Introduction. On March 15 March 2001 Australia’s second largest insurer‚ HIH collapsed with debts in excess of A$5billion. This report intends to discuss some of HIH’s business objectives and creative accounting practices that may have attributed to the collapse of the company. 1.1 History. HIH began operating in Australia in 1968 under the name C.E. Heath plc‚ an English based insurance company whose Australian operations specialised in the underwriting of workers compensation. 1968 was also the year
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Chilean Copper Mine Collapse Communication BCOM/275 January 21‚ 2013 Wayne Brock‚ DM Chilean Copper Mine Collapse Communication Background On August 5‚ 2010 the San Jose mine in Chile reported an accident which trapped 33 miners underground. The San Jose mine is a small copper mine in northern Chile. Owned by Minera San Esteban Primera‚ the mine collapse thrust the situation into a global news event when the 33 miners were discovered alive and well (Weik‚ 2010). Questions have been raised
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Maya‚ a remarkable civilization‚ suddenly collapse when it seemed to be in a good position to continue? Although the Mayan people never entirely disappeared‚ many of their past homes in the Americas went from busy cities to abandoned ruins. These abandoned ruins are the result of issues inside the tribes and cities that brought down their way of life. These issues could be internal reasons‚ such as a failing government or a large population. The collapse could also be the result of external factors
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The collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s; it was a monumental and also unique time in history. Satellite states spread‚ and a new‚ more democratic leadership took over Moscow. The fall of the Soviet Union interestingly did not occur due to successful US policies or military prowess. Instead‚ a suffering economy as a result of the expensive arms and space race‚ coupled with an unsuccessful war in Afghanistan and a series of bad harvests meant that‚ to a moderate extent‚ the collapse of the Soviet
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Chilean Copper Mine Collapse Chilean Copper Mine Collapse A small copper mine in San Jose‚ located in north Chile‚ collapsed trapping workers underground. The mine collapsed on August 5th‚ trapping 33 workers in the mine. The coverage of this mine collapse came two long weeks after the traumatic event. Initially the incident did not catch any news worthy attention. Mine collapses are pretty common but the accident finally caught the interest of an editor‚ and then it went viral from
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collapsed. Two 767 aircrafts were high jacked and crashed into the North Tower and the South Tower. The impacts set in place the destruction of those two buildings. According to Brannigan and Corbett (2015)‚ The NIST stated the factors that caused the collapse in Tower 1 was: The plane inflicted structural damage Jet fuel sprayed on the interior‚ starting fires on multiple floors.
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I believe there are no shortcuts to any place worth going. Most of my stories relate to working out‚ as I spend a great amount of time doing just that. This particular story all started on June third‚ right when summer workouts started. I walked into the gym and began my pre-workout stretch. I continued to repeat this same routine throughout the summer mornings: pre-workout stretch‚ workout‚ cross country practice‚ post-workout stretch. It was a never-ending cycle that I fell in love with.
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Chilean Copper Mine Collapse Ryan Moorer BCOM/275 5/21/2013 Bettie Brown On August 5‚ 2010 the world watched as reports came in from Chile‚ a small copper mine caved-in leaving 33 mine workers trapped underground (Weik‚ 2010). Initial reports did not know if there were any survivors. It was 17 days before any contact was made with the trapped miners (Hughes‚ 2010). The family members and the rest of the world were relieved to know that all of the miners had survived the collapse. The mine officials
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The Collapse of Qing Dynasty The Qing dynasty (1916-1912) is the last imperial dynasty of China‚ it was consider as the most powerful country during the “golden age” ruled by Kang Xi and Qian Long‚ and it has over 400 million population and has the 1st ranked GDP in the world at the moment. The Qing has the supreme power at the time and has the significant influence in East Asian. However‚ the collapse of the Qing Dynasty made a humiliate history of China. The Qing dynasty doesn’t fall suddenly
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In The Collapse of the American Criminal Justice‚ William Stuntz (2016) discloses‚ Legislators will define crimes too broadly and sentences too severely in order to make it easy for prosecutors to extract guilty pleas‚ which in turn permits prosecutors to punish criminal defendants on the cheap‚ and thereby spares legislators the need to spend more tax dollars on criminal law enforcement. constitutional law can reduce the risk of this political collusion by limiting legislators’ power to criminalize
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