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Lend Lease Act Industrial Recovery Act
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Brand Loyalty Net Income
1,254 wordsGenerally increasing sales revenue since 1991 Dealer contracts that my be inhibiting Internet sales Sales declines in Europe, Asia, Latin America New international markets: China, India, Russia New international markets: Internet sales Size still matters and Goodyear has size. Its 1999 sales were $ 12, 881, 000, 000 representing a one-year sales growth of 2 %. Its net income was $ 241, 000, 000, a lot of money but a decrease of 64. 7 % from one year earlier. Despite that drop in net income, Good...
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1,863 wordsThe Quaker Oats Company, officially formed in 1901, is currently undergoing massive reorganization, which will dramatically change its position in the industry. Over the last four years, Quaker Oats' returns have been consistently rocky. Quaker unloaded Snapple, its ice-cream toppings and condiments business, and its frozen bagel business 1997. The company has turned to an emphasis on its high performing products such as Gatorade and bagged cereals. Gatorade accounts for more than one-third of t...
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Human Rights Abuses Campbell Soup
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Mixed Race French Speaking
1,354 wordsWhat is a Creole? The word Creole means many things to many people. It derives from the Latin word Creare, meaning to beget or create. The Webster dictionary says a Creole is a white person descended from the French or Spanish settlers of Louisiana and the Gulf States and preserving their characteristic speech and culture. Creoles, a term first used in the 16 th century in Latin America to distinguish the offspring of European settlers from Native Americans, blacks, and later immigrant groups. I...
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Spread Of Communism Soviet Union
1,198 wordsIn the years following the end of the Cold War, many historians and social scientists have written accounts of what were some of the causes and effects of this period when the threat of war was almost always present. One such person was Melvyn Leffler and his work, The Specter of Communism, which described the origins and conflicts of the Cold War. Out of these accounts several interesting questions come to light about the true nature of the Cold War. One such question that has surfaced recently...
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Years Of Age Buenos Aires
751 wordsArgentina is second largest in area and fourth largest in population in Latin America. Argentina covers more than 1 million square miles. The official language of Argentina is Spanish. More than 90 % of the population is Roman Catholic. The Argentine landscape slopes downward from the Andes Mountains in the west to the Atlantic coast in the East. The border with Chile follows the crest of the Andes. In the Andes, heights of peaks range anywhere from more than 20, 000 feet in the north to less th...
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Monroe Doctrine Western Hemisphere
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Drug Trafficking Between Us And South America
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Latin America South America
449 wordsVenezuela is originally known as the Republic of Venezuela. The countries estimated population is about 20, 562, 000, covering 352, 143 sq mi. It is bordered by Brazil (S), Colombia (W and SW), Guyana (E), and the Caribbean Sea (N). Principal cities include Cards, the capital. Venezuela has four major geographical regions: the oil-rich coastal lowlands; the Orionco River basin, whose vast plains support a great cattle industry; the Guiana Highlands, a largely unexplored wilderness occupying more...
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Carrying Capacity Population Increases
1,576 wordsA population according to the funk and Wangnall Dictionary is a grouping of individuals subject to the processes of birth, death, and migration... During the first 2 million years of our history the human population had very little effect upon the overall world ecosystem, with no more than 10 million members. In the New Stone Age, less than 10, 000 years ago, the number of humans began to increase more rapidly. By the beginning of the Christian era it had reached 250 million, and by the year 165...
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On Lies My Teacher Told Me
1,053 wordsJames W. Loewen, in my opinion, makes a very valid argument in Lies My Teacher Told Me. He argues that teaching (of history) today relies too much on the textbooks which glorify the United States and its imperfect leaders and heroes. His examples, in fact, are very surprising to those most unfamiliar, or deceived, in their understanding of American History and are painfully obvious to those fairly educated in the events of our nations past. Personally, I agree with Loewen's statements and find h...
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Organized Crime And Its Stranglehold On The World
1,538 wordsOrganized Crime and its Stranglehold on the World Nuclear terrorism against the United States is one of the most likely outcomes of the post-cold war time period. At least according to Americans surveyed it is (United 1). These weapons are now readily available to anyone with enough money to purchase them thanks to the surplus of weapons located in Russia, and the Russian Mafias uncanny skills in acquiring these weapons (United 3). How organized crime was allowed arrive at this stage of power is...
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Economic And Political Multinational Corporations
1,034 wordsChristian Base Communities Confront the Neo-Liberal Project Juan Manuel Hurtado is a member of the theological commission of the Christian Base Communities of Mexico. This article appeared in Spanish in the July 1992 edition of Estudios Ecumenicos. After the fall of the socialist bloc and its opening to the market economy, it would appear that the only valid economic and political model of society left to the world is capitalism. Neo-liberalism (the present model of capitalism) grows stronger ev...
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U S Population B 2 B
2,035 wordsApproximately 38 % of all U. S. homes now have access to the Internet. Approximately 100 million people (39 % of U. S. population) have been online at home. A total of 60 million (23 %) access the Internet at least once a month and are classified as active users. Twenty-one of the top 35 local Internet markets have more than half of their population online. On top is San Francisco, with 66 % of households having access to the Internet from a personal computer at home followed by Seattle, San Die...
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Timeline Of The Life Ernesto Che Guevara
1,156 wordsToday I would like to tell you the Biography of Ernesto Guevara also called El com andante che. First of all does anybody no anything about che? Young Ernesto Guevara Ernesto Guevara de la Serna is born June 14, 1928 in Rosario, one of the most important cities in Argentina, in a well off family. A family with aristocratic roots but socialistic ideas. After attending a primary school in 1947, Ernesto Guevara meets the young Berta Gilda Infante, also known as Tita. She is a member of the Argentin...
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Twenty First Century Lack Of Resources
1,251 wordsGATE's chairman and CEO, Mr. Glenn Jones, has said that "Education is the great hope for the survival of humankind and for the forward progress of civilization. " The French revolutionary Danton said more than two centuries ago, "After bread, education. " Education is the most basic necessity after those that are vital to life itself -- food, clothing, and shelter. It is education that lifts people out of the state of chronic poverty in which they are constantly struggling to fulfill basic needs...
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Latin America Indigenous People
661 wordsIndigenous people influenced greatly the way Latin America developed. Among those groups it should be pointed three main ones, such as Maya, Arawaks and Mapuche. Maya indigenous people occupied an area comprising the Yucatan peninsula and much of the present state of Chiapas, Mexico; Guatemala and Belize. By a demographic collapse at the end of 1100 the population had been lost close to 90 %. Throughout Maya history, population and agriculture, correlatively, became more intensive. Linked with t...
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Latin American Countries Costa Rica
1,618 wordsCosta Rica Costa Rica, a mountainous Central American republic located north of Panama, has coasts on the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The country has an area of 19, 575 square miles and, in 1997, had a population of 3. 6 million inhabitants. Most Costa Ricans live in a central valley where the capital of the country (San Jose) is situated. Temperatures average 15 C in the central valley and 27 C in the coastal areas. Costa Rica is notable among Latin American countries for its longstanding demo...
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Post Cold War Sphere Of Influence
1,747 words... terms about the long-range future of the security system. Note succeeded Kennan at the PPS and it was his NSC 68 written in 1949, which became the blueprint for American grand strategy in the cold war. Its analysis of Soviet intentions and capabilities set the tone and framework, at the highest levels, for US relations with the Soviet Union. The US reaction to the perceived Soviet threat was to be one of containment. The notion of rolling back the gains of communism however, was never actual...
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