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Microsoft: A Monopoly
Number of Words: 552 / Number of Pages: 3
... trying to
create a monopoly. He said quote, The critical debate, many believe, is
the extent to which Microsoft is exploiting its current monopolies, both to
kill off potential threats, and to leverage these monopolies to control new
technologies which will define the future of computing, of the Internet,
and of how we conduct much of our daily lives, in the future and the
present end quote. This statement states that the reason Microsoft is
trying to become a monopoly is for leverage and protection from other
companies.
Through the last ten years, Microsoft has been a multi- billion
dollar compan ...
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Becoming A Doctor
Number of Words: 610 / Number of Pages: 3
... The first four years, one would take pre-med.
classes. Then it's on to medical school, where for four years one learns about
the area of medicine one chooses. After medical school, about one year of
internship is needed. Then he becomes a resident and practice medicine under
supervision of a senior doctor. All together, it is about 11 years before one
actually become an independent doctor.
Doctors will always be needed. Because of this, and because of the
population growth, doctors will always be in demand and the profession will
continue to grow. This way, a doctor will be unempl ...
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A Study Of The Market Reforms In Post-Communist Eastern Europe With A Specific Case Study Of Poland
Number of Words: 3467 / Number of Pages: 13
... saving miniaturization requiring high technology and skill were
demanded (command economies have neither), Flexible production to meet a variety
of needs (command economies have large factories to keep production high - they,
thus, did not have the funds or ability to affect the necessary changes to their
means of production), the "information age" meant that the communist bloc had to
deny the new prevalent types of technology, which would spread Western ideas,
and thus they fell behind), and "software" became essential to the growth of
industry (the "hardware" focus of the East could not absorb this n ...
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The Trend Towards Fewer And Larger Farms As Economic Growth Occurs
Number of Words: 709 / Number of Pages: 3
... of the farms in the US. The expanding sector of agriculture
numbered 271,000 farms in the 1980's. This number increased to 326,000 farms by
1991. The off of the farm income of this sector is only $20,847 per farm. The
total income per farm averaged $180,276 per year. This sectors main income
comes from farming and very little of its income comes from off of the farm jobs.
This sector is growing because there is becoming more big farms that produce
most of our food.
The second sector is called the declining sector. This sector includes
the farms that sold products between $20,000 and $99,000 ...
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Engineers: The Builders Of Tomorrow
Number of Words: 838 / Number of Pages: 4
... available to
everyone. Today, High School kids have more computer power than some of
the most elite three decades ago.” Says Ted Hoffman to Life magazine. (qtd
in Life, 32) Even today's cars cannot run without this silicon marvels
embedded on their system. Mercedes now boasts 50 microprocessors…(Life, 32)
The ones who made this all possible are the computer engineers of the world.
With there love for creativity and ingenuity, they are the ones that are
paving the road of tomorrow.
“Few are Nerd wearing pocket protectors, most are sociable and
articulate. They're the front line troops in the battle ...
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International Business Ventures
Number of Words: 2585 / Number of Pages: 10
... every CEO has three essential duties: direct supervision,
development of the organization's strategy, and management of the organization's
boundary conditions. Top management's responsibility at and beyond the
organization's boundaries is largely a communication responsibility; however, no
commonly accepted model exists for decision, execution, and assessment of
communication opportunities. Within even some of the largest and most venerable
organizations, the process used is haphazard and inconsistent. The Wyatt
Company's survey of communications professionals showed that just 58.1 percent
agreed t ...
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The Advancement Of Technology
Number of Words: 1149 / Number of Pages: 5
... 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 to all of ...
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How Well Did The English Exchequer Function In The Twelfth Century?
Number of Words: 1011 / Number of Pages: 4
... it as equitable, it could have
convinced the Barons and others paying taxes of the validity and fairness of a
system of which they would have had little comprehension. This would also be
helped by Richards apparently good grasp of the area.
The Exchequer board was the highest office that could be obtained in the
royal circle and was the most powerful and prestigious as it presided over all
financial matters. It allowed records to be formed and general standards to be
maintained. The ultimate power of the exchequer is aptly put in the text..."
where your treasure is, there will you ...
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Maquila Work As Empowerment
Number of Words: 678 / Number of Pages: 3
... for their younger daughters to follow. Although these jobs may seem
undesirable ,even terrible to most it is still bringing women into the work
force and giving them means to be more independent , which is a form of
empowerment, however small an improvement it may seem. It entices these
young girls to strive for more. They no longer want to work in the home,
they want to go into the factories like their mothers and be more
independent. I feel that, that kind of employment is a gateway for even
more women's empowerment, because it exposes them to different kinds of
life styles. Or, this can also ...
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The Used Car Industry
Number of Words: 2157 / Number of Pages: 8
... they have purchased a vehicle that needs lots of money spent on it for
repairs, they may possibly find themselves out of luck. Another downside may
come as more people continue to saturate the market, looking for used cars to
buy, the resources available will become scarce. An increase in used car prices
may gradually start to rise. As the figures indicate, for now consumers seem to
be content with taking this risk. Sales for used cars and trucks last year
totaled at 15.1 million(going on your article's figures).
The auto industry has been busy changing and evolving to answer consumer demands.
One ...
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