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Sonic Corporation
Number of Words: 1460 / Number of Pages: 6
... that were equipped with a two-way intercom enabling
customers to order as soon as they drove in, opposed to conventional practices
of waiting for a carhop to take an order. Delivery of the fresh fast-quality
products was do to the unique design of the kitchen, and the use of carhops.
Sonic Corporation preferred to do things as easy as possible and avoid
sophistication. Another strategy Smith implemented was a collection of
franchise royalties. This was done in a way such that Sonic franchise holders
were required to purchase printed bags at an additional fee that Smith arranged
through a paper ...
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Gateway 2000, Inc
Number of Words: 612 / Number of Pages: 3
... symbol; this is just an abbreviation of its
name. Next is the 5-Year high and low; this will tell you the highest and
lowest that the stock has been in the last five years. The P-E ratio is
just a simple price to earnings ratio, saying that you spend and receive
this much. Sales 100's are how many of the stock was traded in 100's. So
12 would be 12 x 100 = 1200. Next you have the Weakly high and low, again,
which is just a high and low price for the week. Last is the price that it
ended at the day before, and change is how much it changed from the prior
day. The category End is what it ended at ...
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Bombardier Report
Number of Words: 2688 / Number of Pages: 10
... jets. The products
that are driving the growth in this division are the RJ, the Global Express, and
the Lear-45. De Havilland, which was recently purchased with help from the
Ontario government, produces the Dash-8 series of airplanes. The Dash-8 has had
its production rate increased to 48 planes a year with about 81 on order.
Modified versions of the Dash-8 are in the works that could enable an even
bigger increase in production. Bombardier has cut costs and increased the
profit margin at de Havilland to improve profitability. Bombardier will likely
exercise the option to buy the remaining ...
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Employment Skills
Number of Words: 708 / Number of Pages: 3
... skills would be the Internet, since it
is so widely used all around the world - you should have a good understanding of
what it is and how to use it.
Think. Thinking critically and acting logically to evaluate situations
will get you far in your job. Thinking skills consists of things such as
solving mathematical problems, using new technology, instruments, tools, and
information systems effectively. Some examples of these would be technology,
physical science, the arts, skilled trades, social science, and much more.
Learn. Learning is very important for any job. For example, if your
company ...
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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Number of Words: 396 / Number of Pages: 2
... insured by the FSLIC. When an institution is closed by chartering authority, the FDIC makes payment of insured deposits to all of the failed institution’s depositors as soon as possible, usually on the next business day after the closing of the institution. The depositors who have funds in excess of the insurance limits receive the insured portion of their funds. They may also receive a portion of their uninsured funds either at that time or as the assets of the failed institutions is liquidated. The major jobs of the corporation are to pay the depositors if an insured bank closes without ...
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Technology Jobs
Number of Words: 1211 / Number of Pages: 5
... their services,” says L. Mishel, Research
Director of Welfare Reform Network. In view of these facts, I wonder if these
trends are good or bad for society. “The danger of the information age is that
while in the short run it may be cheaper to replace workers with technology, in
the long run it is potentially self-destructive because there will not be
enough purchasing power to grow the economy,” M. B. Zuckerman. My feeling is
that the trend from unskilled labor to highly technical, skilled labor is a good
one! But, political action must be taken to ensure that this societal evolution
is beneficial ...
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History Of The Automotive Industry And Ford Motor Company
Number of Words: 1755 / Number of Pages: 7
... left the thriving country poor and desperate. With the decline in
both disposable and discrete income, the demand for new automobiles almost
stopped. This huge decrease in demand forced major cutbacks in spending,
factories were closed, employees were laid off, and production was almost
halted. Many of the smaller plants couldn't afford to stay in business.
The United States time of prosperity had ended.
WWII
During the early 1940s, the United States as Hitler rose to power
in Germany, and our relationship with Japan grew more and more tense. When
Hitler invaded France and started th ...
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The Great Inflation
Number of Words: 1571 / Number of Pages: 6
... to the barter system. Farmers refused to accept the effectively worthless, banknotes in exchange for grain, and food quickly began to run short in the cities. Prices rose one trillion-fold from their pre-war level. More importantly, for the long-term political future of Germany, the middle and working classes saw their savings wiped out. These were, in essence, the people who were later to become the hard-core of the Nazi vote.
Economists will argue that runaway hyperinflation has two sources. Firstly, it arises through a fall in the foreign exchange value of a currency, when an adverse bala ...
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Lucent Technologies
Number of Words: 624 / Number of Pages: 3
... A.
McGinn. McGinn joined AT&T in 1978. He has previously served as executive vice
president and chief executive officer of AT&T's network group. From 1994 to
1996, McGinn served on the AT&T management executive committee.8
BUSINESS STRUCTURE
Lucent Technologies is composed of four operating units. These four
units are: Business Communication Systems, Consumer Products, Microelectronics
Group, and Network Systems. These units are designed to work together to
provide innovative and cost-efficient solutions for customers. Bell
Laboratories supports each group.9
Bell Laboratories is a research a ...
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Efficient Market Theory: A Contradiction Of Terms
Number of Words: 754 / Number of Pages: 3
... financial managers cannot time stock and bond sales to take
advantage of "insider" information, sales of stocks and bonds will not
depress prices, and companies cannot "cook the books" to artificially
manipulate stock and bond prices. However, information technology and
market dynamics are based upon the workings of ordinary people and diverse
organizations, neither of which are arguably efficient nor consistent.
Therefore, we have the basic contradiction of EMT: How can a theory based
on objective mechanical efficiency hold up when applied to subjective human
inefficiency?
As a case in point, A ...
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