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- 3491: Grace Murray Hopper
- ... common to all programs, the compiler would have the computer refer to codes in its own memory. The compiler great advance for the computer world. After this she also invented COBOL, the first user-friendly business software program. She retired in 1986 and was remembered for questioning the impossible. She had a Ph.D. in mathematics and physics from Yale University. In her office, she had a clock that ran counterclockwise ...
- 3492: The Economics of Drugs and Prostitution
- ... reasons. Prostitution is a trade that is commonly associated with a number of elements of the criminal underworld such as organized crime, pimps, and the drug trade. Also, prostitutes are often involved in that particular business in order to finance a drug addiction. Thirdly, prostitutes aid the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, such as AIDS and gonorrhea. For all these reasons our government has made prostitution illegal and has taken steps ...
- 3493: The Flivor King
- ... prosper when the auto indudtry prospered, and since teh latter part of the 1920's, the auto indurstry only belittled teh dreams of stability and =uprising for all those employed. What was once considered a business, was now degradinglabor. One factory worker commented, "Life in the factory is with the exception of prison life, the most monotonous life a human being can live."
- 3494: President Millard Fillmore
- ... and also clerked in a Buffalo law firm. He was admitted to the bar in 1823. After setting up a law office in East Aurora near Buffalo, he married Miss Powers in1826. As his legal business expanded he took on a student clerk in his office, his future law partner and political associate, Nathan Kelsey Hall. In 1830 the Fillmors moved to Buffalo, where a year or two later they joined ...
- 3495: Industrial Transformation: Economic Development between 1865-1900
- ... a reputation for himself. He had an enviable reputation of integrity and honesty. Morgan bought Carnegies steel industry from him in his declining years for 400 million to keep Carnegie from ruining his steel business. J.D. Rockefeller dominated the oil industry. He started the Standard Oil Co. Of Ohio in 1870, had its headquarters Cleveland Oh. Standard Oil was nucleus of the giant trust set up in 1882. He ...
- 3496: A Nation of Immigrants: An Overview of the Economic and Political Conditions
- ... immigrants who made the journey to America on their own freewill with economic resources found that it was much easier to find good jobs than those immigrants with less than such freewill and resources. Small business opportunities unfortunately were not available for most immigrants. The waves of immigrant migration to the North America are highlighted in phases. With phase one came English colonists from the 1600's to the 1800's ...
- 3497: Shoeless Joe
- ... to admit to the scandal, followed by Shoeless Joe. Illinois had no law about fixing games, and the eight players were acquitted of the charges brought against them for defrauding the public and injuring the business of Charles Comiskey and the American League (Schwalbe 9). The owners of baseball needed desperately to shake this horrible scandal that crushed the integrity of the game. They appointed Kennesaw Mountain Landis as commissioner, and ...
- 3498: Stalin
- ... that stressed defense as well as opening up and maintaining relations with other countries. The tasks of the Party in foreign policy were: 1-To pursue the policy of peace and of the consolidation of business relation with all countries. 2-To observe the greatest caution and not to allow our country to be drawn into conflicts by war provocateurs, who were in the habit of getting others to save them ...
- 3499: Strengths And Weaknesses Of Lo
- ... work. He revoked Edict of Nantes who protected the religious freedom of the Huguenots. Instead of being imprisoned, more than 200,000 Huguenots fled from France. The country lost many of its skilled workers and business leaders. Louis XIV also fought many costly wars that caused his people great suffering. Many of the wars left France on the brink of bankruptcy. Peter the Great had many strengths, but his best was ...
- 3500: Shakespeare
- ... exactly how long William remained at the Stratford Grammar School but it is believed that an assistant of John Shakespeare forced him to withdraw William from thence. His later education must be the ways of business he would have learned around his fathers shop. Spectators said they have seen William give speeches to the calf before slaughtering them for his fathers leather work. William married Ann Hathwey in 1582 ...
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