Case Analyses March 12‚ 2012 Burlington Industries‚ Inc. v. Ellerth 524 U.S. 742 (1998) I. FACTS: Kimberly Ellerth quit her job as a sales person at Burlington Industries after working there for 15 months. Her reasoning was that her supervisor‚ Ted Slowik‚ was sexually harassing her. Ellerth did not inform any other supervisors‚ and therefore the company was unaware of Slowik’s actions with Ellerth. Despite her refusals with Slowik’s advances‚ Ellerth did not suffer any tangible retaliation
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Polaris Industries Inc. (NYSE: PII) declared today its new deals and profit objectives for the Company through 2018. In particular‚ the Company detailed that it has set up goals for add up to Company deals to develop to $2.2 billion before the finish of the 2018 schedule year with net wage from proceeding with tasks expanding to $150 million. Weakened income for each offer from continuing with activities developing to $4.25 per share amid a similar period. The Company showed that it means to accomplish
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Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster happened on February 1st‚ 2003‚ which broke on the way back to the Earth. All the astronauts‚ including two women died in this disaster. The reason why this disaster happened was a piece of foam insulation broke off from the Space Shuttle external tank which damaged the left wing of the shuttle. Even though some engineers of NASA had doubted that the left wing of shuttle had been damaged‚ the administration staffs restricted to
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District of Colombia v. Heller The District of Columbia had a law banning all handguns. Dick Heller challenged this law in 2008‚ on the grounds of the Second Amendment. This was the first time that the Supreme Court had regarded what it meant for an individual’s right to possess weapons for private uses‚ including self-defense. The District of Columbia had banned handguns‚ making it a place with one of the strictest gun laws. The District of Columbia also had a law that entailed for any long gun to
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space shuttle Columbia broke apart while re-entering the atmosphere over Texas‚ killing all seven crew members on board. The disaster occurred minutes before Columbia was scheduled to land at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. An investigation later determined the catastrophe was caused by a problem that took place shortly after launch on January 16‚ when a piece of foam insulation broke off from the shuttle’s propellant tank and damaged the edge of the shuttle’s left wing. The Columbia disaster was
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On February 1‚ 2003‚ the space shuttle titled Columbia disintegrated upon reentry. People watched in horror as what seemed to be a meteor came falling from the sky while breaking apart over Louisiana. At exactly 8:59 EST over Texas and Louisiana‚ the Space Shuttle Columbia entered earth’s atmosphere to begin reentry. As it entered the dead zone‚ nobody could contact the shuttle as it began to disintegrate around the crew. When it entered orbit again it exploded and fell in Nacogdoches. The craft
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In the present paper‚ the authors address the issue of child poverty in British Columbia and identify its severity. The authors analyze the problem of child poverty against the social determinants of health‚ and reveal how the problem of child poverty affects the society as a whole. The authors suggest specific nursing actions aimed to decrease the child poverty rate in BC‚ in particular‚ taking eight steps to develop a provincial poverty reduction plan. The authors support their suggestions by
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November 4‚ 2006 Hon. Justice John Sopinka Supreme Court of Canada 301 Wellington St. Ottawa‚ Ontario K1A OJ1 Re: Rodriguez v. British Columbia (Attorney General) As the majority writer in the case of Rodriguez v. British Columbia‚ you are well aware that this case has and will become a case that will be infamous with ethics vs. the law. You are well aware of the facts and I need not to reiterate them to you. I write to you in response to the courts final decision that was rendered
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is in New York! Can you guess what university it is? If you guessed Columbia University then you are right. Columbia University is located on 116th st and Broadway‚ New York‚ NY 10027. New York city! Full of shopping and restaurants and bright lights at night. I have always wanted to visit New York city‚ but the possibility of getting to live there attending a college sounds even more exciting. Now you may be thinking Columbia University is a really good school so how am I going to get into it?
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1a. Risks and limitations of listening to customers during the NPD process: Using existing organizational systems often means completely missing the boat on the real customer and his real needs. This is the customer who values the products as a breakthrough. Products are frequently under-appreciated by firms when the new product is based on an existing platform. This leads to a wait and see attitude and the product is not given adequate support and often under-priced. The positioning strategy
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