Bernie Sanders Bernard Sanders was born in Brooklyn‚ New York on 8 September 1941 to Eli and Dorothy Sanders. His father is of Polish decent and immigrated to the United States when he was 17‚ with little education and money. Bernie once graduated moved to Vermont which is situated in the North Eastern part of the United States‚ there he worked in carpentry and documentary filmmaker. 1981 saw the start of his ever growing political career‚ he was elected as the mayor of Burlington‚ the largest
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Bernie Sanders: Make America Great Again Bernie Sanders started off his career as the mayor of Burlington‚ Vermont. Mr. Sanders served four terms of acting mayor. Adding to his government occupation list‚ Bernie distinguished himself as one of the country’s few independent legislators. Bernie Sanders‚ one of America’s recent presidential candidates‚ is simply the best option for the occupation of the United States 2016 President based on the fact that he has experience in government‚ and he has great
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During the 2016 election‚ Bernie Sanders was a name that was constantly said along with his platform. His slogan “free education‚” interested the hearts of millions of college students. Even though he was not elected President‚ many people still support and love him. They support him so much‚ that they believe Bernie Sanders should start his own political party. In the article‚ Should Bernie Sanders start his own political party?‚ Bernie supporters‚ also known as ‘Berniecrats‚’ state their concern
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Bernard Lawrence Madoff‚ a former chairman of the NASDAQ Stock Market and founder of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities‚ was one of the few NASDAQ market-makers who competed with the New York Stock Exchange‚ by trading stocks listed on the Big Board. Through the Cincinnati exchange‚ the Madoff was a pioneer in electronic trading and publicly spoke of the need to use technology to transform the inefficient and sometimes shady over-the-counter stock market (Monica Gagnier‚ 2008). But Madoff became
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Bernie Sanders’ article “Make College Free for All” published in the Washington Post illustrates the desideratum for free college and higher education for all American students. Sanders accurately acknowledges the necessity of free education in order for the nation to prosper and the excessively high costs that college requires that make it difficult to achieve; however‚ Sanders explicitly discounts the unexplained logic about the finance that will make the probability of a free education possible
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E. Boos – Week 2 – Assignment February 17‚ 2013 The Enron and WoldCom Scandals ENRON 1. The segment of Enron’s operations that got them into difficulties had several parts. They published misleading financial reports. They could not meet their bridge financing commitment with Barclay Bank because outside investors were not found. Because of this‚ they restated activities of JEDI and Chewco SPEs so they could be retroactively consolidated into Enron’s accounts. The SPEs
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states. It was initially a loss making enterprise‚ and thus hired Bernie J. (Bernie) Ebbers to run things. It took him less than a year to make the company profitable. By the end of 1993‚ LDDS was the fourth largest long distance carrier in the United States. After a shareholder vote in May 1995‚ the company officially came to be known as WorldCom. WorldCom culture was dominated by a strong chief executive officer (Bernie J. (Bernie) Ebbers)‚ who was given virtually unfettered discretion to commit vast
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Corporate Governance WorldCom Scam Introduction MCI WorldCom was one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world. Bernie Ebbers founded WorldCom in 1983‚ after that WorldCom began as a re-seller of long-distance telephone services. WorldCom is located at Mississippi. After Ebbers bought around 50 other small long-distance firms‚ he set his sight on MCI. Thus MCI WorldCom would have become the second biggest telecom service provider in 1997. MCI WorldCom was formed on September-15-1998
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Enron and WorldCom FIN/486 December 22‚ 2014 Enron and WorldCom In 1998‚ Waste Management executives acknowledged earnings misstatements of approximately $1.7 billion. With the help of the Arthur Anderson accounting firm‚ Waste Management shareholders lost more than $6 billion dollars (CNN‚ 2001). The Waste Management corruption ushered in a series of corporate scandals into the new millennium. Enron and WorldCom were only two of many ethical and accounting violations that prompted new legislation
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members. For example‚ Bernie Ebbers‚ the former chief executive officer of WorldCom‚ was hailed as a great leader for growing the company into a telecommunications superpower. 69 03-Kidwell.qxd 10/29/2004 10:23 AM Page 70 70——MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL DEVIANCE Ebbers‚ however‚ was later discredited for his failure to provide moral leadership as WorldCom became engulfed in financial scandals that resulted in the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history (for more on Ebbers‚ see Case 3). As
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