Biovail’s Distributor, was involved in a multi-vehicle traffic accident near Chicago. David Maris found that Biovail intentionally and falsely attributed nearly half of its failure to meet its third quarter 2003 earnings guidance to a truck accident. Biovail intentionally misstated both the effect of the accident on Biovail’s third quarter earnings as well as the value of the product involved in the truck accident. In fact, the accident had no effect on third quarter earnings. Besides, Biovail applied
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Knowing Your Audience Paper and Communication On August 5, 2010 in Chili, a San Jose Mine collapsed. The Minera San Esteban Primera Company had their employees working during this collapse, which was fatal 33 miners were killed. They fell in hole that was 300 meters or 2,300 feet below. The 33 fatal employees consist of one Bolivian and 32 of them were Chileans. At this time there was chaos wondering if there were any survivors in the trapped hole. When the media came out and broadcasted
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Knowing Your Audience Paper and Communication Release BCOM/275 Knowing Your Audience Paper and Communication Release Knowing your audience is a very important aspect any time a company communicates information to a group or organization. Knowing the audience is even more important when a company has to deal with the fallout following a disaster. The disaster of the Chilean copper mine in South American is one example of where knowing your audience was a very important factor. In a Chilean
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public administration admin | October 22, 2013 public administration Based on the case study by Martin, The Blast in Centralia No. 5, in Stillman, PA, Chapter 1, write a 3-4 page paper in which you: 1.Identify and explain four (4) logistical alternatives Scanlan could have addressed. 2.Analyze and discuss Scanlan’s motivation toward the Constitution (the law), bureaucracy (as a public administrator responsible to the public), and obligation. 3.Take a position on two (2) possible
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takes a different approach when suffering with a loss of a loved one, whether it’s crying uncontrollably or being extremely mad. Louise Mallard had a different reaction when she had received the information about her husband death involving a train accident. Richards, a close friend of Mr. Mallard, knows that Louise does have heart trouble. So when relaying the information, they “ break to her as gently as possible the news of her husbands death (Kate Chopin IP1).” Going to her room, Louise locks herself
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7.Question: 3 Safety belts are designed_______. 8.Correct: with an emergency locking mechanism 9. 10.Question: 4 When you are tired your _________ shrinks. 11.Correct: peripheral vision 12. 13.Question: 5 If you take sedatives, you could experience____. 14.Correct: impaired reflexes 15. 16.Question: 6 A lack of__________is a major factor in traffic crashes. 17.Correct: risk awareness 18. 19.Question: 7 Side effects of legal drugs that
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Decision Making Questionnaire Please show how often each of the following applies to you by circling the number that you think applies. 1=very infrequently or never, 2=infrequently, 3=quite infrequently, 4=quite frequently, 5=frequently, 6=very frequently or always. | |Very infrequently or | | |Very frequently or | |
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or aggressive driving. There are different ideas society has about what this means, some of them are that it is just a way to take advantage to insult other drivers; it is incidents including violence between drivers and passengers (in or around cars); It is a crime or it can lead to a crime.According to Washington State Patrol, aggressive driving is the commission of two or more moving
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Historically, the South Texas Plains supported grassland or savanna-type climax vegetation with dense mixed brush along dry washes and flood plains of the Rio Grande. The extensive shrub lands of the Lower Rio Grande Valley have been converted to agriculture and urban over the past 60 years. Much of this land, particularly the more fertile soils, has been cleared for production of vegetables, citrus, sugarcane, cotton, and other crops. Unfortunately for the Ocelot, the best soil types also grow the
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cause crashes every single mile. The ratio of cars to crashes is about 50 crashes to every one car. The frustrating rush hours of Arizona are only undermined by the rest of the times where the lousy drivers are released. The driving education levels of our drivers is equivalent to that of a 1st grader. The dreadful driving of Arizona make you question who gave Arizona the right to distribute licenses. With Arizona drivers being on the loose it’s as if the cars are turned on, put into drive and then someone
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