business with two or more owners. A corporation is a legal entity with authority to act and have liability apart from its owners. A franchisor is a company that develops a product concept and sells others the rights to make and sell the products. (Nickels) A man named Troy Smith began the sonic drive-in restaurant in 1954‚ as a sole proprietorship. Two years later‚ he took on a partner‚ and watched the business grow. As partners‚ they shared profits and liabilities. After the death of Smith’s partner
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Drug Crimes Drugs have been a part of the United States‚ and Minnesota‚ since the 1800’s. Since then more drugs have been created and used. More drugs in turn led to more drug abuse. This abuse led to more violations‚ which caused the government to form laws against drugs (Rattliff). Today‚ there are laws ranging in degrees of punishment for possessing drugs‚ selling drugs‚ trafficking drugs‚ and manufacturing drugs (Minnesota Criminal Defense Law‚ 2012). It wasn’t until 1935 that the first
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The American Dream is the ability of being able to start from the bottom and earn the things you need and want on your own. It is being able to build yourself up and have full ownership of your belongings and to know that you deserve what you have cause you worked hard enough to earn it. I qualify the statement that America still provides access to the American Dream to the “tired‚ poor‚ and the huddled masses” because yes America provides many programs such as Medicare and Medicaid to support the
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DE BEERS | OPEC | | Even before the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in the last decade forced a 15-fold increase in the price of oil‚ suppliers of tin‚ nickel‚ coffee‚ cocoa and natural rubber were flexing market muscle‚ trying to control prices. | | Encouragement came from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development‚ a body chiefly representing poor countries‚ which are the source of most commodities. The conference’s leaders saw higher prices as a way to improve the
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Minnesota Motors Report When taking in consideration the future selling strategy of Minnesota Motors we decided to choose between the two aspects we considered to be the more important ones: Price or Quality. In a general way we observed that the segments that preferred quality over price (less price-sensitive) were segment A‚ B and C and the ones that preferred price over quality (very price-sensitive) were segment D and small-Volume customers. We decided to go for a business perspective focused
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In 1995‚ the couple then split up and Michael Dorris committed suicide in 1997. Louise Erdrich was greatly influenced by her family‚ but the one who had the biggest impact was her father. While Erdrich was growing up‚ her father would pay her a nickel for story that she wrote. Her stories would normally be about lonely girls that would have a hidden talent. Louise Erdrich would write her stories thinking that her family was going to be the only one reading them‚ but she was mistaken. Her father
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southern Wisconsin to make room for the miners that were taking over the land. The area was also in demand for the lush farmland of the various river valleys. This land was taken from the Ho Chunk for nickels and dimes‚ and the people were forcibly removed on to Indian reservations in northeastern Iowa‚ Minnesota‚ South Dakota and Nebraska. Ho-Chunk elders recall terrifying scenes of tribal members being rounded up at gunpoint and loaded into boxcars against their will. They were shipped to reservations
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The flour industry was a very popular minnesota factory and showed that Minneapolis was useful.Some industrialists came from minnesota and others came from the east coast.When some of the very well known industrialists came to minnesota there were already lots of other flour companies but they eventually became more popular than the older flour companies.pillsbury for example was one of the industrialists that came to minnesota and eventually had one of the most popular companies that was ever made
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The balance sheet will outline what the company owes compared to what they own on a certain day (Nickels‚ McHugh‚ & McHugh‚ 2010). Best Buy has seen their equity grow in each of the last five years from $4‚484 million to $6‚602 million last year. Last year‚ they reduced their long term debt however the amount of investors increased resulting in their
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Cited: Allen‚ Jodie T. Negative Income Tax. Library of Economics and Liberty. 01 Nov. 2011. Ehrenreich‚ Barbara. Nickel and Dimed: on (not) Getting by in America. New York: Metropolitan‚ 2001. Print. "Inflation" Investment and Financial Dictionary by InvestorWords.com. Web. 01 Nov. 2011. . Montgomery‚ Sandy. "Inflation Hits Low-Paid Staff." LexisNexis. Web. 01 Nov. 2011
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