Plaintiff AmeriPride services‚ Inc (“Plaintiffs”) initiated action pursuant to CERCLA more than sixteen years ago to recover investigation and remediation costs of about $7.75 million it incurred after a perchloroethelyne (“PCE”) contamination caused by previous owners Valley Industrial Services‚ Inc. (“VIS”) an industrial dry cleaning and laundry business using PCE as a solvent. VIS would eventually merge into Texas Eastern Overseas‚ Inc (“TEO”). After trial‚ appeal‚ and settlement with other parties
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Case Summary: McDonald’s “Senior” Restaurant McDonalds is one of the world’s largest fast food chains serving millions of customers everyday. The main reason for their success is the fact that McDonalds adapts its products to fit the local markets. It is a truly ’Global’ corporation. The manager of this particular location faces a unique dilemma. She has a loyal clientele that visits regularly - seniors. Owing to the affinity of the staff with its customers‚ the seniors stay longer. Over
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Summary Dr. Michael Levin is a philosophy professor at the City University of New York. His areas of research interest include publications on metaphysics‚ epistemology‚ race‚ homosexuality‚ animal rights‚ the philosophy of archeology‚ the philosophy of logic‚ philosophy of language‚ and the philosophy of science. In his article "The Case for Torture” published by Newsweek in 1982‚ Michael Levin is defending the use of torture as being necessary and justifiably in some extreme cases in order to
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group to define a recovery plan when it occurs. For example‚ the executive should divide their works into different parts so they can react at the first time when problem happen instead of wasting time on contact each other or ask how to do so. In this case‚ if they consider the attack happen in advance‚ the problem that the executive cannot get into Qdata center because of the authority issue would not
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administration of the company has realized that achieving good performance is attributed to some factors in the market. In this case‚ focusing on employee motivation has been among the priorities of the
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CareGroup Case Summary CareGroup was formed in a three way merger of hospitals in 1996‚ becoming a health-care team dedicated to providing personalized care to patients through a broad spectrum of available services. The merger was precipitated by increased need for negotiating and contracting power to respond to the HMOs‚ the possibility of developing integrated services to improve quality of care while driving down costs and the need for a strong balance sheet. The hospitals involved in the
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Case Summary Through the presented case‚ a careless and preventable situation has affected two patients. Patient with the last name‚ Jonesky‚ went to the emergency room‚ due to abdominal pain‚ causing her to have been vomiting for two days. Jonesky‚ who only speaks Russian‚ was accompanied by her husband who spoke minimal English. After several hours of waiting‚ the pain began to increase‚ leading to Jonesky’s husband approach the ER staff informing them of the pain worsening. Jonesky is then moved
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PG-41 Strategic Management - Session 10 Electrolux Case Summary Fei YE As the largest domestic products manufacturer in the world‚ Electrolux has about 70000 employees all around the world in about 150 countries‚ making 14 billion euros in sales in 2005. However‚ an acquisition case from its main competitor‚ Whirlpool‚ is challenging the first place of Electrolux‚ at the time Electrolux has just decided to divest its outdoor division. A huge decrease in sales in the following years is expected
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Wal*Mart Case Summary WalMart’s competitive advantage is a result of several key strategic actions. First‚ WalMart’s choice of geographic location in small town locations that were not being served by competitors allowed it to establish itself as the only discount retailer in these areas. This key strategic choice of location was completely different from what competitors had done and gave WalMart a first-mover advantage in markets that had not previously been served by discount retailers. A second
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My interpretation of coping style is the behavior that one displays when one must deal with a very difficult‚ new or unusual circumstance in one’s life. The following vignette shows how I was able to recognize what this client coping style was. Case summary Jareem is a 16-year-old African American male. Jareem is slender‚ dark skin‚ approximately 5’ tall and weighs approximately 125 pounds. Jareem came to the agency and reported that he wants to go into foster care because he does not want to reside
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