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E916 Struck accidentally by falling object; E917 Striking against or struck accidentally by objects or persons; E918 Caught accidentally in or between objects; E919 Accidents caused by machinery; E920 Accidents caused by cutting and piercing instruments or objects; E921 Accident caused by explosion of pressure vessel
The Onion Futures Act is a United States law banning the trading of futures contracts on onions as well as "motion picture box office receipts". [1]In 1955, two onion traders, Sam Siegel and Vincent Kosuga, cornered the onion futures market on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
In economics, the cost-of-production theory of value is the theory that the price of an object or condition is determined by the sum of the cost of the resources that went into making it. The cost can comprise any of the factors of production (including labor, capital, or land) and taxation .
Capital strike is the practice of businesses withholding any form of new investment in an economy, in order to attain some form of favorable policy. [1] Capital strikes may arise from the determination that return on investment may be low or nonexistent or from the belief that by withholding investment certain political or economic changes may be achieved—or from a combination of the two.
The basic idea of an accumulator contract is that the buyer speculates a company will trade between a certain price range (the range between the strike and the knock out price) within the contract period, and the issuer bets that stock will fall below the strike price.
Industrial action (British English) or job action (American English) is a temporary show of dissatisfaction by employees—especially a strike or slowdown or working to rule—to protest against bad working conditions or low pay and to increase bargaining power with the employer and intended to force the employer to improve them by reducing productivity in a workplace.
People looking to save money for a big trip or financial investment may want to make plans around an "extra" paycheck in their pocket.. Employees who get paid on a biweekly basis (every other week ...
Women workers at the Works Progress Administration on strike in 1936.. A sit-down strike (or simply sitdown) is a labour strike and a form of civil disobedience in which an organized group of workers, usually employed at factories or other centralized locations, take unauthorized or illegal possession of the workplace by "sitting down" at their stations. [1]