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Consumer Confidence Interest Rates
1,255 words... e at times. They are highly volatile meaning that the retail sales report has a strong tendency, if not potential, to provide major surprises. The Consumer Confidence Index is an important economic indicator because it measures the level of confidence in the American consumer in each household. However, these surveys might not be reliable because times and situations of the American consumer can change dramatically. If consumers are concerned about job security, economic conditions, or perso...
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Minoan Civilization Sir Arthur
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Chemical Fertilizers Inflation Rate
1,843 wordsCurrency is the Indonesian Rupiah. Exchange rate is approximately 1 US $ = 8, 000 rupiah. GDP is approximately 960 billion dollars. GDP growth rate is four percent. GDP per capita based on purchasing power parity is $ 4, 600. Natural resources include petroleum, tin, natural gas, nickel, timber, bauxite, copper, coal, gold and silver. Industries include petroleum and natural gas, textiles, mining, cement, chemical fertilizers, plywood, rubber, foodstuffs and tourism. Agricultural products includ...
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Standard Of Living Poverty Threshold
1,785 words... e same standard of living as the poor forty years ago, despite the general growth in income. Thus by the official definition of poverty, 14. 5 % of the population is poor. Conservatives though have long maintained a strong objection to both the official and relative measures of poverty. They make their case in that the poor today enjoy a standard living far beyond the wildest dreams of an eighteenth century aristocrat, such as television and convenience foods that no courtesan or prince coul...
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How Chinese Rudder Effected Christopher Columbus
1,541 wordsThe development of the rudder was one of the most important sea navigational inventions that have ever been invented. Before the twelfth century in northern Europe, ships were steered by a quarter-rudder mounted on the stern side of the vessel. Up until the fourteenth century the use of the quarter rudder persisted in the Mediterranean. Two quarter-mounted steering oars were used. By age of exploration, the pintle-and-gudgeon rudder, hung from the sternpost had replaced quarter-rudder. The rudde...
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Form Of Art Tiger Woods
1,093 wordsLike all forms of art, golf is able to be evaluated from a belletristic approach. Golf is a true art form in the fact that each individual has his or her own style. Although each person has their own style, there is a text book way in which everyone attempts to swing the club. Experts on the sport critique it and tell the audience what should of been done to make a perfect shot, however none thus far have critiqued it from a belletristic approach. I would like to critique golf using this approac...
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Brown Forman Company Analysis
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Great Leap Forward Five Year Plan
1,807 wordsMao Zedong is one of the most controversial leaders of the twentieth century. He has been known both as a savior and a tyrant to the Chinese people. From his tactical success of the Long March to his embarrassing failure of the Great Leap Forward, Mao has greatly influenced the result of what China is today. Most of Mao's major successes have been in the CCP's rise to power, while Mao's failures have come at a time when the CCP was in power. Mao Zedong was born on December 26, 1893 is Shaoshan v...
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Kick My Hundred Goals Kick My Hundred One
595 wordsDear Diary, Today was the most embarrassing day of my life. I hope this will never happen to me again. Heres how my day went. I woke up this morning around 7: 30 am. It was the Grand Final day for my Under 17 s football side. We were undefeated. I was the full forward and so far I have kicked ninety seven goals. I need at least three more goals this game to get my first one hundred goal season. I was going through my normal Sunday morning football routine. Get up, eat breakfast (nine wheat bix a...
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Gross Margin Fourth Quarter
1,151 words... rands, including new products and line extensions, and selected confectionery selling price increases, as well as incremental sales from the Visages acquisition, the Brazilian chocolate and confectionery business acquired in July, 2001. In December 2002, the Corporation announced an increase of 11 % in the price of standard-size candy bars effective January 1, 2003, representing an average increase of approximately 3 % over the entire domestic product line. A buy-in prior to the January 1, 2...
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Pepsi Cola Frito Lay
1,393 words... al growth rate (CAGR) of 5. 0 % between 1993 and 1998. But for the five-year period from 1998 - 2003, the CAGR is estimated to drop to about 4 %. Although colas are the most important soda flavor on the market, the strongest growth in the industry is in the non-cola segment. IV. INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT A. Corporate Structure PepsiCo owns its corporate headquarters buildings in Purchase, New York. The company is engaged in the snack food, soft drink and juice businesses. Each product category is...
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Company Status Of Apple Computers
1,381 wordsDuring the time of this case Apple Computers status was not looking too good. It was the close of fiscal fourth quarter of 1997 and Apples revenues were $ 1. 6 billion, a 30 % decrease from the year before. The companys net loss for the quarter was $ 161 million compared to a net profit of $ 25 million the previous year. To get a better understanding of the companys 1997 financial position with respect to the previous year see Exhibit 1 Apples Financial Ratio Analysis. Steven Jobs was once again...
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Oil And Gas Oil Gas
1,829 words... Oil/Gas Exports. The impact of the East Asian economic crisis on the direction of non-oil / gas exports is not simple. As one would expect, there has been a sharp decline in exports to slumping economies such as Japan and Korea. In fact, Japan has, until 1998, been the largest single national market for Indonesia's non-oil / gas exports (Table 21). The sharp drop of non-oil / gas exports to Japan (- 23. 1 %) and Korea (- 17. 5 %) contrasts with the relatively good performance in Singapore (1...
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Break Even Analysis Wellness Program
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U S Economy Alan Greenspan
1,103 wordsThe New Chairman of the Federal Reserve System-Mr. Ben S Bernanke. 1. INTRODUCTION: Ben Bernanke, a 49 -year-old former Princeton University professor who is a leading thinker on monetary policy and an inflation-target advocate after took over as Chairman and a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve in February, 2006 has a big shoes to fill in to streamline the world largest economy. Having many feathers to his cap, Bernanke toothed with enormous power and authority has a more r...
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Personal Consumption Expenditures International Monetary Fund
1,416 wordsKey Economic Indicators Economists have developed a set of indicators to aid in predicting when a recession is about to occur and when the economy is in one. Indicators should not be mistaken for predictors. They are simply forecasting tools, and like any forecast can be misleading. The index of leading indicators that is reported in the popular press shows our economy is still in an expansion. There are thirteen key Economic Indicators, and they fall into five major categories: National Output ...
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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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Federal Reserve System Bureau Of Labor Statistics
2,038 wordsMeasures of the Macro Economy Recent year was not an easy one for the economy of the United States. The number of natural catastrophes and decline of oil and gas industries have worsen the economic situation in the country. At the end of 2005 the USA economy seems to become stable though the after-effect of its losses during this year will impact it for a long period of time. In late summer and early autumn the economy of the country suffered greatly. In August there was the leap of oil prices. ...
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Traffic Lights Urban Poor
2,618 wordsFor the past four decades or so African cinema has been construed by critics as a mode of film discourse that is understood historically but defined artistically: that is, a cinema concerned with information brought to light less by formal techniques than by an implicit world view. African films are presented as being African because they reflect African conditions, and critics have discussed the content of films as being the defining purpose of film production in the continent. For example, Xal...
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Fourth Quarter Sales Increased
781 wordsThe e-commerce market continually gets bigger and bigger every year. Amazon. com is no exception to this growing market. In 1998, its sales increased by 313 % from $ 148 million in 1997 to $ 610 million in 1998. The growth of such a market will continue for years to come, as long as each e-commerce site can accommodate the ever increasing traffic flow of people and rely on third parties to keep the world wide web operational. The number of cumulative customer accounts grew from 1. 5 million in 1...
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