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Barnes And Noble Buys Ingram Book Group
1,062 wordsThe number-one bookseller today was born in 1971. Barnes and Nobles (B&N) founder and Chief Executive, Leonard Riggio, started out with a stagnant Manhattan book store. Today, it operates over 1, 000 store-chains. The chain includes about 504 B&N superstores, 507 B. Dalton mall stores, and 300 university bookstores. The college bookstores are leased and they take a commission on the sales revenues. Regardless of the profits they make, they still have to pay the universities. One such university ...
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Forced To Resign Prime Minister
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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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Alexis De Tocqueville House Of Representatives
1,368 wordsExploring the Distinction between the House and Senate In the House and Senate, Ross L. Baker investigates the differences encompassing both the House of Representatives and the Senate. This book reveals an in-depth comparison between the two chambers, providing a through history regarding the differences in size, leadership, and electoral relations. First, the disparity of size has always been a questionable matter concerning Congress. When our Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution, many comp...
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Equal Pay Act Punitive Damages
1,774 words... ments, and education institutions that employ 15 or more individuals. These laws also cover private and public employment agencies, labor organizations, and joint labor management committees controlling apprenticeship and training. The ADEA covers all private employers with 20 or more employees, state and local governments (including school districts), employment agencies and labor organizations. The EPA covers all employees who are covered by the Federal Wage and Hour Law (the Fair Labor St...
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Revolutionary Command Council President Of Iraq Hussein
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Chief Executive Officer Exchange Commission
1,656 words... to Philcom and Philcom Interactive, Ongpin, and key directors of Philcom, namely, Alex Villa mar, Sonia Pamatmat, Almadro Velasco and Romania Calingin (all were charged with breach of their fiduciary duties to Philcom and Philcom Interactive), took advantage of their high corporate positions and knowledge of Philcom Interactive's confidential business plan. "In utter bad faith, and in wanton breach of their duties to both Philcom and Philcom Interactive, stealthily and craftily conceived, im...
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Senior Vice President Pepsi Cos
1,373 wordsI. CURRENT SITUATION A. Corporate Overview and Financial Performance: PepsiCo, Inc. is one of the most successful consumer products companies in the world, with 2000 revenues of over $ 20 billion and 125, 000 employees. The company consists of: Frito-Lay Company, the largest manufacturer and distributor of snack chips; Pepsi-Cola Company, the second largest soft drink business and Tropicana Products, the largest marketer and producer of branded juice. PepsiCo brands are among the best known and ...
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Company Profile Of The Home Depot
1,661 wordsANALYSIS # 1 1. COMPANY BACKGROUND The Home Depot Inc. was founded in 1978 and is the worlds largest home improvement retailer and the second largest retailer in the United States. The sales for the fiscal year 2000 were $ 45. 7 billion, compared to $ 38. 4 billion in fiscal 1999. As of January 2001, the company was operating 1, 134 retail stores in forty-seven states, six Canadian provinces, Puerto Rico, Chile and Argentina. Home Depot stores sell a wide assortment of building materials, home i...
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Building A Radio Empire Chancellor Media
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Wall Street Journal Interest Rates
1,149 wordsDave Pettit of The Wall Street Journal writes a daily column that appears inside the first page of the journals Money &# 038; Investment section. If the headlines of Mr. Pettit's daily column are any accurate record of economic concerns and current issues in the business world, the late weeks of March and the early weeks of April in 1994 were intensely concerned with interest rates. To quote, Industrials Edge Up 4. 32 Points Amid Caution on Interest Rates, and Industrials Track On 13. 53 Points ...
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Reading This Article Alan Greenspan
675 wordsThe article, " Greenspan gets another Fed term, " in the New York Times discussed Alan Greenspan's success and failures during his term. The article was fairly easy reading. I found some statements to be quite amusing however, there were some issues discussed that was a little ambiguous. Reading this article, I learned that President Clinton nominated Alan Greenspan to a fourth term as chairman of the nations central bank. I had no clue as to what the title of chairman of the nations c...
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Corporate Social Responsibility P 038 G
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Henrietta Muir Edwards Alberta Famous Five Women
414 wordsHENRIETTA MUIR EDWARDS Born in Montreal on December 18, 1849, Henrietta Muir Edwards was one of Alberta's Famous Five Women. She began her fight for womans rights at her home in Montreal with her sister. Here she founded the Working Girls Club, which offered meals, reading rooms and study classes, in 1875. Henrietta and her sister then published the periodical, known as the Working Women of Canada. They paid the costs of publishing the paper by depriving themselves of all personal luxuries. Henr...
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Running Mate Vice President
773 wordsThe nations twenty-seventh vice president during William Howard Taft's presidency was James Schoolcraft Sherman. Being a member of the House of Representatives for almost two decades, he stood firmly for the Republican Party as an influential role during the Progressive Era. He was nicknamed Sunny Jim for his genial demeanor and civility, and was the first Republican vice president to be renominated. However, he didnt live long enough to see the election day. James was born in Utica, New York on...
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Great Leap Forward Cultural Revolution
1,525 wordsMao was born in 1893 into a peasant family in the village of Shaoshan in Hunan province. His father was a strict disciplinarian and Mao frequently rebelled against his authority. Mao's early education was in the Confucian classics of Chinese history, literature, and philosophy, but early teachers also exposed him to the ideas of progressive Confucian reformers. In 1911 Mao moved to the provincial capital, Changsha, where he briefly served as a soldier in Republican army in the 1911 revolution th...
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President Of The United States Foreign Affairs
2,285 wordsThe following report will attempt to provide a brief, yet concise policy profile of Indiana Republican Senator Richard Lugar. Beginning with a short biographical review, the profile will proceed and concentrate on Senator Lugar's major areas of public policy concern; Foreign Affairs, Agriculture, and in part, his 1996 Presidential Campaign which encompasses a myriad of issues, both foreign and domestic. It would be impossible to include every aspect of Senator Lugar's political career and person...
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Form Of Government House Of Commons
1,662 wordsAll countries require leadership in some form. These governmental powers provide leadership, make decisions, and maintain order for that nation. How they come into power and enforce their control determines the type of government that is established. Throughout the world, there are five main forms of Government: Totalitarian, Authoritarian, Parliamentarian, Monarchy, and Unitary. All five of these are prevalent today and have different characteristics that distinguish them form one another. Tota...
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Chairman Of The Bbc Marmaduke Hussey Long
656 wordsDuring it out Chance Governs All Marmaduke Hussey 326 pp, Macmillan In September 1986, the doomed director-general of the BBC, Alastair Milne, was on a platform at the National Film Theatre when he was handed a note. It told him that a new chairman of the BBC had been appointed. Milne rose to leave as fast as his brown suede shoes would allow, with journalists, including me, in hot pursuit. Ive never heard of him, he said of Marmaduke Hussey, a previous managing director of Times Newspapers, who...
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Supreme Court Ruling George W Bush
1,349 wordsFive weeks after Election Day, George W. Bush at last laid claim to the presidency Wednesday night with a pledge to seize this moment and deliver reconciliation and unity to a nation divided. Al Gore exited the tortuously close race, exhorting the nation to put aside partisan rancor and support its new chief executive. I was not elected to serve one party, but to serve one nation, the nations soon-to-be 43 rd president told Americans in remarks prepared for a nationally televised address from th...
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