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Privateers
Number of Words: 2377 / Number of Pages: 9
... privateers of the war for independence contributed by attacking the
commercial livelihood of Great Britain's merchants.
It is ironic that the entire notion of privateering began in Great Britain.
In 1649 a frigate named Constant-Warwick was constructed in England for a
privateer in the employ of the Earl of Warwick. Seeing how profitable this
investment was, a great many of the English peerage commissioned their own
privateers. The Seven-Years War saw the proliferation of privateering on both
the English and French coasts as each attempted to disrupt their opponent's
colonial trade. Americ ...
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Work
Number of Words: 375 / Number of Pages: 2
... essayist, and novelist, attempts to explain why work is
desirable on contemporary terms in her poem "To Be of Use." To Piercy, hard
workers who really persevere are admirable because of the fact that the world is
full of temptations to stop working, or to not work altogether. This admiration
for determination is apparent because work is as "common as mud," and it must be
done sometime (Piercy 242-243). Wendell Berry, an English teacher at the
University of Kentucky, explains the basis of the desire to work in his essay
"The Joy of Work." In response to the prediction that there will be no work in
t ...
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Frederick Winslow Taylor: Business Management
Number of Words: 1600 / Number of Pages: 6
... response to the assignment for a paper and short speech
concerning a person with relevant contributions to the world of management.
Frederick Taylor is affectionately referred to as the “Father of Scientific
Management.” The modern systems of manufacturing and management would not be
the examples of efficiency that they are today, without the work of Taylor.
Frederick Taylor was instrumental in bringing industry out of the dark ages by
beginning to revolutionize the way work was approached. Taylor was able to
increase wages, productivity and reduce per piece costs at the same time.
Taylor's work wa ...
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How To Become The Owner Of A Small Business
Number of Words: 499 / Number of Pages: 2
... may be How large is industry your thinking of going into? Where is the market for the company and the size? What are the size and distrubution of income within the population? Is the sales volume for this kind of business growing, maintaining stable or falling? What are the number and size for competitors? What is the success rate and the technical aspects of the industry?
You have more options than just starting up a business from scratch. You can also own an existing business or buy a franchise. In buying an existing business it may be less work in building it's social status. You may ...
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Minimum Wages
Number of Words: 835 / Number of Pages: 4
... will increase unemployment
among young, unskilled workers. This 35% hike in the minimum wage paid by the
business will be one of the biggest increases in California history. And, it
will hit just when the state is recovering from a long recession. Approximately
2 million of California's nearly 13 million workers earn less than $5.75 per
hour. Most of these workers would be directly affected by this increase. Roughly
one-forth of those earning less than the proposed $5.75 minimum wage are
teenagers, while the remaining three-fourths are adults age 20 and over.
Industries employing significant numbers of ...
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Skittles
Number of Words: 2582 / Number of Pages: 10
... and dining needs as well. We are
somewhat of a one stop, night on the town, in that we provide not only the
drinking and dining needs of person going out but we also provide, in the same
location and depending on the night, everything from dancing to live music
performances to a night of comedy entertainment. Because of its uniqueness to
the marketplace in D.C., Skittles has an excellent opportunity to establish
itself and become a force in the restaurant/entertainment community in the
District. This is partly because of the limited direct competition the company
has to face. Although direct competit ...
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CLONAID. . . It Makes Sense
Number of Words: 403 / Number of Pages: 2
... at CLONAID, they're way ahead of you. It offers a service called “
INSURACLONE which, for a small fee of fifty thousand dollars, they will
provide the sampling and safe storage of cells from a living child or adult
in order to create its clone if the person happens to pass away. In case
of a genetic disease, the cells will be preserved until scientists can
genetically repair the damaged gene before recreating the person.
CLONAID, the first company in the world to offer human cloning,
expects over a million customers worldwide to be interested in its services
as well as many American and non-Am ...
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The Dow Jones And Company
Number of Words: 579 / Number of Pages: 3
... it once was,it would be determined with simple math
skills:by adding up the prices of its companies shares,dividing that by
thirty. But the stock market can sometimes be to hectic for basic math.
The most frequent reason for this is a stock split. Suppose a company in
the DJIA issues one new share for each share outstanding. After this two-
for-one "split," each share of stock is worth half what it was immediately
before, other things being equal. But without an adjustment in the divisor,
this split would produce a distortion in the industrial average. Here is
an example: Imagine three stocks ...
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Advanced Export Marketing
Number of Words: 1459 / Number of Pages: 6
... to the existing
government exporting program called P.E.M.D.
A FOOT AHEAD (A.F.A)
There are many problems facing Canadian companies in gaining export
competiveness. A.F.A. wants to reduce these problems and make it much easier
for the exporters to crack the foreign markets. These problems consist of:
1) Lack of market analysis
2) Lack of market strategy
3) Pricing problems - Labour
- Transportation cost
- Economics of scale
- Outdated manufacturing facilit ...
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Strikes And Alternative Forms Of Coping
Number of Words: 1764 / Number of Pages: 7
... all they are
willing to give without reaching a compromise, a stalemate is reached. During a
stalemate both sides try to convince the other that they are unable give any
more. In order to show there determination unionized workers often decide to go
strike, and will stay on strike until management is ready to give in to their
demands. The workers determine whether or not they feel the need to strike, by a
strike vote. If the majority of workers are in favor of going on strike then the
union declares a day and time that an agreement must be reached, or there
workers will walk off the job. A number of r ...
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