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United States, Japan, and Flexibility of Labor

can make the new technological developments as well as embrace them. The reason for this success has been the adoption of ...

American Trucking Industry and the Effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement

cost thousands of US jobs. None of those unions has been as successful as the Teamsters, however (No truck with free trade; NAFTA...

Personal Computer Industry of the United States

is "no longer a technology business. You dont need a team of engineers to build a PC today" Jerre L. Stead of the largest distrib...

The Influence of Alexander Hamilton on U.S. Economics

of the country - in handling issues of economic and global nature (Alexander Hamilton, 2002). Hamilton was an "economic wizard" w...

Early Urban America and the Impact of Railroads

The absolute neglect with which this matter was handled is most unpleasant and an excellent example of the animosity and resentmen...

West Indian and Italian Immigration to the U.S.

cities could eventually be found in New York, Chicago, Boston and other metropolitan areas (Hutchmacher, 1967). It was these Littl...

Overview of Food Safety

actually repackaged meats when expiration dates were old. They would often marinate the old meat and even sell it with a different...

Portugal, the United States, and Business Law

similar in many ways, but there are also differences. It should also be noted that the UCC is not valid in the state of Louisiana....

United States Information Agency

USIA has had its mission redefined, based on what was going on in both the United States and around the world (Interview with Form...

Justice in the United States

However, this is an exaggeration, surely, as there has been a precedent for this type of secret military trial. It occurred in 194...

Balance of Payments in South Korea and the United States

that growth was greater than inflation. This growth was 42.11% (Economagic, 2002). However, during this time there were increasing...

Development of Political Parties in the United States

political parties we must transgress deeply into history. Political parties were not a concept which was visualized by the framer...

United States and Ethnic Conflict

the capitalist system which emphasizes individuality over community and competition over cooperation. Areas that were once ...

United States and the Asian American Experience

it can be said, the Asian culture has pervaded and begun to saturate into the fabric of American culture and society. This may mea...

U.S. Energy Policy

The view that the Republicans tend to favor is that the U.S. needs its own supply of energy to meet the demand of its...

Middle East Conflicts and the Involvement of the US

no longer the case. Since the War of Independence in Israel in 1948 in which Israeli soldiers where armed mainly by Soviet weapons...

U.S. Immigration Policies and University Students

law S. 1216, the Chinese Student Protection Act of 1992....The new law will permit the Chinese nationals who were beneficiaries of...

Major Post 1945 Conflicts and the Involvement of 'Superpower' United States

Superpower nations have a number of different types of pressure which they can bring to bear on countries in conflict; apart from ...

Social Expectations Significance and Criminal Activity

handled around the world. A comparison between countries who boast of a low crime rate is particularly instructive. Japan is one...

Steel and Automotive Industries of the United States and Their Impact Upon America's Trade Deficit

plants in other countries Levin, 2000). The U.S. automotive deficit with Japan, for example, represents about 60 percent of the en...

The Cold War Superiority of the United States

as it was during what was deemed the cold war. II. The Cold War The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by...

U.S. Culture and Societal Impacts of the Cold War

II. RELIVING THE PAST TO UNDERSTAND THE FUTURE It has been argued that the end of the Cold War has made "obsolete...

A US Prison Reform History

"prisons" from where people never emerged; the most famous being the Bastille of Paris, France, scene of the French Revolution. Th...

Imperial Power of America

the battleship U.S.S. Maine on February 15, 1898 in Havana harbor (The Spanish/American War). But tensions were high betwee...

Immigration of Hispanics into the United States

government. Political dissent and conflict were thereafter more or less continuous in Alta California except for a temporary resp...

Nineteenth Century American Racism and Alexis de Tocqueville

new "homes," black slaves suffered. Plantation overseers thought nothing about whipping slaves to make them work faster (they wer...

The Violation of 4th Amendment Rights

Charlotte, North Carolina, Police Department, on duty at the time. He was watching the store, and seeing Graham enter and then le...

Film Gung Ho

relied formerly on oil, for instance, Japan was able to diversify during the oil crises of the 1970s into the manufacture of elect...

The Life and Achievements of Andrew Jackson

Roughshod President). Growing up as he did in the backwoods country, Jacksons education was sketchy at best (Andrew Jackson). Ho...

U.S. Labor Unions

The movement opened doors for women and African Americans that had up until then been shut tight. In short, the Knights of Labor ...