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    Indian Steel Industry

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    TOWN LEVEL BACKGROUND NOTE (DRAFT) ON JALNA Submitted to Urban India Reforms Facility TATA INSTITUTE of SOCIAL SCIENCES By Resources and Livelihoods Group‚ PRAYAS‚ Pune 1 Acknowledgements Preparation of this report would not have been possible without the cooperation and support extended by the Jalna Municipal council’s officers and councilors for the support they extended in the form of sharing data as well as exchanging views ‚ and also the experts from different fields

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    High Speed Steel * High Speed Steel (HSS) refers to any of a variety of steel alloys that engineers primarily use to construct machine tool bits and blades and drill bits for industrial power tools. Materials scientists can infuse this steel with differing percentages of elements to form a variety of HSS manufacturing alloy types. While all of these different types exhibit HSS’s characteristic resistance to high-temperature‚ the properties of each alloy will vary depending on the percentage of

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    Germ-Kill Kit Case Study

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    addition‚ the device had to be fail-safe from a consumer perspective – and so it needed indicator to signal the approaching end-of-life of the consumable refill component (which was subsequently named ‘Germ-Kill Kit’)‚ and also to have an auto-shut off mechanism that would shut the flow of water when the germ-kill power of the consumable refill component was over. Notably‚ at the time‚ even premium UV and RO purifiers that were priced at USD 100+ did not have an end-of-life indicator‚ or a safety auto-shut

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    The document‚ Steel of Storm‚ by Ernst Junger‚ an English lieutenant in the Great War- or WWI- tells the story of a young soldier in charge of leading other Englishmen to their potential deaths‚ all united by the goal of defeating the German soldiers and restoring peace to their European home. This piece explains why Junger believed his experience of fighting as an English soldier to be a positive one‚ what the average experience of a soldier in the trenches was like‚ as well as how the Great War

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    Anti-Guns vs. Pro-Guns

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    Anti-Gun Vs Pro-Gun Firearms‚ are they good‚ or are they a safety hazard to everyone in this world? Are they so dangerous that no one should be allowed to own them or are they so necessary that we cant live without them? Are we to strict on the laws involving firearms? This argument has been going on for many years. Guns have been around since the beginning of our nations time. Knowing this‚ why would we ever think about banning the right to bear arms? In the past decade more and more crimes

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    Gun Control vs. Gun Rights

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    There is a famous quote‚ which states: "Guns don’t kill people‚ people kill people." This quote is technically true. But if there are no guns‚ it will be a whole lot more difficult for people to kill people. Sure people could use different weapons such as knives and golf clubs to kill people. But the victim will have a significant better chance of defending him or herself from a weapon other than firearms. I was born in Tokyo‚ Japan and moved to the United States when I was six. I still go

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    In the United States‚ guns have been a constituent of the country’s society since history. Throughout history‚ the citizens of the U.S. have used firearms to protect the nation and engage in sporting activities. Background checks could reduce mass killings and hopefully reduce the growth of it‚ as well. The issue of Guns and gun control is very complex. In the United States‚ gun control is one of these tumultuous issues. Gun control is the most growing issues that firmly entrenched in their steads

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    Gun Control and Gun Violence Gun Control and Gun Violence “The Federal Bureau Investigation Uniform Crime Report involving firearms showed to be at sixty-seven point seven percent of the nation’s murders‚ forty-one point three percent of robberies‚ and twenty-one point two percent of aggravated assaults…From January 2012 to June 2012 there was an increase of one point nine percent violent crimes reported.” (FBI) There should be a balance between Gun Control and Gun Violence. Gun Violence will

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    Rhetorical Analysis Paper 2/20/14 Gun Shows The scholarly article “Gun Shows and Gun Violence: Fatally Flawed Study Yields Misleading Results” first appeared in the magazine American Journal of Public Health in 2010. It was co-written by Garen Wintemute‚ David Hemenway‚ Daniel Webster‚ Glenn Pierce‚ and Anthony Braga. In their Journal entry they aim to convince their readers that the widely publicized case study “The Effect of Gun Shows on Gun-Related Deaths: Evidence from California and Texas”

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    Farzad Foroodi Professor Freese English 1302 06 July 2016 Gun Control and Gun Safety Gun control has been a big issue in recent months. There were so many arguments for or against it. Gun control caused one of the biggest dissection between citizens and government. Also‚ mass shootings and murders in recent months makes this issue one of the most arguable situation in country. Twice in the past two years gun control has reached the nation’s highest court. Based on production data from firearm manufactures

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