.... America remains to be the Philippines most important trading partner. When America acquired the Philippines and established free trade in 1909, the economy of the islands was tied to that parent country. As a result, the Philippines became almost entirely dependant upon United States markets. Thus, America has had a strong influence on not only the economy of the Philippines, but also the politics of it. The United States established a public education system in the Philippines in the early 1900¹s. Although they were not American schools they had many similarities. American teachers were used as well as American books. The teac .....

.... 15 Buyer Information 16 Threat of Backward Integration 16 Pull Through 16 Brand Identity of Buyers 17 Price Sensitivity 17 Impact on Quality and Performance 17 Substitute Products 18 Relative price/performance relationship of Substitutes 18 Buyer Propensity to Substitute 18 Rivalry 18 Industry Growth Rate 20 Fixed Costs 21 Product Differentiation 21 Brand Identity 21 Informational Complexity 22 Corporate Stakes 22 Conclusion 23 .....

.... to some kind of generosity on the part of the Chinese Communist Party to increase the populace's living standards. It had become clear to members of the CCP that economic reform would fulfill a political purpose as well since the party felt, properly it would seem, that it had suffered a loss of support. As Susan L. Shirk describes the situation in The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China, restoring the CCP's prestige required improving economic performance and raising living standards. The traumatic experience of the Cultural Revolution had eroded popular trust in the moral and political virtue of the CCP. The party's lea .....

.... the company unveiled its specialty store retailing strategy, again reflecting the changing marketplace and consumer demands. Also in 1985, catalog operations were discontinued. This move allowed the company to concentrate its resources on retail stores and began the company's transformation from a traditional mass merchandiser into a contemporary group of value-driven specialty stores. The success of the specialty store strategy led to a $3.8 billion dollar leveraged buyout by senior management in 1988, the largest management-led buyout in U.S. history at that time. Montgomery Ward they became a privately-held company after 12 ye .....

.... large part in helping the US economy reach full employment, meaning that the cyclic unemployment is approaching zero. Although it seems the industry is very secure because it is in a full employment situation now, this does not mean that there is a very low amount of unemployment. According to many economists, there are three types of unemployment: frictional, structural, and cyclical. Frictional unemployment occurs when the rate of people changing jobs is high. The second kind of unemployment occurs when the increasingly different and unique demands of the industry cannot be satisfied by one person alone, and thus another must be .....

.... their businesses were still very successful (Conlin, 425-426). Tycoons like Andrew Carnegie, "the steel king," and John D. Rockefeller, "the oil baron," exercised their genius in devising ways to circument competition. Although, Carnegie inclined to be tough-fisted in business, he was not a monopolist and disliked monopolistic trusts. John D. Rockefeller came to dominate the oil industry. With one upward stride after another he organized the Standard Oil Company, which was the nucleus of the great trust that was formed. Rockefeller showed little mercy. He believed primitive savagery prevailed in the jungle .....

.... on work effort and the quantity and allocation of investment and saving, minimizes reliance on scarce administrative resources and demands on taxpayers' compliance. The Armey-Shelby flat tax is a proposal that would replace the corporation and personal income. The Armey-Shelby flat tax proposal follows each of the principles of a flat tax. A flat tax eliminates all loopholes and tax breaks. It ends the taxation of investment income and puts everyone on the same level. Under the Armey-Shelby proposal, individuals, the income from wages, salaries, and pensions is taxed. Individual taxpayers add up income from these and the .....

.... what to do in the light of the information formed. Desk research involves the use of secondary Data. This is information which is already available, both within and outside the business. Information within the business is information collected routinely. Invoices, for instance, will tell them how much they selland who they are selling to. Accounts will give information about the value of sales and costs of production. Businesses can also collect information which is available from sources outside the business e.g. Government, the media, Trade associations etc. The results of that research are given in a table. Field research .....

.... desire to earn a higher salary, they must earn a higher education first. Women in the workplace today generally are likely to stay with their job because they like to have security in their career. Most women tend to stay with a job because they either enjoy and are satisfied with what they are doing or they have a family to take care of and cannot afford to put in the extra time and effort into a job with more responsibilities. However, men are more likely to change jobs in search of better pay. With the changing of their jobs brings more experience. The more experienced employee should be entitled to a higher salary than .....

.... Quaker, plain and simple, and the signifier is Q-u-a-k-e-r. However the word Quaker is not just a word, it means many, many things, which is where the signified comes in. The actual building is huge, which gave me the feeling that they are a successful company and that their product must be all over the world. The building is also white brick. This, without even knowing it gives you a feeling of safety and purity(just as their products should be). Then there is the fact that it is situated on the top of a hill, when you put meaning to this, there is the feeling of greatness and domination. In my opinion these meanings or signif .....