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Interest Rates Interest Payments
1,629 words... ich is often also referred to as an "international bond." These bonds do not necessarily have to have any 'special' features, as one is automatically built in. As with regular bonds, the holder will receive interest payments throughout the year and the face value when the maturity date is reached. However, when purchasing an international bond, what you are actually doing is investing in another country's currency. Consequently, you must take both the bond price and the currency rate into ac...
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V Chip Television Violence
1,324 wordsBy Mary Ann Banta Board Member, National Coalition on Television Violence Almost from its inception, television has attracted critics concerned with violence portrayed in prime-time and Saturday morning children's programs. Spokesmen for the broadcast industry took the position that television and the violence portrayed on television had no affect on behavior of the viewer. To many this was a strange position for an industry that was also selling commercial time with the specific intent to influ...
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Violent Scenes V Chip
1,392 words... rogram ming. He also pointed out that a network loses anywhere from $ 250, 000 to $ 1 million every time it airs a movie with a viewer discretion advisory. He was also quoted "It is not the role of network television to program for the children of America... Televisions obligation is not (to be) the nation's baby-sitter. " Barry Diller who was quoted by Frank Rich of the New York Times does not support this view that television has no public service responsibility. Diller thinks the V-Chip i...
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Chief Executive Officer Long Term
1,878 wordsThe full name of the first company I chose is Entrust Technologies Inc. The state and year of incorporation is Texas in 1996. The company was a spin-off of Nortel Networks. The worldwide headquarters for the corporation is 4975 Preston Park Blvd Suite 400 Plano, Texas 75093. The Chief Executive Officer and President of the company is John Ryan. The number of shareholders is in the 26, 000 range and the stock is traded on the NASDAQ. The ticker symbol for the corporation is ENTU. The CUSIP number...
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Civil Liberties Union American Civil Liberties
1,725 wordsSurfing the Internet is like strolling through a library. With just one click of the mouse, a person can enter an amazing world of information. The Internet takes away the inconvenience of having to drive to the public library, plus, the Internet is open twenty-four hours a day. But, not only can a person research information on the Internet, he can shop for products, read the latest news and stocks, meet new people, not only in the United States, but in other countries as well, look for a job, ...
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Parents And Children T V
814 wordsParents, educators and many others are concerned about the rank of programs performed on T. V. They fear that it may cause youngster to perceive bad influences by watching unsuitable programs. Serviceable functions are being provided by different associations to solve this problem, such as using rating systems. The rating systems will help parents monitor their children's T. V. viewing in many ways. First of all, a rating system is used to let parents decide what their children should watch. Man...
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Interpersonal Skills Employees Performance
883 wordsHuman Resources Management - Training and Development The importance of applying proper appraisal method towards companys employees can hardly be overestimated. Only having highly qualified personnel can guarantee such company remaining competitive. As practice shows, the employees efficiency tends to decline if theyre not being appraised on regular basis. There are two ways of such employees appraisals that are being used now formal and informal ones. The disagreement between Jennifer and Mel o...
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Video Games And Violence
2,219 wordsVideo Games and Violence During resent years video games play an important role in development of our society, especially younger people. Many young children play video games when they have free time and nothing to do, some engage in this process even to a higher extent. Recently there is an opinion among sociologists and psychologists that video games cause violence among children. In my opinion this is a wrong assumption because violence is created inside the children themselves due to other t...
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Civil Liberties Union Quot Quot
4,228 wordsAs a professional Internet publisher and avid user of the Internet, I have become concerned with laws like the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA) that censor free speech on the Internet. By approving the CDA, Congress has established a precedent which condones censorship regulations for the Internet similar to those that exist for traditional broadcast media. Treating the Internet like broadcast media is a grave mistake because the Internet is unlike any information medium that has been cr...
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Role Playing Survey Conducted
1,258 wordsSince the 1970 s when they were first introduced, videogames have evolved from a simple, white ball that bounced off the TV screen walls into 3 -dimensional, role-playing characters with realistic features, sounds, and actions. Children, in most cases, are the targets of many videogame producers. However, videogame producers have recently developed various role-playing games with such explicit adult content as violence and gore, and often, recurrent nudity or sexual themes. Special rating boards...
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Sexually Explicit Material Communications Decency Act
2,240 wordsIs Internet Censorship Needed? Internet censorship seems to be the target of many debates nowadays in the U. S. due to the rising popularity of the internet and the large amounts of pornography, warez, illegal drugs, and general threats to society. It is a very hard subject to handle, after all no one really is in charge of the internet, and in fact no one really owns it except perhaps the? millions of people throughout the world who contribute to it in various ways? (Burton). The argument for c...
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Communications Decency Act Protect Their Children
2,226 wordsWhy should anyone be concerned about pornography on the Internet? After all, this is a free country and everyone should have access to anything they want, right? This position would be true if only adults used the Internet; it can not be true when children also use the Internet. Most people would agree that children should not have access to Internet sites that are considered pornographic. Does that mean that children should not be allowed Internet access or that the Internet should not have por...
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Miles An Hour Center Of Gravity
1,212 wordsThis article, demonstrates the vulnerability of SUV vehicles in a rollover situation. Dateline from NBC by Lea Thompson did several investigations in regards to this issue, to prove given facts that all SUV models are showing fatal accidents in rollover incidents. The investigation it also shows that many consumers have been mislead and, have also been provided with false information that SUVs are safer and durable than automobiles. In a current incident, the families of Adolfo Morales with six ...
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