In the 1970’s business world there were no “Stakeholders,” there were only owners, employees, vendors, and clients. Each group had to represent and comport themselves as such. In the tour d’force below, Mike lays down the law. Davis reminds everyone that he owns the company and that he has standards. Standards must be followed. No liquor on site. Keep the workplace clean. Hire good people. Pay them well. Take care of yourself. Take care of the equipment. We are here to work, not be friends. This is true in every business, why not just say so? Why keep up the charade to the contrary?
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Ar nenogurstošo Rietumu nopelšanu un revizionismu Jaša Levins ir sevišķi kaitinošs, jo tādi ir visi, kas zāģē zaru uz kura sēž vai apdzied lielo padomju "tautu brālību". Tomēr, ja atsijā kaitniecisko ideoloģiju, izklāstītie fakti ir interesanti paši par sevi, pat ja tos vērtē pilnīgi pretēji — viens kā pierādījumu Rietumu ļaunuma impērijai, otrs kā vēlamu parādību. Tostarp, tas sniedz labu ieskatu ASV "lawfare" caur t.s. "Jackson–Vanik amendment".
Soviet Jews were seen as a means to an end. We were seen as a weapon.( ... tālāk ... )
The US government’s push to liberate Soviet Jews is not normally seen as an attempt to leverage and weaponize nationalist identity against the Soviet Union — but that is precisely what it was.
In the 1960s and 70s, a Jewish nationalist and cultural movement began to take off organically in the Soviet Union. It was highly illegal and started out in secrecy. People went to jail for it and had their lives destroyed. But it kept growing. Combined with USSR’s systemic antisemitism, repression of Jewish culture and language, and a crackdown on activists who wanted to emigrate to Israel, this cultural and nationalist awaking began to congeal into a small but committed anti-communist and anti-Soviet movement — with its own underground samizdats, leaders, and organizations.
Israel was the first to offer covert support for the movement in the hopes of using Soviet Jewish immigration as an untapped demographic weapon against what its leaders saw as the Palestinian population threat.
But in America people had much grander plans for it.
Tangible common equity (TCE) is an uncommonly used measure of a company's financial strength. It indicates how much ownership equity owners of common stock would receive in the event of a company's liquidation. During the financial and economic crisis of 2008–2009, it gained public popularity as a measure of the viability of large commercial banks. TCE, when used in a ratio with tangible common assets, is a measure of a bank's ability to absorb losses (e.g., homeowners defaulting on mortgages) before becoming insolvent. It is one of the factors considered by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to determine if a bank has become insolvent.
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