... the rails did. During this time period, there were also only two cities in the whole Union that produced over $100,000,000 a year, when at the turn of the century there were individuals that were worth more then that at some point in there life. The first rail roads were not made till 1828, but in 1870, they were making more in a year then there was prior put together almost. Towards the 1850’s the fastest transport to the west was the Pony Express, but in the 1870’s there was the Trans-Continental rail road, and the Southern Pacific Rail Road along with the telegraph and soon after the telephone. In all fairness, the two time periods and two industrial revo ...
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... · In a manual system there is a paper trail for the internal auditor to follow. All records and transactions are kept on paper and so an auditor has clear and documented proof of what has transpired. Computerized systems rarely have a clear paper trail to follow. Since computers do all of the sorting of the information the company rarely sorts the source documents. Also the computer does most of the calculations and processing so there would not be the amount of documentation that there would be in a manual system. · Another problem of computer systems is the fact that there can be difficulty in determining who entered the data. In a manual system th ...
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... Our businesses are balanced roughly 50-50 between print and electronic information. More than 40% of our operating profit is now earned outside the U.S. We are a focused company. We are not a media conglomerate, nor an entertainment company. We stick to our business of business, providing information essential to an ever expanding and increasingly interconnected worldwide business community. Q. What is the strategy behind your television operations? A. Dow Jones aims to provide business news in any form customers want it. When we looked at our operations a few years ago, television was the missing means of delivery for our business news. We beg ...
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... negligence of these companies can be shown in different fields. There have been many incidents in the oil field industry dating back to January 28 1969, in Santa Barbara. This may have been a long time ago but this was a disaster this country has never seen. On the 28 a well burst on the Santa Barbara Channel. It "raged for ten days and killed 3 crewmen".(Easton,10) There were major problems stopping this rig and no matter what happened there was already enough damage done. On February 23, the well erupted again. The environmental consequences were evident. As the oil spilled down towards the south the numbers were staggering of how much oil actually was ...
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... a time cycle of 38 seconds per each tape recorder assembled. This would increase our production of the product by approximately 140 % in the same time frame that we are currently operating. The analysis shows that the operation will take three robots to do the required task in the shortest amount of time. The whole work cell will be designed so that the assembly line will be both continuous and synchronized. I am assured that the floor space now available will be more than adequate and could even be reduced by approximately 50 % of the space now allocated to production, upon completion of the project. Two workers will be relocated to other parts of the man ...
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... for International Business Cycle Research said that its leading inflation index rose for the fourth straight month in October to 109.0 from a downwardly revised 108.7 in September." With the rise of material costs it is a clear indicator of inflation. Inflation is clearly measured by the price index such as those numbers stated above. Price Index clearly measures the general level of prices in any year relative to prices in a base period. There are different types of inflation one is Demand Pull Inflation; meaning "changes in the price level are attributed to an excess of total spending beyond the economy's capacity to produce. Because resources are fully empl ...
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... low due to high infant mortality rates. The impact of the neolithic revolution was not as much on immediate population growth (even though it did have a long term impact on population growth) as on the material and spiritual development of the human race. It is widely regarded as the beginning of civilization. Industrial revolution was another process of change. It was the process of substituting muscle power with machine power. It took place in the 18th century in Europe and is still happening in many parts of the world. In many characteristics it has been similar to the neolithic revolution: it increased production, it led to the use of resources that had be ...
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... as a class, thwart an already staunchly anticommunist world, and fulfill Marx's promise of material wealth following the revolution. The idea of industrialization as the means to true socialism never occurred to Lenin. He assumed, at least initially, that communism could would and should exist in the pre revolutionary way of life. Before Stalin came to power, the communist party for the most part agreed that industrialization was necessary, however different sects of the Bolsheviks were in disagreement about how this change should come about. Buhkarin, the spokesman for the right wing Bolsheviks, warned against antagonizing the peasants, for fear of losin ...
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... simply the size and position of this building has many meanings, which are of course subconsciously. The Quaker building has many meanings and therefore the signified list is very long, but first we will look at the signifier. The sign is the word Quaker, plain and simple, and the signifier is Q-u-a-k-e-r. However the word Quaker is not just a word, it means many, many things, which is where the signified comes in. The actual building is huge, which gave me the feeling that they are a successful company and that their product must be all over the world. The building is also white brick. This, without even knowing it gives you a feeling of safety and purity(jus ...
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... working shifts and provide some interesting facts and details. Introduction Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Bhopal, Exxon, Valdez, Space Shuttle Challenger, all familiar names that have some interesting similarities. First, all were major man-made disasters, second all occurred due to human error, and third, they all took place on the night shift. Working shifts, an unsteady schedule, can present many different problems for the men and women who work them. This report is going to highlight some of these problems, and hopefully offer some possible solutions to minimize them. I am also going to examine some European countries, because they seem to be far ahead of th ...
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