Pharmaceutical Companies‚ Intellectual Property‚ And the Global AIDS Epidemic National American University Abstract No business opens its doors with the expectation of loss. The pharmaceutical world is a business and‚ as with any business‚ profits are key. Often the business world conflicts head on with the ethical world. This is the case here‚ especially as we examine the question of responsibility‚ intellectual property and morality. As we consider the rights of a business and its
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Lightning Protection Systems Heath Howe English 101 November 5‚ 2011 Lightning Protection Systems Did you know that last year‚ in the United States‚ property loss due to lightning strikes exceeded one billion dollars? The average homeowner’s insurance paid $4‚296 per lightning claim and an average of two hundred fifty thousand insurance claims were filed strictly due to lightning. In January 2003‚ the American Meteorologist Society issued a bulletin endorsing the lightning protection requirements
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* Environmental protection * Environmental protection is one of the main problems of today. Industrial civilisation is characterised by numerous factories and power stations‚ automobiles and aeroplanes. Technological progress improves people’s lives‚ but at the same time it causes numerous problems that were unimaginable in the past centuries. Through their daily activities people pollute and contaminate land‚ water and air. Today pollution has become a universal
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PFIZER INC. BUSINESS ANALYSIS AND STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY Pfizer Inc. is a global pharmaceutical company that creates and manufactures products for both humans and animals. Pfizer is headquartered in New York City and employs about 115‚000 people. PRINCIPAL PRODUCTS AND SERVICES Pfizer currently has ten different divisions and promotes thirty-one different major products. The divisions and largest major products within each group are: Cardiovascular and Metabolic
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Power System Protection S.A.Soman Power System Dynamics Overview Power System Protection S.A.Soman Department of Electrical Engineering IIT Bombay System Protection Relays Example System Underfrequency and Rate of Change of Frequency Relays Undervoltage and Reverse Power Relay Lightning Protection Lightning Overvoltages Lightning Protection Devices Protection Paradigms - System Protection Summary Protection Paradigms - System Protection Power System Protection S.A.Soman Power
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Nature protection Our planet is only a tiny part of the universe‚ but nowadays is the only place where we can live. Since ancient times‚ Nature has served Man‚ being the source of his life. For thousands of years‚ people lived in harmony with environment and it seemed to them that natural riches were unlimited. But with the development of civilization‚ man’s interference in nature began to increase. Large cities with thousands of industrial enterprises appear all over the world today. The offals/rubbish
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LEGAL BRIEF OF CASE 2-3 Case name‚ citation‚ and court: Ashley County‚ Arkansas v. Pfizer‚ Inc‚ 552 F.3d 659 (8th Cir. 2009) Summary of Key Facts: An ingredient widely used in Pfizer’s products is a necessary ingredient in the manufacturing of methamphetamine in small toxic labs which are responsible for dangerous explosions‚ burns‚ and toxic fumes. Arkansas has one of the largest numbers of small toxic labs in the US and is burdened with high costs of fighting the meth epidemic and is seeking
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Emotional abuse may include not giving a child opportunities to express their views‚ deliberately silencing them or ’making fun’ of what they say or how they communicate. It may feature inappropriate expectations being imposed on a child‚ over protection and limitation of exploration and learning‚ or preventing the child from taking part in normal social interaction. It may involve seeing or hearing the ill-treatment of another person. It may involve serious bullying (including cyberbullying)‚
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villages earning their living through cotton spinning and farming. So not everyone is happy about the new consumerism. Rights activists worry that the poor are being abandoned and nationalists wonder if India’s native industries are being swallowed by global behemoths. A new face of youth consumerism "At the stroke of the midnight hour‚ when the world sleeps‚ India will awake to life and freedom."-Jawaharlal Nehru‚ on the eve of India’s Independence India’s latest tryst with destiny‚ BPO‚ is equally
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Holding the state law prohibiting non-white males from sitting on a jury was a violation of equal protection. The purpose of the equal protection clause was to provide protection for the civil rights of blacks. This law clearly discriminates against blacks. Furthermore‚ any classification of jurors by race would be unconsitutional‚ whether it be nationality based or otherwise. That is not to say that the state may not prescribe qualification for its jurors‚ it just may not do so with respect to
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