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- 2671: Collective Farms Of The Soviet Union
- ... the best way to raise agricultural output was to seize land from the peasants and organize it into the centrally managed collective farms. Day to day life on the kokhoz wasn't necessarily unpleasant. Families lived on the farm, but instead of working for their own food, they produced for the government. Families worked together in units of fifty to one hundred people. They shared all tools and machinery as well ...
- 2672: Sonic Corporation
- ... stores failed. In these cases Sonic assumed control over failed franchise units, driving the number of company owned restaurants from 3 in 1974 to 149 in 1979. This rapid expansion of Sonic was a short lived frenzy which resulted in numerous failures do to lack of planning, market analysis, and requirements for unit managers. The company was forced to operate the failed franchise as company units in most cases, to protect ...
- 2673: Economic Espionage
- ... work for money, but others see it as part of their jobs. An example of this type of information collectors a man by the name of Pierre Marion. Pierre was a Air France representative who lived in Japan. His job was to collect information about Japanese social circles particularly as it related to Japanese political officials. For its size no other country in the world has the intelligence capability of South ...
- 2674: The Trend Towards Fewer And Larger Farms As Economic Growth Occurs
- ... early times of this country, people could make a living on the 160 acres they had received from The Homestead Act of 1862. This act gave families clear titles to 160 acres if they had lived on it for five years. Though in today's changing world farmers have been forced to increase the sites of their operations or go out of the farming business. The farming business is a way ...
- 2675: The North American Free Trade Agreement
- ... sharp decreases in illegal immigration are not expected immediately, rather within the next two decades will the influx of these people be reduced significantly. Since NAFTA passed in late 1993 and took effect, it has lived up to it's promises. Ross Perot and his cohorts can gloat about the fact that U.S. imports from Mexico increased by about $6 billion dollars, but conversely U.S. exports to Mexico increased ...
- 2676: Poverty Vs. The Economy
- ... definitions and concepts also have a major impact on the poverty estimates that if transfer payments or income support programs such as social security are not counted, then about twenty percent of all American families lived in poverty during 1988, Government income transfers are, however, included in the official poverty index, and this fact reduced the relative number of destitute Americans. If in-kind programs such as Medicaid, subsidized housing, and ...
- 2677: The Great Depression
- ... the two industries with the most spectacular growth - construction and automobile manufacturing - were contracting in the year before the stock market crash of 1929. About 600 banks a year were failing. Half the American people lived at or below the minimum subsistence level. By the time the stock market crashed, there was a excessive amount of goods on the market, and inventories were three times their normal size. The fact that ...
- 2678: Chinese Economic Reform Under Communist Rule
- ... of the country, Mao continued this emphasis on moral force by demanding that Chinese citizens demonstrate what he referred to as "correct consciousness." This correct consciousness could be exhibited, Mao believed, by the way people lived. Needless to say, that which constituted correct consciousness was often determined and assessed by Mao. Nevertheless, the ideal of moral force was still a potent one in China even after the Communist takeover. It is ...
- 2679: Personal Writing: Response To My Visit To The Boott Cotton Mill
- ... general. I was impressed with the cotton produced with all the colors and complicated patterns. I liked the exhibit with sample products from different eras of production. Life was tough back then, people back then lived through what I believe is the beginning of America, as we live in it know. They saw the beginning of everything that we take advantage of today, I think they are special people because of ...
- 2680: Even Elephants Are Afraid Of Mice - A Creative Essay
- ... The ensign was only trying to ease the pressure with his antics, but the humour in his voice was clearly forced. The Captain grunted, and several petty officers chuckled. Yet, none could deny that Fear lived among them. The spectre was clearly an unwanted and certainly uninvited guest, but not even the many fathoms of jet black water could keep him from his prey. He fed on fear, and the greatest ...
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