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Analysis Of How Microsoft Should Spend Its Cash
1,041 wordsMicrosoft has a nasty problem: figuring out what to do with $ 31. 6 billion in cash. We can picture a sleep-deprived Bill Gates and a red-eyed Steve Ballmer toiling away night after night, trying to get Microsoft out of this predicament. It must be tough. So we decided to help them out by making a few suggestions on how Microsoft should spend its cash hoard. We " re going to propose a variety of acquisitions. While the company hasn't historically had an acquisitive culture, that seems to be chan...
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Company Profile Of Sun Microsystems
1,192 wordsIntroduction I choose Sun Microsystems because I bought some of their stock three months ago and it has done very well. In fact it had, at one point, gone up close to sixty percent. After watching its rise over the time that I have owned it I began to wonder what Sun Microsystems is really all about. I knew that it built the backbone of the Internet, but I wasnt exactly sure what that meant. When I heard the focus of the project we were assigned for class, I decided this would be a great opportu...
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War On Drugs D A R E
1,652 wordsDrug prohibition is expensive, does not work, and causes more harms than the behavior it is intended to suppress, therefore the war on drugs should end and the legalization should begin. In 1999 alone, the government issued a whopping $ 17. 1 billion towards the war on drugs. Thats roughly $ 600 per second. According to the United Nations, profits in illegal drugs are so inflated, that three-quarters of all drug shipments would have to be intercepted to seriously reduce the profitability of the ...
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Windows Xp Distribution Channels
886 wordsMicrosoft operates through indirect marketing channels, which means that one or more intermediary levels curtail the distribution process from the manufacturer to the consumer. Microsoft typically uses value-added re-sellers and retailers as the medium between the manufacturer and customer. Promoting Windows XP through distribution channels plays an important role in developing and spreading pervasive communications about an offer. Value-added re-sellers take products (such as XP) and customize ...
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Air Carriers Air Transportation
1,340 words... italy or no impact on the operation of conventional ferries. A major issue in the construction of a Helsinki- Tallinn link is the costs. Historically, bridges and tunnels are very expensive. The Channel Tunnel, for instance, was built at a cost of EUR 15 billion. The "Oresund Bridge was constructed at a cost of EUR 1 billion. The Gulf of Finland, however, is much wider than either the English Channel or the "Oresund Strait. Considering this, the price would be necessarily more than the "Ores...
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Cubic Meters Cubic Feet
1,214 wordsProduction: Although Helium is one of the most common elements in the universe it is a rare gas on earth. It exists in the atmosphere in such small quantities (less than five parts per million) that recovering it from the air is uneconomical. Helium is produced as a by-product of the refining of natural gas, which is carried out on a commercial scale in the USA and Poland. In these areas natural gas contains a relatively high concentration of Helium which has accumulated as a result of radioacti...
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Third World Countries U S Banks
2,204 wordsThird World Debt The overwhelming debt burdens of poor countries are a major contributor to the crisis that grips the economies of most developing countries today. For the 41 most heavily indebted poor countries, total external debt rose from $ 55 billion in 1980 to $ 215 billion by 1995. (Rich, p. 189) Debt has continued to climb in most countries. African governments alone now have $ 350 billion of foreign debt and they have to spend two-fifths of their revenues to service it. As a result, gov...
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Future Cash Flows Research And Development
1,120 wordsRecommend for optimal sources for Intel to raise $ 675 million The Intel Corporation is considered to be one of the world leaders in silicon innovations, the largest chip maker and, most of all, it is a leading producer of computer, networking, and communications products. Thats why it has constantly to explore new ways to advance how people work and live. Intel believes in innovations. It is the main principle of its policy. But being involved in an industry that is characterized by constant un...
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Drug Enforcement Agency U S State
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Radio Wave Service Providers
1,531 wordsBandwidth is the capacity for carrying digital information. In the past few years, bandwidth has been increasing at roughly twice the rate of computing power. Data traffic has been doubling every 100 days (according to the U. S. Department of Commerce) and it is predicted that that Internet traffic will reach 16 million terabytes by 2003. Fiber is the transport medium of choice. It out performs copper, coaxial cable, and high frequency radio in data-carrying ability. As service needs increase, f...
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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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Trade And Investment Capita Gdp
949 wordsThe United States and New Zealand established close ties in 1942, when the U. S. provided security for New Zealand during World War II, and have remained close ever since. However, in 1984, the Labour party came into power in New Zealand, with intentions to bar nuclear-armed and nuclear-powered warships from New Zealand ports. Implementation of this anti-nuclear policy was incompatible with U. S. policy and disrupted the alliance under the Australian, New Zealand, and United States (ANZUS) secur...
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Lyndon B Johnson Brothers And Sisters
2,108 wordsJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35 th president of the United States. He was the youngest president ever to be elected, the first Roman Catholic president, and the first president to be born in the 20 th century. Although, he didnt get the chance to live out his term and possible another one, he impacted the entire world. No other president was so popular, especially with the young people. John F. Kennedy was born May 29 th, 1917, child of Joseph P. and Rose Kennedy. John had eight brothers and ...
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Spend More Money Older Generation
1,361 wordsGillette is leading worldwide home applicants, such as razor, battery, electronic and manual toothbrush, manufacturing company. On April 14, 1998, the company introduced the world? s first triple blades razor and begun to sell July 1, 1998 in the United States and September in the Western Europe. Since Gillette launched new razor in 1998, the company expected high returns in short-term; however, the result of the new product has been defined yet. SWOT ANALYSIS Key Learning The areas of the inter...
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Puerto Rico Puerto Ricans
2,055 wordsA very massive group of levees may be all that is in the way of lower lying New Orleans and destruction with a visit from Hurricane Georges. Without the levee system and concrete flood walls Georges could have catastrophic effects in New Orleans. But with this man-made hurricane protection system protecting the city people. New Orleans is spared the casualties and damage past storms have wrought. The levee system is important because the city is like a saucer 6 feet below sea level and is surrou...
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Long Lasting Effects Snyder 1985 P
1,936 wordsMarijuana originated in the middle east (Taiwan, Korea). China plays an important part in Marijuana's history. Hoatho, the first chinese physician to use Cannabis for medical purposes as a painkiller and anesthetic for surgery. In the Ninth Century B. C. , it was used as an incense by the Assyrians Herbal, a Chinese book of medicine from the second Century B. C. , was first to describe it in print. It was used as an anesthetic 5, 000 years ago in ancient china. Many ( ) ancient cultures such as ...
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Spend More Money Money To Buy
1,353 wordsGillette is leading worldwide home applicants, such as razor, battery, electronic and manual toothbrush, manufacturing company. On April 14, 1998, the company introduced the world s first triple blades razor and begun to sell July 1, 1998 in the United States and September in the Western Europe. Since Gillette launched new razor in 1998, the company expected high returns in short-term; however, the result of the new product has been defined yet. SWOT ANALYSIS Key Learning The areas of the intern...
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World War Ii End Of World War
1,540 words? It? s time to clean up this mess. ? Famous last words heard from the mouths of many different politicians when talking about the national debt and the budget deficit. Our debt is currently $ 4. 41 trillion and we have a budget deficit of around $ 300 billion and growing. Our government now estimates that by the year 2002 the debt will be $ 6. 507 Trillion. While our politicians talk of balancing the budget, not one of them has proposed a feasible plan to start paying down the debt. In the earl...
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Welfare To Work Five Years
511 wordsJanuary 19, 1999 BY JUDITH HAVEMANN AND WALTER PINCUS WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON President Clinton will propose in his State of the Union address tonight a $ 1 billion expansion of the federal governments efforts to help the nations most disadvantaged families move from welfare to work, White House officials said Monday. The officials said the initiative will help about 200, 000 welfare families get jobs. Despite the enormous progress we have made in the last few years in moving people from welf...
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Dow Jones Interest Rates
1,101 wordsThe stock market plays a significant role in the health of the economy; the economy has to be strong for a country and its citizens to prosper. In 1929 over a period of two weeks 30 billion dollars disappeared from the U. S. economy, this was the event that started the greatest period of human hardship of the twentieth century known as the great depression. On October 19, 1987 the Dow Jones industrial average plunged almost a third of its value. Many investors went completely bankrupt after one ...
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