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Foreign 'Aid'?
Number of Words: 1046 / Number of Pages: 4
... secret bank accounts in Switzerland,
Luxembourg and elsewhere. He also kept himself in power through bribes and
by buying military support.
The US alone has spent over twenty billion dollars in the past
twenty years. Between surplus tax dollars and the money we would save from
not paying foreign aid, we could pay back the national debt in a very short
time. We can accomplish this exponentially, by other countries paying back
their debt to us and our money from taxes we can have our debt paid by the
year 2000(1). Yet our government is set on sending our hard earned tax
dollars to other countries to ...
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U.S Monetary Policy In 1995
Number of Words: 1368 / Number of Pages: 5
... one that nevertheless would imply continued significant
growth and incomes." (Greenspan, 1996, Speech)
Towards the end of the year, the economy showed signs of slowing.
Fearing a prolonged slowdown or even a recession in the economy, and with
inflationary expectations waning, Chairman Greenspan and the Federal Reserve cut
rates again in December. (Greenspan, 1996, Speech)
There are, of course, critics of 1995's monetary policy. Most of the
criticism came in the early part of 1995 when the Fed raised rates again.
In the article "Are We Losing Altitude Too Fast" from the May 1, 1995
issue of Time ...
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Money And Inflation
Number of Words: 570 / Number of Pages: 3
... for; the less they
produce, the more they sell the product for.
Profit margins can have a direct impact on the consumer. The more an item
cost, the less a consumer will want to purchase that particular good. Higher
profit margins may be able to balance a company's budget, but unless their
product is in very high demand, most people will want to buy the product. The
lack of people purchasing the item may cause the company to lose money and have
no alternative other than to lay off workers. People out of work means that
less consuming will take place, meaning that other businesses will hurt ...
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Eastern Airlines Facing Bankruptcy
Number of Words: 1250 / Number of Pages: 5
... sale.
As Frank entered his office, he found his his loyal excutive assistant;
Wayne Yeoman; and Dick Magurno, Eastern's senior vice president for legal
affairs. For about 20 minutes the three discussed the fourthcoming meeting
and the prospects for saving the airline. Negotiations were going to come
around for ALPA and TWU but no break from the IAM. The IAM would not budge
since Charlie Byran, head of the machinist's union, stood firm against a 20
percent wage cut.
At 7:30 the board meeting began with the discussion of the Texas Air
offer, concentrating on some of the ...
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Businesses In 1920s
Number of Words: 365 / Number of Pages: 2
... began to believe in their country again, and more and more began
to invest in various money making systems, such as stocks and bonds,
investing in companies, and even making their own company. Anyone who had
an idea could make a company to produce it.
The most powerful business tycoon of the 1920's was Sir Herbert
Holt. Holt controlled so much of life in Canada, that when someone woke up,
they switched on Holt's lights, cooked their breakfast on Holt's gas,
smoked one of Holt's cigarettes, read the newspaper that was printed on
Holt's paper, went to work on one of Holt's streetcars, sat in ...
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The Internet And Its Affect On The Economy
Number of Words: 790 / Number of Pages: 3
... service providing industry is playing a large part in helping the US economy reach full employment, meaning that the cyclic unemployment is approaching zero. Although it seems the industry is very secure because it is in a full employment situation now, this does not mean that there is a very low amount of unemployment. According to many economists, there are three types of unemployment: frictional, structural, and cyclical. Frictional unemployment occurs when the rate of people changing jobs is high. The second kind of unemployment occurs when the increasingly different and unique demands of the ...
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Internationalization Of Accounting Standards For Consolidation - Japan: A Case Study
Number of Words: 2165 / Number of Pages: 8
... they deserve adoption by the whole world.
No one country can claim to have a uniquely correct set of rules. The United
States has the longest history of standard setting. It has the largest standard
setting organization which is characterized by high standards of professionalism.
But, even the rules of the United States exhibit compromises between different
interests of a kind which could have reasonably been decided otherwise.
Furthermore, no unanimity exists among U.S. accountants about the merits of the
precise details of the compromises that have been struck. For example, the
recent discussion memo ...
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The Failure Of NAFTA
Number of Words: 1362 / Number of Pages: 5
... 200,000 additional jobs because of NAFTA by 1995 alone. In fact though over 200,000 jobs were lost because of NAFTA (Morris 22). There is a group called the Public Citizen who sponsored a project called The Global Trade Watch. They reviewed the job creation promises of dozens of corporations. One year after the passing of the NAFTA agreement, the project found that every one of those companies had already laid off many more workers than normal. The number one reason responsible for the abnormal increase in lay offs, cited by the companies? NAFTA.
In 1993 a vice president of the Mattel Corporation ...
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Foreign Aid
Number of Words: 1762 / Number of Pages: 7
... in bargaining. For instance a country that has just received foreign aid
or is expecting to get their regular installment of foreign aid will be more
likely to listen to new ideas. Because some countries are so dependent on their
regular installments of foreign aid, they are willing to appease countries such
as the U.S who are giving it. When looked at closely, foreign aid may be
considered an elaborate system of legal bribery. This becomes evident when
countries do what they would normally not consider doing in order to continue
receiving foreign aid. The U.S supplies financial foreign aid to ...
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Managers Of Organizations
Number of Words: 1583 / Number of Pages: 6
... informal conferences, memos, retreats, etc.), that promote
administrative and staff interaction which move towards desirable changes
in policies, programs, organizational culture, physical environment,
procedures, or relationships. Such change in organizations may lead to
more efficient and cost-effective operations, better morale or improved
services. This paper will identify assumptions, conditions, and dimensions
of this practice that will be of use to managers and consultants interested
in making or facilitating change in their organization. Finally, a set of
organizational principles will ...
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