George Washington‚ elected the first president in 1789‚ set up a cabinet form of government‚ with departments of State‚ Treasury‚ and War‚ along with an Attorney General (the Justice Department was created in 1870). Based in New York‚ the new government acted quickly to rebuild the nation’s financial structure. Enacting the program of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton‚ the government assumed the Revolutionary war debts of the states and the national government‚ and refinanced them with new federal
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According to Salmond and Hueston‚ “A tort is a civil wrong for which the remedy is a common action for unliquidated damages‚ and which is not exclusively the breach of a contract or the breach of a trust or other mere equitable obligation.” Dr. Winfield has made a critical examination of possible or current definition. He told that tortuous liability arises from the breach of a duty primarily fixed by the law‚ such duty is towards persons generally and its breach is redressable by an action for
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Question 1 0 out of 0 points A balance sheet ________. Selected Answer: Answers: [None Given] is a list of all the cash collected and cash paid during a period describes the financial situation of a company at a specific point in time is a summary of all of the revenues minus all of the expenses for an accounting period shows the changes that took place in the amount of shareholders’ equity during a period Question 2 0 out of 0 points A deferral transaction is one in which ________. Selected
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“A STUDY ON REVIEW OF LITERATURE IN RECRUITMENT PROCESS” 1.Ours and Ridder (1992) introduced a novel method to test the hypothesis that firms search sequentially based (in which applicants are screened as they show up) on the relationship between the number of (rejected) job applicants and the number of employees hired. The author used data compiled from filled vacancies for the Netherlands. Different types of search methods were distinguished. The results implied that when firms use advertising
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sending the Union into uproar and eventually splitting it entirely. The Mexican War between the United States and Mexico began with a Mexican attack on American troops along the southern border of Texas on Apr. 25‚ 1846. Fighting ended when U.S. Gen. Winfield Scott occupied Mexico City on Sept. 14‚ 1847; a few months later a peace treaty was signed at Guadalupe Hidalgo. In addition to recognizing the U.S. annexation of Texas‚ defeated Mexico ceded California and ‚ New Mexico (including all the present-day
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Civil War. Lincoln was responsible for making and seeing the execution of strategic plans sufficient to bring victory. (p. 19-20) Hattaway (1985) also states that President Lincoln ordered into effect the anaconda plan proposed by Lieutenant General Winfield Scott‚ which included the naval
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Lee assigned Ewell‚ who had taken command‚ to attack but he declined because he saw that the union army was in too strong of a position. Over night‚ three more corps for the union came and strengthened the defence. One of them under the command of Winfield Scott Hancock. The line was extended along side Cemetery Hill up to a hill known as Little Round Top. The union was in strong positions. General Lee assigned James Longstreet to attack where he stood but didn’t get
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nominating convention‚ unable to choose among Stephen A. Douglas‚ James Buchanan‚ Lewis Cass‚ and William Marcy‚ named Pierce on the 49th ballot. The presidential election of 1852 brought Pierce into contention with his former military commander‚ Gen. Winfield Scott. Scott divided his party by hinting that he might approve the modifications of the Fugitive Slave Act. He
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George Steinbrenner Keith Anderson‚ Crystal Price‚ Nikolas Rule William Penn University MBL 520: Ethical & Moral Leadership Dr. James Schiro April 17‚ 2015 George Steinbrenner George Steinbrenner is most famously known as one of the most successful sport owners in American sports history. On July 4th‚ 1930 Steinbrenner was born in Rocky River‚ Ohio (Nelson‚ 2013). His two parents‚ Henry George Steinbrenner II and Rita raised him in an upper middle class lifestyle in Cleveland. He dedicates most
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demobilized and Custer assumed his regular army rank as Captain. * In 1866‚ when the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment was created at Fort Riley Kansas‚ Custer was promoted to the position of Lt. Colonel of the regiment. * In 1867‚ serving under General Winfield Hancock‚ Custer would see his first real experience in the west. Ostensibly‚ the campaign was to enter into peace negotiations with the Southern Cheyennes and Kiowas along the Arkansas River. Hancock’s men and Custer set out "to confer with them
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