must leave the loading dock partly empty to avoid exceeding federal truck weight limits. Kraft says those rules force it and others to make extra trips and spend more on fuel. Now‚ the Illinois food giant is part of a coalition of 150 companies lobbying Congress to allow trucks that are 20% heavier on U.S. highways. Supporters of the idea say truckers could pay an extra fee to offset road repairs. Some 19 Western governors wants Congress to allow for more giant trailers‚ like this "triple" tractor
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Bibliography: TVNZ-One news. (2010‚ october 4). Retrieved from http://tvnz.co.nz/entertainment-news/australia-lobbying-hobbit-3816847/video : http://tvnz.co.nz/entertainment-news/australia-lobbying-hobbit-3816847/video Cheng‚ D. (2010‚ oct 27). Hobbit to stay in NZ. Retrieved from http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10683486 Gans‚ J.‚ King‚ S.‚ Stonecash‚ R.‚ & Mankiw
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Who was to blame for the Cold War The USSR or the USA? Who was to Blame? Historians have changed their views about who was to blame for the cold war over the years. Soviet Historians: They blamed to the United States. The Traditionalits: They blamed to the USSR for the Cold War and its attempt to impose its ideology on the of the world Until the 1960s‚ most historians followed the official government line – that the Cold War was the direct result of Stalin’s aggressive Soviet expansionism
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Functional areas in Tesco and Oxfam 1. Introduction In this report I am going to compare functional areas of two contrasting organisations Tesco and Oxfam. Tesco is aiming at achieving profit‚ investing and offerring services and products to customers.Oxfam is a non-profit organisation‚ helping people in crisis. Tesco is a British multinational grocery and general merchandise retailer‚ it has stores in 14 countries across Asia‚ Europe and North America and is the grocery market leader in UK‚ where
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Identify the kinds of situations in which administrators are likely to have the influence on the formation of public policy‚ and the types of policies on which this influence would be greatest. According to Johnson‚ public policy consists of government choices of actions intended to serve the public purpose. These policies give public agencies the right and direction to carry out their mission and acquire all needed resource. Johnson also stated that the fundamental principals are expressed in
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RUNNING HEADER: FREEMOBILE TO CHALLENGE THE FRENCH MOBILE INCUMBENTS FREEMOBILE TO CHALLENGE THE FRENCH MOBILE INCUMBENTS DANIEL TORO SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIVERSITY FEBRUARY 20‚ 2015 1 RUNNING HEADER: FREEMOBILE TO CHALLENGE THE FRENCH MOBILE INCUMBENTS Identify The Key Economic Characteristics Of The French Wireless/Telecom Segment (U.S. Sic Code 4813‚ Uk Sic 6110) Of The Communications Services Industry. The French telecommunication market is considered to be the largest in Europe with
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Ethics Brief MGMT 567 Is HFCS Really that sweet? Corn is among the most planted and produced crops in the US. According to 2013 statistics‚ the US is the largest corn producer in the world with 80 million acres of corn fields and almost $64 billion annual sales. Besides its consumption as raw food‚ industrial processing of corn yields high economic value. Among industrial uses of corn‚ High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) is the most controversial one from an ethics perspective. HFCS is an artificial
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ACCESS TO NUTRITION INDEX GLOBAL INDEX 2013 Acknowledgements FUNDERS The Access to Nutrition Index (ATNI) would not have been possible without the generous support of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)‚ the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust. ATNI was developed by GAIN’s Innovative Finance Program. Led by Chris Walker‚ the ATNI development team consisted of Michael Park and Valerie Pillonel‚ along with external consultants Craig Courtney‚ Rachel Crossley‚ and
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demand‚" said Paul Scalise‚ a fellow at the University of Tokyo who specializes in Japan’s energy sector.” Real change has been slow. Giant solar arrays and wind farms can’t be built overnight and powerful utilities that spent billions on nuclear are lobbying to protect their interests. Oil‚ coal and gas now generate about nearly 90% of
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However‚ Enron’s continuous growth eventually came to an end as a complicated financial statement fraud and multiple scandals sent Enron on a downward spiral to bankruptcy. During the 1980s‚ several major national energy corporations began lobbying Washington to deregulate the energy business. Their claim was that the extra competition resulting from a deregulated market would benefit both businesses and consumers. Consequently‚ the national government began to lift controls on who was
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