Do You Use Ringers?; Porno in Retail Advertising; Maintaining an Image; Effective Corporate Tax Rates; Laughing All the Way to the Bank; What Special Executive Ability Creates a High Return on Equity?; Concealing Information from Stockholders; Big...
Errata; Forecast; Good Friends; The 5% Givers Club; Personnel Policies Can Save; Many Barrels of Oil; Operating Systems vs Management Systems; Do You Exchange Lists of People Who Cash Bad Checks?; Supporting the National Foundation for; Consumer...
Fire-when not ready, Gridley; How does one define service?; 1981 corporate resolutions; I have discovered the most stupid retailers in the world; What is a conservative? What is a liberal?; At last--many stocks are selling for close to book value!;...
Also applaud federated department stores; The 1982 outlook; Free enterprise; A great moment in retailing; Dangerous use of numbers; Abuse of numbers; Pray for Gimbel's; [A statistical supplement]; Surprise in numbers!; Why westerns pick a...
Arch Patton agrees with RT!; Banking and retailing — separated by a plastic card; Must retail chief executive officers operate by lying?; How serious is employee theft?; Does your firm get the Nilson Report?; The 1983 outlook; Credit Office...
Does insensitivity underlie continuing discrimination against women; The changing population characteristics ; Why Nordstrom's must fail; Who are the market-value leaders in retailing?; Policies on figts to employees; Short shorts; The 1984...
Automated collections; Griffin Bell condones corruptness in E.F. Hutton; A specialty may be great, but it doesn’t last forever; Bad handling of numbers; Good handling of numbers; Are debit cards a good deal for retailers?; How customer-oriented...
How do you classify The Broadway?;Thanks to TRW for words we should never forget; Corporations have had it too good under the tax law; Speaking of households and families; Do we have a 5-year plan for us, the society?; Circle K operates with little...
Why draw any salary in 1987?; How many does a house hold?; Additional information on Mervyn’s; Have vs. the have not : retail style; Great recapitalization game; Financial characteristics of high-income families; Your name is for sale!; Does a...
I still think what Hechinger did was right; Can minnows live with whales?; Did you know that February is Black History Month?; It makes me wonder about GAAP and CPA’s [generally accepted accounting principles]; Which ad appeals to you most?;...
Imagine paying a retail CEO $1,000,000 a year to do this!; The cure for present dishonest pricing; Tiffany; Liars, damned liars and statisticians; I wonder what reports by impact resources tell us?; Maintaining stupidity of banks; And they expect...
Does your employment rejection letter help your image?; Vol. 25, no. 1; A new definition of 'free'; If you had been there, this is what you'd heard; Why I like California; Short shorts; Is this why department stores are failing?; A quick look at...
Is Consumers Union less ethical than department stores?; New Year resolutions -- in three parts; Phony patriotism; Where did the trees go?; Who should you thank?; May D&F v. The State of Colorado -- and it loses; Short shorts Bias' is a synonym...
Why retailers should worry about literacy; Ethics in business -- and in business school; Should you charge for parking?; No wonder retailers go broke; Short shorts; The decision makes 'cents'; When looking at the same thing, do we each see...
Should I be reading this kind of story about Penney’s?; National advertising division of The Better Business Bureau; The headline I have been waiting for: ‘Sears to spend $4 Billion to revamp stores’; What I have learned in 60 years of...
Can we retailers be proud of this?; Should you have an ombudsman?; Job stealing -- the American way; When it comes to service, the boss is not always right; My reaction to published studies; Who spends how much on advertising?; Does a deceptive...
Irresponsibility at AT&T; The high cost of interactive retailing; New Year resolutions worth repeating; Are you surrounded by "yes-men"?; More from great-grandfather Baum's diary; What is your "market value added"?; The...
What percentage of your accounts are active?; One more plea for retailers to join the; EPA's Green Lights program; New Year resolutions -- in three parts; The side of Wal-Mart that the daily and trade press doesn't report; U.S. finances retailer...
The IRS is checking on the use of LIFO inventory valuation; Does Casper Weinberger know what he's talking about; By patting itself on its back, the Federal Trade; Commission almost broke its arm!; Answering a reporter's questions; Remember when the...
Not enough retailers are active in NOD; Who will take the next step; Although this was written before Christmas…; A good turn that deserves recognition; Who coined the term "associate"?; Should we accept the conclusions of these...
How goest the Christmas season?; What has happened to Christmas?; Bad practices in strange places; 27 Attorneys General and the FTC settle with May department stores; Retailers are going broke because they don't understand English; A secret to...
Discusses the group study rooms in Bizzell Memorial Library, which students can reserve for free at the circulation desk. For more information: http://libraries.ou.edu/help/kb/?article=847
Discusses the group study rooms in Bizzell Memorial Library, which students can reserve for free at the circulation desk. For more information: http://libraries.ou.edu/help/kb/?article=847
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Oliver Twist, or The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel written by Charles Dickens. The story is about the life of an orphan boy named Oliver Twist. His mother dies giving birth to him and his father is unknown so Oliver lives a miserable...
Bleak House was the ninth novel written by Charles Dickens. He worked on it from November 1851 to August 1853. It was originally published in 20 monthly installments between March 1852 and September 1853 and is considered to be one of his best...
Mystery of Edwin Drood was the fifteenth and final novel of Charles Dickens. He worked on it from October 1869 until June 1870 but it was left unfinished when he died. The main plot tells the story of a choirmaster named John Jasper who is in...
Mystery of Edwin Drood was the fifteenth and final novel of Charles Dickens. He worked on it from October 1869 until June 1870 but it was left unfinished when he died. The main plot tells the story of a choirmaster named John Jasper who is in...
Bleak House was the ninth novel written by Charles Dickens. He worked on it from November 1851 to August 1853. It was originally published in 20 monthly installments between March 1852 and September 1853 and is considered to be one of his best...
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain is the fifth and last of Dickens's long stories with a Christmas theme. This book, which is centered around a chemist and lecturer Redlaw, is more about the spirit of the holidays than about the holidays...
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain is the fifth and last of Dickens's long stories with a Christmas theme. This book, which is centered around a chemist and lecturer Redlaw, is more about the spirit of the holidays than about the holidays...
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain is the fifth and last of Dickens's long stories with a Christmas theme. This book, which is centered around a chemist and lecturer Redlaw, is more about the spirit of the holidays than about the holidays...
A Madman's Manuscript was probably written as a short story for independent publication, but was incorporated into Pickwick Papers as part of chapter 11. Later editors include it in collections of ghost stories.
Narrated in first person, the story...
The Mystery of Edwin Drood was the fifteenth and final novel of Charles Dickens. He worked on it from October 1869 until June 1870 but it was left unfinished when he died. The main plot tells the story of a choirmaster named John Jasper who is in...
The Mystery of Edwin Drood was the fifteenth and final novel of Charles Dickens. He worked on it from October 1869 until June 1870 but it was left unfinished when he died. The main plot tells the story of a choirmaster named John Jasper who is in...
Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last novel, addresses the issues of money, social class, and human values. John Harmon, heir to his father's fortune made as a dust collector, pretends to be dead in order to find out what people thought about him. He...
Correspondence passed among investigators from September 1928 to February 1934. Letters to G.A. Pennock from Dr. Elton Mayo examined blood pressure, visits, generalizing mind for administration and societal changes; biological measures needs,...
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A resolution to pay William Roebuck $145.85, so that he can pay his daughter's tuition. Passed Senate Nov. 1, 1872. Passed House Nov. 2, 1872. Approved Nov. 4, 1872.