YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Thoughts on 1990s Corporations
Essays 151 - 180
Introduced by The Economist magazine during the late 1980s, the Big Mac index tries to examine if currencies are at the correct le...
less bureaucratic and flatter, it is interesting that the first attempt at this, in 1999 was not a success. At the time the compan...
the premise of cultural melding, but instead considers the connection between countries in a world that is being shaped by a break...
of the 1990s came as a surprise to economists who thought that more globalization would have the effect of stabilizing internation...
The interesting acquisition were those that sought to give the company a new distribution channel in areas they already services, ...
the industry in perfect competition. Figure 1. Industry in Perfect Competition The...
its home state. At the same time, some of its imbedded reporters are from Georgia and have traveled with units from the region. Co...
no one knows whether the present economy is a garden-variety Old Economy inventory cycle, or a more serious New Economy collapse t...
believe - or let employees believe - it has all the answers to all the problems that can arise. As competitors within GEs industr...
the U.S. and Mexico is a long one, and it is a history which reflects the changing attitudes of Americans. While at first we anxi...
their losses (67). Most businessmen and bankers would resist such steps (67). Mr. Thaksin took office early in the twenty-first c...
has heightened both production and attention to human capital and likely, these trends will continue through the twenty-first cent...
done to rein them in. Even many business people felt that capitalism had to be saved from itself because it was an economic system...
and companies now face another challenge: "Having spent the better part of two years burning off excess inventories, the industry ...
that could be attached to the customers TV set. It was controlled by a keyboard or it could be controlled by an infrared remote de...
that models depicted in todays magazines, because they are tall and thin, only represent 5 percent of the population and are impos...
the expectations of society but the unreal and artificial world of the media. A recent study of focus groups opinions of images fo...
(2003). Also, in order to be considered disabled, the individual must have a record of such an impairment or is regarded as having...
Biological weapons have become increasingly popular within terrorist organizations since the 1990s because they can reproduce micr...
what customers will logically expect from these companies. As can be expected, new models are being created for these so-called "...
and along with them are different levels of service. Much of the change that occurred, to make it all possible, really began duri...
that total taxes, which means both state and local, increased over the years: they averaged 24.7 percent of the GDP in the 1950s, ...
in the way it was controlled. The actual value was pegged to a basket of currencies. However, in reality there was a closer link t...
dependent they are on easy access to clean water until something prevents that access. The Impact of Natural Disasters Informati...
with her telling of a classic yet not cliched story. The reader comes to understand that the sexuality Carter presents is neither...
a good salary, job security and a life of leisure. Now, they found that their companies, when faced with the necessity for trimmin...
Vietnam War, and the problems along the Suez Canal in the late 1960s (Sookdeo, 1993). As a result, the world was divided along pol...
that the bible does make careful distinctions between the role that women and men each play, but these are not ontological distin...
time Travolta began doing the leaps and pirouettes on the flashing dance floor in Saturday Night Fever, he was already a veteran a...
by the mid-eighties. Many went back to school, others found jobs in other sectors. The time of large scale production facilities a...