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Alcohol and Drug Use/Juvenile Crime

health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...

TOOLS FOR RATE OF RETURN - APPLE INC.

rate of return. The main disadvantage to this type of measurement, however, is the outlier (such as the financial meltdown ...

Price: “Love and Hate in Jamestown”

had no particular skills (Price). Price notes that Wingfield arrived in Virginia accompanied by a number of servants and a haughty...

Managing Internal Pricing

the business of PepsiCo (Traceable and Common Fixed Costs, n.d.). Transfer Pricing Transfer pricing is the "amount charged ...

Adverse Drug Reactions and Metabolic Changes Associated with Antipsychotic Medications

as typical or traditional (first generation) and atypical (second generation) (Blake, 2006). Typical antipsychotic medications ar...

Legalizing Drugs

For example, most people do not know that cocaine was once a common ingredient in Coca-Cola. Many social pressures led to the even...

Drug Rehabilitation v Prison

pockets of those buying. Incentives exist for each of these groups. For one group the economic incentives are a positive factor ...

Predatory Pricing

companys marginal cost (ICT Regulation Toolkit, 2009). But, the short term marginal cost is very hard to measure. Because of this ...

Price Wars

in the long term they may suffer the losses in the sort term, especially if it has the potential of driving another firm pout of t...

Price Wars and Mismanagement

This 3 page paper argues that the primary cause of price wars is mismanagement and that this is why there are so few price wars se...

AN EXAMINATION OF COMPETITIVE PRICING THROUGH QUASAR COMPUTERS

the kneejerk reaction of moving pricing in response to competition is a sure way to failure. Price wars, the authors note, benefit...

Fact and Fiction of Drug Legislation

America, and the finicky laws that change over time, it is hard to know fact from fiction. For example, was cocaine ever legal? Wa...

ECSTASY (MDMA): The Impacts of the Drug

a number of different fashions, depending on how quickly they want the drug absorbed in their blood stream. Like crack cocaine, M...

McDonald's and Its Marketing Tactics

chain Burger King would introduce the Big King (Branch & Gunn, 1997). The Big King was a hit and did much better than the Arch Del...

SEGWAY AND PRICING STRATEGY

Product News, 2007). The question we ask here is, has the pricing of Segways helped or hurt their cause? Would lowering th...

Living With AIDS

combination of these drugs is prescribed although there are some drugs that are combinations within themselves, such as Combivir, ...

Pricing Objectives

short time. Womens apparel does not qualify as an early-stage product, and certainly the company wants to establish itself in the...

Why Pharmaceutical Companies Focus On A Disease

potential to make it through to the next step, the Phase 1 human testing trials (Masia, 2008). This is a very healthy small group...

Financial Theory and Corporate Policy

choice will be made between the alternatives (Elton et al, 2002). There may be situations where there is certainty of outcome. Thi...

Using Statistical Analysis and Explaining Probability

collected on the same date each month, the 12th. However, even during a day there are a number of different data points which coul...

Medicare, Part D

to the medications needed to ensure their health. Beginning in 2004, Medicare began to offer aid, $600 a year, for covering the co...

Alma Charcoal Burners Pricing

the costs per unit. The calculation needs to start by looking at the cost per unit, but for the post and packaging figures have be...

Drugs and Prohibition

as long as they are not killing or harming people, as long as they are not damaging the life of other people. There is no real log...

A Theory Explaining Illicit Drug Use

congenital biological or psychological factors that lead so many others to addiction. It might be because of a combination of upb...

Asthma Medication/Xolair

events (Owen, 2007). This action includes "presentation of antigen by dendritic cells" as well as the "degranulation of mast cells...

Xanax: An Argument for Inclusion in the DSM

drug-related visits to the emergency rooms across the nation in 2005: "31% involved illicit drugs...

Houses Prices in the UK 2003 - 2008

This 7 page paper looks at the pattern in the average house price in the UK from 2003 to 2008. The paper discusses the movement in...

California Drug Statistics

groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...

There is No End in Sight to High Gasoline Prices

course, while people today shudder at the thought of oil prices of more than $100 per barrel, it is prudent to discuss how that tr...

Valuing an IPO for JetBlue

is that of the dividend discount model. The rationale behind this model is that the value of a share should be calculated by refe...