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- 111: The Millennium Bug
- ... no air traffic, traffic lights, no lights in your company, companies could not produce goods, no goods delivered to the stores, stores could not send you bills, you could not send bills to anyone else. Business [could] come to a halt" (de Jager 1). The costs of fixing Y2K are staggering. The Gartner Group estimates that costs per line of code to be between $1.50 and $2.00 (Conner 1 ... must be the same for all of the programs that will use it (IBM 5.7). If and only if all three of these downsides to windowing techniques are able to be overcome, should a business consider this solution. Another way of getting around 2-digit dates involves a bridge program. This type of solution is used to convert data from one record format to another. This allows a system to convert 2-digit to 4-digit dates as they are needed. This also allows a business to have very little down time for year 2000 renovations. Instead of converting all of the data at one time, it is instead converted gradually. Also, this technique is very cost effective and fairly ...
- 112: Ibm
- International Business Machines International Business Machine is an American computer manufacturer, with headquarters in Armonk, New York. The company is a major supplier of information-processing products and systems, software, communications systems, workstations, and related supplies and services in the United States and around the world. Its products are used in a wide variety of industries, including business, government, science, defense, education, medicine, and space exploration. The company was incorporated in 1911 as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in a merger of three smaller companies. After further acquisitions, it absorbed the International Business ...
- 113: Administrative Decision Making
- ... retailer selling women's, men's, and children's apparel; lingerie; personal care products, and sporting goods through its 5,633 stores and a catalogue. The past few years have seen significant change in the business. In May 1998, The Limited, Inc. completely divested itself of Abercrombie & Fitch stock. They gave shareholders the choice of exchanging their Limited shares for shares of A&F in a process known as a modified Dutch tender. Today, The Limited, Inc. operates as four separate business groups: Women's Brands, Emerging Brands, Intimate Brands, and Support Businesses. Women's Brands: Express: The Express underwent reconstruction in the early 1990s to have a more sophisticated European image instead of the neon-lit ... Mast delivers over 100 million garments a year to The Limited, Inc. retail and catalogue divisions. Limited Distribution Services: The purpose of Limited Distribution is to design and implement operations that will provide the retail business with the most effective and efficient delivery operations available. Limited Distribution Services will have achieved its objective if each of its customers believes that it has been an asset in helping them achieve their ...
- 114: BUILDING A RADIO EMPIRE-CHANCE
- ... It is the only industry protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution. However, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 changed the marketplace. ¡§The goal of the new law was to let anyone enter any communications business„oto let any communications business compete in any market against any other.¡¨ However, this new law did not decrease the barriers to entry. In effect, it allowed mega-mergers and acquisitions, which led to mega-corporations, and effectively raised the ... ratings, impressions, and share of advertising dollars within the market. Increased ad dollars leads to increased revenues. Assuming all else equal, increased revenues generate increased profits. This can then be used to increase the overall business through acquisition opportunities, thereby creating a large cyclical effect. ¡§Chancellor Media is also subject to competition from new media technologies such as, the delivery of audio programming by cable television systems, direct broadcast satellite ( ...
- 115: Contrcat Law Implied Terms
- ... contract. These are as follows: § where there have been past dealings between the parties ; § where there is a custom or trade usage concerning the subject matter of the contract ; § where it is necessary to give business efficacy to the contract ; and § where a term is implied by statute . 4.0 Terms implied by previous dealings or conduct Where parties to a contract have a history of doing things a certain way ... to be supplied under the later agreement. It was held that the points no specifically decided in the option could be determined by reference to the previous dealings between the parties as well as normal business practice in the timber trade. 5.0 Terms implied by custom or trade usage Where parties have contracted against the background of a particular trade, the customs or usages of that trade may be implied ... by custom or usage : § The implied custom or usage is not subject to interpretation. It either exist or it does not . § The custom must be so well known and relied on that everyone in that business would presume the custom into the contract . § A term will not be implied into a contract in cases where it is contrary to the expressed terms of the contract . § A person may be bound ...
- 116: Federal Express
- ... what makes FedEx such a well-oiled machine? HISTORY This year marks the 28th anniversary of the founding of Federal Express. These have been 28 remarkable years that have transformed the way the world does business. From their early Falcon flying days operating in a few U.S. cities, to the global express powerhouse they are today, they have remained dedicated and committed to providing their customers the best possible service ... line of transportation entrepreneurs and learned to fly at the young age of 15. In 1969, he purchased Arkansas Aviation with the goal of doing something more than merely selling aircraft, as had been the business’s sole purpose in the past. As a political science and economics major at Yale, Smith had done extensive research on challenges facing pioneering firms in the information-technology industry. Through his research he determined ... The distance driven per day equals more than 2.7 million miles within the United States alone (www.fedex.com/us/, 4-22-99). These statistics show the immense impact FedEx has on both the business and domestic factions of society. PACKING When packing an item for shipment via FedEx, the packer has many considerations to take into account in order to ensure that the item being shipped will arrive ...
- 117: Amish Business Relations
- Amish Business Relations The Amish are a group of people that teach separation from the outside world. A group that originated from Switzerland is centered in the United States and Canada. Their rules as a society require ... who break from the Amish usually join the Mennonites, a society with similar rules and values, just less strict. As a way for their society to survive as a culture they have turned to the business of selling the products that these people grow and make. The Amish are fine craftsmen, skilled in everything from building the barns to sewing some of the finest quilts around. In recent years, many Amish ... course, the Amish did not choose this newly found way of life, they were forced in by greater urbanization and the diminished availability and affordability of farmland. They would rather stay and go into small business than move to a more rural state. One of the most known societies is in the town of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. There is an estimated 1,000 Amish businesses in the Amish community. Within ...
- 118: Muckraking Newspapers And Maga
- ... of investigative journalism that had rarely been seen before. Instead of the soft-spoken commentaries that were so common, the new journalism was filled with hard-hitting, well investigated facts. Muckrakers investigated the corruption of business, politics, and the labor movement and spread it all in front of their readers. They weren’t there to make friends or to appease the people who held power in the U.S.; they were ... practice in America that needed changed or crushed and during the era, there were many issues to choose from. In the late 19th century, there was large-scale corruption across the United States. Politics, big business, and labor unions were filled with bribery and crime. The “Land of the Free” had turned to the “Land of the Few.” One of the biggest factors in this corruption was the rise of industrialism ... Civil War period made the previous companies look like small home-run businesses. As Ellen F. Fitzpatrick in Muckraking writes: “Railroads, with their huge administrative structure, large capital investment, extensive numbers of employees, and complex business activities stood in marked distinction to most American firms in 1861. With thousands of miles of track, hundreds of thousands of employees, and capital accounts reaching into the millions of dollars, large railroad companies ...
- 119: Fifth Business: Search for Self Identity
- Fifth Business: Search for Self Identity In Robertson Davies' novel Fifth Business, the author uses the events that occurred in Deptford as a Canadian Allusion to reveal character identity. Three characters in the novel from Deptford: Boy Staunton, Dunstan Ramsey and Paul Dempster, leave Deptford to embark ... action of the novel which force's Percy to allow the incident to suppress his memory and leave Deptford to create a new identity for himself. He moves to Toronto and inherits the family sugar business and drops a letter from his middle name, becoming "Boy" Staunton, and begins to build a new ruling-class identity for his renamed self. "As Ramsay explains, "he was always the quintessence of something ...
- 120: Computers and Society
- ... the mind to ask questions, find answers, stockpile knowledge, and devise plans to move mountains, if not worlds.” Society has embraced the computer and accepted it for its many powers which can be used for business, education, research, and warfare. The first mechanical calculator, a system of moving beads called the abacus, was invented in Babylonia around 500 BC. The abacus provided the fastest method of calculating until 1642, when the ... was first used to help sort statistical information for the 1890 United States census. In 1896 Hollerith founded the Tabulating Machine Company to produce similar machines. In 1924, the company changed its name to International Business Machines Corporation. IBM made punch-card office machinery that dominated business until the late 1960s, when a new generation of computers made the punch card machines obsolete. The first fully electronic computer used vacuum tubes, and was so secret that its existence was not revealed ...
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