The Year Was 1998

time. The film industry was busy during the year 1998, with 20 to 30 movies being released each month, even though some may not have made it to the big screen. For the month of May, a couple movies had the highest box office profit out of the whole year. The Bugs Bunny Film Fest, released on May 4, 1998 had generated a total of $352,000 in the domestic box office (“Movies Released in 1998”). The movie with the highest production budget during the month of May, 1998 was Godzilla with a total

March 29, 1998 was just another typical day for headline news in Sioux Falls. The Argus Leader was filled with your everyday politics, sports, entertainment, weather, and life news. Eight inmates serving life sentence in the South Dakota State Penitentiary met to discuss better living conditions for all prisoners (Steen). On a more positive note, the annual Sioux Empire water festival was held at the University of Sioux Falls. Around 2,200 fourth graders, from surrounding communities, gather

delusions (Frank, 1998). According to Foster and Levinson (1998) this client has a history of mental illness leading to disordered thinking. She would struggle with this illness that consumed her life (Frank, 1998). She was known for stalking David Letterman and astronaut Story Mustgrave that ended her in several arrests, and shortly after being released from jail she committed suicide (Frank, 1998). Background information and Family History: According to Frank (1998) Ray was an honor roll student

change in accounting estimate d 2. Wriglee, Inc. went to court this year and successfully defended the brand name of its product, "Sweet Gum," from infringement by a competitor. The cost of this defense should be charged to  a. patents and amortized over the legal life of the patent.  b. legal fees and amortized over 5 years or less.  c. expenses of the period.  d. trademarks and amortized over a period not to exceed 40 years. d 3. The intangible asset goodwill may be  a. capitalized only when purchased

Oprah Winfrey: Personality Analysis Using the Cognitive-Experiential Domain Oprah Winfrey was born January 29, 1954, and is the richest African American of the 20th century (Wikipedia, Oprah Winfrey, 2007). Oprah’s talk show is the highest rated talk show in television history with an astonishing 8.4 million viewers daily (Doyle, 2007). Numerous assessments rank Winfrey as the most influential and powerful woman in the world, with a net worth over half a billion dollars (Henley, 2007). In my

(including the District of Columbia) but Alaska, and 34 are operated in Canada. Sales for fiscal year 1998 totaled nearly $2 billion. The Olive Garden currently operates 459 units in the United States, and 5 units in Canada. Gross sales for The Olive Garden totaled over $1 billion. Gross sales for all divisions of Darden Restaurants exceeded 3.2 billion dollars! Darden 's net earnings in fiscal year 1998 were just over 101 million dollars, with shareholders receiving an eight-cent dividend. There

how to deal with the problem and lessen negative expectations as was supposed to happen in the y2k reporting but unfortunately did not happen. One of the first steps the media take to make the people aware is to say the problem. The three most commonly used words for the Year 2000 Computer Moral panic in this research of the New York Times were "Year 2000 Problem," "Millennium Bug," and "Y2K." Variations of these three included "Year 2000 Bug," "Y2K Bug," and "Y2K Problem." Other says used less frequently

is semi-fossorial, spending most of its five to six year lifespan in underground burrows (United States Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS), 2011). The burrows are typically found on moist and steep north-facing slopes or in well-drained gullies; each burrow contains separate chambers for food storage, nesting, and excrement (NPS,

applied to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for a renewal of their license to operate a privately owned hydroelectric dam. Their application was denied; Edwards Manufacturing Company was required to come up with a plan for the enacting and financing of decommissioning the dam, as well as the restoration of the river. This was the first time in history that the federal government ordered a privately owned hydroelectric dam destroyed against the wishes of the owner. Numerous factors

Q 1: Evaluate Enron profit and cash flow performance during the period 1998 – 2000? Profitability Measures Enron’s reported net income grew from $703 million in 1998 to $979 million in 2000, totaling 35.1% profit growth for the three-year period. Enron was among the leading of “high performing” companies by sustaining a high earnings growth insight. However, as Table 1 indicates, Enron’s reported profits were microscopic relation to revenues. Net income did not grow at anything near the same