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- 15711: The Wrong Way To Sell A New Idea
- ... at the least is the intended conclusion. By eliminating personal deductions like mortgagee interest payments, the study claims, the flat tax would reduce housing values in this country by upwards of 10 percent. The study's methodology is shaky at best, and the jury on housing values is still out. Despite the forces allied against the flat tax, tax reform has grown steadily because the current tax system is so unpopular ... alternatives promise so much. But in addition to the possibility of lower housing values, the flat tax poses several oth er serious problems too easily dismissed by its advocates. Businesses may be the flat tax's second biggest obstacle. By reducing the cost of compliance with the tax laws and removing uncertainties about the tax situation, the flat tax would eventually benefit businesses. However, they would see their tax burde n ... pay no tax. Will tax fairness be defined so that individuals consuming significant amounts of capital income would pay little or no tax? Though difficult issues, they are not impossible to resolve. Moreover, the system's advantage could well outweigh it's drawbacks. The flat tax could prove a boon for the economy by eliminating a passel of convoluted tax disincentives to saving and inve sting. Economists will quibble over ...
- 15712: The Team v.s. The CEO
- The Team v.s. The CEO For as long as America has been around, so have power hungry, decision making, iron clad individuals that have striven to create a business that they had total control over. It has been ... but always hoping to climb past all your co-workers to one day to become the "head honcho," that calls all the shots. Yes, I'm talking about the all mighty and all-powerful CEO's. However, this long desired position may quite possibly be dwindling away in the years to come. In a recent article in Business Week, John Byrne talks about how the new way of the future will ... working together on a team. Yes, a team. He talks about how chaotic the business world is becoming today, with such large and demanding companies. He believes that there is no way that the CEO's of the past can keep up with such large companies. It is really a pretty simple concept. Five people are going to be more productive than one person is. He uses a metaphor in ...
- 15713: The Nature of Imperialism
- ... of a tyrannical government. Kincaid and Orwell show a common realization of this a certain points in their live. Swift on the other hand, show a realization in a way to speak out against Englands control. They realize it only after time and it comes in the form of cultural, economic and social domination by their oppressors. All three writers are relating experiences of oppression and domination by the Imperialistic ... amnesia. I was forced to forget. (Kincaid, 507) Kincaid sarcastically, yet powerfully shows the horrific realities of imperialism. She paints a picture of this little Antigun kid looking through the window of the English Societys proudest, most perfect family. And she was habitually made aware that this was not her society, yet the one that ruled hers. They were better, more proper, richer, and happier. She was stripped of her culture, her heritage and her peoples livelihood. When Kincaid was a young school girl, her English made her quite aware of the English domination of her country. She realizes how her culture as she know it, is really that of ...
- 15714: Birmingham Steel Corporation
- ... in southern California, Vancouver, and British Columbia, respectively. Fiscal 1997 was a pivotal year for Birmingham Steel Corporation. The company set several operation milestones during the year, including record sales, shipments, and production. The company's mini-mills demonstrated exceptional operating performance, as the Seattle, Kankakee, and Birmingham facilities each set individual or corporate production records. Additionally, these mills generated significant pre-tax earnings gains, with the Birmingham and Seattle mills ... the operating facilities was a record level of 1.16 worker-hours per ton. The Birmingham mill achieved productivity of under 1.0 worker-hour per ton. Birmingham Steel Corporation is one of the country's leading producers of steel products utilized in the construction industry. The company's construction products, manufactured at mini-mills located throughout the United States, consist primarily of rebar, but also include merchant rounds and angles used in the manufacture of steel joists. Rebar is a commodity steel ...
- 15715: Institutions That Facilitate Economic Segregation
- ... not fulfill his potential because of these restrictions, which are also present at the high school level. Variations within schools also help to restrict opportunities for some students. Admission to certain programs like G.A.T.E. and magnet schools can be class based. Once on a higher track or in one of these programs, a student is exposed to many useful and intellectually stimulating opportunities. Unfortunately, many minority students and ... teachers with emphasis on basic and monotonous tasks. (Kozol 95) In another level of the correspondence principle, differences within the classroom have also been shown to limit opportunities for some students. Depending on a student's social class, a teacher may be more apt to help or disregard that student. A student with poor mannerisms and speech pattern may be presupposed to have little room for improvement, while one from a ... structure. Not only does the established framework inherently limit advancement to higher-tier jobs, it also isolates the urban poor from the rest of society, thus reproducing social classes. Divided into two job sectors, America's segmented labor market "can significantly affect the livelihood of American workers and thereby perpetuate the economic gap between the rich and poor." (Newman 383) The primary sector consists of large bureaucratic operations with higher ...
- 15716: Privateers
- ... might not have been won without their involvement. Many scholars agree that all war begins for economic reasons, and the privateers of the war for independence contributed by attacking the commercial livelihood of Great Britain's merchants. It is ironic that the entire notion of privateering began in Great Britain. In 1649 a frigate named Constant-Warwick was constructed in England for a privateer in the employ of the Earl of ... was, a great many of the English peerage commissioned their own privateers. The Seven-Years War saw the proliferation of privateering on both the English and French coasts as each attempted to disrupt their opponent's colonial trade. American investors quickly entered this battle, commissioning ships to prey upon cargo vessels coming to and from French colonial holdings in the Americas. Here began the American privateer heritage, and when the American ... of these same men viewed the opportunity to profit, and resumed their ventures. The American privateer vessel was a ship "armed and fitted out at private expense for the purpose of preying on the enemy's commerce to the profit of her owners". Not just anyone could be a privateer, however. What distinguished a privateer from a common pirate was a commission, or a letter of marque. These were granted ...
- 15717: The Relationships Between Quaker, The Company, and Semiotics
- The Relationships Between Quaker, The Company, and Semiotics For my presentation I have looked at one of Peterborough's oldest and biggest manufacturer, The Quaker company. More specifically the outside and inside of the building. As I was driving towards the building I thought, what was so significant about the Quaker building and how could a picture of a Quaker be so significant in today's culture. I also thought that this whole image of Quaker could not be that overwhelming, however, with great embarrassment I was completely mistaken. This one business and more specifically building has so many signified meanings ... Quaker building I was overwhelmed by the enormous size of it and how it sits on a hill overlooking the north end of downtown Peterborough. I started to think that this is the signifier, it's big and it's on a hill. Now if you think about this for a minute you begin to realize that simply the size and position of this building has many meanings, which are ...
- 15718: World Populations and Development
- World Populations and Development 1.) The Neolithic and Industrial Revolutions The two changes in the use of the earth's resources that had the greatest effect on the world population were the neolithic and the industrial revolutions. The neolithic revolution (a.k.a. agricultural revolution) was a change in the way of life of our ... the developed countries of the world. It is the process of substituting "brain power" with "machine power". It leads to increased production and has the potential to create a more even distribution of the world's population on the surface of the earth. It also has the potential to decrease the differences between the less developed and the highly developed nations of the world. Then again it also has the potential ... The "food supply increase to population increase" ratio is substantially higher in the developed world than in the less developed countries. On a global scale, current food supplies do exceed the needs of the world's population, but they are not distributed in a way that benefits the whole population. Fortunately international programs aimed at achieving a better distribution of food resources do make an impact in decreasing the calorie ...
- 15719: Virtual Banking
- ... Young study (Technology in Banking Report) concluded that "nothing changes in the banking world if customers cannot get financial services when and where they wish...this means anywhere, at any time." Statistics show that ATM's, telephone banking, and home banking account for over fifty percent of all banking transactions today, and total non-branch activity is growing at fifteen percent a year. In one survey (Web-Tech, Inc., May 17 ... There is not actually any one network that is the Internet; it is made up of thousands of networks that connect to each other through common routes, and they all agree to carry each other's traffic. There is a lot of money flowing up from local access providers to these national players, guaranteeing that the infrastructure will continue to expand to meet demand. Because so many resources are shared, the ... accounts, Bankers promise that, in the near future, we will also be able to more easily buy certificates of deposit, mutual funds, and other investments, and even apply for loans electronically. For most people, today's best option may be plug into their bank through one of three leading home-budgeting software programs: Intuit's Quicken, Microsoft Money, and Managing Your Money. By charging $5 to $20 a month for ...
- 15720: Interview to Dow Jones
- ... is a unique company in a number of important respects. Our businesses are balanced roughly 50-50 between print and electronic information. More than 40% of our operating profit is now earned outside the U.S. We are a focused company. We are not a media conglomerate, nor an entertainment company. We stick to our business of business, providing information essential to an ever expanding and increasingly interconnected worldwide business community ... business news in any form customers want it. When we looked at our operations a few years ago, television was the missing means of delivery for our business news. We began by pioneering with Asia's first business channel, Asia Business News, in late 1993 and followed with Europe's first business channel, European Business News, in early 1995. Both have achieved significant distribution success and viewer acceptance. Both also take advantage of Dow Jones' existing news flows and news talent in those regions. ...
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