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Prince William Sound Christian Science Monitor
1,344 wordsThe Exxon Valdez oil spill in the Prince William Sound of Alaska proved to be a disaster on many levels. The coastline, wildlife, and people of the all area were all devastated by the spill. Ten years later, the area is showing remarkable progress. Because of the cleanup efforts and new regulations, the Sound is getting ever closer to recovery. A few minutes after midnight on March 24, 1989, the T/V Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound. A few minutes later the coast gua...
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Wall Street Journal Managing Diversity
1,195 wordsWorkplace Diversity: Fact or Fiction? Are todays corporate diversity programs truly effective? That question, posed by Robert J Grossman in an article carried by the Wall Street Journal Online on June 28, 2000, will be explored as part of the review of Mr. Grossman's article. The concept of diversity goes well beyond the historical employment equity legislation enacted in both federal and local jurisdictions. It calls for the recognition of the contributions that individuals can make as individu...
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Wall Street Journal Internet Explorer
1,674 words... p any competitor product they wish, but they are not allowed to disable features of our products, (Just Dept v MS 2). Second, the government is contending that the terms of Microsoft's non-disclosure agreements are an obstacle in the way of their attempts to gather evidence for their investigation. Microsoft says that their non-disclosure agreements are no different than those of most companies within the software industry, as well as outside it. Finally, there is the matter of the competiti...
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Wall Street Journal Gore Plan
1,523 words... n student outcomes, it does not explain why growing expenditures for the nation over all has not produced similar results, or why expenditures in non-instructional staff have been growing for the past thirty years, expenditures which could represent growing bureaucracy costs. While Card and Kruger's research does not explain why increased school spending affected student outcomes, it does show that at times increased spending can affect student outcomes. The important distinction is while ca...
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Gun Control Advocates Wall Street Journal
5,825 words... h emotion or introspection but require a level of conscious cognition to understand. 3 / 28 / 98 Dave Workman Bravo for John Lott's revealing research on the impact that concealed carry laws are having on crime. That such laws have been passed in 31 states, coinciding with passage of "Three Strikes" and "Hard Time for Armed Crime" legislation, is the real reason we are seeing a decline in reported violent crime. Those who have advocated restrictive gun control over the years, and other intru...
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Wall Street Journal Coca Cola
1,433 wordsThe Stock-Trak investment simulation program began on August 30 th, which marked the first day that trading was allowed. A total available amount of $ 300, 000 was used for investing. The objective of this assignment is to maximize the value of the portfolio through November 19 th, which was the last day of the trading period. I began the process of choosing specific investments for my portfolio by taking an asset allocation questionnaire (appendix I). Since the objective was to maximize portfol...
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Lucent Technologies Company Profile
1,211 wordsIntroduction Lucent Technologies Lucent Technology is North America's leading maker of telecom equipment and software, including switching and transmission equipment and business communications systems. Lucent Technologies, started trading publicly in 1996 with an initial public offering that was, at the time, the largest in domestic history (Hayes). In December 1999, Lucent's stock reached a high of $ 77. 78 and was the nation's fourth most widely held stock (Romero and Atlas). But by July 2001...
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Wall Street Journal Southwest Airlines
1,522 wordsExecutive Summary Thousands of people travel by air; Southwest Airlines provides low-fare air transportation service among 58 cities in the United States. Although the industry suffered a major blow from the terrorist attack of September 11 th, the company is still holding strong; while other airline companies are in debt. The information was majority gathered and analyzed from the internet; sources such as "News Week, " and "Wall Street Journal. " According to the acquired knowledge of Southwes...
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Human Resource Management Human Resource Manager
1,002 wordsLITERATURE REVIEW One only has to read the local papers to be reminded of the employment dilemma that the province faces and the need for well trained Human Resource Professionals. A scan of local papers reveals a minimum of 10 advertisements per week for Human Resource Professionals. There is a continuing need for HR graduates to fill these positions. Nowadays, many young people, before they start their studies at University, try to think well of what subjects would be the most useful in helpin...
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Wall Street Journal Gross Domestic Product
1,784 words... that things are going to be that rosy, said David Wyss, chief economist at Standard & Poors, after Fridays G. D. P. report. The biggest drags on the economy last quarter were exports, retail sales, equipment and software, and housing. The revision could be traced primarily to a contraction in inventories of unsold goods, which the government had previously said had grown. The trade gap was wider than had been reported, with fewer American goods bought abroad. Exports fell at an annualized ra...
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Wall Street Journal U S Department
2,419 words... is strange, because argument usually require at least two parties. One may ask: Where the supporters of standardized tests are? The other thing is that the opponents usually use the deceitful arguments like IQ tests do not measure intelligence, in reality, IQ tests are nothing more than a type of achievement test which primarily measures knowledge of standard English and exposure to the cultural experiences of middle class whites. If such sort of argument would address African Americans or J...
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Los Angeles Times Wall Street Journal
1,838 words... sell NT servers using Intel chips, it is heavily promoting the fact that NT also runs on machines built with its own Alpha microprocessor. (Manes, 2003). Other computer companies are working hard to oppose Microsoft. "All major computer industry participants other than Digital and Compaq view Microsoft as a threat, " wrote Marc Schulman in a recent essay, published by Boston's Patricia Seybold Group, that examined the company's dominance. What follows is a look at the stop-Microsoft strategi...
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Wall Street Journal York N Y
1,175 wordsEuro vs. Dollar Will the Euro replace the Dollar as the worlds most popular currency to hold? When the countries of European Union started to use Euro in their everyday cash operations, it definitely buried traditional national currencies of European countries such as German Deutsche mark that was the historical symbol of economical power of Germany. Germany, by the way, is one of the most important trade partner and investor of Russia. Besides, Deutsche mark was quite popular currency for Russi...
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Managed Care Organizations Wall Street Journal
2,148 wordsConsumers and Insurance Benefits Issues Paper The U. S. health care system continues to have serious problems, particularly in the area of coverage. Insurance benefits available for the health care consumers are certainly not enough to satisfy the growing needs for the qualified health care. Within the scope of this report, we will first analyze the current situation with US health care, to be followed by the discussion of the feasibility and relevance of the universal coverage option. First, 40...
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Intelligence Problems Facing Homeland Security
2,678 wordsIntelligence Problems Facing Homeland Security. One of the main problems of the present is the global terrorism. Terrorism unfortunately became an integral part of the political and economic processes in the world thus making a threat for the civil and the national security worldwide. There are a lot of discussions on defining the terrorism. Sometimes the acts of terror are called the revolutionary struggle, sometimes the terrorists are called the rebels, and sometimes they define themselves as ...
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Wall Street Journal Cents An Hour
1,756 wordsThe Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance by Russel Roberts Dr. Roberts has broad experience as a lecturer and consultant and has done extensive research on economics. His jargon-free book on international trade, The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protectionism, was named one of the top 10 books of 1994 by Business Week and one of the best books of 1994 by the Financial Times. Dr. Roberts is a frequent commentator on National Pubic Radio's Morning Edition. In addition to numerous academic publ...
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Snoop Doggy Dogg Wall Street Journal
4,219 wordsStacey Hawkins English 2 sec. 34 11 - 21 - 96 Gangsta Rap and Violence Go Hand in Hand Mr. Officer, I want to see you latin in a coffin, sir, from The Chronic and F the police, from N. W. A. , are few lyrics from the music genre gangsta rap. This kind of music is being sold to young children without any thought of concern. When many children listen to this kind of music they think that was being said in the songs is not wrong or against the law. The lyrics in many songs contain violent and expli...
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Death Row Inmate Anti Death Penalty
5,511 wordsGeorge W. Bush came out of his national convention with a significant lead over Al Gore. One poll put the margin at 17 points. While this is reassuring to his supporters, it is a lead that could quickly evaporate. In 1988, Democrat Michael Dukakis held a 17 point lead over Republican George Bush and lost the election. One of the wild cards in this particular campaign is the performance of the national media, which has shown the ability to manipulate issues and events for the benefit of the Democ...
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Wall Street Journal Stock Prices
2,209 wordsIntroduction The U. S. economy was at the height of economic expansion, stocks were near all time highs, corporate profits were strong, and the unemployment rate was at its lowest in two decades. At the same time, the major corporations in the United States were firing workers by the hundreds of thousands, and job insecurity had risen to an extremely high level. What was also ironic was the fact that the corporations who were initiating the downsizing's were considered to be some of the stronges...
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