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Farm Subsidies - A Necessary Evil?
Number of Words: 1178 / Number of Pages: 5
... advances in the 1920's brought a variety of effects. The
use of machinery increased productivity while reducing the need for as many
farm laborers. The industrial boom of the 1920s drew many workers off the
farm and into the cities. Machinery, while increasing productivity,
was very expensive. Demand for food, though, stayed relatively
constant (Long 85). As a result of this, food prices went down. The small
farmer was no longer able to compete, lacking the capital to buy productive
machinery. Small farms lost their practicality, and many farmers were
forced to consolidate to compete. Fewer, larger ...
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Tariffs And Trade Restrictions To Save Jobs
Number of Words: 1241 / Number of Pages: 5
... and quotas to protect a domestic firms from foreign competition. Tariffs are a monetary tax on each unit of an imported commodity. Quotas are a numerical limit on the annual quantity of particular imports. A more subtle form of protectionism is the minimum quality standard. In the generally rare cases in which the market cannot regulate product quality on its own, the government is justified in establishing such standards. However, this can be abused by requiring imports to meet higher and costlier standards than their domestic counterparts. Effectively, this places a tax on imports and gives an adv ...
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Unemployment
Number of Words: 406 / Number of Pages: 2
... (Unemployed 1).
The latest unemployment rate for August '96 shows that 4.3 percent of
Vermont's citizens are unemployed. That is about fourteen thousand people in
just this one small state (Griffin 1). Think of how many people are unemployed
in the entire United States. That would be over five million people. If people
wanted to get out and get a job, they probobly could pretty easily. Instead of
waiting for theirchecks from the government,they could get a job and bring home
more money than the government sends considering that they have the proper
education. One way to decrease unemployment ...
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Issues To Consider When Implementing A Corporate Code Of Ethics
Number of Words: 1492 / Number of Pages: 6
... from the public to be socially accountable for their
actions.
During the dawn of the new public awareness of social
responsibility economist Milton Freidman (1997) argued that corporations
cannot have social responsibility because they are not real, they are
intangible and emotionless. Only human beings are able to have social
responsibility (pp. 781-787). Corporate executives of corporations may
have individual social values that they feel are important to social
responsibility, but according to Freidman, they must not let these values
interfere with their primary responsibility for which th ...
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Falstaff Beer
Number of Words: 697 / Number of Pages: 3
... and began to make Falstaff there. Falstaff had three plants in St. Louis. In 1952 Falstaff bough another Brewery in San Jose. That same year Falstaff closed the former Otto Stiffel brewery in St. Louis. In 1954 they bought the Bergoff Brewery in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. 1956 brought two more aquisitions a brewery in Galveston and the Mitchell Brewery in El Paso. The two ends of the Greisedieck family merged together in 1957. Greisedieck Brothers merged into Falstaff. Falstaff was able to close the old forest park Brewery.
Falstaff moved into the malting business in 1961 with the purchase of a maltin ...
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Evaluating Financial Performance Of GTE
Number of Words: 349 / Number of Pages: 2
... increased 35% last year, to $1.2 billion and has grown 35% annually. GTE’s Return on Equity was 40% that far exceeds rest of its major competitors listed. The company’s boosting margins and overall returns are clearly pictured from the Net Profit Margin of 2.1%, a nice 36% improvement over the prior year. The company announced a plan to streamline its telecom operation by reducing expenses by $1.1 billion. The article estimates an increase in Earnings per Share from $3.18 to $4.5. GTE’s P/E Ratio of 15 is in par with its competitors.
The detail description of the company’s past performance and curre ...
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Screening For Drugs By Employers
Number of Words: 386 / Number of Pages: 2
... is true to an extent.
The rights of American citizens include something called probable
cause. In the United States Constitution, it is stated that no one shall
have their privacy invaded without a warrant issued by a law official.
Some argue that by being forced to take drug tests they are denied this
right. However, staying at a job that makes its employees take random drug
tests is completely voluntary.
Since the drug market didn't really erupt until the early nineteen
sixties, drug tests weren't used very oft until that time. With the
sixties came hippies and flower children, who used mind exp ...
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Costs In The Long-Run
Number of Words: 330 / Number of Pages: 2
... are investment or planning decisions
relating to the scale of production and decisions in the short run are to
do with choosing an output level within the capacity constraint.
With this introduction to the firms costs and output decisions we
can now apply them to see how firms decide on the output to produce in
order to maximise profits, the combination of actors of production to
employ and how output changes in response to employing more or a variable
factor in combination with a fixed factor; (i.e. the law of diminishing
returns) and the scale of operations to achieve optimum product ...
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The Relationships Between Quaker, The Company, And Semiotics
Number of Words: 1074 / Number of Pages: 4
... we will look at the signifier. The sign is the word Quaker,
plain and simple, and the signifier is Q-u-a-k-e-r. However the word Quaker is
not just a word, it means many, many things, which is where the signified comes
in. The actual building is huge, which gave me the feeling that they are a
successful company and that their product must be all over the world. The
building is also white brick. This, without even knowing it gives you a feeling
of safety and purity(just as their products should be). Then there is the fact
that it is situated on the top of a hill, when you put meaning to this, there is ...
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The Debt: An Economic Catastrophe
Number of Words: 873 / Number of Pages: 4
... every day.
This may seem hard to digest, but it is reality. The need for debt elimination
is vital if Canada wants to free up billions of dollars being spend on interest
payments. Two approaches may be taken to this. First, an increase in
government revenues through higher taxation may be considered. However, taxes
are already at a point where some people feel they are working merely to pay the
government, rather than support themselves. Second, a restraint on government
spending by means of cutbacks may be a path, possibly a difficult one, to the
road of eliminating our federal debt. Either way ...
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