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The Use of Narcotics Anonymous for Drug Addiction Treatment
HLSC 1003 Mitch Jenkins 14 April 2007 The Use of Narcotics Anonymous for Drug Addiction Treatment Admitting “we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable” is the first of twelve steps in the second largest drug treatment and recovery program in the United States, Narcotics Anonymous. Narcotics Anonymous is modeled after Alcohol Anonymous and describes itself as a nonprofit “fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs have become
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Southwest Airlines Case Summary
Southwest Airlines Case Summary Southwest Airlines was originally named Air Southwest. It was started on March 15, 1967, by Rollin King and Herb Kelleher. Southwest Airlines is an American low fare airline based in Dallas, Texas. It is also the largest airline in the United States by number of passengers carried domestically in a year and the third largest airline in the world by number of passengers carried. Southwest is also one the most profitable
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Salem Telephone Company
1. „Revenue hours“ represent the key activity that drives costs at Salem Data Services. Which expenses in Exhibit 2 are variable with respect to revenue hours? Which expenses are fixed with respect to revenue hours? Expenses Spase costs: Rent Fixed cost1 Custodial services Fixed cost2 Equipment costs Computer leases Fixed cost3 Maintenance Fixed cost4 Depreciation: Computer equipment Fixed cost5 Office equipment and fixtures Fixed cost5 Power Variable cost6 Wages and salaries Operations: salaried staff Fixed
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White Castle Case Study
Running Head: WHITE CASTLE CASE STUDY White Castle Case Study Team B MKT 551/Marketing Management University of Phoenix (Online) Bill Copeland December 04, 2006 White Castle Case Study “More than 80 years. More than 380 restaurants. More than 500,000,000 burgers sold last year alone” (White Castle, About Us). This is White Castle’s mantra. Does this mantra mean that White Castle needs no marketing strategies? Of course not. Every company needs marketing strategies, no matter how
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Paul Cronan Case Study
Paul Cronan Case This case involves a corporate response to AIDS in the workplace. The return to work of Paul Cronan, a person with AIDS, after a much publicized law suit, led to a walkout of his coworkers. This case documents the circumstances which preceded the work stoppage. Analyzing this case from Paul Cronan's supervisors point of view there are three main ethical issues to be considered: duty to protect the interests of the company,
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Kristenвђ™s Cookie Company
Kristen’s Cookie Company We have studied Kristen’s Cookie Company’s planned production process, and have drawn a number of conclusions based on our analysis. The understanding of our analysis will be facilitated by the following flow chart, which shows each step along the production process. The coloration denotes work performed by each member of the two-person workforce, and capacity and timing are specified below for each step: From the above chart, we see that when the
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Performance Enhancing Drug Use in Sports
Performance Enhancing Drug Use in Sports Jeremy Sweat Western International University COM 110 Patty Lucas December 21, 2005 Use of Performance Enhancing Drugs In Sports Is the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sports dangerous? To what degree do these drugs truly enhance strength, size, training ability, and muscular performance? Not only are the answers to these questions still unclear, they are the subjects of deep controversy. This paper will examine those two major issues,
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Drug Effects
Drug abuse can take its toll on the body, but more importantly on the mind. Why do drugs act on the brain the way they do? And why do some drugs have different effects than others? These and other questions will be answered throughout this paper. Every day scientists are finding new information on the brain and how it reacts to the main drugs of abuse. The Brain; four pounds and several thousand miles of
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Case Analysis Accor 2007
Introduction The current paper presents the structure, strategy and values according to which Accor has been based upon and tries to find answers to one challenging question about the acquisition of Motel 6: where should Motel 6 fit into Accor’s organization structure? Operating in nearly 100 countries, Accor is the European leader in hotels and global leader in corporate services. The Paris based company, one of the world's largest conglomerates, consists of hotels, restaurants, travel
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Supreme Court Case Miller V. California
Introduction There have been many Supreme Court cases that dealed with many concepts of the law, like obscenity for example. As a matter of fact, obscenity is a concept that Miller v. California deals with. To be more specific, this case deals with what is considered obscene, and if the specific obscenity mentioned in this case is protected by the first amendment, the freedom of speech. I will now explain this case in more
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Frito-Lays Inc Case Study
Frito-Lay Inc. has a very profitable dip product line. This is not only a great deal now, but also has shown tremendous sales growth over the past few years. In 1981 their sales reached 30 million dollars, with the sales figures almost tripling by 1985, reaching 87 million dollars. However, this success brings the corporation into a very unique situation as well as bringing up a very good question of “how to develop this further?”
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Halliburton: Managing the Second Largest Oil Company
Halliburton's vision is to be the preferred upstream service company for the development of global oil and gas assets. (www.Halliburton.com, 2008) Currently, Halliburton operates in seventy countries working within two major segments: drilling and excavation and completion and production. Since 1919, the company has been a leader in energy services and engineering and construction industries. Over the years, Halliburton has continued to expand due to properly executed strategic, tactical, and operational planning. In 1962 Halliburton
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Mit Case - Compexity of Identity
“The Complexity of Identity” 1) What is identity marketing, and what how is it superior to demographic or psychographic segmentation and targeting? • Identity marketing, which recognizes the complex process of how customers become strongly attracted to the brands and products that help them to express who they are. • Identity marketing is better than demographic or psychographic segmentation. The potential identities that people possess are numerous and fluid varies over an individual’s lifetime and
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Use Case Template
Prepared by: Man0war777 Use case name: View courses offered by the department Primary actor(s): Academic Staff Brief description: The staff will be able to view the courses offered by the department upon logging into the system. Preconditions (what must be true before the use case can start): The staff must first log in to the University’s online registration system; the system then authenticates the staff’s information before granting access. Postconditions (what must be true
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Heroin Drug
HEROIN Heroin is an addictive drug, and is a very serious problem in America. Recent studies suggest a shift from injecting heroin to snorting or smoking because of increased purity and the misconception that these forms are safer. Heroin can be injected, smoked, or snorted. Intravenous injection (injection into a vein) produces the greatest intensity and most rapid onset of euphoria. Effects are felt in 7 to 8 seconds. Injecting heroin into a muscle (intramuscular
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Royal Caribbean Case Study
Introduction: In 1968, Royal Caribbean Cruise Line was founded with one ship. Over the next twenty-five years RCCL has expanded its fleet to 29 ships, with 2 more ships being built. RCCL has made its way in the cruise industry as one of the top three cruise lines. Over the past 5-7 years RCCL has experienced some problems with the external environment. These and other factors have placed RCCL in a situation of future organizational
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Tata Motors’ Acquisition of Daewoo - Case Study
Introduction: Over the past three to four years, overseas acquisitions by Indian firms have increased in terms of number and average deal size. According to UBS Investment Research Report 2007, they believe this is a consequence of Indian corporate' strong balance sheets and rising global ambitions. In this essay I am going to use a specific acquisition example based on the article named “Tata Motors’ Acquisition of Daewoo Commercial Vehicles” to illustrate the Indian Acquisition
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The War on Drugs
The War on Drugs Perhaps Americans take what they have for granted and forget that there are other countries with problems. Why does America care about what is happening in other countries like Columbia, when they have their own problems with drugs? The Untied States of America has a rather large drug trafficking problem but compared to Columbia it is fairly small. To help Columbia solve their problem the U.S. senate has decided to send
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Mis Case Study Chp 7-Homeland Security
MIS Case Study: Ch. 7 Database Woes Plague Homeland Security and Law Enforcement 1. It is important to connect as much of the data in many of the federal, state, and local information systems because it will help stop future attacks and events to happen to the United States. After September 11, the federal government created a new cabinet called the homeland security. The cabinet has a database of thousands of federal, state and local
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Malacca Case Study
Brief History Malacca’s (one of the states in Malaysia) strategic location as the bridge between Europe and East Asia made Malacca a major regional entrepot in the 16th century, where Chinese, Arab, Malay, and Indian merchants traded goods. Ships from the east traveling to the west and vice versa have to pass through the Straits of Malacca which makes it a natural trading port. This potential jewel of economy attracted the attention of many European
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Financial Ratio Analysis Report of Ford Motor Company
Any successful business owner or investor is constantly evaluating the performance of the companies they are involved with, comparing historical figures with its industry competitors, and even with successful businesses from other industries. To complete a thorough examination of any company's effectiveness, however, more needs to be looked at than the easily attainable numbers like sales, profits, and total assets. Luckily, there are many well-tested ratios out there that make the task a bit less
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Netflix Inc. Case Study
Company Background Netflix Inc. incorporated in 1997 and made its first public offering in 2002. Netflix is an online movie rental service which provides its 3,000,000 subscribers access to over 40,000 DVD titles. Although Netflix stocks nearly every title available on DVD, it does not stock titles containing adult content. The Netflix program allows subscribers to rent as many DVD’s as they want, and keep them for as long as they want. Three DVD’s
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Case Analysis: Virgin Mobile Usa
Case Analysis: Virgin Mobile USA What we are analyzing here is pricing of a service in a market which is saturated, as it has reached maturity, is highly capital intensive and in which a large amount of competition prevails. Virgin however is a known brand name with an extremely diversified portfolio. It has experimented successfully with the telecom business in the UK but failed in Singapore. It now targets the USA market; the problems before
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Caregroup Case Study
CASE ANALYSIS: CAREGROUP Introduction CareGroup was born in late 1996 from the merger of several hospitals in eastern Massachusetts. Intense financial pressure and competitiveness in the healthcare community was the driving force for the merger. As the second largest hospital group in the area, CareGroup was now a formidable force in the medical cost war that included healthcare providers and employers. The Network Collapse While most companies are not completely “paperless,” many organizations use technologies
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Silverships Company Analysis
Silver Ships Company Overview Silver Ships has been designing and manufacturing welded aluminum boats for 18 years. During this period, over 1,000 welded aluminum boats have been produced and shipped to customers throughout the world. It takes job orders by way of contracts, some of which are government operated. These contracts are generally done two years in advance, which causes Silver Ships to be unique because it knows its production schedule and can estimate profits
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