Abstract
This paper discusses the importance of foreign exchange risk and the potential that risk has for harming a firm involved in global operations. The paper then examines what a company can do to manage foreign exchange risks.

Tags:Foreign, exchange, Risk, Hedging, Futures, Trading

Abstract
In this article, the writer discusses that in most cases, when a company manufactures or sells a product, it is assumed that the product is free from any special risks or dangers for the purchaser. The writer also notes that if a company provides a service, it is generally taken for granted that use of the service by customers will not result in any undue injury to the user of that service. However, the writer points out that there exist cases wherein the use of a product or service may entail certain risk of injury that is considered automatically to be the responsibility of the user of that product or service. The writer argues that in today's climate, businesses must be more aware than ever of the potential liabilities of the products they sell and the services they offer. Furthermore, the writer maintains that businesses should do all they can to see to it that their products are not misused, taking whatever legal steps are necessary to see that their products and services are not intentionally used in the commission of criminal acts.

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"The doctrine was used to absolve employers of risk on the grounds that their employees had voluntarily undertaken such work and, as they had given their consent, this consent implied a recognition of the potential hazards."
"Workplace accidents can often be attributed to processes used in manufacturing, or to chemicals and other agents employed in factories or other workplaces. In this case, chemicals and machinery would be considered products that are knowingly, and with consent, used by the employees. Again, the first assumption would be that such employees give their consent to use these items. However, it is possible to conceive of a situation in which employees, though consenting to work at a particular job and under certain conditions, are unaware of the real dangers of the equipment or chemicals used in connection with their work."

Tags:customers, service, goods, danger, injury

Abstract
The risk assessment process is becoming increasingly important, but it has assumed enormously complex dimensions at the same time. Risk assessment has reached a new level of importance in the Information Age. The growth of sophisticated networked information systems and distributed computing has created a potentially dangerous environment for private and public organizations. This paper examines these issues and provides an analysis of popular risk assessment applications. An original comparison table is provided.

Chapter One: Introduction
Statement of Hypothesis, Research Problem, or Statement of the Purpose
Outline of Thesis/Project
Chapter Two: Methodology/Layout or Reason
Chapter Three: Literature Review
Industrial Settings and Software
Business Credit Settings and Software
Primary Software
Secondary Software
Risk Assessment Software for Credit Applications
Accounts Receivable Processing (ARP) Company
Advisa, Inc.
C/LECT Consulting, Inc.
Competix
Credit & Management Systems, Inc.
Dun & Bradstreet
eCredible, Ltd.
eCredit.com
Experian
GETPAID Corporation
I-many, Inc. (formerly ChiCor, Inc.)
Magnum Communications, Ltd.
9ci, Inc.
NMC Technologies, Inc.
Risk Assessment in Financial Institutions
Selected Banking Risk Management Software
Chapter Four: Pros and Cons
Chapter Five: Findings
Establish the Context
Identify Situations that Have Risk Implications
Analyze and Assess Risk
Design Response Strategies
Implement and Integrate
Measure, Monitor and Report
Chapter Six: Conclusion and Recommendations
Works Cited

From the Paper
"Risk assessment has reached a new level of importance in the Information Age. The growth of sophisticated networked information systems and distributed computing has created a potentially dangerous environment for private and public organizations. "Critical data -- such as from trade secrets, proprietary information, troop movements, sensitive medical records and financial transactions -- flows through these systems"(Hammond 1999:69). Consequently, organizations are becoming increasingly concerned with potential exposure and are looking for ways to evaluate their organization's security profile today. Risk assessment software applications systems allow researchers, managers and others to perform "what if" analysis of the value of their information and various threats and vulnerabilities. For instance, risk assessment software systems such as NetSolar by Cisco, use both passive analysis and active probing methods to identify security vulnerabilities, which may increase the efficiency of vulnerability identification and reduce false-positive results. Hamilton reports that these technical assessments can differentiate between infrastructure devices (routers, switches, or firewalls) and host devices (user workstations or servers such as e-mail servers and Web servers). "Technical vulnerability tools can find vulnerabilities in network TCP/IP hosts, UNIX hosts, Windows NT hosts, Web servers, mail servers, FTP servers, firewalls, routers and switches" (Hamilton 1999:69)."

Tags:computer, cybercrime, platform, router, security, server, unix

Abstract
Flying and the pleasures and risks of flying serve as the subject for both William Langewiesche in Inside the Sky and James Fallows in Free Flight. One might assume that both the pleasures and the risks are self-evident, but these writers detail both in a manner that is both powerful and affecting, and the two also diverge on certain points and so show that the issues are not always clear-cut and that there are differences of opinion about each.

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Flying and the pleasures and risks of flying serve as the subject for both William Langewiesche in Inside the Sky and James Fallows in Free Flight. One might assume that both the pleasures and the risks are self-evident, but these writers detail both in a manner that is both powerful and affecting, and the two also diverge on certain points and so show that the issues are not always clear-cut and that there are differences of opinion about each. William Langewiesche comes by his love of fling almost as an inheritance. He comes from a family of pilots, notably his father, Wolfgang Langewiesche, also a writer who wrote about flying. However, the father

Tags:flying, pilots, books

Abstract
This paper discusses the financial risks that companies assume by conducting business internationally. Included in the discussion is a look at the importance of foreign exchange rate risk and how the risk can be mitigated.

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"At one time, international business was the exclusive realm of large companies that could afford the resources necessary to support an international infrastructure. Today, advances in technology and telecommunications have made it possible for even small companies to have customers and vendors around the world. However, this globalization has increased the foreign exchange risk that companies must take on when they participate in the international economy. This research considers the financial risk of conducting business on an international basis with a particular..."

Tags:foreign exchange, foreign exchange risk, forex, transaction risk, translation risk, derivatives

Abstract
This paper discusses what financial organizations and resources would be used to achieve global expansion and evaluates the financial health of the UK. The author determines potential domestic and international sources of financing for project, establishes the investment levels within assumed time-frame, estimates budget percentages and relates profits and repatriation of funds. The paper outlines a most favorable financial structure.

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"Determining the financial health of the United Kingdom, according to the "CIA World Factbook", the U. K., a leading trading power and financial center, is one of the quarter of trillion dollar economies of Western Europe. Over the past two decades, the government has greatly reduced public ownership and contained the growth of social welfare programs. Agriculture is intensive highly mechanized and efficient by European standards producing about .... of food needs with only .... of the labor force."

Tags:Global business plan, budget, financial overview, global venture, financial analysis, currency risk management, financial organizations, resources, financial health of country selected, potential domestic and international sources of financing, investment lev

Abstract
This paper argues that the NCAA has to change the way it operates if it is to maximize the possibility of its student-athletes to achieve their career goals as professional athletes. The paper further argues that trying to combine athletics and academics at this level does not work and serves to lower the standards for both sides of the equation.

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"The argument to be made in this paper is that the possibilities of achieving a professional sports career and the benefits once that professional career is achieved on the part of college athletes are not worth the odds of giving up on a college education. At the present time, it seems that the major university sports programs especially in football and basketball are geared to producing professional athletes without much emphasis being placed on the academic side of..."

Tags:athletics, professional sport, academics, NCAA

Abstract
This paper explains the ways that Chrysler's advert "Coming Home", a very long advert produced by Fallon for television, reflects much about Chrysler and America. Next, the author reveals the history, organization, culture and the global crisis at the Chrysler Group, details the creation of the advert itself and reviews the working relationship between Chrysler and their selected advertising agency Fallon. The paper concludes that Fallon and Chysler's cradle-to-cradle zero risk strategy resulted in an advert "Coming Home", which demonstrates their masterful use of intertextuality and interpretation. The paper includes footnotes and many color pictures from the advert.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chrysler Advert: "Coming Home" from a Spectator's Point Of View
A Long Journey
A Story about Cars and a Bag
Traveling through Real Times
An Ode to American Landscapes
An Ode to Masculinity and American Popular Heroes
Sound and Rhythm
Oral Texts: From a Simple Greeting to Lyrics and a Specific Copy
The Viewer's Position
Matters of Composition: First Shot Mirroring the Last One
Global First Impression
Chrysler's Choice: Assuming a Cradle-to-Cradle Marketing Recycling Strategy
A Multiple Group
Chrysler's Genealogy
Going Back to the Roots: A Tribute to Walter Percy Chrysler, the Founding Father
Chrysler's Ups and Downs and Crisis Communication
Recycling Fiat Campaigns: A Zero-Risk Cradle-to-Cradle Strategy
Traveling through the Ups And Downs America Faced: The Use of Diagonals in "Coming Home"
Selecting Vehicles as Markers of American History
A Music Everyone Acclaimed
Selecting the Widest Audience Possible through an Emblematic Sport
A Peaceful War Representation
Possible Mistakes
Best World Agencies and their Strategies: The Non-Stop Awards Quest
America and Poor Creativity in Advertising: A Counterfactual Approach
Chrysler's Offensive Strategies in France
Chrysler's Hype and Trendy Campaigns in Brazil
Chrysler and Humor, A Difficult Task
Global Agencies and Non-Stop Awards Run
How Fallon Escaped from the Cradle-to-Cradle Recycling Strategy
Intertextuality: options and limits
Conclusion

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"Remaining one and the same through time, this bag seems to be a very good companion, never complaining whether it is settled on the passenger's seat, thrown at the back of the car, at the bottom of the passenger's seat or dropped on a wet lawn. Even if some characters aren't truly faithful to him, like in the third picture in which a military bag appears to be much closer to the driver, this everlasting good quality leather bag ends up offering presents to the kids in the last scene. Here the bag impersonates Chrysler's spirit and heritage. A bag refers to its content whether they are tools, files or clothes."

Tags:journey camera plot editing, viewer's attention

Abstract
The paper discusses Ford's current ethical risk environment, the change in business climate, SUV safety, the Firestone tire issue, employee rights and practices and driver education. It then goes on to structure and implement a revised corporate ethics program, define what it hopes to achieve and how it will measure success. It concludes with a discussion entitled "Learning From Our Mistakes: Correcting Past Failures".

Table Of Contents
Introduction
Our Ethical Risk Environment
A Change of Climate
Human Rights
Firestone
SUV Safety
Driver Education
Our Corporate Ethics Program
Structure
Implementation
What We Hope To Achieve
How We'll Measure Our Success
Learning From Our Mistakes: Correcting Past Failures
Bibliography

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"Through our partnership with Firestone we learned many lessons. Together, we gained valuable insight into the importance of ensuring the quality of the products we make. Important as these evolving notions of corporate citizenship are, they build on what we consider to be the most basic element of citizenship: assuring the safety of those who trust us enough to drive our cars and trucks. Our customers have the same basic understanding: they always have expected us to make safe products and to take action when we discover a safety defect. We've learned that we must seek out new ways to review our suppliers' design and manufacturing processes. In the future, we plan to take a more active role in obtaining and analyzing data maintained by our suppliers concerning the performance of components used in our vehicles."

Tags:greenhouse, gas, emissions, Jacques, Nasser

Abstract
This paper examines the relationship of illicit drug use to four selected demographic factors of patients participating in the Methadone Maintenance Program at Recovery Solutions in Santa Ana, California. This paper also analyzes the intensity of counseling received each month of patients participating in Cash Maintenance and Medicare Maintenance and the results of urine drug screens. For the purposes of this research project, it is assumed that the analysis of these variables provides new information about the extent to which counseling intensity affects illicit drug use by patients according to age, gender and race.

Introduction to the Problem
Background of the Study
Statement of the Problem
Purpose of the Study
Background of Study

Rationale
Research Questions
Hypothesis #1
Hypothesis #2
Significance of the Study
Definition of Terms
Assumptions and Limitations
Nature of the Study, or Theoretical/Conceptual Framework
Organization of the Remainder of the Study
Literature Review
Background and Overview
Age as an Indicator
Gender as an Indicator
Race as an Indicator
Socioeconomic Status as an Indicator
Counseling Intensity as an Indicator
Methodology
Introduction
Setting for the Study
Permission for the Study
Subjects
Data Source
Interventions
Description of Variables
Hypothesis #1
Hypothesis #2
Instrumentation
Procedure
Rationale for Study

From the Paper
"Methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) programs were originally designed to reduce use of heroin among people addicted to this drug. Methadone is an opiate agonist that works by warding off withdrawal symptoms and suppressing drug craving among opiate addicts by stabilizing blood levels of the drug and its metabolites (Mcneely & Nadelmann, 1996). "At proper doses, methadone lets addicts function normally, without making them 'high,' and can be safely consumed for decades with remarkably few bad side effects" (Mcneely & Nadelmann, p. 83). In MMT programs, the drug is typically consumed orally, once a day. Most such programs also provide counseling, some medical care, and other ancillary services in addition to the methadone (Mcneely & Nadelmann, 1996). Generally speaking, the goal of MMTs is to help addicts stop using illicit drugs and resolve the myriad of problems that are contributing to their continued use."

Tags:addictive, health, risks, harms, consumption, dangerous, forms, orally, transdermally