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Check out www.privateerbook.com. Privateer is the untold story of
MAXIMUS, the largest social welfare privatization firm in America.
Find out how a one-person startup evolved into a powerful New York
Stock Exchange company that challenged government labor unions and
forever changed the way entitlement programs are managed. The book
is written for entrepreneurs building a business, politicians and
and government officials seeking reform, citizens concerned with
government entitlement programs, and academicians teaching business
and public administration. The book presents lessons learned in the
real world of government contracting, explaining how MAXIMUS
survived intense competition, highly political environments, and
hostile government unions to achieve success. MAXIMUS grew at the
astonishing rate of 36.5% over a 29 year period, each year earning
a profit and never going into debt. Learn how numerous stall points
on the growth curve were overcome to achieve rapid growth. The
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as well as England, Canada, and Australia. MAXIMUS staff have
replaced thousands of government workers to provide more efficient,
effective and compassionate services to people in need. Today
MAXIMUS is a mid cap stock with some 9,000 employees worldwide.
Take a critical view of the institutions that affect our
everyday lives with this extended essay. The most important of
these is the modern-day corporation, which continues to resist
social control despite an ability to adapt to the environment like
no other entity in human history.
Corporations continue to explode with power, and religious,
educational, and governmental organizations are looking to them as
examples. An increasing number of entities are learning how to
conduct themselves by looking at their corporate counterparts, and,
as a result, they're no longer fulfilling their true purposes.
Author Francis X. Healy Jr. examines the implications of these
disturbing developments. Discover why institutions continue to miss
expectations, why society suffers as a result of corporate models,
and how money and power interact in problematic ways.
The pursuit of money and power is stifling the true purposes of
institutions with honorable objectives. Many groups that once
carried at least a facade of being above it all are now stuck in
the moneypower continuum; if something doesn't change soon, the
consequences will be devastating.
The story of Tasmania's most controversial forestry giant, the
corruption that gave it power and the forces that brought it down.
At its peak, Gunns Ltd had a market value of $1 billion, was listed
on the ASX 200, was the largest employer in the state of Tasmania
and was its largest private landowner. Most of its profits came
from woodchipping, mainly from clear-felled old-growth forests. A
pulp mill in Tasmania's Tamar Valley was central to its expansion
plans. Gunns' collapse in 2012 was a major national news story, as
was the arrest of its CEO for insider trading. Quentin Beresford
illuminates for the first time the dark corners of the Gunns empire
and how it was embedded in an anti-democratic and corrupt system of
power supported by both main parties, business and unions.
Simmering opposition to Gunns and all it stood for ramped up into
an environmental campaign not seen since the Franklin Dam protests.
Fearless and forensic in its analysis, the book shows that
Tasmania's decades-long quest to industrialise nature fails every
time.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1902 Edition.
Why do we seem to have so little money? Why is our nation 17
trillion dollars in debt? How much IS $17,000,000,000,000? If that
debt were to be divided equally among every U.S. citizen we would
all pay more than $45,000 in debt To whom is this debt owed? Some
of it is owed to China and other nations. The majority is owed to
the Federal Reserve Bank. President Kennedy and President Lincoln
both attempted to place the U.S. Congress in charge of our money.
Both were assassinated. We seem to make no connection between their
economic policies and their assassination. The U.S. Constitution
states clearly that the government is to issue our money. Why does
our money come to us in the form of a Federal Reserve Note? a debt
the U.S. Government owes to the Federal Reserve Bank? A large part
of our debt is war related. The two major World Wars in the last
100 years resulted in huge multinational central banks that control
the economy of much of the world. The book looks at the social
teachings of two Popes (Leo XIII and John Paul II). They both spoke
strongly against exploitation of workers and unjust economic
systems. Originally the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim faiths all
outlawed usury. Today only the Muslim faith continues to ban usury.
The book looks at Native American philosophy which taught that no
one may own the resources of the earth, they are a common WEALTH,
They exist for the benefit of all the people. It mentions Estonia
and Bolivia have passed legislation which states clearly that these
elements are common WEALTH and must be used for the benefit of all.
The book also looks at many groups of people who are working to
make the world a little better for us all. It ends with a request
for more people to help make the world a little better for us all.
In September 2013, the Goodreads book reviewing site, which had
previously operated a strict policy of free speech, began censoring
reviews. The reviewers fought back, and the conflict was soon being
reported in the mainstream media. This is the story of what
happened, told in the protesters' own words.
2012 Reprint of Original 1951 Edition. Two Volumes bound in one.
Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with
Optical Recognition Software. The purpose of these volumes is to
offer further evidence of the authors thesis that business leaders
are the controlling element in economic development because they
"determine its spirit and its strategy by making its major
decisions." This volume and its predecessor are first rate history.
Bank management, private banking, investment banking and
competition in the money market, topics barely mentioned in other
banking histories, are discussed with fine precision. The author
has an unusual command of the foreign literature on money and
banking and continually sees American practices against a world
background. Not only for bankers, both theoretical and practical,
but for all students of economic history, "The Molding of American
Banking" is required history.
Everyone loves to WIN.Winning connotes a competitive spirit, a rise
to thetop, and that supreme feeling of accomplishment.Mankind has
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WIN So... "What are we winning in this book?"This book uses the
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Winning. We havetherefore included a select group of people who
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In Portland, Oregon, coffee is more than just a beverage, it is an
essential part of the city's character. Under oft-gray skies,
independent roasters and cafes flourish, providing a wide array of
styles and tastes for discerning Portlanders to choose from. The
celebrated Portland coffee culture attracts visitors from around
the world, who come to explore the diverse options and find
inspiration for bringing great coffee to their own cities. In
Caffeinated PDX: How Portland became the Best Coffee City in
America, author Will Hutchens tells the stories of the people and
companies that pushed Portland to the forefront of the specialty
coffee scene. He travels around the city, talking to a wide variety
of coffee professionals and capturing their passion for roasting,
selling, and brewing some of the finest coffees in the world. He
attends cuppings, goes to barista school, and volunteers at barista
competitions to better understand what's so special about specialty
coffee. Using Portland as the model, Hutchens also explains the
phenomenon known as third-wave coffee, a worldwide movement to
improve coffee quality from origin to cup. Full of anecdotes and
insights into the minds of Portland's coffee leaders, as well as
some lesser-known personalities, Caffeinated PDX is an enjoyable
read for people who love coffee, for people who love Portland, or
for anyone who appreciates a good story.
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