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  • The Economic Impact of Rising Oil Prices in Automotive Industry

    The Economic Impact of Rising Oil Prices in Automotive Industry

    The Economic Impact of Rising Oil Prices in Automotive Industry The rise in the oil prices plays a major role in the automotive industry. “The world consumes over 82 million barrels of oil per day (BPD), with the united states taking roughly 20 million BPD” (McFarlane). Oil provides 97 percent of the transportation fuels that helps to run the cars, trucks and other vehicles in the nation’s highway (Heinberg). Thus, when the price of the

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    Essay Length: 1,729 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: Edward
  • Gas Prices

    Gas Prices

    Gas Prices Over the past few months' gas prices have become outrageous. The sad thing is that we can only look for them to continue to rise higher. The question of most Americans is "Why is gasoline so expensive?" That question is easily answered, crude oil prices. The gas price situation is unreasonable. There are many reasons for the irrational price of gas some being people are stocking up in fear of a shortage, we

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    Essay Length: 812 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Gas Prices

    Gas Prices

    During the past five days of following gas prices at two local stations, it was noticed that the prices were steady at both stations being observed. The first station observed was the BP on the corner of Buena Vista Road and Amber Drive. The gas prices stayed at 2.91 for regular, 3.01 for mid-grade, and 3.11 for super until the weekend and then the prices rose to 2.93 for regular, 3.03 for mid-grade, and 3.13

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    Essay Length: 626 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 15, 2010 By: Janna
  • K-Mart Timeline

    K-Mart Timeline

    K-mart Timeline: 1899 - S.S. Kresge Company founded by Sebastian S. Kresge. 1912 - S.S. Kresge Company incorporated in Delaware with 85 stores and sales of $10,325,000. 1916 - S.S. Kresge Company reincorporated in Michigan. 1918 - S.S. Kresge Company became a publicly traded company and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). 1929 - Canadian subsidiary S.S. Kresge Company, Ltd. was founded. By year end, 19 stores were operating in Canada. 1952

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    Essay Length: 432 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 17, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Regional Pricing and the Grey Markets

    Regional Pricing and the Grey Markets

    Regional Pricing and the Grey Markets Companies often establish the price of its products and services tailored for specific markets willingness to pay based on different levels of perceived value. Although this is a valid strategy to try to maximize profits, there is a risk behind it which can jeopardize the ability of the firm to sustain premium prices at most profitable markets. A good example of this issue is the pharmaceutical products price differences

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    Essay Length: 324 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 18, 2010 By: Monika
  • Economics - Product Pricing & Costs

    Economics - Product Pricing & Costs

    Product Pricing Component It is practically everywhere. In the workplace. Beside exercise stations in health clubs. At athletic events. In backpacks hanging from the shoulders of students. Even on tables at conferences and workshops. Bottled water, once considered the refreshment of the affluent, has become the liquid icon of today's active, health-conscious consumer (Lambert, 1991). Aquafina, a Pepsi product, introduced itself in Wichita, Kansas in 1994, and reached national distribution in 1997. According to Aquafina’s

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    Essay Length: 648 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 19, 2010 By: July
  • Trading Peace for Profits

    Trading Peace for Profits

    As the Bible says “To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under Heaven”. Woodstock 1969, it was a time for love ... and hate. In a country with race riots and the Vietnam war a single dove perched on a guitar neck changed America for ever and brought a new light to the world in just 72 hours. Dubbed “three days of peace and love” the legacy of Woodstock spawned

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    Essay Length: 1,511 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Products, Services, and Prices in the Free Market Economy: Price Elasticity of Demand

    Products, Services, and Prices in the Free Market Economy: Price Elasticity of Demand

    Domino’s Pizza, Inc In 1960 Tom Monaghan and his brother James bought DomiNicks, a pizza store in Ypsilanti, Michigan. In 1965 the company name was changed to Domino’s Pizza. Domino’s Pizza is one of the leading companies in the pizza delivery industry in the United States and around the world. The company headquarters is located in Ann Arbor, Michigan and they employ approximately 13,500 people. Total revenue was registered at $1,511.6 million during the fourth

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    Essay Length: 922 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Public Policy Analysis for Not-For-Profits

    Public Policy Analysis for Not-For-Profits

    Health Care Action Task Force Jobs with Justice A. Mission Jobs with Justice (JwJ) is a coalition of local labor, community, student, and religious groups organized to win concrete victories on the road to achieving economic justice and lasting social change. We engage working people in addressing the root causes of poverty, organizing support for workers treated unjustly and/or illegally in the workplace and in organizing an economic base that respects the dignity

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    Essay Length: 705 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Artur
  • Non-Profit

    Non-Profit

    Background The Art School was founded by Nancy Barno Reynolds in September 2005. The school is located in Broome County New York with its two main facilities in Vestal at the Our Lady of Sorrows Church and in Endwell at Broome West Senior Center. Nancy serves as the Executive Director and the only full-time (non-contracted) staff member. The Art School strives to offer “affordable art education for everyone” and does so with classes ranging from

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    Essay Length: 1,214 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Anna
  • Factors Influence the Equilibrium Price

    Factors Influence the Equilibrium Price

    Bradford University School of Management FT MBA 2007/2008 Business Economics (MAN4101M) Assessed coursework I certify that this assignment is the result of my own work and does not exceed the word count noted below. Bradford, 19th November 2007 ______________________________________ Word Count (excluding tables, diagrams and reference): 10 Market Equilibrium Introduction: Market is a place where buyers and sellers come together and a good is offered for sale by producers and purchased by consumer (Blake,

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    Essay Length: 2,229 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: March 1, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • The Price of Perfection

    The Price of Perfection

    Aldous Huxley's Brave New World presents a portrait of a society which is superficially a perfect world. At first inspection, it seems perfect in many ways: it is carefree, problem free and depression free. All aspects of the population are controlled: number, social class, and intellectual ability are all carefully regulated. Even history is controlled and rewritten to meet the needs of the party. Stability must be maintained at all costs. In the new world

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    Submitted: March 1, 2010 By: Yan
  • Gas Prices

    Gas Prices

    In this paper I will analyze and evaluate possible economic influences on oil and gas within the United States. Many people have been confronted with gasoline prices that are either emptying their wallets or keeping them at home. Since Hurricane Katrina hit the gulf coast in September 2005, gas prices spiked to over $3 a gallon. There are many speculations on what determines these prices and who controls them. Many of these speculations are myths,

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    Submitted: March 2, 2010 By: Victor
  • What Causes House Prices to Rise in the Uk Market

    What Causes House Prices to Rise in the Uk Market

    Housing markets are peculiar for a number of reasons. First, houses take time to build, so when demand rises, supply can only respond with a considerable lag What causes house prices to rise? Prices rise through a combination of factors on both the supply and demand side of the housing market. When demand is rising and the short run supply of housing available in the market is limited, it is quite easy for market values

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    Submitted: March 2, 2010 By: regina
  • Cashe Missing for Fun and Profit

    Cashe Missing for Fun and Profit

    Abstract. Simultaneous multithreading ЎЄ put simply, the shar-ing of the execution resources of a superscalar processor betweenmultiple execution threads ЎЄ has recently become widespread viaits introduction (under the name Ў°Hyper-ThreadingЎ±) into IntelPentium 4 processors. In this implementation, for reasons of ef-ficiency and economy of processor area, the sharing of processorresources between threads extends beyond the execution units; ofparticular concern is that the threads share access to the memorycaches.We demonstrate that this shared access to memory

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    Submitted: March 3, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Pricing in Retail

    Pricing in Retail

    Pricing Strategy There are 4 main general pricing strategies, which covers both long-term and short-term pricing considerations: 1) Hi-Lo Promotion 2) Every-day-low Price (EDLP) 3) Discount 4) Premium. Some overlap is possible. Thus a premium retailer can operate a hi-lo promotional strategy (e.g. Sainsbury’s) whilst an EDLP operator can also offer a premium product range (e.g. Asda). As the general food purchasing come from the grocery, examples of the pricing strategies from the grocery stores

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    Essay Length: 937 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 4, 2010 By: Mike
  • Price and Promotion

    Price and Promotion

    Price and Promotion University of Phoenix Marketing 421/Marketing Directed Studies December 26, 2005 Week 4 Individual Since the invention of online rentals, many companies have taken advantage of renting almost anything in today’s society. There are companies that rent motorcycles, cars, pets and other miscellaneous items that may assist in today’s everyday needs. Rentals have become the new creative way to try products prior to purchasing them. This writing will review Gamefly’s price and

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    Essay Length: 1,106 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 6, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Stereotyped of Bride Price

    Stereotyped of Bride Price

    In the book The Bride Price by Buchi Emecheta, the Character Chike Ofulue faces the stereotype being a descendant of a slave from Africa. He battles against this stereotype by becoming educated, two not listening to what other people say and last he has face culture issues. Chike battle against all of these obstacles by battling them trying to succeed in life. Chike battles against the stereotype of being a descendant from a slave

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    Essay Length: 509 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 7, 2010 By: Mike
  • The Maxim Gun by Alexander Thompson

    The Maxim Gun by Alexander Thompson

    The Maxim Gun By Alexander Thompson Hiram S. Maxim, who was working with an engineering works in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, invented the Maxim machine-gun in 1884. Hiram Maxim was born in Sangersville, Maine on February 5, 1840. His first patented inventions included models of electric lamps and gas appliances, and curling irons. Maxim's first idea of inventing a weapon effective for battlefield combat came from a man he met at the 1881 Paris Electrical Exhibition. This

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    Essay Length: 326 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 8, 2010 By: Bred
  • Pricing Component for Vonage

    Pricing Component for Vonage

    As we approach the digital age, the need for technological advancement over the existing POTS line has never been greater. POTS (Plain old telephone line), though primitive, and expensive, still provides adequate phone service to its consumer’s home, however it is losing ground dramatically to a newer technology called VoIP (Voice-over-IP). VoIP technology enables its customers to make telephone calls using a broadband internet connection instead of a regular POTS line. VoIP converts the voice

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    Submitted: March 9, 2010 By: David
  • Supply V. Demand: False Perceptions That Impact Crude Oil Pricing

    Supply V. Demand: False Perceptions That Impact Crude Oil Pricing

    Crude oil, being the leading provider of energy on this planet, is closely monitored, forecasted and heavily traded in the world market. The International Energy Agency (IEA) is one of the noted agencies in charge of accounting for current supply and estimating oil future demand. As Sohbet Karbuz reports in his article, Confessions of a Statistician, the accounting of these fundamentals is complex, requires significant guess work and be subject to fraud and misreported

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    Submitted: March 10, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Blossoming Profits Through Superior Marketing - a Case Analysis of Calyx & Corolla

    Blossoming Profits Through Superior Marketing - a Case Analysis of Calyx & Corolla

    Blossoming Profits through Superior Marketing: A Case Analysis of Calyx & Corolla This analysis focuses on the case study of Calyx & Corolla, a mail order flower company. Calyx & Corolla is a relatively new company that utilizes a different distribution channel than conventional companies for fresh flowers. Calyx & Corolla mails flowers direct from the growers to the customers via Federal Express and eliminates the middleman (Appendix A). This permits Calyx & Corolla to

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    Submitted: March 10, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • How Oil Price Affect World Economy

    How Oil Price Affect World Economy

    1. Introduction The price of oil becomes the bone of contention recently. Oil price seems to be hitting new highs with the regularity of a metronome. It is a bad news for customers who have to pay more on it. More frightening still, this situation may get worse before it come back to normal. No one can exactly predict when the pendulum will soon swing back again since all uncertain factors existing. From the supply

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    Essay Length: 1,221 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 13, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Profit and Cash Flow Don't Necessarily Go Hand In Hand

    Profit and Cash Flow Don't Necessarily Go Hand In Hand

    PROFIT AND CASH FLOW DON'T NECESSARILY GO HAND IN HAND There are business fundamentals that are common to each and every business - and at the heart of every situation is the importance of profitability and cash flow. It is vital to understand the difference between them and that profitability and good cash flow do not necessarily go together. Profitable businesses can go out of business because of cash flow problems. So what is profit

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    Submitted: March 14, 2010 By: Victor
  • The Different Aspects of Pricing That Could Change the Way a Business Functions

    The Different Aspects of Pricing That Could Change the Way a Business Functions

    The Different Aspects of Pricing that Could Change the Way a Business Functions Literature Review Outline: Summaries: 1. Summary of “Does Promotional Pricing Grow Future Business?”. 2. Summary of “Dueling Pricing Strategies”. 3. Summary of “Multiple-Choice Pricing”. 4. Summary of “Medium Sized Companies Increase Market Share by Pricing Strategy”. 5. Summary of “Managing Costs Using Common “Cents””. Articles: • Article: “Does Promotional Pricing Grow Future Business?”. • Article: “Dueling Pricing Strategies”. • Article: “Multiple-Choice Pricing”.

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    Submitted: March 16, 2010 By: Monika

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