... Microsoft and Bill Gates from taking over the computer software industry. Orrin R. Hatch, a member in the panel for the judicial courts, recently gave a speech stating why he believes Bill Gates is trying to create a monopoly. He said quote, The critical debate, many believe, is the extent to which Microsoft is exploiting its current monopolies, both to kill off potential threats, and to leverage these monopolies to control new technologies which will define the future of computing, of the Internet, and of how we conduct much of our daily lives, in the future and the present end quote. This statement states that the reason Microsoft is trying to become a monop ...
... changes in administrative methods while keeping the overall institutional framework intact. Thus, the reform movement of the 1980's takes its place among the broad spectrum of Chinese history. As with previous reform movements, history will measure the success of these reforms. China's transition from a planned economy to a market economy began at the end of 1978. When China started the process, the government did not have a well-designed blueprint. The approach to reform has been characterized by some to be piecemeal, partial, and often times experimental. This view however has not been shared by all economists, "some economists regard this approach as ...
... to be found in Russia. Before the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Chevron had nearly signed a deal with the government to buy Tenghiz, the biggest oil field to become available in twenty years. Hug reserves of oil, approximately 250 billion barrels, were waiting to be taken from the earth. After the uprising in Russia, Chevron feared that the deal would be off. Fortunately, they were able to bargain with the new-found government and enter into a joint agreement to produce oil from the fields in Tenghiz. At this time, Chevron is planning to export the oil from Russia by pipeline to the Black Sea where it will be transported out by oil tanker. The cost of this ...
... 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 first British industrialists manufactured textiles; specifically cotton for the home market. The growth of the home market in Britain promoted industriali ...
... of the idea of bypassing wholesalers, retailers and using catalogs. Mail orders and pamphlets appeared around the 1870's. Late in the 19th century many American firms began to market packaged goods under brand names. Previously consumers had not been aware of or influenced by brand names. The first product that had brand names were soap products. In the 1880's a few brands came out and they were Ivory, Pears, Sapolio, Colgate, Kirks American Family and Packer's. Not long after brands such as Royal baking powder, Quaker oats, Bakers chocolate, Hire's root beer, Regal shoes and Waterman's pens were nationally advertised. In the early 1900's America began to become ...
... profit from the business that he finds acceptable, and does not want the hassle of either expanding his current business, setting up new shops, or taking over another business. The size of a business does however depend a great deal on the market which it is in. For example a business which makes specialist goods, or caters to only a very small number of people, will not be able to grow beyond the capacity of that market. This means that the optimum size for a business in a market with little growth and only a small number of prospective customers would be large enough to serve as many customers as it had market share for, but small enough to ensure that they don' ...
... immigrants for permanent settlement Mass immigration has played a significant role in the economic history of the United States, nevertheless the harsh fact is that what may be necessary and beneficial at one time, may not be so at another. The demand for labor is being affected by "restructuring forces stemming from the nature and pace of technological change; from the stiff international competition the United States that now confronts for the first time in its history; from major shifts in consumer spending away from goods toward services; and from the substantial reduction In the national defense expenditures brought about by the end of the Cold War in t ...
... with trademark dispassion. "As they’ve become less relevant," Goizueta says, "I don’t need to look at them very much anymore." Poor Roger Enrico. He certainly can’t say the same about . Since he became PepsiCo’s chief executive in April, Enrico has been seeing a whole lot more red—Coca-Cola red—than he ever expected. Not to mention red as in ink, as in blood. PepsiCo has been badly wounded in the cola wars. Its casualties are high. Caroline Levy, who follows the soft drink industry for the investment firm Schroder Wertheim, says Pepsi is losing customers to in every major foreign territory. The company has always struggled overseas, but in the past few ...
... like the rails did. During this time period, there were also only two cities in the whole Union that produced over $100,000,000 a year, when at the turn of the century there were individuals that were worth more then that at some point in there life. The first rail roads were not made till 1828, but in 1870, they were making more in a year then there was prior put together almost. Towards the 1850’s the fastest transport to the west was the Pony Express, but in the 1870’s there was the Trans-Continental rail road, and the Southern Pacific Rail Road along with the telegraph and soon after the telephone. In all fairness, the two time periods and two indus ...
... the person missing the cards will receive a new card with a new number. If a person only has money in their wallets and that gets stolen, there is now way for retrieving the money. The person will report it but unfortunately the money will not be returned. When I first started college, I was told by my professors to buy books for their classes. I went to the bookstore and it was filled with more students than books. Knowing that probably ½ of these students were looking for the same books as I was, I ran for the books I needed. I was on line to pay and as I saw the total for all my things, I realized I didn’t have enough money to pay. I decided to on my ...
