George W. Bush Presidency 2000-2008 ● 2000 Election ○ Won only by electoral votes from final state win in Florida‚ but lost popular votes to Democratic Nominee‚ Al Gore by about 500‚000. ■ First election since 1876 that had been disputed. Democrats had requested a manual recount from the Florida counties in question‚ however Republicans sued to prohibit these hand tallies. Republicans then requested set deadlines that potentially could turn away votes that may have come in for Gore‚ so Democrats
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Harvard Case Review and Analysis 1. Jeff Immelt’s strategies for GE were solid in a theoretical sense. The company should have been delivering above-average returns and seen all the positives that he preached about it. The reason this did not happen and they faced some humiliation in 2008 until 2010 were due to GE Capital. Immelt thought that they were diversified enough to survive the economic downturn. However this proved to be wrong. In an interview for BusinessWeek magazine David Magee
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Tax case: Taxes and Growth 3‚ The average growth rate of U.S. economy over time is 3.4% The trend is slightly downward. 7‚ the correlation of political party of the president and GDP growth is -0.277811979‚ which indicates a strong relation. The correlation of Top individual marginal tax rate and GDP growth is 0.218935712‚ which indicates a strong relation as well. 8‚ what I am surprised is that the top individual marginal tax rate does have a strong relation with GDP growth. Before
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The More Perfect Union speech presented by Barack Obama on March 18‚ 2008 was said to be as strong as the famous “I Have a Dream Speech” by Martin Luther King. After hearing this speech then listening and then reading it and then being able to feel that energy with a strong agreement on some points. With Barack’s style of pausing and‚ eye contact and with a tone of voice never boring but drawing you with a wanting more draw. Although he never left the podium he kept the audience on the seats edge
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Case#4- Federating Insurance: Targeting Small Businesses 1. When looking at an automobile industry the Federated macrosegmentation would be taking a company like BMW and looking at the market segments in a broader view. For example‚ the owner of the branch must make sure their employees are happy with their job. The macrosegmentation of this would be employee performance. Federated plays a role in this because with great performance comes incentives. Federate gives insurance incentives to BMW
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Barack H. Obama v. George W. Bush Millions of American’s had the pleasure to witness one of the most historical presidential inaugurations on January 20th‚ 2009. On this date‚ America had chosen Barack Hussein Obama to become its president. Before Obama‚ there was George Walker Bush – son of former U.S. president‚ George H.W. Bush (1989-1993). Both Obama and Bush severed two historical terms despite their political differences. Serving as the 44th president of the United States‚ Barack went on to
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LAW INTERNAL ASSIGNMENT – II Case Analysis: R.S. Joshi‚ STO‚ Gujarat & Ors. Vs. Ajit Mills Ltd & Anr. Citation: AIR1977SC2279 Prof-in-charge: Prof Ashutosh Naik By- Swathi. A.P III BBA LLB ‘A’ Roll No. 23 Symbiosis Law School Ph: 7798627663 Name of the case: R.S. Joshi‚ STO‚ Gujarat & Ors. Vs. Ajit Mills Ltd & Anr. Citation: AIR 1977 SC 2279: (1977) 4 SCC 98: 1977 SCC (Tax) 536 Decided On: 31.08.1977 Bench:
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the assumption of the non-recourse liability.The fair market value of the property at the time of sale was $1‚400‚000‚ so they claimed a loss of $55‚740. The Tax Commissioner insisted instead that they actually realized a gain of $400‚000; the difference between the principal amount of the debt and their basis. Issues:1) How should the tax court deal with the transfer of non-recourse mortgage debt in property dispositions when the fair market value of the property is less than the property’s basis
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Case Interco Introduction Interco is a shoe company founded in 1911. Its business has spread to other product through acquisitions. Equity analysts saw Interco as a conservative company that was not highly leveraged leading to high financial flexibility. This allowed the firm to repurchase share and make acquisitions when the opportunities were there. Interco has four major divisions; Apparel Manufacturing‚ General Retail Merchandising‚ Footwear Manufacturing and Retailing and Furniture and Home
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Ameritrade - Harvard Case Study Background: Ameritrade Holding Corporation is securities brokerage services and technology-based financial services firm from the United States. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Omaha‚ Nebraska. “Ameritrade MERITRADE for self-directed retail investors; TD AMERITRADE Institutional that provides brokerage and custody services; trading platforms that enables research and analysis; a suite of education products and
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