Engineering as Social Experimentation Similarities to Standard Experiments 1. Any project is carried out in partial ignorance. 2. The final outcomes of engineering projects are generally uncertain. 3. Ongoing success depends on gaining new knowledge. Monitoring is thus as essential to engineering as it is to Common Mistakes of Engineers • Lack of established channels of communication. • Misplaced pride in not asking for information. • Embarrassment at failure or fear of litigation. • Plain neglect
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Richard C. Olney‚ attorney general‚ accused the ARU of disrupting shipments of the U.S. Mail‚ and issued an injunction against the strike. Therefore‚ President Cleveland ordered army units against the strikers. The end of the strike came only with the arrest of Debs and other leaders by federal marshals on July 17. Debs was released from prison in 1895 he emerged
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English tort law English tort law concerns civil wrongs‚ as distinguished from criminal wrongs‚ in the law of England and Wales. Some wrongs are the concern of the state‚ and so the police can enforce the law on the wrongdoers in court – in a criminal case. A tort is not enforced by the police‚ and it is a civil action taken by one citizen against another‚ and tried in a court in front of a judge (only rarely‚ in certain cases of defamation‚ with a jury). Tort derives from middle English for
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The battle for the takeover of Gucci by LVMH‚ and efforts by Gucci management to defend against the intended takeover at all costs‚ is a classic example in the fashion goods industry. The case can be seen as mainly a battle between the two majority stakeholders in Gucci‚ namely the management of Gucci itself versus the other majority stakeholder LVMH. It can also be seen as the battle between two personalities‚ De Sole of Gucci and Bernard Arnault of LVMH‚ each determined to get their own way‚ regardless
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Case 2– Research in Motion- RIM 1. What were some of the challenges RIM faced to protect its Intellectual Property and how did RIM handle those challenges? There was a legal action between NTP and RIM over the intellectual property. RIM resolved the action. To protect its intellectual property‚ RIM agreed to pay $612.5 million to NTP Inc. to settle the fight. The dispute had threatened to end RIM’s BlackBerry e-mail service to millions of users in the U.S. and has been the subject of a four-year
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Even Famous People Have Crazy Relatives‚ Just Ask A-Rod Unless you are a Yankee’s Fan‚ what you likely know about A-Rod‚ Alex Rodriguez‚ is that he hits a lot of home runs‚ but that his records are under scrutiny since he was using performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) while he was hitting them. As a result‚ he had to sit out an entire baseball season and forfeit millions of dollars in salary and millions more in record bonuses including a $6 million bonus for tying Willie Mays career 660 home run
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14) The directors held their last meeting on December 31 at 4:30 p.m.‚ and it was conducted more like a party than a usual meeting. A director was negligent in signing a promissory note‚ which cost the corporation $15‚000; furthermore‚ the director was in breach of his fiduciary duty because the note was paid to a corporation in which he had an interest. Which of the following is true? A) A shareholder could commence an action on behalf of the corporation against the director if he gets the court’s
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In their Culture‚ myths were much more than just stories‚ they had morals and explanations that helped the Romans understand the universe. Roman mythology had injunction towards many aspects of the roman’s daily lives. Many historians believe they were so consumed and influenced by their mythology because‚ the gods reflected needs in their daily lives. Their twelve major gods are‚ Jupiter and Juno‚ Neptune and Minerva‚ Mars and Venus‚ Apollo and Diana‚ Vulcan and Vesta‚ and‚ Mercury and Ceres
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Differentiate between litigation involving civil and criminal litigation Criminal law- involves an offense where the entire community is harmed and the remedy is a fine or imprisonment for the offender. The responsibility of pursuing a violation of criminal law rests with the state. Where as‚ civil law does not directly harm a community and the remedy for a violation of civil law is to sue the violator and order the violator to pay damages. A person may be charged criminally and sued civilly. Civil
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fire. Pullman attached US mail to his cars so that it would be illegal for the workers not to pull his cars. By June 29 50‚000 men had quit their jobs eventually stopping railroad movement completely. Then for the first time in history‚ a federal injunction was used to split up a strike‚ saying that the strike was illegal. Strikers still did not return to work‚ so federal troops were sent in. Most strikers returned to their jobs‚ still receiving the same wages. I think that the George Pullman was
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