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Steroids

slugger Barry Bonds will be followed by the specter of steroid use as he chases major-league baseballs home run record" In this ar...

Is the Death Penalty for Juveniles Constitutional?

Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...

Marketing Mix Changes: A Good and a Service

Today, the price of a full desktop computer complete with a flat monitor sells for about the same price as did the monitor alone o...

A Comparison of Logistics Operations for an Online Company and a Bricks and Mortar Company

The writer of different areas of logistics comparing an established online business with an established retail business. Using an ...

The Impact of Wal-Mart

bad. Those who hate Wal-Mart say that the opening of a Wal-Mart in a new city forces small businesses to close. They argue that em...

Consumer Goods and Social Values

basic and fundamental article of clothing; it is likely that all but a few individuals in Western society own at least one shirt. ...

Using the Concept of Transaction Economics When Considering Outsourcing

the cost of enforcing the contract and the potential risks associated with the contract failing (Mintzberg et al., 2008). Therefo...

Assessment of Russia as an Expansion Target for Louis Vuitton

support luxury purchases. It is also notable that as well as the increase in consumerism, the market for luxury goods ahs been see...

Good Night, and Good Luck, Film Review

This film review primarily profiles the film's protagonist, Edward R. Murrow, using an existential perspective. The writer argues ...

Wal-Mart's use of Warehouses

Wal-Mart sells physical goods, but also provides services to complement the sales. The first part of the paper looks at the way W...

Trade Goods and Their Impacts

This paper points out that cultures can change in unexpected ways just because of our adoption of some seemingly harmless material...

Choosing a Manufacturing Site

are better suited to more developed economies. Central and Eastern Europe Central and Eastern Europe hold a mix of nations ...

A Most Fortunate Ship

particular national treasure which has taken the military through many different periods in history. Such is further enhanced by M...

The Principle Agent Relationship between Management and Employees

common ground can be found and the relationship can be beneficial to both the employer and the employee. A useful framework that c...

Tsakos Energy Navigation 2002 through 2005 Financial Performance

annual accounts. There are a number of ratios we can consider. We will start with profitability. The first ratio is the gross pr...

Indonesia Rice Shipments by the United States

Denmark-based Maersk Sealand is one of the largest surface shippers in the world. It maintains more than 250 container vessels an...

Moscow and Chocolate Exportation

dominated by local companies (Russian Food Market Magazine, 2005). In Moscow, this market is held by Rot-Front, Babayevskoye and K...

Containing Shipping Operational Issues

involvement in management of the Ports which has also increased the level of productivity, but means increased levels of negotiati...

Container Ports and Mega Ship Deployment Impacts

the need to change and adapt to changing ship sizes is not unique to this time. There has been change in the shipping industry for...

A.A. Hoehling's The Fighting Liberty Ships

Navy. There, at night, one yeoman was generally assigned fly-swatting duty; here, we were not so fortunate to have surplus manpowe...

European Union Competition Law Application

scale, there will also be an increase in market share. However, if the market share is too great then the company may be in a domi...

Pollution and the Tourism Industry

was worth a total of $5.5 trillion (Wagner, 2005). In the United States the travel and tourism sector is very important to the ec...

The Trade of Feeder Container Ships

This 9 page paper looks at the trade and commercial operations of feeder container ships. The paper looks at what trade they take ...

Ballast Water and Invasive Species

and the Issue Group on Sustainable Shipping (IGSS) are the coordinating agencies seeking the cooperation of the European Union, OS...

Cost Accounting System for an Online Business

online business unit. Management Information and Control Systems The broad framework of MIC systems includes a variety of s...

"The Way of a Ship"

mountains and is in compression. In its most violent manifestation (a williwaw) it can dump over high land spilling out onto the w...

International Relations and Economics

United States was not always at the center of this development, particularly in the beginning. It came to be at the center, howev...

Project: Largest Cruise Ship in World

that even with this economic downturn, the company has experienced strong pre-bookings for the cruises (Barnes, 2009). STX Finlan...

Slave Food

morning (Spartacus International). A slave at a different location reported being given a "peck of sifted cornmeal, a dozen and a ...

Mitigating Future Oil Spill Risk

all portage areas, and certainly is Californias most dangerous waters.4 Once onboard a visiting ship, the pilot has total command...