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Inadequacies in U.S. Antiterrorism Provisions Prior to 9-11

report illuminates the fact that our government is geared to addressing the threat of one large enemy (such as that that existed d...

Europe and America: Political Structure, Government, and the Internet

to say that conservatives generally prefer the status quo, and look at the past with longing, while liberals work for change, beli...

Baseball History: The 1919 White Sox Fix

begin to see that different stakeholders involved had different concerns. The owners were divided. They realized that money would ...

The HealthSouth Scandal

value from dropping.5 He was able to get away with it because he was the person who was charged by the SEC with the responsibility...

Early Accounts of American Colonial Life

have long been "possessed" by adventurers, as this act would eternalize "the memory of those that effected it" (Smith). As this su...

Investment Questions; Regulation, Bonds and Risk

In the financial markets are regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The principal purpose of the SEC is to "pr...

Evolution of Social Welfare Policy in the United States

insurance approach to public welfare" (Historical development). That is, these public programs would "ensure that protection was a...

Ebbers Behind Bars

prosecution witness and is "crucial to the prosecutions case," since he is the only witness who said that "he spoke directly to Mr...

The Ashley Alexandra Dupre Story: A Look at Female Prostitution in the Twenty-First Century

as a serious crime. Still, it is usually the case that the prostitutes are arrested while their customers go free. In the case of ...

Is Outsourcing Leading to an Economic Decline in the U.S.?

thousands of new jobs in the United States" (Outsourcing creates jobs, study says, 2004-hereafter "Outsourcing, 2004"). Global Ins...

Current Prejudices against Women in the U.S.

stereotypes about lesser female competence" (Swim et al, 1995, p. 199). Modern sexism, however, is characterized by "the denial of...

TAINTED MILK AND THE PROACTIVE APPROACH

without coercion. Though its not outlined here, Mengniu and other dairies didnt agree to pull the tainted products until the media...

The Phar-Mor Scandal

of internal control and in fact, three major weaknesses was a lack of care in selecting an auditing firm, not questioning figures ...

ANTIGUA, GLOBAL RECESSION AND STANFORD SCANDAL

Allen Stanford last February, the islands Bank of Antigua has also gone through its own struggles. Though the Stanford scandal in ...

Applications of Corporate Governance Issues to McBride Financial Services

in an accounting system that made many of the concealments that took place legal, or at least borderline, and the attitudes of tho...

The Role of Political Parties in American National Government

range of voters as possible, which inevitably brings both parties to the center; it also means that the parties and their candidat...

INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS AND GAAP

IFRS guidance pertaining to revenue recognition tends to be less extensive than that of GAAPs. Nor does the IRFS contain industry-...

Corporate Transparency - McBride Financial

and Weisbach (2007) commented that most of the reforms in corporate governance over the last several years have been directed at i...

Shell and Corporate Social Responsiblity

it to the intentions of an organization. If an organization would want to make things right, and hone CSR, the stool analogy can w...

The Ethical Challenges at Tyco, Inc.

This 4 page paper looks at the scandals Tyco has been plagued with. How new management made a difference is highlighted. Bibliogra...

Kurt Eichenwald/The Informant

than one hundred participants," and involved examination of thousands of documents (Eichenwald 569). However, in other ways, it i...

Issues with Regard to Gifted Students in the U.S.

clearly superior and feel good about it, but when they are in classes with nothing but other gifted students, the competition may ...

Poverty and the Typification of Poverty in the U.S.

the NASW website discusses poverty and argues that it is about "much more than money alone" (Poverty, 2009). Poverty is the result...

ARTICLE REVIEW: MINORITY THREAT AND POLICE BRUTALITY

the Department of Justices Police Brutality Study 1985-1990; Uniform Crime Reports during the same period and the 1990 U.S. Census...

An Objective Look at Global Warming

in carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and chlorofluorocarbon emissions that have accumulated in the atmosphere over time and ...

Corporate Culture at Enron

chief accounting officer and former Enron auditor from Arthur Anderson and a number of other executives (FOX News Network, 2005). ...

The Rampart Scandal, Strip Searches and Police Power

is hiding something under his or her clothing. On the other hand, there is room for abuse. It is possible that strip searches are ...

SALT LAKE CITY OLYMPICS: BRIBERY OR LOBBYING?

of influencing a particular outcome. The main difference is that lobbying, as such, is "persuasion," whereas bribery is an overt e...

Taiwan and the US/Comparing Domestic Violence

domestic violence, offering comparison to the legal standard on this issue in the US. In 1993, a horrific incident, the stabbing ...

Children Working

to whom they outsource have young children working in the factories. Many people may remember the Kathie Lee Gifford sweat shop co...