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social work

(Encyclopedia) social work, organized effort to help individuals and families to adjust themselves to the community, as well as to adapt the community to the needs of such persons and families.…

Ty Warner, 1999 News

59?, toy executive, shocked millions of children and parents when he announced on his Web site in August that he plans to retire all Beanie Babies on Dec. 31, 1999. No one was quite sure if…

Sergey Brin and Larry Page, 2004 News

founders of Google, the phenomenally popular search engine, positioned themselves to be billionaires several times over when in April they announced plans to take their company public. They…

Jonathan Lebed, 2000 News

15, high-school student, earned at least $250,000 in six months in an online “pump and dump” stock scheme in which he bought thinly traded stocks, promoted them on Internet message boards,…

The Devil's Dictionary: Economy

by Ambrose Bierce ECCENTRICITYEDIBLEECONOMY -n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.

Steve Case, 2003 News

executive, resigned as chairman of AOL Time Warner in January amid falling stock prices and the attendant dissatisfaction of shareholders. Case had masterminded the 2001 merger of AOL and…

The Federalist Papers: Federalist No. 11

by AlexanderHamilton, JamesMadison and JohnJayFederalist No. 10Federalist No. 12Federalist No. 11 The Utility of the Union in Respect to Commercial Relations and a Navy To the…

Saudi Arabia Department of State Background

U.S. Department of State Background Note Saudi Arabia Index: People History Government and Political Conditions Economy Foreign Relations U.S.-Saudi Arabian Relations PEOPLESaudi Arabia's 2007…