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Brent Spa and Shell Fiasco

of shareholder wealth maximisation sates that it is the shareholder who is the principle concern of the organisation (Dobson, 1999...

History and Future of TCP/IP

p. 10). Many large businesses also continue to rely on their old SNA (systems network architecture) for crucial applications (Pas...

The Difficult Problem of the Nursing Shortage

Statistics expects that number to rise to more than one million in less than 20 years. The American Nurses Association and Monste...

Environmental Changes and the Adaptation of Public Relationists

future. History is the most relevant material for an individual (and a society) to analyze because it allows them to benefit from...

Analysis and History of the Dow Jones Industrial Average

One hundred fifty seven enterprises listed A shares and two companies issued convertible bonds which all had an aggregate capital-...

Retail Case Study on Management and Women

the paper indicates that a great deal of progress has been made in the past few decades and that perhaps even more progress will b...

History and Implications of Medicare's Managed Care

cover the costs of catastrophic illness, but otherwise they maintained their own routine health care. The route of health care ac...

Electronics and Consumerism

most significant inclusion. In looking at consumer electronic products of the twenty-first century and beyond, it does appear tha...

Internet Corporate Reporting

In five pages the Internet publication of fiscal and nonfiscal corporate reports are discussed in terms of benefits to a current i...

Analysis of Jeff Bezos' Amazon.com

(Hoovers, 2001). Bezos describes the birth of Amazon.com. As Bezos was working on Wall Street, he saw that Web usage was growin...

Silicon Valley's Origins

In twelve pages this paper discusses the Silicon Valley in an historical overview of its origins and future outlook. Eight source...

The Possible or Probable Causal Factors for the First World War

5 pages and 6 sources. This paper provides an overview of the possible or probable causal factors for the first World War. This ...

UK's Regulation of the TV Industry Present and Future

In five pages the regulation of the UK television industry currently and the future changes that will result from the consolidatio...

British Monarchy in the Future

In six pages this paper examines the British monarchy and examines whether or not it should be revised in the future. Nine source...

Graham E. Fuller's Article on Nation State Weaknesses

as he feels this will cause "endless subdivision of states," possibly doubling, or even tripling the membership of the UN (1997, p...

History and Future of HMOs

also had increased dramatically: by 1994, that percentage of GNP had increased to 15 percent and had topped the $1 trillion mark ...

ConAgra Strategic Analysis

buy United Agri Products (2002). By the 1980s, the firm would move into the consumer niche and sell food products there (2002). It...

Pakistan's Miniature Painting

world of art was also introduced to a unique paradigm of a painting technique and skill known today as miniatures. The emperors of...

Brief History of the Coca Cola Company

fountain retailers. In addition, Coca-Cola has substantial ownership interests in numerous bottling and canning operations. They...

Airline Industry's Fate

only a temporary situation. The aftermath of September 11th has created a fearful flying public, but soon that will deteriorate a...

Airline Industry in the Future

More and more wealthy people are traveling and those who now have extra retirement bucks are putting it back into the business. ...

Medicare and Altering its Health Care Effects

influences the degree to which health care costs rise in that it establishes what it will and will not pay for goods and services....

Journalism and the Internet

this was a publication where many different items of news described the events of a recent period and were run end to end(Smith, 1...

A Look at the Past and Future: Evaluating the Economy with Current Statistics

the impact that things had on the economy early in the twentieth century. Hence, in looking at todays world, where the economy is ...

Chapters 4 and 5

In these and all other charts highlighting test scores over time for the after school group, the scores for two years...

The High Price of Gasoline in 2006

in this situation. First, it should be noted that the wholesale price of gas rises and that affects retail pricing (Scherer, 200...

Time Value of Money

been paid will then attract further interest payments if the funds are left with the borrower or intermediary. For example, of the...

Evaluating NASA's Current Problems and Possible Solutions

budget and had to deal with cost cuts, continued to have prolific ideas. It went ahead and implemented plans, but it did so on a l...

Urban Agriculture - Benefits And Risks

living in urban areas to become involved in producing food (Prudham, 2005). That proportion also differs by region, ranging from 1...

The Federal Reserve: Its History and a Prediction on What It Will Do

market operations ("FRB: Federal Open Market Committee"). This committee meets eight times annually ("FRB: Federal Open Market Com...