.... to facilitate the conduct of business among the three countries, has been a benefit to Canada-U.S.-Mexico trade. The continent- wide transportation system that binds this market together is efficient and cost-effective. Carriers of all modes are investing in more sophisticated technology and entering into strategic alliances to improve service. Border crossings are becoming easier. Canada provides an ideal location for serving the entire North American market. Companies based in Canada have preferred access to a market of 380 million people, with a combined Gross Dom .....

.... branching off into full brokerage services. For example, the brokerage firms for CIBC, Royal Bank, Toronto Dominion Bank, Bank of Nova Scotia and Bank of Montreal are Wood Gundy, RBC Dominion, Evergreen, Scotia McLeod and Nesbitt Burns respectively. In addition, the aforementioned chartered banks have also branched into the discount brokerage sector. As of December 1994, the Securities Industry as a whole included 158 firms, directly employs over 24,000 people, has operating revenue of $5.1 Billion and operating profit of $1.2 Billion (Appendix A). Within this industry the l .....

.... was set at 1.7 percent and most economists don’t expect this to rise above two for this year. Some are even Considering deflation to be the next step. In 1949 and 1955 were the only two other times that the CPI has declined. Despite this obstacle some believe it is a remote possibility. Jane Bryant Quinn reported the pluses of the deflation. “When labor productivity rises-up 2.4 percent by most recent count-prices can fall by the same amount, with benevolent effects. Under this scenario, wages would probably stay the same or rise a bit. But things cost l .....

.... enter the market, they may be of a better quality and even cheaper than the national ones. Now, the consumers will have more possibilities to choose from and, it is very probbable that they will choose the cheaper and brand new products. So, if national producers don´t do anything in order to improve thier products, then they will be in danger of going to bankruptcy. As a result of this, the national products have to seek, as I said before, for cheaper costs and better products. When this occurrs, then national products are ready (or at least have more possibilities) to .....

.... can be found in the Bibliography. 3.0 Findings The Japanese business culture has been described by Beedham as a culture that acts like a clan, in that there is a large amount of authority given to the man at the top, and in the commitment that is shown by the people around him, Beedham points out that this can be evident in the way that their car factories, investment banks and government ministries are ran. This clan-like-behaviour has the effect of making decision making painfully slow, with compromises having to be met in all directions, but this is starting to change, .....

.... conditions could be discussed. If workers in the factory have no heat, no lunch breaks or they are not allowed to speak, (which was the case in many sweatshops for immigrants and children in the 1920's through 1940's), then the labor unions will obviously want something done. These differences are usually settled fairly quickly, and a new contract featuring these agreements will be realized . Most contracts are in operation for about 3 to 5 years. Then, negotiations begin again. This is how labor- management relations go in a perfect world. But, obviously, this is not .....

.... Wal-Marts officers, they have been known to say very contradictory things for instance: Wal-Mart's founder Sam Walton once said "If some community, for whatever reason, doesn't want us in there, we aren't interested in going in and creating a fuss." or is the VP of Wal-Mart once stated, "‘We have so many opportunities for building in communities that want Wal-Marts, it would be foolish of us to pursue construction in communities that don't want us." If you raise a good argument then you have something to stand on. According to Albert Norman in his article Eight Ways to .....

.... family. She started a business of making Pumpkin Tarts and selling them to everyone. It was a big hit out there in Arizona. They would even take the tarts out to the fields to sell them to the labors (workers). My Grandmas Brother helped out to support his family; everyday after school he would work down at the grocery store. Mostly everyone in the family had some type of job to help keep the family going and working at there hardest to maintain the money situation. While all this was occuring the main thing that kept them alive was the food. Back then during the day .....