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Clean Air Act Environmental Protection Agency
1,285 words1990, the federal Clean Air Act was passed to improve air quality in the United States. President Bush's proposed amendments to the Clean Air Act initially would have led to the introduction of alternative, non-petroleum fuels. The petroleum and oxygenate industries responded by offering a reformulated gasoline program as a substitute for most of the alternate fuel proposals. As a result, the amendments to the federal Clean Air Act adopted in 1990 required steps to achieve lower vehicle emission...
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Good Or Bad Moral Philosophy
1,862 words... number probably would not have purchased the vehicle had they knew the actual mileage. It is the seller = s duty to inform the buyer of any defects that might affect the customer = s decision. Price-fixing-Managers of firms manufacturing paper bags used for packaging foods, coffee, and other goods were fined for getting together and conspiring to fix the prices of those paper bags. When firms are operating in an oligopoly market, it is easy enough for managers to meet secretly and agree to s...
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Technological Advancements Hewlett Packard
996 wordsThree of the most influential factors in home PC ownership were education, income, and children in the household. Consumers are becoming more computer and component literate. Companies are investing large amounts of money into network developments. The low unemployment rate allows more people the opportunity to purchase novelty items. Top five computer companies in 1999 ranking according to market share: Compaq (19. 1 %), Dell (10. 3 %), Packard Bell NEC (8. 2 %), IBM (8. 0 %), Hewlett-Packard (...
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Vertical Integration R D
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Tcp Ip Cable Tv
1,110 wordsTCP and IP were developed by a Department of Defense (DOD) research project to connect a number different networks designed by different vendors into a network of networks (the "Internet"). It was initially successful because it delivered a few basic services that everyone needs (file transfer, electronic mail, remote logon) across a very large number of client and server systems. Several computers in a small department can use TCP/IP (along with other protocols) on a single LAN. The IP componen...
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Philip Morris Brand Loyalty
1,009 wordsproducts such as cigars, snuff, and chew are considered close substitutes to cigarettes. Cigar smoke is just taken into the mouth, but not inhaled like cigarettes. Snuff and chew do not even contain smoke, but are put on the skin for nicotine absorption Companies such as Imperial Tobacco, which produce a wide array of chew and snuff products, would be considered a company that provides substitutes to cigarettes. They would not fall in the cigarette industry itself. Situation Analysis Industry St...
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Dow Jones Cd Rom
469 wordsThis assignment consists of three major parts. Part 1 shows how to use the CD-ROM facilities to locate some material on the item of "Information Retrieval Methods", details of the materials (such as the Record Number, date of the article, the author and a summary), search strategy and comments are also included. Part 2 demonstrates how to use the Monash Voyager Catalogue system to locate the text or article. Finally, Part 3 shows how to search for materials on the World Wide Web, such as Vic Roa...
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World Trade Organization Trade With China
608 wordsThere are many factors to consider when opening the United States doors to trade with China. In the past, Unites States and Chinese relations have been separated by differences in culture and animosity between the two countries. However, now Chinas participation in the World Trade Organization raises even more questions, such as the benefits of trade, the compromising of human rights, and the question of security. Trading with China can provide both benefits and barriers for smaller and medium s...
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B 2 C B 2 B
959 wordsFrom the 1940 's invention of the ENIAC to the high powered computers of today, end users are constantly bombarded with a litany of options. Enter the Internet. A virtual world that has broken down communication barriers and raised our notion of globalization to epic proportions. One can chat with friends in the far east while downloading articles for a report and simultaneously finding a recipe for french onion soup. As the million new users join the internet every day , we must look at where t...
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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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Wal Mart Amp Amp
1,109 wordsQuestion # 1 In Customer Intimacy and Other Value Disciplines, Treacy and Wiersema highlight three distinct "paths" or strategies to market leadership. They include operational excellence, customer intimacy, and product leadership. This paper will highlight how Wal-Mart has successfully implemented the operational excellence strategy, as well as consider future initiatives within this strategy that Wal-Mart can still incorporate. The discussion will than focus on the customer intimacy strategy a...
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Buying And Selling Company In The World
1,305 wordsAbstract "Son, your ego is writing checks your body can't cash. " (Paramount, 1986) The famous words of Admiral T. J. Cassidy in the high-flying action thriller Top Gun (Paramount, 1986) describe what occurred with Enron. Enron was a giant corporation (some say the largest energy company in the world), who depended on outside credit sources to finance its daily operations. In turn its credit-worthiness depended on its performance as reflected in the Enron's share prices. When the price of Enron'...
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Five Competitive Forces Bargaining Power Of Suppliers
692 wordsThe brewing industry in 1985 can be analyzed using Porter's five competitive forces: threat of new entrants, bargaining power of suppliers, bargaining power of buyers, substitutes and rivalry among existing competitors. All five competitive forces jointly determine the intensity of industry competition and profitability. Furthermore, the five forces narrow in on why the brewing industry became more concentrated and key features defining industry success. In the brewing industry, barriers to entr...
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Marketing Objectives Swot Analysis
1,197 wordsIntroduction: The basic tools of marketing assist in the success of any company. The use of marketing audits and SWOT analysis allows the company to segment and target consumers on the grounds of age, gender, religion, taste etc. Marketing research enables a company to gather, record and analyse information about these consumers. Ultimately a company must understand the needs and wants of their target audience to ensure customer satisfaction and expectation is met or exceeded. Through the use of...
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Short Term Quality Management
530 words(TQM) -- distilled from his works and 14 points by A. Mead MD -- Clarify your Concept Define your mission / vision /goal -- aim for constant improvement in the product or service you offer your clients. You cannot do this without maintaining a high level of motivation and satisfaction in the people that comprise your organization -- consider that an aspect of your goal. Realize your Concept With clear vision and energetic motivation, make your concept a matter of daily practice: have a long term...
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Howard Schultz Specialty Coffee
770 wordsStarbucks, one of the most famous corporations operating not only in the United States but also globally began as a small company who provided coffee to fine restaurants and espresso bars. It has since, over the last twenty-one years, become the largest retail coffee company in the world. Starbucks has seen its company grow from having a mere 17 stores in 1987 to having currently 5, 688 locations globally. This amazing expansion can be attributed to Howard Schultz, who bought the Starbucks name ...
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Positioning Strategy Three Words
967 wordsAdvertising professionals realize that the heart of any campaign is the product and the position it holds in people's minds. Products and their brand names are newsmakers themselves. Wendy's hamburgers, Apple computers, and California raisins (particularly when they sing and dance) are objects of our attention and interest. Positioning is companys competitive strategy. For example, the product Nyquil was conceived as a superior daytime cough suppressant. Unfortunately, it made people drowsy. Det...
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9 August 1999 B 2 B
715 wordsEbusiness 400 B 2 B involves transactions between businesses. In the electronic commerce world, companies not only sell to consumers, but also to other companies. Some companies are suppliers, meaning they have a product that they supply to other companies or consumers. Other companies are buyers, meaning they buy product from other companies, then turn around and supply or sell them to other companies. And finally, a number of companies are intermediaries, where they allow companies to come tog...
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Ford Motor Company Ford Motor Vehicles
442 wordsAt Ford Motor Company, we have a passion for Better Ideas. Whether pushing the limits of technology and design, or bringing people together within a community, we work to approach every challenge with ingenuity and caring. Explore opportunities for doing business with us, visit the Investor Center, or learn more about us. Environmental Initiatives Learn what were doing to build vehicles that are better for the environment as well as promote conservation in communities, schools, and our very own ...
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Taking Into Account Helms Burton
1,604 wordsEconomic sanctions have resurfaced at the center of public policy debate. After a brief pause following the politically disastrous grain embargo and pipeline sanctions in the early 1980 s, sanctions are once again the weapon of choice to enforce a heap of US foreign policy goals, from countering terrorism to battling drug trafficking. A recent National Association of Manufacturers (1997) study lists over 30 countries hit by new US sanctions during the period 1993 - 1996. Many of these actions we...
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