HOW A NEBRASKA BOY BUILT AN ISLAND EMPIRE WITH OTHER PEOPLE ’S MONEY-JEFFREY PROSSER Article Summary Jeffrey Prosser grew up in Falls City‚ Nebr. (pop. 5‚000). He drove a bulldozer and spliced cable for the telephone company where his father worked. He got an accounting degree at the University of Nebraska. He went to the Caribbean at age 25 on behalf of some Nebraska investors interested in buying an alumina plant in St. Thomas. The purchase didn’t go through‚ but he stayed. When ITT offered
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Although the new business owner has jobs lined up or contracts in place that will create returns to make the payments‚ that new business owner gets denied financing. This predicament is not automatically restricted to the start-up business owner either. Established construction businesses are realizing that their bank or finance company is decreasing to make that all essential loan. It is because the current effect of the residential sub-prime loan disorder has wandered to the business community
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the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act‚ the decision of the Dred Scott case‚ and the South’s cultural influenced fanaticism on slavery. In 1854 Kansas territory wanted become a state. The only question left to be decided was whether it would be a slave state or a free state. Stephen Arnold Douglas‚ the Democratic Senator of Illinois‚ strongly believed that the people of the territories should decide for themselves whether they wanted slavery. He sponsored the Kansas Nebraska bill and said that Kansas
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2. The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed voters to allow or prohibit slavery. 3. Pro-slavery and antislavery groups clashed violently in what became known as “Bleeding Kansas.” Key Terms and People Franklin Pierce Democratic candidate who won the presidential election of 1852 Stephen Douglas representative who introduced what would become the Kansas- Nebraska Act Kansas-Nebraska Act the law that divided the rest of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories—Kansas and Nebraska Pottawatomie
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nationalism. Nationalism is the patriotic feeling for your country and Sectionalism is the interests in a specific local place. What are the three main causes of the Civil War? The three main causes of the Civil War were the Dred Scott Case‚ the Kansas-Nebraska Act‚ and the Abolitionist. These causes can be supported in many political‚ economic‚ and geographic ways. To begin‚ the Dred Scott Case caused the Civil War in many economic ways. The Dred Scott Case was economic because in Document 8 it states
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Media Complete. Ipswich‚ MA. Accessed November 9. 2013 a) This articles speaks of the relationship with man and nature‚ how the Shimerdas undergo a struggle that faces them right against nature itself. It also relates the land from Nebraska to death. The land of Nebraska has killed many before‚ and even though the new world calls for great opportunity‚ to the Shimerdas‚ like for many other immigrants it called for destruction and misery. The article also speaks how in the end mother nature was great
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_______________________________________________________________ 14 March 2013 ProQuest Table of contents 1. Tractor Dealers‚ Equipment Testers Take Sides on Nebraska Tractor Permit Rule.................................... 1 14 March 2013 ii ProQuest Document 1 of 1 Tractor Dealers‚ Equipment Testers Take Sides on Nebraska Tractor Permit Rule Author: Clayton‚ Chris Publication info: Knight Ridder Tribune Business News [Washington] 03 Feb 2004: 1. ProQuest document link Abstract:
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Biography of Jean McCord Christian Biography of Jean McCord Ina Jean McCord‚ the daughter of Joseph and Telitha (Owens) Nicholson‚ was born on November 8‚ 1927 at DeWitt‚ Nebraska. She passed away on Friday‚ February 26‚ 2010 at the Brodstone Memorial Hospital in Superior at the age of 82 years‚ 3 months and 18 days. Jean attended school and graduated from Tobias High School. On Jue 28th‚ 1947 she was united in marriage to Lester McCord at Belleville‚ Kansas. This union was blessed with two sons
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of two of the following: The Missouri Compromise The Mexican War Compromise Of 1850 Kansas-Nebraska Act The moral and political actions of those opposed to the spread of slavery in the context of The Mexican War and The Kansas-Nebraska Act are very conflicting. With the upset in balance of the Mexican War‚ antislavery activists were upset about any potential compromise while with the Kansas-Nebraska act‚ they settled with the idea of them being in a state of popular sovereignty. The acquisitions
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Business Law Writing Assignment 3 Spring 2014 3-19-14 Chapter 13: Nebraska Beef‚ Ltd. V. Wells Fargo Business Credit‚ Inc. Case Concept Review: 1. How did the court determine that the offer was sufficiently definite? The offer of the Wells Fargo Business Credit‚ Inc. was submitted to Nebraska Beef in the form of a letter. When Nebraska Beef engaged in accepting a line of credit from Wells Fargo they entered into a written credit agreement that
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