dangerous safety defect, but GM try to block his testimony because they had known for years and refused correct it for fear of alerting the public. Moreover, the provided videotapes of GM’s own crash tests between 1981 and 1983 showed that it’s truly dangerous when the pickup was stuck on the side by another vehicle its gas tank broke open. b. Interest Car buyers, Medias and the other car manufactory like Ford and Dodge. As we know, this case is a famous nonmarket environment case. And one of the important
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POLITICAL vs LEGAL MOTIVATION Several medium of information, i.e., broadsheet, TV, radio, social media, and internet sites are teeming these days with news and articles about the Rappler-SEC tussle. Based on the pronouncements made by Rappler and SEC representatives, corroborated by certain legal luminaries and subject-matter experts, and on the chronology of events, it can be deduced that the Rappler case has both political and legal motivation beneath the issue. Political Motivation
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bill, commonly referred to as Obamacare. The president, on the other hand, is saying he won’t pay a ransom for the federal government to open back up siting his reelection as vindication that Americans want this legislation to move forward. Social media is being used by both sides of the argument to spread doubt and fear or oversell the law so it is difficult to know exactly what is true and what isn’t. This paper is an attempt to summarize the major events in the healthcare debate that have brought
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Adejayan Dr. Dianne Barrs Strayer University LEG 500 September, 2012 Product liability is the responsibility of a manufacturer for injury or loss caused by its product (Dictionary.com). Product liability serves to protect the public but it is may turn out to be very expensive to organizations. Management has the duty of making sure that organizations’ resources, especially funds and reputation, do not suffer unnecessary attrition and damages through the implementation of effective
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of crude oil into the frigid waters of Prince William Sound, just outside the harbor of Valdez, Alaska. What was about to happen was the worst environmental disaster in the history of the United States. These were the documented facts that media had portrayed across the United States and to the world: Exxon Valdez, a 978-foot tanker piloted by a captain whom later revealed to be drank, ran aground on a reef 25 miles southwest of the port of Valdez. The results caused a spill of 250,000 barrels
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governance is the means to control the public administration in democratic countries. The classification of public accountability is normally seen in terms of external and internal mechanisms. Hence, this paper shall discuss both mechanisms with special reference to Malaysia. The discussion also focuses on the limitation of each mechanism which rendered some problems to the concept of accountability in Malaysia. Keywords: Accountability, Governance, Public administration, 1. Introduction Accountability
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“We Should Legalize Drugs” It is frequently stated that illicit drugs are "bad, dangerous, destructive" or "addictive," and that society has an obligation to keep them from the public. There is nowhere that you can find reliable, objective scientific evidence that they are any more harmful than other substances and activities that are legal. In view of the enormous expense, the carnage and the obvious futility of the "drug war," resulting in massive criminalization of society, it is high time
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was elected, on January 25th, 2017 the Trump administration released an executive order, formally recognized as “Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements.” The order violated the Privacy Act of 1974, which promised immigrants and visitors to the US the right to privacy and disabled the US government from releasing public records of individuals without permission. Esha Bhandari and Neema Singh Guliani, authors of “The Trump Administration Is Threatening to Publicly Release the Private
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Procedures on the Administration of Information Disclosure of Listed Companies China Securities Regulatory Commission 01-30-2007 Order of the China Securities Regulatory Commission [2007] No. 40 The Procedures on the Administration of Information Disclosure of Listed Companies deliberated and adopted at the 196th Chairman Working Meeting of the China Securities Regulatory Commission are hereby promulgated and shall be effective as of the date of promulgation.
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and our trying to sustaining domestic popular support in a long and drawn out war against insurgents. Policymakers should have an understanding of the reasons for U.S. political failure in South Vietnam, as well as for the Johnson and Nixon administrations’ failure to sustain popular support for the accomplishment of U.S. military objectives in Vietnam. A repeat of those failures in Iraq could have uncalculated consequences for U.S. foreign policy. Many people on the far left who have questioned
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