For one thing, companies never need to pay private investors back (forgetting dividends). ... They want the company to do as well as it can, because as the company prospers, so does the stock price. ... Companies are driven to lower prices to keep competitive with other companies. ... One problem was that the Reagan Administration was fighting the Cold War, trying to outspend the Soviets in the military, making ours far superior to theirs and giving them no hope for victory. ... Companies are not forced to lower their prices, rather they raise them. ...

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Stock market shed to the lowest level, companies try to cut their cost by firing its employee, and corporate institutions had to shut their operation is just inevitable. ... And in around May this year, due to the recent war in Iraq and the SARS outbreak in Asia, Dr. ...

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