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The Antitrust Case Against Microsoft
424 wordsThe Anti-Trust Case Against Microsoft By Corporate Watch writing this article "Microsoft: One World Operating System" (web). A battle is raging in the United States Courts with the Microsoft Corporation. The federal government maintains that Microsoft's monopolistic practices are harmful to United States citizens creating higher prices and potentially downgrading software quality and should be stopped while Microsoft and its supporters claim that they are not breaking any laws and are just doing...
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The Future Of Economy In Year 2000
1,710 wordsThe economy has performed exceptionally well for the past several years, combining rapid growth and very low unemployment with declining inflation. Not only has the expansion achieved record length, but it has done so with far stronger growth than expected, stated Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan in his remarks to the National Community Reinvestment Coalition annual conference in Washington (Business Week, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Economic Outlook, March 6, 2000). Figures show that sinc...
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Consumer Credit Higher Prices
1,343 wordsIn spite of Georgia's strong economy, bankruptcy filings are at record levels. During 1998, the number of filings exceeded 1. 43 million nationwide with nearly 97 percent attributable to consumer bankruptcies. These record filings in the midst of a booming economy and low unemployment is clear indication that the system is broken and needs reform. This rapid rise in personal bankruptcies and a near-record high in business bankruptcies is a trend that must be reversed. L. Wesley Smith, President ...
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Million Barrels Oil Market
2,049 wordsMarshall Jenkins, a woodcutter from Culpeper, Virginia, wishes the government could feel his pain. He owns one of the thousands of businesses that are feeling the pressure from rising fuel costs and was forced to retire his three-ton diesel shipping truck. I just cant afford to run that truck, Jenkins says of the $ 100 it costs to top off the tank, and I dont feel right about charging more for a chord of wood (Maier par. 6). With fuel prices at a record high, people like Jenkins are wondering if...
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Gender Pricing In Business
485 wordsIssues in Entrepreneurship Part 1 Gender Pricing Businesses commonly offer special pricing. Examples include ladies night at clubs and ballparks, discounts for single moms at childrens clothing stores, discounts for men on Fathers Day, and higher prices for womens clothing at dry cleaners. These pricing differences are accepted and expected by most customers and businesspeople. Now these practices are being challenged as discriminatory pricing. Businesses using such discounts defend them as bein...
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Fast Food Industry Pizza Hut
1,204 words... 0 billion for the 500, 000 restaurants in the U. S. in 1997. The U. S. restaurant industry grew 5. 2 percent in 1997. Six major segments make up the fast food segment of the food service industry. Sandwich chains, like McDonald's and Wendy's are the number one segment, followed by dinner houses, such as Applebee's and Red Lobster. Pizza chains are ranked third. Out of all the pizza chains, Pizza Hut has the largest market share, 46 %, followed by Domino's with 21. 7 %. International sales ha...
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U S Airlines Industry Porter Five Forces Model
709 wordsU. S Airlines Industry: Porter's Five Forces Model Michael E. Porter is a professor of the Harvard Business School. He is an expert on competitive strategy and heavy duty consultant. Michael Porter is the author of Model for Industry Analysis. Porters Five Forces Model refers to the power in the industry and helps to predict the next attack that can destroy the business. According to Porter, industry is being influenced by five forces. They are: Competitors: exit barriers, industry concentration...
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Aggregate Supply Curve Aggregate Demand
1,405 wordsDo Higher Wages Cause Higher Prices, OrDo Higher Wages Cause Higher Prices, Or Do Price Rises Cause Wage Rises? Do higher wages cause higher prices, or do price rises cause wage rises? ? What are the policy implications in either case? Inflation involves changes in both prices and wages, and can be initially caused by either. ? Therefore, in this essay I will look at two cases of inflation, one which is caused by a change in aggregate demand, and one which is caused by a change in aggregate supp...
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Small Business Owners Small Business Administration
4,079 wordsBusiness plays a major role within our society. It is a creative and competitive activity that continuously contributes to the shaping of our society. By satisfying the needs and wants people cannot satisfy themselves, businesses improve the quality of life for people and create a higher standard of living. It is a way for individuals to provide goods and services to consumers, and at the same time, produce a profit for themselves. Businesses are not only important because they provide goods and...
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Campaign Finance Reform Dollars A Year
1,934 words? No matter what your social issue, if you want to solve it get the money out of politics. Only then will lawmakers vote for their people rather than their pocketbooks. ? Jack E. Lohman. Money corrupts politics, and when contributions are being made to candidates it is not in the best interest of the American people. Campaign Finance is out of control in today? s political races. Candidates are taking money from wherever and whoever they can get it. Soft money is flowing through elections withou...
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Positive And Negative Highly Competitive
2,315 wordsMarketing Boards Marketing Boards Introduction Marketing Boards are government involved ways of regulating farmer? s production and price, while protecting the overall profit of every farmer in that particular production. Since there is nothing farmers can do about the inelastic nature of the demand for farm products, the key to supporting and stabilizing farm prices and incomes lies in controlling the supply of farm products. In other words, farmers would benefit greatly from an oligopolistic (...
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