Chapter 9 Index

Accounting principles and standards

American values

“American Welfare”

Competitive advantage, identifying sources of

Conservative fiscal management policies

Corporate restructurings and leveraged buy-outs

Criminal aliens

Darwin, Charles

Destiny, meaning, purpose, vision

Foreign aid

Foreign corporations doing business in America

Free-trade policies

Government

applying three-step value-delivery process to

as part of solution

as value-delivery system

privatizing operations and downsizing of

reinventing

Immigration

Inflation

Infrastructure

Inventory

as asset

as liability

carrying costs of

Inventory buildup, as most common cause of economic cycles

Isolationism, protectionism

Japan, Japanese

Keynesian Economic Theories

Labor unions

opportunity of

Leadership

selection criteria

“Made in USA”

Mexico

Middle-Eastern Oil, world dependence on

National apprentice program

National course of study

Non-citizens

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

Pacific Rim, West Coast

Pensions and health care programs

Permanent Capital-Gains Tax Credit

Public education

national apprentice program vs vocational training

national course of study

“Public Servants”

Regulatory bureaucracy and frivolous lawsuits

Sandy, William

Sandy’s Leadership Selection Criteria

Science and technical education

Shakespeare, William

King Lear

Sources of competitive advantage, identifying

Supreme Court justices, term limits on

Tax code

as pro-investment, pro-savings, pro-success, pro-work

foreign corporations and

Trooper

Value

draining nation of

electing competent leaders who add

Values

Welfare

jobs programs and