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COMMONWEALTH VERSUS HUNT: A notable court case, decided by the Massachusetts Supreme Court in 1842, that declared labor unions were not illegal, which had been the existing interpretation of the law up to that time. This court case paved the way for the U.S. labor union movement, which continued in force for the next 100 years. While this case established the legality of a labor union, union activities (such as strikes) were not necessarily legal. This was much like making it legal to own a gun, but not legal to shot someone.
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP A special sort of human effort that takes on the risk of bringing labor, capital, and land together and organizing production. This is one of four basic categories of resources, or factors of production. The other three are labor, capital, and land.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a flea market wanting to buy either a flower arrangement in a coffee cup for your father or a how-to book on meeting people. Be on the lookout for strangers with large satchels of used undergarments.
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The portrait on the quarter is a more accurate likeness of George Washington than that on the dollar bill.
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"We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective. " -- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
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