YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Collapse of the USSR
Essays 31 - 60
the society of post-socialist/communist Russia. One of her focuses involves a feud between a couple of the "regulars" at t...
only a week before it was completed. Chief executive Ray Williams raised the issue with board members over dinner, telling the gr...
the glory when the farming goes well. Of course, this bitterness is something felt by most housewives of an earlier generation and...
that have been conducive to even more terrorist activity. The twentieth century both began and ended with bloodshed in the ...
Yugoslavia). Although the fighting stopped for the most part, there was no effort made for the various parties to actually resolv...
the news circulated of such a monumental occurrence, there was immediate reaction from several societal sectors, including small b...
Mali trade centered not only around agricultural products, however, but also included ivory, and gold (Library of Congress Country...
what customers will logically expect from these companies. As can be expected, new models are being created for these so-called "...
audit functions were in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), hiding debt in dummy corporations, as wel...
said in hindsight. Consider that the average German citizen blamed Weimar personally for acquiescing to the contentions of the Tre...
of the U.S.S.R. and what it all means. One is left with a sense that what occurred in the headlines is really more than the defeat...
As he has been pointed out in much of the financial media that has covered this issue, the derivative instruments that ended up ca...
production and distribution system, something called perestroika (1999). That contributed to the breakup of the centralized struc...
human mind contributed to the displacement of Christianity several centuries later from its central position in the formation of ...
Determining whether history would repeat itself and could therefore be predicted was one of the hopes of some. However it was fou...
combat, drastic measures were required to try and drive the Vietnamese out of their strongholds in the countryside. A policy of ma...
Century. This collapse has resulted in numerous world developments. One of the most important has been the attempted transition ...
correction to the exchange rate of the Mexican peso but the confidence was soon shattered as the crunch began to be felt in financ...
Korean business - at one point, Hyundai, Daewoo, Samsung, LG and SK, the five largest chaebol, had hundreds of subsidiaries betwee...
life savings and retirement plans of countless employees who had worked hard to save their funds - but because of corporate greed,...
disturbing facts is that the WorldCom documents that were released in July to the special Financial Services Committee of the U.S....
remained the same as the wealthy white merchants and elite maintained control of the economic monopoly. Neighborhoods were not onl...
with several different players each able to avoid feeling personally responsible there was a lack of a real moral compass. ...
an explanation or the auditors may, in extreme cases, may not feel able to certify that accounts as true and accurate. The...
(Elton, 1996). Then, when the Barbarians would invade, the internal problems in the Empire would see battle losses (Elton, 1996). ...
Empire was in decline "from 180 CE onward" but that both society and the state continued to function well, in spite of military de...
that Diamond discusses are the Anasazi and the Maya. "Anasazi" is the name given to various groups of Native Americans living in t...
intellectual timidity or even of complicity in some elite plot against regular folks" (Rotella, 2007, p. 11). Pulp history retains...
unclear. Years ago, it was believed that overfishing was the culprit. Particularly after the "factory boats" arrived and indiscr...
been a great deal of speculation about communism and why it had failed. Russia is perhaps the most relevant example in this contex...