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[This book] tries to set a new international business environment and takes the reader step-by-step from company assessment of export readiness through the strategic export process. [It] tackles international business operations, and looks at the best practices of companies in these operations. [It also] culminates with a negotiation between two companies from different countries to develop a single international joint venture.-Dust jacket.
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"In this newly revised book, Harold L. Vogel examines the business economics of the major entertainment enterprises : movies, music, television programming broadcasting, cable, casino, gambling and wagering, publishing, performing arts, sports, theme parks, and toys and games. The sixth edition differs from its predecessors by the inclusion of a new section pertaining to recent theoretical work on box office behavior, expanded coverage of deal elements...
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Dwyer makes the case that state funding of religious and other private schools is not only permissible, but mandatory, as a moral and constitutional right of the children already in private schools. In Vouchers within reason, he also demonstrates the necessity of attaching to that funding robust standards for the content and nature of instruction and for treatment of students. These are just the sort of regulatory strings that most current supporters...
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"Daniel Shaviro sees the future of our national healthcare system as hinging on funding. The author of books on the economic issues surrounding Social Security and budget deficits, Shaviro is a skilled guide for anyone seeking to understand the financial aspects of government programs. Who Should Pay for Medicare? offers an accessible overview of how Medicare operates as a fiscal system. Discussions of Medicare reform often focus on the expansion...
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Examines President Johnson's efforts to stem the advance of communism in Southeast Asia while pursuing a Great Society at home. Helsing provides a unique perspective on the escalation of the Vietnam War. He examines what many analysts and former policymakers in the Johnson administration have acknowledged as a crucial factor in the way the United States escalated in Vietnam: Johnson's desire for both guns and butter--his belief that he must stem the...
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A century ago, J. Pierpont Morgan bestrode the financial world like a colossus. The organizing force behind General Electric, U.S. Steel, and vast railroad empires, he served for decades as America's unofficial central banker: a few months after he died in 1913, the Federal Reserve replaced the private system he had devised. An early supporter of Thomas Edison and Andrew Carnegie, the confidant (and rival) of Theodore Roosevelt, England's Edward VII,...
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How the pursuit of money and recognition has helped to compromise and corrupt scientific research in America ... Evidence of scientific fraud has splashed across the front pages of the nations newspapers and magazines in recent months, from stories of doctored data in what has become known as the Baltimore case, to Stanford University president Donald Kennedy's alleged misuse of university funds, and his subsequent resignation. In Impure Science,...
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Comprises ten papers. Analyses the effectiveness of various performance-based systems aiming to improve schools' academic achievement. Discusses, for example, a rewards and penalties system, as well as an administrative mechanism (voucher system) to give parents some freedom of choice in selecting schools for their children. Considers other factors leading to better educational results, particularly among disadvantaged pupils.
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