... stolen. On their harddrives were confidential codes for specialized software used by the Canadian Armed forces. The above are all true examples of the modern threat facing international business today known as industrial or economic espionage. The end of the cold and economic pressures have increased the risk of economic espionage. The collapse of the Soviet Union has left unemployed KGB and other former communist bloc intelligence agents selling everything from Russian night vision devices to completely assembled and functional bugging devices. Even friendly western European governments have been caught spying on private corporations based in the U.S. and ...
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... of the Civil War, of almost $2.68 billion and a per capita figure of $75.01. The only justification for debt of any significant amount was a war. By 1900 this had been reduced to under $1 Billion. By 1919, the end of World War I, the debt had climbed to $25.5 Billion. In each of the following years the debt was reduced, and by 1930 stood at $18.1 Billion. With the collapse of Wall Street in 1929, the country (debt history: 1850 to 1950) fell into the Great Depression, which lasted until 1940. At that time the debt had climbed to $51 Billion. By the end of World War II the debt was $269 Billion. Again the government worked to reduce the debt, and by 1949 ...
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... law or by administrative action, by a district, or by a school. It may be linked to an accountability system with consequences tied to student performance, or it may not be.” According to Priscilla Wohlstetter and Susan Albers Mohrman, “school leaders across the nation are exploring ways to better educate students and improve school performance. School-based management (SBM) offers a way to promote improvement by decentralizing control from central district offices to individual school sites. It attempts to give school constituents--administrators, teachers, parents and other community members--more control over what happens in schools.” In summing up comments fr ...
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... of information technology and market dynamics, the value of the normal investment stock at any given time accurately reflects the real value of that stock. The price for a stock reflects its actual underlying value, 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 c ...
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... brought a lot of attention to the company. In 1988 "We do it like you do it" was used often but a year later they came out with two new slogans which confused the customer. In 1989 "Sometimes you gotta break the rules" and "BK tee vee" with MTV and Dan Cortese with "I love this place". This was another huge setback for BK because people on the go and parents found this ad loud and irritating. BK at this time has failed to establish a solid image that would differentiate it from its competitors. Ads if anything only confused consumers as to what advantages BK offered. In 1993 it had a market share of 6.1% were McDonalds had 15.6% and BK's sales were growing slower th ...
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... causes people to gain realization of the problems associated with these countries in different ways than those of a tyrannical government. Kincaid and Orwell show a common realization of this a certain points in their live. Swift on the other hand, show a realization in a way to speak out against England’s control. They realize it only after time and it comes in the form of cultural, economic and social domination by their oppressors. All three writers are relating experiences of oppression and domination by the Imperialistic England on three different countries in three different times. They represent a voice against this system, but the ambiguous nature of ...
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... are three types of exchange rates, fixed, flexible and managed exchange rate. In a fixed exchange rate regime, national governments agree to maintain the convertibility of their currency at a fixed exchange rate. A currency is convertible if the government acting through the central bank, agrees to buy or sell as much of the currency people wish to trade at the fixed exchange rate. Most central banks act as the government's banker, the Banks' bank, lender of last resort and issuer of notes as well as supervising the banking system and operating monetary policy. Monetary policy refers to the attempts to manipulate the interest rate and the money supply s ...
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... memo including detailed and analytic information and data on the financial position of the company as well as all financial, legal, administrative and technical aspects. Preparing the company’s tender of specifications. Arranging a direct interview with investors to promote the shares of the company. Marketing and promoting the shares of the companies offered for sale inside Egypt and abroad. Receiving the purchase bids ( in case of selling to an anchor investor ). Receiving the purchase orders ( in case of public offer ). Holding meeting(s) with investors to introduce the company to be attend by representatives of: the holding company th ...
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... about human motivation is that the we are lazy and selfish A big part of classical liberalism is that we are coldly calculating. Being coldly calculating means that when a situation comes about we dissever what will make us receive less pain and more pleasure. Although the human motivation is by pleasure it is the decision that are cold, selfish, dispassionate, and rational assessment of the situation to choose how to avoid the pain and receive the pleasure. The emphasis on the importance of rational measurement of pleasure and pains that forms the calculating intellectual side of the classical liberal's of psychology. Classical liberalism tells u ...
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... the biggest drop in energy prices in seven years inflation was practically eliminated. Last year inflation was set at 1.7 percent and most economists don’t expect this to rise above two for this year. Some are even Considering deflation to be the next step. In 1949 and 1955 were the only two other times that the CPI has declined. Despite this obstacle some believe it is a remote possibility. Jane Bryant Quinn reported the pluses of the deflation. “When labor productivity rises-up 2.4 percent by most recent count-prices can fall by the same amount, with benevolent effects. Under this scenario, wages would probably stay the same or rise a bit. But thin ...
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