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Financial Statements: GM and Ford

$39 billion loss" (Fortune 500, 2008). Of course the same poor conditions exist for the entire industry and not only for GM, but ...

How Accounting Rules Change

including major accounting firms. While we generally consider the effects of this Act on public companies, Hamel (2003) reminds pe...

Inequalities in the Workplace

Previously, employers were able to avoid lawsuits for pay discrimination if they could prevent the employee from finding out that ...

The Obama Administration and North Korea

US. He is soon to learn that that this is anything but the truth. 1. A concise history of...

Steroid Use in Major League Baseball

steroids enhance performance; or rather, there is sufficient doubt about it to suggest that it might not be true in all cases. In ...

Role Of Congress In National Security

any other official militia of the country.4 The Constitution divides the powers regarding war between the President and the Co...

Argument: There Is No Need to Revamp the Corps of Engineers

of rebuttal here, well accept Utts comment that the knowledge and expertise of the members of the Corps is extensive, but it is th...

AMERICAN COLONISTS AND GRIEVANCES AGAINST KING GEORGE

were three acts. The first (taxation without representation) extended the power of raising revenues in America without representat...

Risorgimento; Italy Between 1815 - 1832

in the period following 1815 it is important to consider these changes as the administrative, judicial, education, and military sy...

Gas Rationing

out a system so that those who drive farther get more gas? Whos going to go around to all the congressional districts and check on...

Funding Special Education Under the Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004

P?rez, Socias, Shkolnik and Esra (2004) researched the question, "How does special education spending vary across states classifie...

North Carolina and Usury Laws

help at all, either. In 1978, the Supreme Court rules that a bank or other credit issuer could charge higher interest rates and fe...

Government's Powers and its Three Divisions

branch. It can propose and make laws and it can pass laws with a two thirds vote even if the President vetoes a bill, but at first...

Foreign Diplomacy and the Role of Congress

order to obtain the power to act unilaterally in Southeast Asia, Congress felt compelled to assume the full power granted that bod...

24th AMENDMENT

very Amendment. As such, the Court unanimously agreed people were not to be penalized for opting in favor of what was already the...

Johnson’s Veto of the Freedmen’s Bureau

the idea of moving to abandoned lands; in addition, white Southerners, as is well known, were not ready to accommodate the entry o...

Congress and the Function of Political Parties

aspect is further argued by one author who indicates that, "In America, the national parties play a relatively limited role in ele...

Retirement Benefits and Congress

the Presidents rate (Sepp, 2000). The formula for those elected prior to 1984 is "the average of the three highest years salaries,...

Proposed Legislation Patient Safety Act of 2004

legal errors (Fackelmann, 2002). Furthermore, the AMA study demonstrated that there is a direct statistical connection between th...

Congress, Personality, and Legislative Change

therefore, could have less than three electoral votes, two for each of its two senators and one for every Representative it has. ...

Political Systems Comparison

coercion is prevalent (British Library, 2003). However, big business has become so big and capital has become so concentrated in f...

Congress United Post September 11, 2001

obtain search warrants and allows the FBI more power to look at Internet transmissions (2001). The law allows the surveillance of...

Barbara Bovjerg's 2001 Testimony on Social Security Reform

In nine pages this paper examines this GAO employee's 2001 testimony to Congress on the future of the U.S. Social Security system ...

US Public Opinion, Congress, and the Presidency

not the relationship between the executive and legislative branches is successful is due, in large part, to a presidents ability t...

Steroid Scandal in Major League Baseball and Congress

had used steroids and also claimed that as much as 50% pf the players used them (Schmaltz, 2002; 264). Another big name, Jose Cans...

Reform of Congress?

interest groups, some of which are small in numbers, have become vocal and can capture the attention of the media with a proper "v...

France's Old Regime

and in Spain. However, in France, the Congress of Vienna did not seem to be making great gains in terms of the political strugg...

A Book Critique of '101 Chambers'

It would seem that this custom may be as old as the legislative system itself, and most readers would have to agree with this stat...

Government Midterm Exam Questions

This 5 page paper gives an example of answers to a government midterm exam. This paper includes answers to questions about agency ...

SOX Audits

(2003) commented that the sweeping criminal provisions in the act apply to everyone, including nonprofit organizations. For exampl...