.... for the marketing of excess inventory, and 18 million of year-end adjustments. Pan Am's passenger traffic was strong in 1988. An increase of 12.2 percent on capacity of 11.2 percent. This was due to the result of strengthening of various European currencies against the U.S. dollar, fare increases in the market, enhanced management systems and procedures, as well as programs to reduce the dependence on wholesale ticket distributions throughout the Atlantic, Latin America, Domestic, and systemwide. Eventhough revenue was strong in 1988, labor and other costs increased at a higher rate as a consequence of efforts to improve service and effectiveness of the operat ....

.... one, and employers have to ensure that the workplace is safe and comfortable for all employees. Also, sanitation facilities such as restrooms have to be provided for the employees at any workplace, and also have to be kept in a good condition. As these rules are very strictly enforced, it is very rare to find a workplace not adhering to these regulations. Corruption is virtually non existent, so it would be a rare thing indeed to hear of an employer bribing government officials. In Kenya, however, it is the exact opposite. For example, the fitting technicians at our muffler factory hardly ever wear any protective clothing, even when welding metal using highly flammable gase ....

.... business and really do not have to worry what you are going to do when you get older. But on the other hand there is a disadvantage, being handed down the family business, you are set in that business for basically life and and there is a lack of progress. And progress is the origin of new goods and services. When dealing with command there is always going to be someone who is in charge, the one with all the power, the one who says you do this. Command and slavery are tied together. Central authority can help economic progress. Markets are systems that allows individuals to make their own decisions. There are two dimensions of production and distribution. One being ....

.... the economy is growing at too quick a pace, or inflation is getting out of hand, it can take actions to slow spending and decrease the money supply. The Fed does this by selling securities on the open market. This, in turn, reduces bank's reserves and forces the interest rate to rise so the banks can afford to make loans. People seeing these rises in rates will tend to sell their low interest assets, in order to acquire additional money, they tend move toward higher yielding accounts, also further increasing the rate. Soon this small change by the Fed affects all aspects of business, from the price level to interest rates on credit cards. Rises and falls in the in ....

.... In a basic 401(k) plan employees put forth a set amount of dollars (usually pre-determined personally by the employee) before taxes are withheld This portion of the employee's paycheck is put toward his or her retirement. What some companies prefer to do in order to make the 401(k) plan more attractive for employees, is to match each employee's investment in the plan by a certain percent. Here is where the problem comes in. Though some companies match contributors either with cash or with a direct credit to the plan, other companies match with corporate stock. According to Richard Sasanow, a former assistant of public communications at Ernst and Young, "many experts ....

.... spent the first several months of its life in the Philadelphia plant in which it was built because it could not be moved to the Census Bureau. However, it was IBM's background as a supplier of integrated data-processing systems that gave it a unique advantage over its competitors. As Frank Cary, a future president of IBM put it shortly after the release of System/360, "We don't sell a product…we sell solutions to problems." And this is exactly what they did. Often times, software would be custom tailored for a particular business's needs. IBM's greatest advantage, however, was its reputation as a service-oriented vendor. Recognizing the importance of training, the ....

.... on Dutch Street, the largest tenancy on record in New York City the entire Colgate organization moved to Jersey City. In 1928 Colgate made its greatest merger of all time with the Palmolive-Peet Company and in 1953 took on its present name of Colgate-Palmolive. By 1967 Colgate-Palmolive was on a roll with sales passing the 1 billion dollar mark. In the years after, Colgate began acquiring major companies and expanding its product line with the purchases of Hill's Pet Products in 1976, the Mennen Company in 1992 and in 1993 acquired the liquid soap brands of S.C. Johnson. Before the purchase of Mennen Co. in 1992, Colgate Palmolive had no major presence in the ....

.... and the growth of global power granted clearly on dependency. What Is Climate Justice? Climate justice means a radical reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses. Climate justice also means the industrial nations who are most responsible for global warming, should be taking the first steps in the transformation of making the climate cleaner and more economically friendly. In hopes to decrease the amount of global destruction the Greenhouse Gangsters produce and distribute, climate justice aims to hold the fossil fuel corporations accountable for global warming, urging these corporations to stop what they are doing to the environment and start taki ....