The Lally School of Management & Technology Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rev. June 28‚ 2006 DuPont’s Biomax®: The Push for Commercial Applications Biomax®‚ a polyester material that can be recycled or decomposed‚ holds up under normal commercial conditions for a time period established in the product specifications. The material itself can be made into fibers‚ films‚ or resins and is suitable for countless agricultural‚ industrial‚ and consumer products: mulch containers‚ mulching film
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Global Strategic Management Mini Cases Series The Global Cement Industry Cement is a basic ingredient for the construction industry. Cement is made out of limestone‚ shell‚ clay mined out of a quarry close to the plant. The raw material is crushed‚ and then heated at temperature in excess of 1000 ºC in rotating kiln to become clinker. Clinker is then mixed with gypsum and ground to a fine powder to produce final grade of cement. The technology is a continuous process and is highly energy
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Whose values count? Culture: any group sharing values‚ beliefs‚ customs “…isms” ethnicism/racism sexism heterosexism (homophobia) classism ageism prejudice against disabled religious bigotry Cultural Competence Familiarity with other groups culture Know thyself People including students‚ therapist‚ profs‚ are humans first and Three challenges to know about yourself Humans rarely contemplate the origin‚ validity or meaning of their value Humans underestimate the arbitrariness
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SUBJECTS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW - STATES I. Traditional Subjects of International Law A. States In addition to controlling territory‚ States have lawmaking and executive functions. States have full legal capacity‚ that is‚ they have the ability to be vested with rights and to incur obligations. B. Insurgents Insurgents are a destabilizing factor‚ which makes States reluctant to accept them‚ unless they show some of the attributes of sovereignty (e.g. control of a defined territory). Their
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This is What I’m Passionate About… Through my lifetime I have been influenced by many of my passions. One of my passions is Spanish; I have always loved learning new languages and my newest edition to my collection is Spanish. Since Spanish II with Mrs. Chapman I have become passionate about learning this new language. It plays an integral role in my life‚ and I am excited to be able to eventually learn this amazing language. It first started in 6th grade Spanish at Ereckson Middle School in Mrs
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continued under the HUMALA administration; since 2006‚ Peru has signed trade deals with the US‚ Canada‚ Singapore‚ China‚ Korea‚ Mexico‚ Japan‚ the European Free Trade Association‚ Chile‚ and four other countries; concluded negotiations with Venezuela‚ Costa Rica‚ and Guatemala; and begun trade talks with two other Central American countries and the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Peru also has signed a trade pact with Chile‚ Colombia‚ and Mexico called the Pacific Alliance that rivals Mercosur in combined population
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The banana is a fruit surrounded by an enormous amount of history about its origin. The banana derives from Southeast Asia‚ specifically from the jungles of Malaysia‚ the Philippines and Indonesia‚ places where bananas are still produced today. The general belief is that in the middle ages Arabs brought the fruit to Africa’s oriental region via Madagascar. The fruit was later transported to the west coast by Portuguese missioners‚ where the fruit had great success due to the tropical humid environmental
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checks or money transfers to settle wagers. The bill is sponsored by Rep. Jim Leach (R-Iowa). The Wall Street Journal Online asked Rep. Leach and David Carruthers‚ chief executive of BetOnSports Plc‚ an online sports book and casino based in Costa Rica‚ to debate whether Internet gambling should be banned in the U.S. Theirs of the Internet are counterproductive for society. When consumers deal with an offshore entity‚ they give their personal financial information to unknown individuals‚ who‚
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Current examples of fascism Even though there aren’t any more fascist countries in the world‚ there are many groups or organizations that have still been running using fascist ideologies. The KKK‚ or the Ku Klux Klan‚ is a racist‚ anti-Semitic movement with a commitment to extreme violence to achieve its goals of racial segregation and white supremacy. Of all the types of right-wing hate groups that exist in the United States‚ the Klan remains the one with the greatest number of national and
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preferred language. The designers of this ride will be told to build an ecologic wooden roller coaster in 15 months for its grand opening on May 10‚ 2013. All the wood used in order to build this ride will be from Braulio Carrillo’s rainforest in Costa Rica. We have come to an agreement with the rainforest’s administration that we would plant two trees for every tree we chopped down as a good deed. As the boxcar takes off‚ the Lion King theme song begins to play. The boxcar will slowly begin going
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