Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Master Hanson was very receptive from the beginning...He took student opinion into account," she said...
Physical operations including shelving, customer service and sales staff account for 13 percent of the sale price leaving the cooperative with a 2 percent profit...
...textbooks are huge compared to a publisher of novels," says Mankiw, who received a $1.4 million advance for the textbook that has won critical acclaim. He cites features such as colorful graphics, reprints of copyrighted material like cartoons, supplementary material, like instructor's manuals, and length as factors that account for the higher price...
...Yorker, calling its author "a talented, inventive, philosophical-minded journalist, coming into old age," who goes for broke on a novel that is just "entertainment, not literature, even literature in a modest aspirant form." At the podium, a smiling Updike read Wolfe's vivid if catty 1964 account of Updike receiving his first National Book Award: "He squinted at the light through his owl-eyed eyeglasses, then he ducked his head and his great thatchy medieval haircut toward his right shoulder." "Newspapers don't lie," Updike mischievously remarked before adding, "I remember the event as being rather intimate and sedate...
...figuring out how long it will take a company to pay back lost tax revenues, you should take into account the extra benefits created when the money is spent by the employees of the companies that have benefited from tax breaks. Each dollar pumped into the local economies via grocery, gas, real estate and other purchases is also taxed in a variety of ways. Therefore, the amount of time it takes to "earn back" the original tax incentives given to a company will be considerably less than you indicated. The creation and saving of jobs through corporate welfare, no matter...