against Bozel(Brazilian exporter) seeking money judgement. Biddell Brothers v. Clemens Horst Facts: defendant entered into a contract to sell hops to the plaintiff in London. The seller was ready to ship and expected payment upon presentation of bill of lading. Buyer wanted samples or to inspect goods prior payment. Buyer didn’t want to accept certificate of inspection. Seller refused to ship. CIF transaction. Analysis: under CIF sales contract, the buyer(biddel) has no right to inspect the goods
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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS OUTLINE – WINTER 2005 - SPANOGLE The book is designed around three types of transactions: 1) Sale of goods across borders; 2) Transfer of technology; a. Licensing production abroad; b. Franchising. 3) Direct Foreign Investment. There are two parts to making these deals: 1) Deal-making aspect; a. Allocating risks; 2) Government regulation Decisions and Risks in Trade – Analyze for each Problem! • The language
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two houses are equal in the passage of legislation. All bills must pass through all stages in both houses; neither house can override the wishes of the other. Both must agree the same version of the bill before that bill can be sent to the president for his signature. Both houses must vote by a two-thirds majority to override a president’s veto of a bill. In 2007, congress overrode president bush’s veto of the Water Resources Development Bill. The vote in the House was 381-40 and the vote in the senate
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For example, in the world today we have a lot of public figures who may not qualified for their position but they are young and they have the energy to maintain. The first example would be Chelsea Clinton who is the daughter of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. She is a special correspondent for NBC News and works with the Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative. Can you imagine the responsibility she has as a young woman and when
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1. Describe Microsoft's overall reporting strategy. Why had the company adopted this strategy and why was the SEC concerned about it? Answer: 1) Hiding profits – The success of Microsoft provided incentives in hiding success from regulators and competitors. There is high incentive to reduce their performance given the history of the company with regulatory intervention. Therefore, the company’s policy of software capitalization occurred before serious regulatory intervention. 2) Avoiding complacency
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ways, it was difficult to reconcile the new version of myself with the old. In others, it has been a defining episode for me, setting the stage for a very different future. I never would have been able to afford college if it weren’t for the GI Bill. So when I returned from combat in Iraq in 2004, I immediately enrolled in the Sociology program at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. In retrospect, I believe that I thought that college would give me a fresh start. I hoped it would be
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99 were Democrats. All 22 southern senators were also Democrats. However the South disintegrated as statistics from the 1992 and 1996 election show that the Democrats could not even win the South with a presidential ticket made up of 2 southerners, Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Partisanship has been fuelled by the growth of partisan media outlets, gerrymandering and ideological interest groups. The increased role of partisanship has also led to an increase in party votes. The 2 mainstream parties in
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1. Fiserv’s segmentation of the market is broken down into six types of consumers, which were identified during a concept test of 2,000 representative individuals. E-savvy planners, maximizers, self-improvers, convenience seekers, desperate avoiders, and paranoid paper-pushers. Each category respectively explains consumers’ willingness to switch over to e-billing, with e-savvy planners being the most likely and paranoid paper-pushers being the least. How Fiserv expressed each type of consumer’s
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have an opinion but in the end it’s up to us to make the change for our future. The Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT) era was a time when homosexuals where not allowed to be who they where without getting in trouble. The term was coined after President Bill Clinton in 1993 signed a law (consisting of statue, regulations, and policy memoranda) directing that military personal could not openly be a homosexual in the military (Britannica, 2015). In order for Clinton to win his seat in the white House he
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What If Hillary Clinton Had Won? David C. Grof Strayer University SOC300 What If Hillary Clinton Had Won? There’s no denying, if any woman was to run for president, it should be Hillary Clinton. More women actively listened to the debates and paid attention now that there was a woman standing before them running for president. If Hillary Clinton won the presidential election of 2008, she would have shattered the glass ceiling that has kept so many women from running for president before
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