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000 Square Miles Hundreds Of Years
1,778 wordsIt can be argued (convincingly) that human's usage of fossil fuels is responsible for a large part of the world's pollution problems. The area that I will discuss is the interaction that the big oil companies have had with the environment surrounding their businesses in Alaska. I will not tackle the issue of whether it is right or wrong to extract or use fossil fuels. Instead, I will ignore the larger issue and concentrate on specific issues concerning the Arctic Slope activities of oil companie...
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Collapse Of The Aral Sea
768 wordsThe breakup of the Former Soviet Union has forced those now independent states into a state of confusion. Republics that were once one nation now are separate governments. They now must compete for trade alliances, industrial resources, financial resources, and most importantly, agricultural resources. An area of developed concern is the Aral Sea. The Aral Sea was once the fourth largest lake in the world, located in Kazakstan and Uzbekistan, but between 1960 and 1990, the Aral Sea dropped into ...
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000 Square Miles Sugar Industry
455 wordsThe United States entered the arena of capitalism as a world power after the Spanish-American War in 1898. After having routed Spain the United States secured undisputed control of the American Mediterranean -- the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. Puerto Rico was annexed. A protectorate was established over Cuba. In Cuba there is invested about $ 1, 000, 000, 000 of American capital in the sugar industry alone. This is 60 percent of the total capitalization of the sugar industry. Fully 85 perce...
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000 Square Miles Hoover Dam
1,178 wordsThe Colorado River, one of the greatest natural wonders of the world, is a river of many different extremes, from the barren deserts of Mexico to the huge mountains of Colorado. This great river is born about 10, 000 feet in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and flows southwest for 1, 470 miles to the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez) in Mexico. It is the international boundary for 17 miles between Arizona and Mexico. Before the construction of a number of dams along its route, it flowed 80 miles...
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Puerto Rico Home Depot
903 wordsHome Depot stores offer a broad assortment of merchandise and services, and serve three primary customer groups: do-it-yourself customers, do-it-for-me customers and professional customers. A typical Home Depot store stocks approximately 40, 000 to 50, 000 product items, including variations in color and size. Major product groups include building materials, lumber and millwork; plumbing, electrical and kitchen; hardware and seasonal, and paint, flooring and wall coverings. To complement the nat...
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000 Square Miles Acid Rain
1,060 wordsThe Adirondacks are a group of mountains surrounded by many lakes and rivers, that cover over 5, 000 square miles in the northeastern part of New York. There are a lot of large tourist villages on every lake. Motor boating and other water activities take place on almost every lake in the area. It is a vacation paradise for thousands. But, industrial emissions from Canada and the Ohio river valley always drift to this area and cause acid rain. This silent killer is destroying these beautiful lake...
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Walt Disney Company Theme Park
1,641 words... ney Company had to abide by the laws of France. An issue which the French were against was the installation of sprinklers in the hotels (McIntyre, 1990 b). Such an installation is not mandated by French law. The French believe the sprinklers are not necessary since .".. their hotels are built with superior construction, building materials and compartmentalization, and are equipped with smoke alarms that would quickly summon firefighters" (McIntyre, 1990 b, p. 143). 2 Thus, since Euro Disneyl...
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Company Profile Of The Home Depot
1,661 wordsANALYSIS # 1 1. COMPANY BACKGROUND The Home Depot Inc. was founded in 1978 and is the worlds largest home improvement retailer and the second largest retailer in the United States. The sales for the fiscal year 2000 were $ 45. 7 billion, compared to $ 38. 4 billion in fiscal 1999. As of January 2001, the company was operating 1, 134 retail stores in forty-seven states, six Canadian provinces, Puerto Rico, Chile and Argentina. Home Depot stores sell a wide assortment of building materials, home i...
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Wal Mart Square Feet
470 wordsFACTS- Kmart was formed in the late 1950 's to challenge new forms of discount stores. They are a descendant of an organization Sebastian S. Kresge. The average Kmart store is around 100, 000 square feet. In 1987 Kmart was the largest discount retailer in the United States. They currently have 2, 223 stores and last year they had over $ 25 billion in sales which is nearly double that of Wal-Mart. In 1991 they opened their Kmart superstores. The superstore is a 150, 000 square feet and is expecte...
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000 Years Ago Papua New Guinea
1,657 wordsOceania is a collective name for the islands scattered throughout most of the Pacific Ocean. The term, in its widest sense, embraces the entire insular region between Asia and the Americas. A more common definition excludes the Ryukyu, Kuril, and Aleutian islands and the Japan archipelago. The most popular usage delimits Oceania further by eliminating Indonesia, Taiwan, and the Philippines, because the peoples and cultures of those islands are more closely related historically to the Asian mainl...
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Takes Advantage Square Feet
1,514 wordsBuilding Cost Comparison: Historical Tax Credit vs. New Construction For the construction companies there is often an issue raised of whether or not to start a new construction or to renovate some historically existing building. This issue has many variables that need to be figured out in order for the correct solution to be found. There usually is a special team of researchers who analyse the situation before the project and than give their critical opinion as of what to do more convenient. Pha...
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German Workers Party World War Ii
2,034 wordsThe rise of Adolf Hitler to the position of dictator of Germany is the story of a frenzied ambition that plunged the world into the worst war in history. Only an army corporal in World War I, Hitler became Germany's chancellor 15 years later. He was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau-am-Inn, Austria, of German descent. His father Alois was the illegitimate son of Maria Anna Schicklgruber. In middle age Alois took the name Hitler from his paternal grandfather. After two wives had died Alois marri...
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U S Citizens War With Mexico
2,267 wordsJames Polk: Young Hickory and Dark-Horse Polk was born on a farm in Mecklenburg county, N. C. , on Nov. 2, 1795, the oldest of the ten children of Samuel and Jane Knox Polk. The Polk's had moved from Pennsylvania a generation earlier, among the first pioneer settlers in that part of North Carolina. James great-uncle, Thomas Polk, was the most prominent leader in the community. His maternal grandfather, James Knox, was a farmer and a blacksmith who had distinguished himself in the Continental Arm...
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000 Square Miles Rain Forest
1,266 wordsIn 1980, the estimated amount of rain forests in the world was 40, 000 square miles. This number decreases each year by roughly 1, 000 square miles due to construction and the resources being used for profit. It is too bad, because the rain forest is one of the most beautiful places on earth. It is the most diverse, containing the most species of living things, much more than anywhere else, and most have yet to be identified. All rain forests are located on earths green belt, that is, the area r...
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Wal Mart Square Feet
476 wordsFACTS- Kmart Kmart Corporation KMART CORPORATION FACTS- Kmart was formed in the late 1950 s to challenge new forms of discount stores. They are a descendant of an organization Sebastian S. Kresge. The average Kmart store is around 100, 000 square feet. In 1987 Kmart was the largest discount retailer in the United States. They currently have 2, 223 stores and last year they had over $ 25 billion in sales which is nearly double that of Wal-Mart. In 1991 they opened their Kmart superstores. The sup...
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