.... that time, because Japan was seen as a second- or third-rate country, this was to be expected. However, Japan is now a financial giant. Is it strange that Japanese banks have to pay higher interest rates when they borrow money? At the international conferences I have attended over the past few months, whenever the Asian crisis is discussed, four countries--Thailand, Indonesia, Korea, and Japan--are mentioned as the main problem countries. China's new and powerful prime minister, Zhu Rongji, has come to be thought of as the leader of Asia. He has stressed that he has no plans to devalue the y .....

.... convertibility of their currency at a fixed exchange rate. A currency is convertible if the government acting through the central bank, agrees to buy or sell as much of the currency people wish to trade at the fixed exchange rate. Most central banks act as the government's banker, the Banks' bank, lender of last resort and issuer of notes as well as supervising the banking system and operating monetary policy. Monetary policy refers to the attempts to manipulate the interest rate and the money supply so as to bring about desired changes in the economy. The aims of monetary p .....

.... it gives guests the impression of dignity and openness. Directly inside the main entrance to Lewis & Lewis is a small but welcoming lobby, with a natural stone floor, stylish but difficult to walk on in heels. There is a narrow open closet for guests to hang their coats, and several chairs arranged around a table on which are placed the company newsletter and other publications. The receptionist's desk is facing the entrance door, and behind it sits a friendly young woman. The partners' offices are found against the two farthest external walls, noticeably removed from t .....

.... put to better use in areas such as health and welfare. People who are free and law abiding should be receiving this money to better their lives not someone who has had no previous respect for the laws of our country. Most inmates have free access to physical training facilities that would cost us three hundred to four hundred dollars per year. All inmates are guaranteed a meal, three time a day, when a large portion of the free population can barely afford one meal a day. The prison facilities get thousands of tax-payer dollars to upgrade and maintain suitable environments. Yet many Can .....

.... which appears to have such clear merits that they deserve adoption by the whole world. No one country can claim to have a uniquely correct set of rules. The United States has the longest history of standard setting. It has the largest standard setting organization which is characterized by high standards of professionalism. But, even the rules of the United States exhibit compromises between different interests of a kind which could have reasonably been decided otherwise. Furthermore, no unanimity exists among U.S. accountants about the merits of the precise details of the compromises th .....

.... Johns-Manville company was a producer and supplier of asbestos in the United States. According to J-M, the company had followed asbestos safety standards, later set forth by the U.S. Public Health Service in 1938, since the early 1930’s. The firm also alleges they had no knowledge of asbestos related cancer until as late as 1964. According to the evidence presented in the text this knowledge, and the company’s apparent attempts to conceal from employees the harmful effects of asbestos exposure, was the basis for several successful lawsuits against the organization. Though the J-M co .....

.... being educated for the job, you will need a bachelor's degree in geology for a lower level job. For higher level jobs, you will need at least a master's degree. There are three different majors that you can use to get into this field of work, they are geological/geophysical engineering, geological and related sciences, and miscellaneous physical sciences. If you want to teach in a university or college you will basically need a Ph.D. There is no special licensing or certification for this job. To be successful in this job you will need many different abilities, and qualities. Being cur .....

.... an act is said to be right if it is as good as any available alternative, because without performing the calculus either action is equally good. In this case, this implies similar consequences would result regardless of whether decisions are made cognitively or not. Thus, because no other rule applies, we will appeal to the levels of rules to guide our actions. In this case, our obligation remains with the shareholders, or does it? This may not account for the ill effect upon the employees. However, despite the anonymity of corporate entities, all decisions are made by managers capabl .....

.... salesperson, manufacturer's sales representative, order- takers, and order-getters. The sales personnel career path was also covered. The steps are sales trainee, salesperson, key account salesperson, district sales manager, regional sales manager, divisional sales manager, national sales manager, vice president of marketing, and president. Marketing, as defined by the American Marketing Association, is the process of planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion, and distribution of goods, services, and ideas to create exchanges that satisfy individual and organization .....

.... of the modern threat facing international business today known as industrial or economic espionage. The end of the cold and economic pressures have increased the risk of economic espionage. The collapse of the Soviet Union has left unemployed KGB and other former communist bloc intelligence agents selling everything from Russian night vision devices to completely assembled and functional bugging devices. Even friendly western European governments have been caught spying on private corporations based in the U.S. and other countries, while industrial competitors sometimes hire private compan .....