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- 81: Popularity of Television and Magazines On Designing Individual Space
- ... programmes, such as 'Changing Rooms' and lifestyle magazines such as 'Living etc' suggest criteria for designing your own individual space and are becoming ever more popular. For instance the increase of the number of home interest titles published has increased from 17 in 1993 to 27 in 1999 (MINTEL, 24/06/98 p.14), and the amount of airtime given over to programmes in this field on television has noticeably increased ... individuality but are we creating our own space or are these suggestions, dictations from designers on how we should live? This dissertation will examine this issue and shall also determine whether the market for home interest magazines can sustain the present number of titles and generate new ones; whether the general public has no more desire to decorate their homes; where this growth in the market for designing your own home ... a certain way of life'.(p40)REF. This is because as Coate's describes himself ' it is a place that offers you a sense of choice' (REF). Chapter two - the media Total circulation in home interest magazines sales is estimated to have grown by 16% between 1993 and 1997, with a further growth of 15% through 1998 (MINTEL, 24/06/98, p5). This dramatic rise is due to the increased ...
- 82: The Bubble Economy of Japan
- ... enterprise, then lend a small piece of this loan to those who was not eligible to obtain a loan from the bank. These companies that act as the funnel will earn a certain amount of interest from these smaller companies (branch effect). Therefore all classes of companies and society can easily access in the speculate market. Other large corporate, construction company, organize crime group and even temple (religious) were also involve ... in loan repayment. Also if they have a relatively low amount of down payment, there working age may not be long to repay a mortgage. The longer the amortization period, the larger the amount of interest they bare. The white collar had become the slavery or sacrifice of the never ending mortgage payment and high cost of housing. In 1990 the births live in Japan was 1.2 million, in fact ... be father-son that plan or already living together. (son must be older than 20 and must repay the loan by the age at 70) The size of the mortgage is determined by the borrower, interest is flexible and the applicants must purchase an life insurance in order to protect the risk of un collectible due to death. (Pay by the bank) Husband and wife can also join this program . ...
- 83: Stock Market
- ... were doing real well. Overall, I bought those companies because I thought they would do well in the future and those companies provide good dividend. Also I picked some companies that consumers will never lost interest on, such as CocaCola and Disney. The reason I chose Long's Drugs because I believe it plays an important role in people's life. Everybody buys the medical care from there, it's not ... that that the U.S. economy is poised to reach unsustainable growth levels. The Import Prices Index for May rose a stronger than March. Prime Lending rate also effect the stock market, it's the interest rate that commercial banks charge their most creditworthy borrowers, such as large corporations. The prime rate is a lagging indicator and it also relates to an interest rate, which can be periodically adjusted up, or down, usually in response to changes in the prime rate. When the inflation is high the prime rate goes up to cut money supply. Also the ...
- 84: Efficient Market Hypothesis An
- ... the agent will not necessarily act in the principal s best interests. This leads to the rise of agency costs. Agency costs are the welfare reduction by the principal due to the divergence of the interest. There are three agency costs (1) monitoring costs, (2) bonding costs, and (3) residual loss. (1) Monitoring costs are the costs of monitoring agent s behaviour. They are expenses of the principal to measure, observe ... costs. To protect themselves of huge monitoring costs principals are bearing the costs to agents. An example can be given in lending: A high-risk company has high monitoring costs, which leads to a high interest rate. Another example would be the reputation of the manager: Has he got a bad reputation, than his salary would be lower than usual. Agents try to reduce monitoring costs by installing mechanisms to guarantee that they will behave in the interest of the principal or by proposing to compensate principals for their losses. (2) The mechanisms mentioned above are bonding costs, because they are the costs of bonding the agent s interest to the principal ...
- 85: Gun Control
- ... the Supreme Court will review the Brady Bill Case. The issue of gun control is heating up... soon it will be up to the Supreme Court to decide on the Constitutionality of gun control. Special interest groups have been part of the American political process since its beginning and have been viewed ambivalently for more than 200 years. As early as 1787, James Madison warned about the "mischiefs of `factions.'" Beginning in the late 1970s, pressure groups took on new importance in U.S. politics. In the area of gun-control, political special interest groups are polarized. There is no middle of the road groups, they are either devoutly for or against gun control. On either side of the gun control issue are two very prominent, high profile groups ... NRA (National Rifle Association) strongly opposes any type of gun regulation. The NRA publishes "fact sheets" and "congressional ratings sheets" to inform their members and non-members on their views and how their Congressional representative rates in the area of gun-control laws. In 1992 the organization had about 2,500,000 members. With headquarters and a strong lobby in Washington, D. C., the NRA mobilizes its members through some ...
- 86: Economic Development of Hawaii
- ... economy. At the same time, the shares of jobs in wholesale and retail trade and in services have risen, standing at about 23% and 28%, respectively. Since 1991, Hawaii's economy has suffered from rising rates of unemployment. This stands in marked contrast to the period 1980 to 1993, when the state enjoyed very low unemployment rates relative to the nation as a whole. But by 1994 the recession had raised Hawaii's unemployment rate to the national average (6.1%) for the first time in 15 years. In 1995, the state ... visitor spending since 1994. Following a dismal first quarter due to the Kobe earthquake, there was steady growth in the tourism sector in 1995 with increases in the number of visitor arrivals and hotel room rates. The number of visitor arrivals to the State increased 3.2 percent during the first eleven months of 1995. The increase in the value of the Japanese yen vis-a-vis the U.S. ...
- 87: Climate Change (term Paper)
- ... needs to be found. The issue of climate change holds one important key to this balance. Man and the Environment Thomas Malthus is well remembered for his position as a doomsayer. When looking at the rates of population growth in Victorian England, he saw unchecked growth as leading to a rapid decline in the living standards of man. He blamed this decline on three main factors: the overproduction of offspring; the ... in the developed world, this means increased prosperity and enhanced standards of living. The glamour of this lifestyle, however, tends to hide the ugly facts. Consider, for instance, that already at this stage of development, rates of resource harvesting and waste generation deplete nature faster than it can regenerate....As the world becomes ecologically overloaded, conventional economic development actually becomes self-destructive and impoverishing. Many scholars believe that continuing on this ... the environment is an immediate problem. Though environmental concerns are widespread and many, perhaps the most challenging is the significant (30%) increase in greenhouse gasses accumulated in the atmosphere since the industrial revolution. At present rates of increase, these greenhouse gasses will again double by the turn of the next century. The effects this will have on the earths climate remain controversial, but most agree that the earths ...
- 88: Broadcasting, Programming, and The Audience
- ... might actually compete in a way. Less than 50 cities in the United States are overbuilt, or have more than one cable provider. Yet studies show that those overbuilt cities have lower basic cable subscription rates, $14.31 compared to $17.31. Can competition within the cable system be created? Probably not. The barriers against entry for new cable operators in a specific market are great. To begin with, the new ... dropping price and keeping their customers happy, delays will make the new guy on the block discouraged and out. Within the cable operator networks, like TCI or CableVision, networks themselves own or have a financial interest in some of the channels they carry. Time-Warner owns TBS, CNN and a host of other channels started by the Turner Broadcast System. Although this sounds like a serious violation of the anti-trust ... it has been shown that multi-system operators and overbuilt cities' operators are more likely to provide channels owned by other networks. Carrying their own channels allows networks to increase profits and helps keep subscription rates down. And, as a practical matter, cable systems need channels to put out there for people to watch. Owning or having financial interest in channels ensures that they have programming to carry. With all ...
- 89: Effects Of Excessive Pesticide
- ... replacement of some toxic insecticides that persist in the environment (e.g., DDT and other chlorinated hydrocarbons) with compounds that break down more quickly into less toxic forms. The liabilities of chemical insecticides have encouraged interest in biological controls, which turn natural processes and mechanisms against pest insects and have few if any harmful side effects. Biological controls include using predators, parasites, and pathogens to kill target insects or using synthetic ... determine how adsorption/desorption affects termiticide efficacy and application rate in different soils. It is generally assumed that since termites come in contact with soil particles, it may not be necessary to adjust termiticide dilution rates for most soils. Additional research is needed to accurately determine if variable rates are needed. ? Soil pH The soil pH is known to have a major impact on performance of termiticides because it affects how rapidly a compound degrades. The pH is used to describe whether soil ...
- 90: The European Monetary Union and the Euro
- ... economy) so that nothing real is altered. It follows that the particular parity that is chosen at which the currencies are permanently locked together cannot be important in the long run, and that national unemployment rates cannot be affected either. This is a proposition, however, about the long run, and as Keynes famously remarked, "In the long run we are all dead". It is therefore useful to ask how the economy ... changes in the stance of fiscal policy. Consequently it may be difficult to sort out whether what is happening is due to monetary actions or to the real disturbance.) One example of changes in exchange rates induced largely by changes in the stance of monetary policy is the appreciation of Sterling by more than a quarter in 1979-80 (although some people might attribute this episode to North Sea oil, most ... been a prompt realignment within the EMS; however, although the Bundesbank indicated their willingness to adopt this route, other member states (especially France) blocked such a move because they viewed the relative stability of exchange rates that had obtained within the ERM since 1987 as an essential feature in establishing the credibility for a move towards full monetary union. Second, Germany could have accepted a temporary acceleration of inflation associated ...
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