Forever: De Beers & US Anti-Trust Laws Case Study Presentation 6/29/2011 Group 9 – The Explorers Executive Summary For centuries‚ diamonds have been regarded as one of the most valuable commodities in the world and the industry has evolved into billions of dollars. At the top‚ De Beers dominated the entire industry worldwide‚ from exploration to retail selling. However‚ it has a reputation of a monopolist‚ where it influences supply and demand. The two critical factors that De Beers
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1. What is a moral dilemma? A genuine dilemma is one type of moral problem‚ captured by the expression “You’re damned if you do‚ damned if you don’t.” That is‚ in a dilemma‚ there appears to be no right answer or solution (Dreisbach‚ 2008). Moral dilemmas‚ at the very least‚ involve conflicts between moral requirements (McConnell‚ 2010). 3. The four questions that must be asked to establish if a Dirty Harry Problem exists are: Did the agent know the situation and the choices that it offers
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that government does not violate our natural rights? Have these mechanisms worked? Why or why not? To ensure that our government does not violate our natural rights we have put certain mechanisms in place. Natural rights are the right to life‚ liberty‚ and the pursuit of happiness as mentioned in the Declaration of Independence (Preamble). These mechanisms include a separation of powers‚ and a system of checks and balances which are all under the constitution. This is under our constitutional
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Practically‚ every enacted law on a probing analysis reveals certain gaps which the judiciary is expected to fill up by way of interpretation. This is popularly known as “Judicial Legislation”. Such filling up is however expected to be done in consonance and conformity with the constitutional dictates and confined to the extent permitted by the Constitution which distinguishes it from being branded as an instance of “Judicial overreach” Do Judges make law? The traditional view on this matter is that‚ for
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attempt to define moral action. Theories try to answer questions such as ‘what is a moral action?’ and ‘how should men act?’ In the case of classical theories the main question is ‘What is the good life? We all grow up learning our ethics‚ or morals‚ from our parents and society. As we grow we are told things; do not cross the road alone‚ clean your room. But there are a set of instructions that we are told‚ and we grow to learn that they have quite a different motive behind them; do not to lie‚ play
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dearest God for guiding us‚ giving us the knowledge‚ wisdom and strength. To our consistent professor‚ Mr. Jose Bernmar Ibuna particularly to his advices and encouraging us to finish this research study. To our beloved family who give their full support‚ encouragement and financial needs. And to PJHEN’s Auto Supply staffs‚ for sharing us their ideas through answering the questionnaires we gave specially to Mr. Jerry Regara for giving us chance to use his company for us to fulfill this study. We all appreciate
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Tall (Nature) In my family all four of them are short. My parents are about 5’5 and my sisters are about 5’3‚ while I am about 6’1. I don’t know where I get my height from‚ but when I look at my cousins from my dad’s side every single one of the guys are just about 6’0 or higher and the tallest being 6’6. I have about 30 male cousins on my dad’s side. Also my grandfather from my mom’s side is 6’1‚ so I guess I got some of the height from him also. I actually
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I chose to write about “Do Blue Laws Save Lives? The Effect of Sunday Alcohol Sales Bans on Fatal Vehicle Accidents” by Michael F. Lovenheim and Daniel P. Steefel‚ which featured in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management in Fall of 2011. I chose this article because it relates to my paper topic as it looks at the relationship between a specific law and its effect on drunk driving. In addition‚ I also just found the topic very interesting as it focuses on a law that came about before the separation
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Do manufacturers of products for children have special obligation to consumers and society? If so what are these responsibilities? Yes. Manufactures such as Mattel corporation and other manufacturers have a significant obligation far as the responsibility of its consumers and society. One is the requirement that their product would be safe for children to play with. Mattel has produce more toys than any toy company so the issue is whether or not their toys would deem product safe. In the past
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Seattle‚ WA 98104-2499‚ USA Most deaths in intensive care units occur after decisions to limit or withdraw life support [1‚2]. Despite an extensive literature on whether to withdraw life support‚ little attention has been given to how to withdraw it [3‚4]. For example‚ a recent edition of a critical care textbook exhaustively covers the ethical and legal aspects of life-support withdrawal‚ but makes no recommendations for carrying it out [5]. Only recently‚ in the wake of growing data that problems
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