Benefits Of Pet Ownership
- ... live longer. But there is a whole other spiritual level there, writes Susan McElroy, author of Animals as Teachers and Healers (Simross 15). The psychological benefits include reduced mental distress, a sense of security, lower rates of depression, and higher morale (Schellenberg 2). Serving as an effective stress reducer, stroking an animal is calming, says UCLA psychologist Dr. Judith Siegel (Witherell 77). Patients who watched a fish tank before going into ...
- 3949: Aristotles Philosophy On Why P
- ... also supposed to be clearly connected with all the rest of the action of the plot. Tragedies represent complicated dilemmas that could occur to any human being. However, because they are fictional, they spark an interest amongst the audience in discerning the conclusion of the literary work. The involvement of supernatural power further adds to savor up the intricate plot and add a spice of adventure. An interesting and key ingredient ...
- 3950: Ahold In The Czech Republic
- ... come from Germany, the Czech Republic s largest neighbor. The Netherlands and the USA ranked second and third followed by Switzerland, France and Austria (see also Appendix I). The year of 1997 saw a growing interest among Asian companies to invest in the Czech Republic. Euronova Euronova began its operations in the Czech Republic in 1991 when the first MANA supermarket was opened in Jihlava. In addition to the MANA supermarket ...
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