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Covert Operations Abraham Lincoln
1,730 wordsThe first study of clandestine operations was initiated 1988 in hopes of learning about the relationship between the President and the intelligence committees of Congress. Stephan F. Knott, an Assistance Professor of Political Science at the Untied States Air Force Academy, picked up this study of clandestine operations. In Knott's recently published book (1996) Secret and Sanctioned, he unveils the reality that not only were clandestine operations in the Cold War recently, been had also been us...
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Distinctive Competencies Continuous Improvement
1,076 wordsA manufacturing company may conduct operations in a foundry, mill, or factory. Our interest is in the management of operations, or operations management (OM), including the usual management cycle of planning, implementing, and monitoring / controlling . The driving force for OM must be an overriding goal of continually improving service to customers, where customer means the next process as well as the final, external user. &# 61607; Since there is an operation element in every function of the e...
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Problem Solving Front Line
1,179 words... l along the Chain of Customers. This and the next two principles are closely associated with just-in-time operations, which shorten throughput time and improve responsiveness to customers. A change in the demand patterns takes considerable time to run through, and the customer often will not wait. This allows each job or customer to be processed without delay. Often it is possible to get the desired results by moving process stages closer together-shortening the flow path-which at the same t...
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Mergers And Acquisitions Hospitality Industry
2,748 wordsAnalysis of Hotel-Online Internet News Service The need to balance a company's strategy and structure with changes in the external environment is obvious in any industry. However, in fast changing industries such as the Hospitality Industry, this need is even more important. Hospitality operators have to keep track of changes in the mentality of customers, changes in the attitude of government agencies and legislators towards the industry, changes in economic and technological issues, and strate...
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P E Real Estate
2,643 wordsAIRPORT: 5000 S. Collins St. 817 - 459 - 5990 or x 7907 A division of the Transportation Department; maintains the public airport grounds and facilities, including aircraft storage and office leasing. FAX 817 - 465 - 2809 Administration Administrative Office 817 - 465 - 7831 Airport Manager - Bob Porter x 5990 Assistant Airport Manager - Mark Rush x 7907 Intermediate Account Clerk -Darla Taylor x 7907 Operations Operations Office 817 - 465 - 2615 Operations Supervisor - Richard Stout x 7907 Anim...
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Federal Income Tax Shareholders' Equity
1,765 wordsOGDEN CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA DECEMBER 31 1988 1987 ( ) 1986 ( ) (In thousands of dollars, except per-share amounts) Net sales and service revenues $ 1, 087, 785 $ 902, 565 $ 819, 629 INCOME (LOSS) FROM: Continuing operations 57, 780 47, 802 35, 109 Discontinued operations 80, 920 Net income (loss) 57, 780 47, 802 116, 029 EARNINGS (LOSS) PER COMMON SHARE: Continuing operations 1. 44 1. 19. 89 Discontinued operations 2. 09 Total 1. 44 1. 19 2. 98 EARNINGS (LOSS) PER ...
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Shareholders' Equity Marketable Securities
1,994 words... 24, 273, 000 Total income 983, 959, 000 879, 587, 000 812, 621, 000 Cost of goods sold 366, 040, 000 375, 794, 000 345, 097, 000 Operating expenses 478, 974, 000 374, 736, 000 342, 467, 000 Selling, administrative, and general expenses 75, 387, 000 69, 513, 000 63, 314, 000 Interest expense 10, 867, 000 8, 832, 000 20, 700, 000 Other deductions 785, 000 1, 590, 000 1, 518, 000 Total costs and expenses 932, 053, 000 830, 465, 000 773, 096, 000 Income before income taxes 51, 906, 000 49, 122, ...
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Vertical Integration Auto Makers
1,801 words... survive and to gain a competitive advantage in the industry. The second innovative technique was the progressive specialization of labor and the separation of skilled and unskilled tasks, which turned vehicle assembly into a deskilled and highly routine work. It also created a hierarchical industrial structure where managers specified the tasks of workers. In order to avoid disruptions of any kind, a system of open shop-floor (where workers were simply interchangeable parts of the production...
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Open Market Operations York Stock Exchange
666 wordsThe Federal Reserve As far as we know, the Federal Reserve conducts monetary policy of the U. S. Monetary policy has two main objectives: to promote stable prices and to promote maximum sustainable employment and output. The Federal Reserve implements monetary policy in several ways: changes in the discount rate, changes in required reserves, and open market operations. The first two options are rarely exercised but the third one awakens our interest. By operating at open markets, the Federal Re...
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Federal Trade Commission Chief Operating Officer
9,018 wordsOn August 30, we all chose 5 stocks to evaluate before purchasing. At this time I chose BP AMOCO, Microsoft, Western Digital, Toys-R-Us, and Fortune Financial Incorporated. After a few weeks of tracking these stocks, I chose to keep BP AMOCO, Microsoft, and Western Digital, because the stocks were relatively stable and most of them were on the rise at this time. As you are aware, we were given $ 30, 000. 00 to invest in our three chosen stocks, which breaks down to $ 10, 000. 00 per stock. We al...
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R 038 D Goods And Services
1,528 wordsOperations Management Operations Management Introduction Operations Management is the term we use for the management of the resources necessary to produce and deliver the products and services required by customers. These resources include labour, materials and capital equipment. The following definition reflects the nature of Operations management: Operations management is about the way organizations produce goods and services. Everything you wear, eat, sit on, use, read or knock about on the s...
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Foreign Direct Investment World Trade Organization
8,297 wordsGlobal Strategy: Managing for the 21 st Century The term globalization has acquired considerable emotive force. Some view it as a process that is beneficial as well as inevitable and irreversible. Others regard it with hostility, even fear, believing that it increases inequality within and between nations, threatens employment and living standards and thwarts social progress. This paper is intended to offer an overview of some of the aspects of globalization and aims to identify ways in which co...
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Economic Self Sufficiency United States Supreme Court
2,891 wordsThey are Native Americans who are trying to build better lives for themselves but are stopped in there tracks by the state supreme court. Proposition 5 passed in November of 98, which would allow more gambling in the Indian reservations. The proposition was ruled to be unconstitutional. Now the Indians are rebutting the fact that they are sovereign and the ballot was passed. Under existing law, Indian tribes operate as semi-sovereign nations, and are liable under federal law only. Recently, the ...
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Tells The Story Cosa Nostra
1,883 wordsThe Mafia is a secret criminal organization that has great economic and political control over large parts of Sicilian society and operates both criminal and legitimate enterprises in the United States. It is believed to have started during Sicily's late Middle Ages, beginning as separate bonds of strong-arm enforcers hired by local landowners. It eventually evolved into a network of independent groups governing in rural areas. With the Sicilian immigration of the late 19 th century, the Mafia b...
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Distinctive Competencies Operations Strategy
2,329 wordsOPERATION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT All organizations have operations. A manufacturing company may conduct operations in a foundry, mill, or factory. Our interest is in the management of operations, or operations management (OM), including the usual management cycle of planning, implementing, and monitoring / controlling . The driving force for OM must be an overriding goal of continually improving service to customers, where customer means the next process as well as the final, external user. S...
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Long Term Debt Marketable Securities
3,094 wordsOil and Gas Industry Chesapeake Energy Corporation Group 5 Kurt Alvarado Chris Bailey David Naranjo Marci Rees Robert Sanchez Finance 335 Monday, 7 PM November 15, 1999 Firm Description Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE: CHK), headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, ? owns 1. 1 trillion cubic feet equivalent (the) of proved oil and gas reserves, one of the largest inventories of onshore U. S. natural gas? {Chesapeake Annual Report, 1998, p. 1 }. Recently, Chesapeake finished the transformati...
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2,579 wordsSUBMARINE ROLES AND MISSIONS The fundamental changes in the U. S. Submarine Force since the end of the Cold War involve major shifts in submarine warfighting concepts and doctrine, from the deterrence of global war to the support of U. S. national interests in regional crises and conflicts; from a primary Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) orientation against nuclear powered submarines to taking full advantage of the modern submarines multi-mission capabilities; from weapon loadout's of primarily MK 4...
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