Case Analysis: Pinto Fires Introduction Greed is the root to evil or at least the motivation behind some corporations making a good‚ ethical decision. The Ford Motor Company fell into a trap of greed that would cost many human lives. Before the disaster of the Pinto Fires‚ Ford had a reputation as being the safety pioneer in the automobile industry with additions such as the seat belts. However‚ as the invention of small cars began to take emerge Ford began to loose market shares to the foreign
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Fire has a long history of forcing changes in the United States and around the world. On November 21‚ 1980‚ the MGM Grand Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas had a fire that resulted in the death of eight-five individuals. According to the incident report from the fire‚ it was started by an ungrounded electrical circuit in a section of the main level of the casino called “The Deli”. It was discovered that the heat caused by the ungrounded wire heated enough to ignite the surrounding area. The fuel source
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Comp 1 January 31‚ 2013 Carelessness Causes Accidents Pulling up in our driveway from winning my first soccer game of the season‚ my mother and I jumped out of the car to go inside and celebrate the win. As we were walking to unlock the front door‚ we heard a screeching of tires across the hot pavement of a midsummer’s day. I turned my head to the scene of a fatal accident and screamed. When I witnessed this accident‚ a memory was created of the scene to remind myself of how reckless driving can
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The given circumstance in this scene is a break up between Javier and Caroline. The previous scene begins with Caroline trying to know where Javier’s new apartment is‚ resulting in Javier giving an answer that shifts the emotion of the characters compare to the prior scene. What began as an awkward conversation‚ led to an argument in which both characters brought up many feelings that one another weren’t necessarily aware about. I am Caroline‚ I am twenty-eight years old and I live with my mother
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Maxfield Avenue. Kingston 10. SO i/c Halfway Tree‚ Re: Traffic Accident that occurred on Wednesday 19th September 2012 about 12:00 noon on Hagley Park Road in the vicinity of Woodglen Avenue involving a white Honda Civic motor car registration plate 1111DD driven and owned by Peter Brown and James Wright a pedal cyclist. Reporting that on Wednesday 19th September 2012 about 12:15pm I investigated a traffic accident that occurred along Hagley Park Road in the vicinity of Woodglen Avenue
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But if we observe past years’ and recent road accidents statistics/reports‚ we can perceive that the propensity of road accidents in Malaysia is on the rise. Now I think‚ Malaysia really requires an investigation in the geographical distribution and regional variation of accidents rather than looking at the accidents in a national perspective. There may be certain geographical areas where accident proneness may be higher. These variations in accidents can be analyzed by developing a set of geographical
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UNFORGETTABLE SCENE It was one of those typical days where everything was normal. Cars and motorcycles passed by and out of sight. The noise from all directions filled the whole area like a buzzing sound. Surprisingly‚ people did not seem to bother by the noises at all‚ but rather went about with their daily business. Nobody had taken a moment to see what was happening around them on this busiest street of downtown Cambodia. There was a crash that finally caught their attention. Then‚ they started
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have the status of a zonal railway. The line runs from Dum Dum in the north and continues south through Park Street‚ Esplanade in the heart of the city till the southern end to New Garia‚ the station bearing the name Kavi Subhas. But recently two accidents in the metro made a few scratches on the pride of Kolkata. On 12th October 2010‚ nearly 2‚000 passengers were trapped briefly when a glitch stalled a Metro train underground during the evening rush hour which led to a cascading effect disrupting
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duty operational staff and workers from various departments and maintenance services. In addition to this number‚ there were also 268 builders and assemblers working on the night shift of the constructions of units Nos.5 and 6. The fatal accident sequence was initiated by a decision of the plant ’s management and specialists to make an overnight experiment to test the ability of the turbine generator to power certain of the cooling pumps while the generator was freewheeling to a standstill
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Marketing to children Growing number of products are marketing to infant and school-aged children. So‚ some people began to think should they allow companies market all their products to children‚ even it makes children become fat and get lots of bad habits?Advertisements offer shopping conveniences‚ but unlimited marketing to children will have bad influences to their f ood p references ‚ habits and customs and disturb their family payments balance. First of all
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