When introduced, interest groups were intended to provide equal opportunity for all groups and gave poor people a chance to be politically active. ... People with high levels of education and social status have an edge over those who don't, which is unequal opportunity for ordinary people to have an impact on government. ... "The interest group game is dominated in sheer number and weight of activity by corporations, business trade associations, and professional associations. ... Politics is a business in the United States and those who are able to contribute substantial resources ...

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A perception is growing that educational systems in many countries could better respond to the needs of labor markets, help economies to avoid skills gaps, and ensure that adequately trained human capital is available to support business activity as well as to develop innovative capacity and entrepreneurship. ... Government attitudes toward markets and freedoms and the efficiency of its operations are also very important: excessive bureaucracy and red tape, over-regulation, corruption, dishonesty in dealing with public contracts, lack of transparency and trustworthiness, inability to provide a...

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Immigrants, particularly low-education immigrants (many of whom are unauthorized), are more responsive than natives to the business cycle" (Orrenius 97). ... In E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty- first Century The 2006 Johan Skytte Prize Lecture, Robert argues: Many (though not all) of the scores of studies of collective creativity in work groups (in business, education and so on) find that diversity fosters creativity (Webber & Donahue 2001;O'Reilly et al. 1997; Williams & O'Reilly 1998). ...

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In an article by CNBC, an American cable business news television channel, it reports how neglecting the community is in respect of the San Andreas Fault and therefore elaborate on how unprepared the state of California is for an earthquake magnitude 7.5. ... Even though the states provide the community with resources to be prepared most of the population overlook the opportunities to learn more about the situation. ...

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The demand to strengthen controls for chemical and biological disasters is largely achieved through the development of laws and regulations that shape how to firmly control major hazards and manage business practices. ... In response to the rise in chemical industrial businesses there is a greater need for the use of best- practices for ensured safety and minimal accidents. ... While chemical and biological disasters may have substantial effects on people and their environment, public agencies, communities, and private business have established law and regulations, standards of procedures, and...

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In urban areas, the mercantile and trading industries were dominated by powerful individuals who had developed personal connections with other businessmen and suppliers "much to the resentment of small-time merchants who found it nearly impossible to find business and local consumers who felt they were being swindled. ... Economic opportunities for many were increasingly found in the undeveloped, peripheral regions of the colonies where economic stratification had not yet solidified as it had in the cities. ...

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Mortgaged farmers and an emerging proletariat in the Northeast, nonslaveholders in the South, tenants and would-be yeomen in the West "all had reasons to think that the spread of commerce and capitalism would bring not boundless opportunities but new forms of dependence. ... By the 1820s, however, Jackson's personal business experiences had long since altered his opinions about speculation and paper money, leaving him eternally suspicious of the credit system in general and banks in particular. ...

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The use of mercenaries has been historically a constant phenomenon till almost the end of the XX century, when their activities were criminalized by the international community. Parallel to that phenomenon European States, during their colonial expansion over all continents, authorized two other forms of similar violence by non state actors: the corsairs and the colonial merchant companies, such as the East India Company or the Hudson Bay Company. At the threshold of the XXI century we are witnessing a similar phenomenon. Although mercenaries have not completely disappeared "private milit...

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