... the same uniform serving the same food from within restaurants that look remarkably similar. There are no risks to be taken here and rarely a snap decision to be made and certainly not by the staff. Contrast this with a small organisation, thirsty for success in an emergent market such as Steve Job's Apple Computers in the early eighties. Here was a company led by a very strong character who was highly motivated, possessed a highly practical imagination and was fanatical about detail. He built up a multinational company on the strength of his ability to promote free thinking coupled with the attention to detail that is required to produce a world class computer ...

... nations joined the bank, and in modern times most countries of the world are members. The bank is structured like a global cooperative, owned by its member countries. The size of a country’s stockholding is determined relative to it’s economic strength relative to the worldwide economy. The United States is the single largest stockholder, holding around seventeen percent, this along with the other six industrial large nations ( together they form the G-7 ) amass a little less than fifty percent of the holdings. The bank’s headquarters are located in Washington D.C.. It is often here that its Board of Executive Directors, representing all member countries, ...

... paying higher prices for materials and supplies, shows a growing assumption that inflation is on the rise. "The Columbia University's Center 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 ...

... other may say” I can’t afford to leave”. Now I am not saying that the lower class doesn’t want more or isn’t smart. I think that they have it harder then someone who is educated and knows that they can leave and still find work. The problem is now there is an over abundance of cheap labor. Which will not help raise the already too low minimum wage. “The danger of the information age is that while in the short run it may be cheaper to replace workers with technology” M. B. Zuckerman. The problem is as we make all this technology to replace workers. We are now creating many low-tech jobs. At the same time we have now made a lot of skilled jobs. My fe ...

... exports, most of the coconut oil, embroidery, at least half of the base metals, and a fourth of the lumber. The United States supplies most of the Philippine imports of machinery, dairy products, cotton, papers, drugs, automobiles and much or the petroleum products. Although countries like Japan, Canada Australia, and New Zealand are getting more and more involved in trade with the Philippines, America remains to be the Philippines most important trading partner. When America acquired the Philippines and established free trade in 1909, the economy of the islands was tied to that parent country. As a result, the Philippines became almost entirely dependant upon U ...

... one firm will subsequently effect the other firms in the industry. This results in each oligopolist watching its competitors closely, and is a method of competition between the firms, other than by price wars. The Kinked Demand Curve, is the economical graph that shows why oligopolists tend to adopt a common price -to achieve the greatest price and output. The Hilmer committe, estabilished 1993, is a government body who acts in the interests of recommendations of National Competition policies. In 1995, the Trade Practises Act (T.P.A.) was introduced. The T.P.A. sets out the general responsibilities of sellers, such as the firms of oligopolies, and out laws act ...

... as long as the product was delivered on time. Many technological advances were made through military manufacturing some of these were new ways to manufacture iron, conveyer belts, and the use machine tools . The technology developed for military manufacturing then spilled over into the civilian sector of the economy. And because it was now a tested technology investors who were normally cautious were willing to put their capital into these ventures which instead of pouring iron to make guns now made iron ore into stoves and pots. The second critical underpinning of the first industrial revolution was the development of a home market in Britain. The firs ...

... may still be at issue, all sides agree that taxes must be cut. But is a tax cut wise? Fifty years ago The Atlantic published an article by the then-managing editor of the Monroe Evening News, Karl Zeisler. In his article "Who Wants Taxes Cut," (October, 1945) Zeisler makes a persuasive argument against the low-tax lobby and the low-tax ethic itself. Zeisler's argument is, in effect, that in government as in business you get what you pay for--and in the case of taxes, he theorizes, the more citizens pay on a local level the more likely they will be to insist that they get their money's worth. Inadequate funding for schools and salaries so low that they fail to ...

... showed an interest in mechanical things. In 1879 a 16 year-old henry ford left home ,and went to Detroit to work as an apprentice machinist. Ford remained an apprentice for three years, he then returned to Dearborn. Over the next few years Ford repaired steam engines found occasional work in factories and over hauling his father farm equipment. Upon his marriage to Carla Bryant in 1888 he supported himself by running a sawmill, but Ford was looking for better opportunities, and in 1891 he began work as an engineer in the Edison Illuminating Co., this signified a conscious decision an Ford’s part to dedicate his life to industrial pursuits. his promotio ...

... trade such as tariffs, licensing and quotas. This was accomplished by decreasing or removing import/export tariffs from all three countries and allowing trade goods to flow to all of the treaty members without restriction as long as the goods met the standards as outlined in the treaty. Another goal was to improve working conditions in North America. It was proposed that by increasing trade and a set of standards that working conditions would improve through increased wages and newer safer facilities. Creating an expanded and safe market for exports/imports and services was also a goal and is ongoing even today as more goods and services flow across the border ...