The plan creates opportunity. ... Kennedy created a Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity in 1961 and issued Executive Order 10925, which used the term "affirmative action" to refer to measures designed to achieve non-discrimination. ... The government recognized that educational opportunities to be as significant as those relating to employment. ... In 1983, President Ronald Reagan issued Executive Order 12432, which directed each federal agency with substantial procurement or grant making authority to develop a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) development plan. ... It is an eff...

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Small businesses are especially important to minority communities. They offer not only jobs but also the opportunity to build wealth through ownership. Governor Dean will revitalize the lending and investment programs of the Small Business Corporation. He will establish a Small Business Capital Corporation within the Small Business Administration. ... The SBCC will bring additional capital resources to small businesses. ...

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Commercial bankers, auto and aircraft manufacturers, farmers, even film-makers view the proposal as an opportunity to expand into the giant Chinese market. Business groups had complained to the administration last spring when the President rejected an earlier deal with the Chinese. ... The White House is counting on business groups. Clinton's administration officials have consulted with business lobbyists to gather support for a deal in Congress and to plan strategy for winning approval. ... Before that vote will even begin, President Clinton has been afforded every opportunity to i...

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Specifically, AA is a series of social policies and statutes that regulate activities and laws with the primary intent to achieve equity and increase opportunity for all. ... The Kennedy EO also created the Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. ... The Civil Rights Act established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). As a follow-up to the Civil Rights Act, Johnson issued EO 11246, which required expansion of job opportunities for minorities in government contracting firms. ... Also in 1971, Nixon, under EO 11625 direct federal agencies to develop comprehensive plans and pro...

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On the other hand he rejected the idea that big businesses were inherently and automatically dangerous. ... He also believed that business has to prosper before anybody con get any benefit from it. ... He also felt that large business organizations were inherently unnatural and socially destructive. ... Wilson connected the problems to long held American Cultural attachments to independence and social and economic opportunity. ... He argued that trusts were a classic example of social production in which both a business and what it produced were greater than any of the individuals involved in ...

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Such low wage rates cause a decrease in consumer spending, and the forced purchases from their employers do not allow other businesses to grow. Company policies, like this one, would drive out small businesses. ... While these programs helped small business, it also consoled the hurting middle and lower classes. ... Yet, under Hoover's administration, people were so impoverished that they couldn't even live in a home, let alone purchase a storefront for their business. ... The real believer in the right to free enterprise was FDR, as he gave many opportunities to citizens to improve ...

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Roosevelt said that, "We must, through the law, make conditions of life more fair, make equality of opportunity more real. ... In his time, companies like the railroad business were controlling every aspect of their business. ... The rich could "profit financially by the wicked alliance between crooked business and crooked politics." ...

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The Healthcare professions discourse tend to share information on volunteering opportunities, providing preparation materials for entrance exams, guest speakers, and organizing healthcare discussions. ... She sets out a pen and highlighter shaped as a syringe, also big magnet clips, brochures, and business cards. ... This program will be helpful and I hope others take advantage of these types of opportunities" (anonymous). ... The advisor, president and vice president discuss the events, guess speakers and volunteering opportunities three weeks prior to the start of the club. Guess speak...

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The illicit drug market, pre-drug war, is estimated to be a hundred billion dollar a year business. ... (Evans and Berent) Another consequence of this questionable war lies in Opportunity cost. Opportunity cost is defined as the cost of opportunity lost in pursuit of another option. ...

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Hoover did not like the government to take too much control of business. ... Hoover barely did anything to solve the economic problem other than cutting taxes and encouraging business in the hope that the Great Depression would fix itself. ... He was ready to take a step that the republicans would not take by interfering more with business and spending more government money to get the country out of this slump and back to where it used to be. ... This act brought in another organization called the Public Works Administration, which organised and funded the building of dams, hospitals, schools,...

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The Enron collapse involved the buying of political officials in order to engage in questionable business practices, which inevitably led the company to bankruptcy. ... Enron's principal business, commodities trading, was successful largely because of the deregulation of the commodities market. ... On April 15, 1922 the Senate requested that the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of the Interior inform the Senate whether negotiations were in fact pending to lease naval oil reserves and if so, the parties involved, the terms and conditions of any such proposed agreements and whether...

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With wealth came power and the opportunity to reinforce this beneficial position by law. In addition, many business people and state bankers opposed the national bank because of its restrictive control over their financial interests. ...

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In almost all American states the voters directly choose the nominees of their party in a primary election. The American president is chosen in a national convention, but in about two-thirds of the states the voters directly choose convention delegates committee to a particular presidential candida...

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The real concern of American business was not "the rights or wrongs of trading with fascism" but the fear that commercial rivals such as Japan and Germany would exclude American goods from Europe and Asia altogether. ... On the following day Roosevelt argued that the attack "had given us an opportunity". ...

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The most accepted definition for the word democracy is "government by the people." Merriam-Webster's dictionary even uses those words to define the word democracy. This, however, gives a broad definition of democracy and leaves one wondering whether America is a democracy. It is a fact that Ameri...

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