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- 61: The Anti-Trust Case Against Microsoft
- ... just as well with more than one standard. Along the same lines, there are quite a few other industries that can get along without one standard. Take for instance the automobile industry. If you accepted the idea that one standard was best for everyone involved, then you would never be tempted to purchase a BMW, Lexus, Infiniti, Saab or Porsche automobile, due to the fact that these cars all have less than one percent market share in the automobile industry and therefore will never be standards. Probably the biggest proponent of government intervention into the Microsoft issue is Netscape Communications, based out of Mountain View, California. Netscape has ...
- 62: General Motors - Financial Ratio Analysis
- General Motors - Financial Ratio Analysis I. General Motors History Highlights In its early years the automobile industry consisted of hundreds of firms, each producing a few models. William Durant, who bought and reorganized a failing Buick Motors in 1904, determined that if several automobile makers would unite, it would increase the protection for the group. He formed the General Motors Company in Flint, Michigan, in 1908. Durant had bought 17 companies (including Oldsmobile, Cadillac ... joint venture's first car was the Chevy Nova. GM bought Ross Perot's Electronic Data Systems (1984) and Hughes Aircraft (1986). In 1989 the company bought 50% of Saab Automobile. In 1990 GM launched Saturn, its first new nameplate since 1926, reflecting a new companywide emphasis on quality. Two years later it made the largest stock offering in US ...
- 63: The Life of Henry Ford
- ... It produced 4 horsepower. His machine had 2 speeds, 10 and 20 miles an hour, and had a tiller-type steering gear. (Nevins, 116) This was Henry Ford's first automobile and he built it in 1893. That same year, their son Edsel was born. Word went around that a queer man was driving a queer contraption around Detroit. He had ... whatever was handy - a piece of a tin can or old shoe leather. (Herndon, 176) Everything was going great until Henry found himself involved in a lawsuit. A group of automobile manufacturers were prosecuting him for violating the Selden patent. Selden, who was a patent attorney, had aquired a patent in 1895 for producing "a safe, simple, and cheap road locomotive ... I'll fight it to the last ditch!" Henry told his stockholders with determination. (Neyhart, 127) After several years of battle, Henry won a complete victory in 1911. The other automobile manufacturers were as relieved as Henry. It meant that they could stop paying royalties. Members of the association who had been Henry's enemies now praised him. By now, ...
- 64: History of the Automotive Industry and Ford Motor Company
- ... enough to expand their business. Henry Ford changed that when he introduced the assembly line. This both increased production speed and decreased cost. This idea of mass production revolutionized the automobile industry. Soon all of the top auto producers would have a assembly line of their own. The lower costs and faster delivery meant a lower price, and the average family ... first gasoline-engine-propelled motor vehicle. This marked the very beginning of the automotive industry. In 1896, Henry Ford built his first motor vehicle: the "Quadricycle." The Quadricycle was an automobile with a two- cylinder, four-horsepower engine. This invention was what marked the beginning of a legacy. In 1908, Ford introduced the Model T (Chandler 23). The Model T was the most successful automobile in the country. This success was due to the assembly line that Henry Ford invented. This approach not only lowered the production costs but also increased the amount of ...
- 65: Enviromental Science Profit Or
- ... We just grumble occasionally about the price, then pay and drive off until the tank hits empty, requiring us to return. For the past century the petroleum industry and the automobile industry have grown almost as one, industry dependent on each other in the pursuit of profits. Rumors over the years have reported that the petroleum industry has kept new innovative ... gives you more power. They also play on the convenience of their stores by selling unrelated products such as groceries. The industry has changed only to meet economic needs. The automobile industry has also done little to comply with a growing attitude of change. With stricter pollution standards hovering over combustion engines, they continue trying to perfect hundred year old technologies ... as long as petroleum consumption continues to rise from millions of automobiles put on the road each year. The advances we make to curb consumption and pollution are offset by automobile industries desire to produce more and profit. These dilemmas will persist as long as the auto and petroleum industries continue making each other money. So is it Environment or ...
- 66: Fine Automobiles (persuasive)
- ... of what the cavemen of the past thought about, such as the sun. So, now that the sun is no big deal, what is? The eye catching object is the automobile. That is man's current attraction, even if that attraction lasts for a split second. Today a car is practically a necessity, not an absolute one, yet with the nature ... Cars are safer than ever before. With crash safety devices such as multiple airbags and crush zones to ensure survival it's tough to think of purchasing a less safe automobile. Despite the flashy appearance of some of the popular autos, makers are becoming quite a bit more sensible to the demand for better safety technology. This demand has been and ...
- 67: Description For The Existance
- ... If everywhere in the cosmos hydrogen is being consumed and if the process has been going on forever, how much hydrogen should be left? Suppose I attempt to drive my automobile without putting any more gas (fuel) into it. As I drive and drive, what is eventually going to happen? I am going to run out of gas I If the ... a beginning! ! A third scientific proof that the atheist is wrong is seen in the second law of thermodynamics. In any closed system, things tend to become disordered. If an automobile is driven for years and years without repair, for example, it will become so disordered that it would not run any more. Getting old is simple conformity to the second ...
- 68: Great Gatsby - Dreams
- ... his bedroom and it is described as empty compared to the rest of the house, which his guest see. Other symbols of great status in the 1920's was the automobile. In the novel we are told that Gatsby has five cars. He gives a car to Nick and one kills Myrtle Wilson later in the book. Gatsby's favorite yellow ... a sort of leather conservatory way we started towards town.3 The cars which he believed could bring happiness from materialism, eventually ended up being destructive to his happiness. The automobile ended up being the object which kills Myrtle and indirectly leads to Gatsby's murder. Another way that Gatsby uses materialism to achieve idealism id through his appearance. When Gatsby ...
- 69: Altered States
- ... their minds slightly out of kilter. In its attempt to cope with the modern life, the human mind seems to have evolved some defense strategies. Confronted with inventions like the automobile, the television, and the shopping center, for example the mind will slip--al by itself--into an altered state. First of all, the mind must now cope with the automobile. In the past no human being ever sat for hours at a time, the the same position, staring at endless white lines and matched pairs of small red tail lights ...
- 70: The Oldsmobile Cuttlass
- ... era was far behind so was the 4-4-2, and so end the legond of that beast. The early seventies proved to be interesting years for oldsmobile and all automobile manufactorers alike. In these years oldsmobile decided to go with the more luxurious look and drive, so they lengthened the body and added some things. There is not much I ... in 98' 99' when the legacy and savior of oldsmobile was retired and replaced by the alero. I hope that you have gotten a little more knowledge about this certain automobile and can now say that you know about that car when you see it on the road next time. Thank you for taking the time to read it.
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