Kmart Operations Kmart is the second largest gen 
.... Both companies were able to post average annual increases in earnings that outperformed sales over the
past ten years (35
percent per year for Wal-Mart and 12 ....
(2282
9
)
Open Door Immigrant Policy of Sweden
.... The old system of paying unemployment benefits at up to 90
percent of
past earnings worked well when unemployment was only 1.5 to two
percent of the population ....
(1450
6
)
Engelhard Corporation
.... During the
past five years, sales increased at an annual rate of 2.5
percent while earnings increased at an annual rate of 14.5
percent. ....
(1506
6
)
Employee Compliance with Affirmative Action Goals
.... regulation is also intended to rectify the effects of
past discrimination based .... Anglo labor participation (employment) rate in 1987 was 60.3
percent, while the ....
(1594
6
)
Resolving a Patent Dispute Through an Acquisition
.... Sales have increased at an average annual rate of 32
percent over the
past five years; net income has increased at an average annual rate of 40
percent for the ....
(2082
8
)
Walgreen Company
.... During the
past five years, sales increased at 11.5
percent per year while earnings increased at an annual rate of 13.0
percent; again, this indicates that the ....
(1468
6
)
Study of the Boeing Company Incorporated in 1934 in Delaware, the ...
.... Boeing's sales increased at an annual rate of 14.5
percent for the
past five years, and 11.9
percent for the previous ten years. ....
(2276
9
)
COUNTRY STUDY OF GERMANY
.... pressures. Consumer prices in Germany have risen by an average of approximately three-
percent over the
past five years. The inflation ....
(1882
8
)
Issue of Youth Curfews
.... increases in the future at rates similar to those of the
past decade, it .... number of juvenile arrests for murder alone will increase nearly 150
percent (Crowell 4 ....
(1667
7
)
Occupationally Stressed Women
.... Additionally, among the high-stressed women, 18
percent said they had experienced sexual advances from men at work in the
past year. ....
(2872
11
)
Black Progress Since Civil Rights
.... 3). Many argue that since the white poverty rate is only 9
percent, that the .... black poverty rate is not progress is to remain blinded by
past history instead of ....
(1985
8
)
Levels of Violence in the Workplace
.... The Bureau of Labor indicated that 40
percent of women who died at work during the
past decade were murder victims (Braverman and Braverman, 1994). ....
(2193
9
)
New England Region & Its Culture
.... federal price support program, shoring up milk prices for New England's dairy farmers, whose numbers have dropped by nearly 50
percent in the
past 10 years. ....
(2504
10
)
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M) Minnesota Mining and ...
.... Sales have increased at the annual rate of 10
percent over the
past five years, and at the annual rate of 8.5
percent over the
past 10 years to projected sales ....
(2956
12
)
Gold Mining Company Echo Bay Mines Echo Bay Mines was begun in ...
.... or 24
percent of the company's total in 1992. (Sorrentino, 1993, p. 7770). The following chart illustrates the company's revenues over the
past three years for ....
(1325
5
)
Winnebago Industries
.... Revenues at the company have increased at an annual rate of 1.5
percent over the
past ten years, and at an average annual rate of seven
percent over the
past ....
(2639
11
)
Crime & Economics
.... 100,000. Crimes against property have grown 259
percent over the
past 30 years, but violent crimes have increased 560
percent. The ....
(1972
8
)
Gender Discrimination
.... the percentage of women in these positions increased 14.6%
percent between 1979 .... In the
past five years, many newspaper and magazine articles in America have ....
(2589
10
)
COUNTRY REPORT: DENMARK
.... The Danish finance markets remain in relatively good shape, with stock market averages up 2.7
percent over the
past year and the prime interest rate ....
(2503
10
)
Gender Bias in the Sciences
.... sciences and mathematics" to account for the lower representation (p. 1). Over the
past three decades, women have earned more than 30
percent of doctorates in ....
(1629
7
)
Motorola, Inc.
.... patience. Motorola's stock has cratered 40
percent during the
past year and now hovers at $51 per share" Crockett 62). Susan Flischel ....
(1372
5
)
Effects of Smoking During Pregnancy
.... with disabilities is increasing (Medicine and Health, 2003, p.1). During
past decades, polio and .... use by women during pregnancy is as high as 22
percent to 30 ....
(1366
5
)
Fairness of Affirmative Action Programs
.... those benefited are worthy and would have been deemed so in the
past except for .... Bureau of the Census, minority workers now account for up to 23
percent of the ....
(2724
11
)
MONETARY POLICIES AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC GROWTH
.... Financial sector deregulation has been implemented in Australia over the
past year. .... in the prime commercial rate) were stable at 10
percent from November 1992 ....
(2166
9
)
STRATEGIC AUDIT OF FEDEX CORPORATION
.... The company's stock performance has been equally strong. Total revenue growth at FedEx Corporation has averaged six-
percent per year over the
past three years. ....
(2781
11
)
Women in Management Introduction For the past fe
For the
past few decades, there has been a focus in the research on the .... Only 7
percent of the women described themselves as having management styles similar to ....
(2192
9
)
Globalization of Financial Markets & American Banks
.... p. 90] over the
past year also, major investment houses have increased slightly the proportion of their portfolio assets in equity stocks by two-
percent, while ....
(2081
8
)
Deforestation & Dislocation in Haiti
.... np); experts such as Harvard's Edward O. Wilson believe that as many as ten
percent have become extinct in the
past decade from deforestation (Langreth 80). ....
(2735
11
)
Status of Women in US & China
.... Among women 40-44 years old, the corresponding proportion was under 20
percent. .... So for the
past 15 years, China has pursued one of the most aggressive--and ....
(2506
10
)
Black Athletes
.... However, during the
past fifty years there have been many milestones achieved by black .... off the field or court: In an ESPN poll, 51.3
percent of respondents ....
(1708
7
)
