.... a healthy skepticism of government solutions, a dislike of government related monopolies, labor, or business, and be in the favor of safe technology, free trade, smaller government and lower taxes. We found that to become a member, all it would take is $35 and a mailed in request to their office in Washington. Consumer Alert depends on contributions from individual donors, corporations, and foundations to protect consumer choice and competition and promote sound science. Some basic facts about Consumer Alert are that the size of their annual budget (1988) was $411,900. This helps to maintain their bimonthly publication .....

.... therefore, set at three times the cost of the economy food plan. For smaller families and persons living alone, the cost of the economy food plan was multiplied by higher factors in order to compensate for the larger fixed expenses of smaller households. The poverty thresholds are updated every year to reflect changes in the consumer price index but overall rises in standard of living. (levington, page 147) Another issue is that the poverty index has several flaws. First, it does not allow for regional variations in the cost of living or for higher costs in the central city areas, where many of the poor are concentra .....

.... countries. ( Moise 171 ) While there were great variations in income between different villages, and between different jobs in the urban sector, the overall averages showed a clear pattern: the cities were much richer than the countryside. Most capital investments were going into urban industries. The urban workers, using considerable amount of heavy machinery, had a much higher average level of productivity compared to the rural workers. The natural consequences was for the city people to arrange themselves an average income level twice as high as that of the people in the countryside. The most obvious way to attack this poverty .....

.... This will cost a company in worthless merchandise and unhappy customers who most likely will not use their products again. A worker with a drug problem also misses more days, on sick leave, compared to a worker without a drug problem. The most logical reason for drug abuse is the accessibility of drugs at work and in society. If drugs are so accessible then of course there are going to be abusers. The government has tried to stop the flow of drugs inside the United States, but they haven't had any overwhelming success. Cocaine is becoming more popular because it provides an intense high that gives the user the feel .....

.... profit wouldn't allow the farmers to purchase new machinery and because of this they couldn't produce goods quick enough (Drewry and O'connor 559). A new plan was created called the installment plan. This plan was established because many Americans didn't have enough money to buy goods and services that were needed or wanted. The installment plan stated that people could buy products on credit and make monthly payments. The one major problem with this idea was that people soon found out that they couldn't afford to make the monthly payment(Drewry and O'connor 559). In 1929 the stock market crashed. Many Americans purchased .....

.... is: a supervised public or privately operated shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations (including welfare hotels, congregate shelters, and transitional housing for the mentally ill); an institution that provides temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized; or a public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings. This term does not include any individual imprisoned or otherwise detained under an Act of Congress or State Law. ( p. 23). Now knowing the definition of "homeless" there can be a better understanding of the simil .....

.... involved. Trade has become much easier and has increased tremendously between these countries. For example, after NAFTA’s first year in existance, trade between the United States and Mexico increased by over sixteen billion dollars. Also, several American franchises such as McDonalds and others have moved into Mexico and Canada. NAFTA has also made it easier for small privately ownedbusinesses in these neighboring countries. Before NAFTA was created, it would of taken a long amount of time for companies to enter these countries. Trade between the United States and Canada has also increased significantly. Canada is th .....

.... will be eliminated from the program. Maintaining that average is our motivator. Attaining the certificate of graduation is our incentive. In psychology, at its most basic, a motivator is that which impels or compels an individual to act toward meeting a need. On a physiological level, thirst, hunger and sex are motivators or drives. They are basic needs which must be met. Relating this to a hospital environment, it is not base compensation which drives the employee, but what the base compensation can satisfy in a higher level of needs. Money can't buy love, but it can buy some security such as insurance benefits. Aft .....

.... It offers a service called “ INSURACLONE which, for a small fee of fifty thousand dollars, they will provide the sampling and safe storage of cells from a living child or adult in order to create its clone if the person happens to pass away. In case of a genetic disease, the cells will be preserved until scientists can genetically repair the damaged gene before recreating the person. CLONAID, the first company in the world to offer human cloning, expects over a million customers worldwide to be interested in its services as well as many American and non-American laboratories to seek partnership in these ventures. The next s .....

.... to the EMU will be the expense and dislocation involved in replacing national currencies with the Euro. The UK decimalization in 1971 took almost 5 years to complete, yet this involved a change in only one currency compared with up to 15 if the EMU goes ahead. Apart from producing and distributing the new currency, IT systems, tills, slot machines and accountancy systems will have to be changed. These will also have to be adapted to operate dual-currency systems during the three years between 1999-2002, during which national currencies will circulate alongside the Euro. The European Commission argues that the cost of int .....