Babb Corporation owns 80 percent of Atley Corporation's stock and Linda owns the remaining 20 percent of Atley's stock. Babb Corporation's basis for its Atley stock is $300,000 and Linda's Atley stock has a basis of $80,000. Pursuant to a plan of complete liquidation of Atley Corporation, Babb Corporation receives property with a $400,000 adjusted basis and a $480,000 fair market value, and Linda receives property with a $130,000 adjusted basis and a $120,000 fair market value. The bases of the properties to Babb Corporation and Linda are:

Burke enterprises is considering a machine costing $30 billion that will result in initial after-tax cash savings of $3.7 billion at the end of the first year, and these savings will grow at a rate of 2 percent per year for 11 years. after 11 years, the company can sell the parts for $5 billion. burke has a target debt/equity ratio of 1.2, a beta of 1.79. you estimate that the return on the market is 7.5% and t-bills are currently yielding 2.5%. burke has two issuances of bonds outstanding. the first has 200,000 bonds trading at 98% of par, with coupons of 5%, face of $1000, and maturity of 5 years. the second has 500,000 bonds trading at par, with coupons of 7.5%, face of $1000, and maturity of 12 years. kate, the ceo, usually applies an adjustment factor to the discount rate of +2 for such highly innovative projects. should the company take on the project?

Summarize the specific methods used by interest groups in order to influence governmental decisions making in all three branches of government. provide at least two examples from each branch.

Arestaurant that creates a new type of sandwich is using (blank) as a method of competition.