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  • Money To An Athlete Like Kevin Garnett
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    My claim is that it is unethical for professional athletes to receive the enormous amount of compensation that they do By Unethical I mean that it is an injustice to the citizens of our hard working country that are out to make a dollar and do it by holding a well respected job. By compensation I mean the ridiculous amounts of money that an athlete makes for playing a particular sport. My value criteria or standards I will use are as follows: 1. A man who does not graduate college may not be as ...
  • 2004 Ata Airlines
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    On October 23, 2004 ATA Airlines filed for bankruptcy. The Indianapolis-based carrier also said it has agreed to sell its hub at Chicago's Midway Airport to Air Tran, one of its major competitors, for $87.5 million dollars. Like other airlines operating in bankruptcy, Air Tran said it will maintain its full flight schedule and honor its frequent-flier commitments. The tenth-largest U.S. airline by traffic, ATA joins United, US Airways and Hawaiian Airlines in bankruptcy. ATA is the first major l...
  • Luxury Tax Threshold Of 120 Million Dollars
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    When Sports were just Games by: Rick Cil enti I grew up in front of the T.V. watching bone-crunching hits and massive home runs in old Cleveland Municipal Stadium. I saw the last game the Browns played there and I started bawling like a blubbering idiot when they left the field. Back then sports were much more simple. The games were played for fun. There were no high-school kids bringing down the quality of NBA games, There weren't any greedy me-first 19 year olds trying to sue their way into th...
  • Enron Two Hundred And Fifty Million Dollars
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    Trip Winkel Finance 303 May, 27 2005 Dr. NamoratoThe Enron Scandal Enron was established in 1930 as Northern Natural Gas Company and joined with three other companies to undertake this industry. The four companies eventually began to break apart between 1941 and 1947 as a result of a public stock offering. In 1979, Northern Natural Gas was placed under new management when it was bought by Inter North Inc. In 1985, Kenneth Lay, CEO of Houston Natural Gas Company devised a transaction for Inter No...
  • Millions Of Dollars To Charities
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    There are many people who believe that celebrities only think about themselves and that they aren't concerned with anyone else's problems. To me a Hero is some one that you can look to and who inspires you to be a better person. A celebrity is someone who gets paid a lot of money to pretend to be a hero. There are many problems that face America today such as hunger, poverty and most importantly War. Contrary to popular belief there are several celebrities who are concerned and that donate milli...
  • New Budget Of 185 Million Dollars
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    When examining an issue it is essential that you look only at the facts and not let your opinion get in the way of what is known to be truth. Such is the case in the school budget issue, both groups clearly have their own ideas of what is right for the school and it is my job as a city council member to examine the facts and the different viewpoints to garner my own opinion. There are two sides of this issue, there is the conservative viewpoint which believes that you should increase spending wi...
  • Efforts For Donations To Vjg
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    Victory Junction Gang Camp Fund-raising For four years now, it has been Kyle Petty's dream to build a camp in his son's memory for chronic and life-threatening illnesses of children from ages 7 to 15. Kyle and the NASCAR community have been fund raising for over four years to make this dream come true. Actor Paul Newman and Kyle and Pattie Petty are the founders of Victory Junction Gang Camp (VJG). The beautiful, natural setting for the VJG is seventy-two acres of land nestled in a hardwood fore...
  • Spending Of Foreign Aid
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    Foreign Aid Cultural Geography Bret BalankyThe United States of America is a wealthy nation. We are also a nation that reaches out to the poverty-stricken world, lending financial aid in ridiculous amounts to these shambled countries. The burning question of the moment is: how effect is our foreign aid, and what can we do to improve its efficiency? The answer is quite a difficult one, if it even exists at all. Foreign aid has been lent to these broken countries for over half of a century. Billio...
  • Player Sign's A Big Multi Million Dollar
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    Matt Kelley Rhetoric Speech #2 Professional Athletes are Overpaid Every young child who has ever been involved in athletics has dreamed of being a professional in that sport. Why do you think that everyone wants to be a pro athlete. Sure it is because they get to play for a living. But also they get the big bucks. Why would a person not want to get paid millions and millions of dollars just to play a sport. Many professional athletes are highly overpaid though. When they sign these 20 and 30 mil...
  • Boesky's Criminal Involvement With Insider
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    Insider trading has been a commonly discussed topic since Martha Stewart was accused, tried, convicted, and served a prison term for her involvement with the Incl on trading scandal. However, the definition of the term "insider trading" is not necessarily always connected with illegal activity. As a matter of fact, in some jurisdictions, "insider trading is no crime. Traditionally, it has been an expected, and perfectly acceptable prerequisite of certain sorts of employment". (Insider Trading). ...
  • 50 Thousand Dollars
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    We live in a time where more expensive means more desirable. This year's election spending has gotten out of hand. It is time for future presidents to ask themselves, is all of this spending necessary? The total spending in the 2004 election was at least 1.2 billion dollars and the total costs of the 2005 inauguration to be 50 million dollars. Advertisements and personal luxuries the President elect and their family indulge in are even pricier than anything is. What exactly are the leaders of th...
  • Whalers Play At The Civic Center
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    The Hartford Whalers Are Going Going... The Hartford Whalers are in a very tough situation at this time. When Peter Karmanos bought the team in May of 1994, he inherited the worst lease agreement at the smallest arena in the NHL. The Hartford Civic Center lease agreement creates profit for private companies; however, the lease causes the Whalers to lose money. The mall is owned and operated by Aetna; therefore it has nothing to do with the Whalers. The city of Hartford owns the coliseum, parking...
  • Dr Gore 4 Million In Punitive Damages
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    The topic that I wanted to learn more about in this section is punitive damages. I have seen in the news recently about cases where the plaintiff has been awarded millions of dollars. I wanted to know how the plaintiff would be eligible for the right of punitive damages and some of the history behind the ruling. I also wanted to learn about the some of the largest settlements in history as well. Six percent of winning plaintiffs in civil jury trials walk away with punitive damage awards, accordi...
  • One Million Dollars
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    Characterization Annabel and Midge were two young beautiful girls that dressed in tight colorful dresses. They liked to show off their beauty by walking up and down Fifth Avenue showing off to the men. As quoted from the story "Young men grouped lethargically about newsstands awarded them murmurs, exclamations, even-the ultimate tribute-whistles". This just goes to show the attitude they might express thinking that they are "hot stuff" while they are really just stuck-up. Is it stated that they ...

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