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The Antitrust Case Against Microsoft
424 wordsThe Anti-Trust Case Against Microsoft By Corporate Watch writing this article "Microsoft: One World Operating System" (web). A battle is raging in the United States Courts with the Microsoft Corporation. The federal government maintains that Microsoft's monopolistic practices are harmful to United States citizens creating higher prices and potentially downgrading software quality and should be stopped while Microsoft and its supporters claim that they are not breaking any laws and are just doing...
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One Of The First Compton Interactive
1,504 wordsThe Chinese have long since been an enterprising group of people. Long before the introduction of Western technologies and ideas, this country has had a history of local industry dating back some 2000 years. These innovative people, from an early time, produced paper, gunpowder, and silk, and printing with one of the first movable type. In all, the manufacture of luxury items, fine handcrafts, metal crafting and the manufacture of tools were all well established businesses long before the onset ...
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Millions Of Dollars
2,556 wordsCars that go 5, 000 miles between fill-ups, electric power plants you buy like appliances, a world with radically reduced pollution, and a better standard of living... Sounds like a sci-fi pipe dream - if it weren't for all these automobile and power companies spending billions to make it real. by Jacques Leslie I'm at the headquarters of Ballard Power Systems in Burnaby, a suburb of Vancouver, and my big fuel cell moment is about to occur. Following the example of the premier of British Columbi...
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Death Row Inmates Sentenced To Death
1,284 words... ate with McVeigh's fingerprint, and the rented Ryder truck used for the bombing. Other examples of criminals who have suffered capital punishment include Rolando Cruz and another Chicago man. They were both sentenced to death in 1985 for the abduction, death, and murder of a ten-year-old little girl named Jeanine Nicarico. Because the prosecution had based its case on a vision statement, the conviction was overturned. There was another man who had actually confessed to the murder, however, h...
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World Trade Centre Museum Of Modern
1,847 words... fields. The operational engine for the success of the project is a successful communication of the concepts of the project. Randic-Turato Production, 1992 - 2000 top During the last 8 years, the Randic-Turato office has produced previously unfathomable quantities of work: 31 projects, 25 urban design studies / master plans and 19. All of these works have been produced within an environment of a think-tank workshop. In the atmosphere of the workshop, the quality of the idea was much more impo...
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Blue Green Large Amounts
1,446 wordsStreams, rivers, lakes, and wetlands contain a large part of our precious fresh water. Unfortunately they also act like drains, and everything we leave lying around ends up in them acids, mercury, cadmium, and lead from industry and other resources; soil from logging operations; phosphorus and nitrogen from detergents; sewage, petrol, oil, plastic bags, aluminum cans and paper from roads and parks the list is never ending. More often than not, the results are catastrophic. Being thoroughly discu...
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Death Penalty Capital Punishment
864 wordsThe earliest historical records contain evidence of capital punishment. It was mentioned in the Code of Hammurabi. The bible prescribed death as the penalty for more than 30 different crimes, ranging from murder to fornication. The Draconian code of ancient Greece imposed capital punishment for every offense. Efforts to abolish the death penalty did not gather momentum until the end of the 18 th century; in England and America this reform was led by the Quakers. In Europe, a short treatise, On C...
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Shifting Technology From Pagers To Cellular Phones
1,159 words... difference between analog and digital cellular? Commercials about a 100 % digital network scream from the TV. Print advertisements' black ink blare the magic of "digital" wireless services. More and more wireless services are touting the benefits of an all digital network. So what exactly is the big deal with digital and how does it compare to analog cellular technology? Here's a look at where digital and its predecessor cellular technology came from and where's it going so you can decide if...
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York Oxford University Interest Rates
1,123 words... t. However, in the 1990 's, public savings had increased remarkably, showing a 1993 surplus of almost 164 billion baht which steadily increased to a reported 362 billion baht in 1997. Unfortunately, outstanding debt, a great deal of which was foreign-owned, had also grown significantly, from $ 52 billion in 1993 to over $ 90 billion in 1996. In the same period, the average maturity for outstanding debt declined from 22. 1 years [ 1990 ] to 18. 4 years [ 1996 ], indicating a shift from a long...
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Cruise Lines Joint Venture
1,469 wordsCarnival (NYSE: CCL) is the largest and most popular cruise line in the world, with 16 "Fun Ships" operating voyages of 2 to 17 days in length to the Bahamas, Caribbean, Mexico, Alaska, Hawaii, the Panama Canal, New England, the Canadian Maritimes, Bermuda, and Europe. The company currently has five new "Fun Ships " two 88, 500 -ton "Spirit-" and three 110, 000 -ton "Conquest-class" vessels with an estimated value of $ 2. 2 billion US scheduled for delivery between now and 2004. Online Article T...
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Balance Of Payments Largest
2,399 wordsBrazil earned the reputation of being a? miracle economy? in the late 1960 s when double-digit annual growth rates were recorded and the structure of the economy underwent rapid change. Since 1981, however, Brazil? s economic performance has been poor in comparison to its potential. The country? s dramatic reduction in output growth, which averaged an annual GDP growth of only 1. 5 percent over 1980 - 93, reflected its inability to respond to the events of the late 1970 s and 1980 s. Some events...
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Criminal Justice System Violent Crimes
1,133 wordsDecreasing Trends in Crime by Chris Nicholson Ten years ago, crime was on the rise across the nation. It was a situation seemingly beyond control. Then, starting in the early 1990 s, the trend began to turn around. Crime rates began to drop, slowly at first, but with more notable decreases each following year. This new development promises renewed opportunities for urban areas torn by violence and lawlessness. City streets are gradually becoming safer and citizens can enjoy an improved quality o...
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Million Metric Tons Iron Ore
1,556 wordsIndia is located in the southern part of Asia and is also south of the Himalayan Mountains. This southern peninsula has the largest mineral deposits and the largest cultivable land in the continent. The population of India is critically large and although nearly all people are Hindu, some are of other religious denominations. The life of the Indian people is usually ruled by their caste system, but the system is not as firm as it was years ago. India has a mixed economy. The different elements o...
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World War Ii Communist Parties
743 wordsPhilosophy of Fascism Fascism, Philosophy of government that glorifies the nation-state at the expense of the individual. Major concepts of fascism include opposition to democratic and socialist movements; racist ideologies, such as anti-Semitism; aggressive military policy; and belief in an authoritarian leader who embodies the ideals of the nation. Fascism generally gains support by promising social justice to discontented elements of the working and middle classes, and social order to powerfu...
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13 Th Amendment Genetically Engineered
1,829 wordsGenetic Faltering Regenerating extinct species, engineering babies that are born without vital body organs, this is what the use of genetic engineering brings to the world. In Greek myth, an chimera was a part lion, part goat, part dragon that lived in Lycia; in real life, it s an animal customized with genes of different species. In reality, it could be a human-animal mixture that could result in horror for the scientific community. In myth the chimera was taken down by the warrior Bellerophon,...
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Baby Boomers Younger Generation
1,623 wordsWhen the name Levi Strauss and Company is said, one of the most popular brands of jeans comes to mind. Even if you have never owned a pair of Levi s, the name triggers an image, such as 501 Blues for our generation, and maybe James Dean for our parents. According to the video we watched in class, Levi s was not at the top of any denim tests, however they sell for the most. This is due to their marketing strategies. Over past decades Levi s has changed it s image to fit with the current style. In...
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North Atlantic Treaty Britain And France
1,728 wordsFifty years ago on April 4, 1949, twelve countries signed the Treaty of Washington and formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. There were a total of sixteen countries that signed this treaty. Those countries were the following: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom and the United States. These various groups of countries came together and formed the NATO Alliance. They wanted to help the world maintain peace due ...
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Singer Songwriter Early 1990
1,109 wordsReading of the damage done Shakey: Neil Youngs Biography by Jimmy McDonough 797 pp, Cape The worlds greatest living singer-songwriter, Bob Dylan, recently gave vent to his feelings regarding the many self-styled biographers who make a living trying to define his life and art in book form. They live in their own universe and they try to project it outwardly and it doesnt work, he muttered disparagingly as though discussing a bad tooth-ache. Usually, these people have a touch of insanity and they ...
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