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Middle And Upper Lottery Ticket
1,692 wordsPolicy-makers are assessing the advice from Kenny Rogers, "You got to know when to hold 'um, know when to fold 'um, know when to walk away and when to run. " They are trying their hand at new and old forms of gambling in the hopes of generating additional revenues. One of the revitalized ideas of the past is to legalize gambling on historic riverboat replicas. Yet riverboat gambling won't be restricted to the Mississippi, but will appear in towns like Gary, Indiana and even our own Jefferson Cit...
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Microsoft Anti Trust Case
800 wordsIn 1890, Congress passed the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Since then there has been very few companies that have violated this act. In 1911 it was used it to break J. D. Rockefellers Standard Oil trust in to 30 different competing companies. Then in 1982 AT&Ts monopoly was broken up in what has been called the biggest anti-trust case to date. Now Microsoft has been charged and found guilty. (America's History Of Lack of trust in Microsoft started in 1991 when the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) began ...
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Four Wheel Economic Growth
1,832 wordsTurnover in the Indonesian automotive components industry dropped by 80 % in 1998, and the trend continued into 1999 despite efforts to generate exports and the cushion of a slightly more stable aftermarket. There were 171 local components manufacturers in 1998, employing 45, 000 people -- down from 65, 000 the year before. Like the vehicle industry, the Indonesian components industry now faces its greatest challenge to date -- trying to overcome the worst crisis in the automotive sector's histo...
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Lead Acid Battery Electric Vehicles
1,670 wordsThe technology of electric vehicles has been around since the turn of the nineteenth century but faded as the gasoline powered engine took the spotlight. Now the future of electric vehicles is very bright. Their impacts are very significant ranging from economic, to new technology that can be applied elsewhere, to most importantly, the environment. Ford and GM, through its Saturn plant, have already begun production on their own version of the electric vehicle and have made them available to the...
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Robert Jervis Perception And Level Of Analysis
1,073 wordsRobert Jervis in Perception and Level of Analysis espouses the notion that in order to fully explain crucial decisions and policies it is essential that one pays heed to the decision-makers beliefs about the world and his or her perceptions of others. Rather than attempting to understand foreign policies as directly resulting from the three other levels of analysis, the bureaucratic, the domestic, and the international environment, which he outlines, Jervis contends that examination of a decisio...
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Commit Suicide Gun Violence
1,381 wordsShould The Firearm Makers Be More Responsible To The Society? Ethics are principles governing the behavior of an individual or a group. These principles establish appropriate behavior indicating what is right and what is wrong. Defining the term is easy, but determining what the principles are is difficult. What is ethical can vary form one to another, from industry to industry, and from country to country. In the play V All My Sons, it is an unethical decision that Joe Keller sold the broken ai...
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Merrill Lynch Auto Makers
1,904 words... year. At $ 45, VW stock is about where it was in the spring of 1997. Rolf Drees, a financial analyst at Germany's third-largest fund, Union Investment, which owns a 1 % stake in VW, says the return on VW stock in the three years to the end of 2000 was an average annual 5. 2 %, using dividends plus the change in the stock price. That's just a third of the 15. 3 % return on the blue-chip DAX index over the same period. HARD SLOG. A swift boost to the stock is a hard feat to pull off. The gover...
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R Amp D Internet And E Commerce
2,737 words... and practices into a companys operations. A USA Today article labeled him "the guru of choice on e-commerce" because top executives across the world were so anxious to get his take on the business potential of the Internet and possible efficiency gains from integrating e-commerce into daily business operations. 7 Michael Dell was considered a very accessible CEO and a role model for young executives because he had done what many of them were trying to do. He delegated authority to subordinat...
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Standardized Tests Iq Tests
742 wordsStandardized tests like SAT and others are the most arguable issue in the contemporary American education. There is a big party of those who oppose the admission based on the standardized testing. Let us first look at the opponents of standardized tests. Their usual arguments look very similar in all sources. Standardized tests are unfair and are not helpful evaluation tools. Standardized tests are tests on which every student answers the identical questions, usually in multiple choice ones, eac...
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Decision Making Process Trial And Error
1,541 wordsHumble Decision Making According to Amitai Etzioni, decision making in future will be rather compared with an art than with science. With the emerging technologies the process of decision making has faced drastic changes. The flow of information became so huge that extracting data from numerous sources turned out to be a very complicated task. However, with all this confusion, new decision making models emerge in order to facilitate the daunting task of decision making. As it is claimed by the a...
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Studies Have Shown Standardized Tests
2,382 wordsStandardized tests like SAT and others are the most arguable issue in the contemporary American education. There is a big party of those who oppose the admission based on the standardized testing. Let us first look at the opponents of standardized tests. Their usual arguments look very similar in all sources. Standardized tests are unfair and are not helpful evaluation tools. Standardized tests are tests on which every student answers the identical questions, usually in multiple choice ones, eac...
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Act Of 1996 Information On The Internet
1,660 wordsThe Effects of Advanced Technology on Small Groups We live in a time where information is only a mouse-click away for a large portion of the country and the world. Within the last couple of years, Internet service to the home has become available free of charge through certain providers that subsidize their service through advertisements. But with all these advantages, there definitely has to be a flip side of the coin. The advancement of Internet technologies, and in particular that one that en...
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Sherman Antitrust Act Jersey Prentice Hall
4,756 wordsMicro + Soft The Split of an Empire Kendra Phelps BUS 415. 3 / Business Law Rob Goodwin July 5, 2000 Table of Contents I. Introduction: The Allegations and the Laws 3 II. Introduction: The Proof 4 III. Trial 5 Table 16 IV. The Proposal 8 V. Microsoft's Response 9 VI. The Foes and Their Thoughts 11 VII. Current Status and Discussion 12 VIII. Recommendations 15 References 18 Micro + Soft The Split of an Empire Could the megalosaurus business that was conceived in 1975 really be split in two or thr...
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Violent Acts Video Games
4,089 wordsViolence in Video Games Do video games containing violence spark people of today to commit violent acts? Violence in video games are blamed for some of todays violent crimes. Some people believe that these crimes are committed due to playing a video game. Others believe that video games are a easy excuse for the violent acts, and keep America from looking deeper into the minds of people committing these acts. Video games are also thought to be a good way to take out some hostility. In Bernard Ce...
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Ernest Hemingway York Simon
1,807 wordsErnest Hemingway: The affect of World War I on his life style Table of Contents Thesis... pg. i Introduction. pg. 1 Body pg. 2 Conclusion... pg. 7 Endnotes. pg. 8 Works Cited pg. 10 Thesis Statement: Ernest Hemingway's experience in World War I affected his actions, writings, and emotions throughout his life. Introduction While handing out chocolate bars on the West Bank of the Piave River, Ernest Hemingway was severely wounded by a mortar shell. Even with both his legs penetrated with fragments...
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Gun Control Advocates Gun Rights Groups
2,408 wordsBusiness Gun Control Danny Moskowitz Business Ethics 9 May 2000 The Debate Over Gun Control I chose to do my final research paper for Business Ethics on the debate over gun control. I will look at both sides of the issue, but concentrating on the side for gun control and how it might affect business ethics. In addition, I will concentrate on the policy making process and how for one to get an initiative passed for gun control how they would go about to bring about gun control. It is hard to beli...
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Auto Makers Korean Economy
3,090 wordsINTRODUCTION On 20 October 1998, Korea and the U. S. reached an agreement on auto trade after the tediously long time, almost 1 year. The negotiation had been a matter of concern and interest in both countries especially in Korea because it would bring great impacts on auto industry. Korean economy has heavily depended on auto export and on American market. Therefore, everyone worried that conflicts on negotiation table led to sanction on auto export of Korea. Additionally, domestic auto market ...
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