... consumer products, healthcare, accounting, and even professional sports. This was surprising to me because I thought that most public relations firms only dealt with one area for the public. For example, a public relations firm that only deals with healthcare clients. Therefore, Dix and Eaton does not specialize in any one area, but they do have expertise in investor relations. It is nice to know that Dix and Eaton is very broad to many areas and represents many companies. It also is positive that this firm has served more than half of these clients for five years or more. This is probably why Dix and Eaton is ...

... per year. General Motors Company, the world's largest automobile producer, originally was composed of four major vehicle manufacturers- Buick, Cadillac, Oldsmobile, and Oakland which became Pontiac. Presently, General Motors is made up of Buick, Cadillac, Oldsmobile, Chevrolet, Pontiac, and Saturn. During the first thirty years of operation GM's only major competition was from U. S. manufacturers. However, since the first foreign truck was imported from Japan in 1956, GM's share of the market began to decline. Foreign cars were smaller, more fuel efficient, less expensive, and often more reliable than their Am ...

... Gregory Mankiw and Keynes. Uchitelle illustrates the challenge to scientific economists with Robert L. Heilbroner’s words: “…They favor two-dimensional models that in trying to be scientific leave out too much and leave modern economists without a true understanding of how the system works.� Mr. Heilbroner believes that modern economists don’t include other fields like sociology, psychology or history to their work. According to him, today, the facts and numbers are considered too much, and the morals and the society’s long term benefits are squeezed out. Math and computers have taken over noneconomic ...

... cash payments to children that are deprived of the care or support of a parent. In terms of welfare reform, this is the program most often discussed. The media has created many myths regarding welfare and the reasons the system should be done away with. Stating that the majority of new welfare recipients are poor, single mothers, claims have been made that poor women have more children because of the incentives of welfare benefits. It has been proven that is no correlation between women's choice to have children and welfare benefit levels. Furthermore, for each additional child, a mother can expect an addi ...

... and hold regular emergency-preparedness drills in association with local fire departments. Weekly safety inspections and drills are also a part of the overall safety precautions. takes the needed precautions to guarantee their employees safety. will graciously provide employment and needed products for the local economy. Most of these employees will be community members who will work hard to ensure the safety of this plant. This chemical plant will provide jobs for over seven hundred people, including jobs like; chemical and mechanical engineers, support staff, shipping operators, administrators and other sp ...

... he focused on what people wanted. With this focus came the utilization of Mr. Kroc's theory of QSC ( quality, service, and cleanliness ). QSC successfully got McDonald's off the ground, but as times changed, the company saw many more market segments and opportunities. In the 1970's and 1980's once again McDonald's lead the way in the fast food industry. The changes we saw included, for example, the fact that women were now a major part of the work force and dual income families were becoming a more common occurrence. McDonald's became a mastermind of marketing toward specific markets by pioneering ideas such as ...

... is in the best interest of the economy for the United States Postal Service to continue as a monopoly. The first time there was talk of privatizing the Postal Service was in 1979 when the Postal Service was losing vast amounts of money in the long run. But since the Postal Service is a necessity for America, the government had to subsidize the service in order for it to continue in operation. In 1979 the United States Postal Service had a cash flow of $22.5 Billion and was additionally receiving $176 million from investing(#1, Intro). Even with this added revenue the Postal Service was still gre ...

... develop into a software monopoly? For the most part, one or several combinations of the following forge monopolies: an amalgamation of smart business decisions, mistakes by competitors, and at times some shady tactics that a company might employ to become a market leader and monopoly of today. Microsoft had its beginning during the 1970s when IBM was the computer hardware giant of the industry. In 1975 Microsoft was the producer of programming languages for MIPS Altair 7500 (Conigliaro1996). In 1981, Microsoft purchased an operating system for an Intel based 8086 chip from a small company named Seattle Computer Pr ...

... or forcing businesses to comply. The federal government has the greatest effect over the macroeconomic business environment through the making of policies. The government has a number of economic objectives. They aim to have consistent economic growth, low rates of inflation, a sound international trading situation and low unemployment. To meet these objectives the government must place policies such as fiscal, monetary, trade and income policies. Fiscal policy is the deliberate action of the government to change its levels of income and expenditure, through the annual budget. By budgeting for a deficit or ...

... things simply because they cannot be measured with any accuracy. The work done in the home affects the welfare of the economy because it takes time to care for a house, time that an individual could be working. So in essence, an individual pays themselves to for housework. Also, the underground economy encompasses a considerable amount of the transactions in the economy. This underground economy consists of illicit transactions and the legal ones that cannot be traced. GDP does not include the ecological damage rendered every day by humanity. The pollution caused by everyday life such as trash and the pollu ...