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Consumer Confidence Interest Rates
1,255 words... e at times. They are highly volatile meaning that the retail sales report has a strong tendency, if not potential, to provide major surprises. The Consumer Confidence Index is an important economic indicator because it measures the level of confidence in the American consumer in each household. However, these surveys might not be reliable because times and situations of the American consumer can change dramatically. If consumers are concerned about job security, economic conditions, or perso...
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Galaxy Its Spiral Shape Galaxy Its Spiral Galaxies
1,100 wordsWhen you look at a distant galaxy, you are not only seeing into space, but far into the past as well. The light from one of the galaxies we see today actually started its journey toward Earth more than two million years ago. The discovery of galaxies [ 1 ] began in the early 1400 s by Polish astronomers and continues to be studied today. Knowing as we do today that the universe is amenable to investigation, and that telescopes can examine millions of galaxies at distances of millions of light ye...
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10 000 Years 000 Years Ago
864 wordsRecent Study Shows That the Bible Is Wrong The Christian Bible says the words of God and states that God is omnipotent and cannot lie. If you think about that statement you realize that if God is omnipotent then he should have the power to lie. The error could not be corrected by any additions made to the bible throughout the last two centuries. In order to fix that error and other scientific errors, too many changes would have to be made to the Bible. The Bible says that God created Earth in 6 ...
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Pot Smokers Dont Care
964 wordsCurrently the government allows you to smoke a substance that kills over 400, 000 people a year nation wide, and over 3. 5 million a year worldwide. The tobacco companies strive to make this product more addictive (and its already more addictive that heroin! ). In fact, the government not only allows it, but funds it. However, marijuana, in its 5, 000 year history, has yet to produce 1 documented case of death. It has yet to be scientifically proven to have any long-term affects on the brain, an...
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Suicide Bombers Fairy Tale
5,959 words... et the point. Out of all the world religions, including mine, only the fundamentalist Muslims know of this taboo. They stick a bag over her head - a burka! They put her under a tent. They know that manhood is the ability to stick it in a woman no matter how ugly she is However, Muslims do cross the line when they physically abuse and batter their wives. At this point they become devils. That is never necessary or permitted. White Armband The white cloth armband I'm wearing has four markers i...
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Billions Of Dollars Marijuana Laws
1,083 wordsEvery year without fail, millions of people in North America light up and smoke marijuana. Correspondingly, every year, billions of tax dollars are wasted on fighting a futile war against an inevitable activity that is much less detrimental to our society than the war itself. The legalization and careful government regulation of marijuana would be beneficial to our society, saving taxpayers money and eliminating the few risks that accompany marijuana use. This is because the health and social da...
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Air Traffic Control Billions Of Dollars
1,691 wordsWhy should terrorism command our exceptional attention? That the 9 / 11 terrorists maliciously attacked the symbolic and actual seats of our economic and military power (WTC/Wall Street and the Pentagon) should concern us if we truly think that future attacks might destroy our society. But who believes that? Government responses seem directed mostly at stopping future similar attacks... which returns us full circle to the question: why should that have become our primary national goal, at the sa...
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S P 500 Return On Assets
1,944 words... wrong products (tennis balls that wouldn't bounce in high-altitude Mexico City, for example, and 110 -volt appliances in Argentina, where 220 -volt is the norm) and even bollixed up entire efforts (it pulled out of a loss-plagued Indonesian venture last year). In a joking reference to those cultural gaffes, John Menzer, Wal-Mart's head of international sales, says: "My goal is not to wear my underwear around my neck anywhere I go. " (Barlett, 1996). To that end, Wal-Mart has recently altered...
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Air Traffic Control War On Terrorism
2,221 words... letters lacking return addresses; urgent mall was embargoed; and for weeks the national dialog centered on one of the least hazards we face. An NPR radio host asked the Postmaster General if the whole U. S. Postal System might be shut down, despite expert opinion that -- in a world faced with diabetes, salmonella poisoning, and AIDS -- anthrax will remain (even as a biological weapon) a bit player as a cause of death. Its sole potency is in the context of terrorism: if, by mulling lethal pow...
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Internal And External Competitive Advantage
2,297 wordsDevelopments of ICT ICT is used to communicate all over the world. E-mail, faxes, letters and telephone calls can get messages to anywhere in the world who has the ability to receive them. In this paper I would like to analyze the influence of ITC development on the learning process because of the possibility to analyze the ICT influence from my own experience, Business Company, and for the problems of development of ITC throughout the world. In what way ICT should be developed in universities a...
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Couple Of Years Intellectual Property
1,720 words... or fee of any kind for any one. Let there be no censor of films. Let there be no tax or duty on paper or magnetic tapes or films or software etc. Let there be no discrimination. Either all in the business is paying taxes or none should pay! Well it sure is difficult but not impossible. Impediments should not deter the government to make right decisions in the best interest of the nation. What ever may be the case, piracy in any shape, would never be acceptable to any dignified nation includi...
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Billions Of Years Origin Of The Universe
597 wordsCreation or Evolution? Where did we come from? Did God create our incredible world in six days, and do we all descend from Adam and Eve? Or was the universe created billions of years ago, possibly by a Big Bang, with all living things evolving from a single organism? These questions have been debated for hundreds, if not thousands, of years, and there is still no answer that satisfies everyone. Until the 18 th century, most people never doubted the Biblical theory of Creation; that God was respo...
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Big Bang Theory Life On Earth
1,381 wordsCreation vs. Evolution: A Different Route to the Same Conclusion The argument over how the earth was created has been an ongoing battle for many years. Who really knows if some supreme being created the universe, or if it was the end result of a massive explosion from a single atom? Creation, as defined by Websters Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, is the act of bringing the world into ordered existence (Websters, 304). This seems to imply an immediate action, where the world just appeared and ex...
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Billions Of Dollars Time And Effort
3,117 wordsThe International Space Station The International Space Station is the doorway to the future of mankind and the world as it is known. The scientific and medical discoveries that will be made on the station could create billions of dollars annually. A plan like this, arranged to benefit the whole world economy, should sound like a good idea to every person, but some believe that the ISS is too risky, too ineffective, or too costly to create. Whether or not the space station is worth the money, ti...
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Billions Of Dollars Frame Of Mind
1,216 wordsIs Drug Testing The Answer? Essay, Research Is Drug Testing The Answer? Is Drug Testing the Answer? Why do humans seek an alternate reality? An alternate reality being a place or frame of mind that is somehow ght 58) Pills called Golden Seal can be purchased at any health food store. Golden Seal induces urination and therefore flushes out toxins from the body. All drug tests have counter agents to pass them. This again makes drug testing ineffective. Constitutional rights are given to all Americ...
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War On Drugs Billions Of Dollars
1,239 wordsThe war on drugs failed. The government spent billions of dollars fighting drug use to no avail. Statistics shown in The Boston Globe state overall drug use among children ages twelve to seventeen had actually gone up from 5. 7 % in 1993 to 9 % in 1999 (Health Central). Other statistics reveal areas of decreased usage; however, the same statistics do not show the vast numbers of addicted people abusing Methamphetamine's or popular club drugs like Ecstasy. Ending drug usage is likely impossible. ...
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World War Ii News 038 World
1,448 wordsIt is the last great mystery of World War II: the unfinished, unprecedented search for what may be billions of dollars in cash, gold, property, and art hidden and unclaimed by victims of the Holocaust? or plundered by the Nazis and their accomplices before shipping Jews to the death camps. In 1938 Nazi Gestapos raided the homes of over 10, 000, 000 innocent Jews. Their houses were thrashed, possessions were stolen, and lives were torn for the benefit of? one superior race. ? None of these people...
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Billions Of Dollars Rest Of The World
1,659 wordsThe Mexican Economy On December 20, 1994, in an attempt to make Mexican products more competitive, Mexican President, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Len, devalued the Mexican Peso. Unfortunately, attempts at keeping the Peso to only a fifteen percent devaluation failed. The Peso dropped almost forty percent (Roberts, 1). It went from 3. 5 to almost 7. 5 pesos to the dollar before it stabilized. The devaluation not only sent shockwaves through the Mexican economy, but through the rest of the world. Why...
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Billions Of Dollars Solve The Problem
2,222 wordsMy report is on the cost and effects of recycling on the environment. Recycling costs the US billions of dollars each year. Everyone agrees that pollution is a global problem, my problem is that I do not see the point of wasting billions of dollars on it. There are other things we can spend our money on, like education or finding better jobs for people. I believe I have strong views on this topic. I realize everybody may not understand my views, but they are still my views. Lately the earth s ca...
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National Catholic Reporter Post Cold War
1,246 wordsPublic Schools vs. Post-Cold War Military Spending Even though the Cold War era is a distant memory, encased in glass forever like some museum piece, our government is still spending as if the Soviet Union was in its prime. If the arms race is a forgotten memory, then why is the military still spending 86 % of what it was spending during the Cold War. It s not that us Americans do not want a solid military, we just believe that our military is wasting billions of dollars at the expense of our ch...
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