Atlantic. Washington‚ D.C. provided the perfect setting for crack cocaine to flourish. Plenty of low-income inner city housing projects complete with open air drug markets labeled D.C. as a leading U.S. city with a major crack cocaine problem. As crack cocaine became a national talking point the federal government stepped in to curb its use. Congress along with other sections of the federal government pushed for a tough approach to crack cocaine. The crack cocaine “epidemic” in Washington‚ D.C. coincided
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Effects of Washington D.C Snipers Two men that decide they want to take people’s lives into their own hands‚ can change the way American citizens live their everyday lives. This exact situation happened over a twenty-three day period‚ when John Muhammad and John Malvo went on a shooting spree in Washington D.C. John Allen Muhammad‚ a forty-one year old veteran expert marksman of the Persian Gulf War‚ was the main culprit of the crime. He was accompanied by John Lee Malvo‚ a seventeen year old
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Ellen Daugherty’s article on Tuskegee’s Booker T. Washington Monument explores the life of Booker T. Washington‚ the history of the sculptor—Charles Keck‚ and the significant impact the sculpture made for the campus and on a larger scale‚ the African American community. Finished on April 5‚ 1922‚ Lifting the Veil of Ignorance: A Monument to Booker T. Washington honors Booker T. Washington for his commendable efforts towards Tuskegee Institute and his unparalleled dedication during the school’s origins
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The Ritz Carlton Hotel Company On October 11‚ 2000 The Ritz-Carlton was on the eve of opening Washington DC’s first luxury hotel in 10 years. The 300 room hotel was part of a $225 million complex owned by Millennium Partners. This would be the first hotel opened of a six hotel deal between Millennium Partners and The Ritz-Carlton. Millennium Partners owned the properties and The Ritz-Carlton was hired to operate the hotels. After only seven days of training the 400 person staff would open the
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Washington DC Child Support Attorney: The Law Office of Andre L. Batson: Child support is the act of the legal arrangement between a noncustodial parent and the parent who has custody. Child support is financial support paid by the noncustodial parent to the parent who has primary custody. Many factors are considered when setting child support amounts. These can include but aren’t limited to both parents’ financial situations in addition to the following: Whether or not one spouse is requesting alimony
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EVALUATION REPORT - saransh sharma - Under the guidance of prof. G.Poddar Departmental supervisor signature Objective * To design a DC-DC bidirectional dual active bridge converter using IGBT having switching frequency of 50 Khz and all the IGBT’s switched using ZVS switching. Literature * Studied a paper titled PWM control of dual active bridge converter by Amit kumar jain and
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comparison of high efficiency high power boost DC/DC converters for photovoltaic applications J. DAWIDZIUK∗ Faculty of Electrical Engineering‚ Department of Automatic Control Engineering and Electronics‚ Bialystok University of Technology‚ 45D Wiejska St. 15-351 Bialystok‚ Poland Abstract. Recent environmental issues have accelerated the use of more efficient and energy saving technologies in renewable energy systems. High power high efficiency boost DC/DC converters for the use in photovoltaic‚ fuel
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age pulses • Output is synthesized as the switching‐cycle‐average of these pulses • Within each switching cycle‚ the average value is controlled by the duty‐ratio dA Tup Ts 0 dA 1 5 v A d AVin ‚ Switching Power‐Pole in a Buck DC‐DC Converter: An Example qA iin 0 d ATs Ts Vin 1 t Vin iL vA vA 0 Vo iL 0 iin vA t qA t (a) 0 (b) t Vo v A d AVin 0 Vo Vin 6 Problems P.1.23 In a Buck converter‚ the input voltage Vin 12V
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The Washington DC metro is the main source of transportation for thousands of people in DC‚ Maryland and Virginia. Many of those people rely on the metro for getting to and from work. With all of the new construction Metro had announced that the hours would be cut. It used to be open until two o’clock in the morning‚ but now it closes at midnight. Also‚ the spokesman for metro just said last week that even after the construction is finished they might be sticking with these hours. This is something
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Donzui Marine Corporation is a manufacturer of light speed boats; a man named Mr. Collins was one of their sales representatives. In 1987 Mr. Collins met a man named Mr. Wallach at marine trade show‚ Wallach is the owner of the retail boat outlet Wallach Marine Corp. They started talking business and Collins offered Wallach a Donzi dealership‚ which would allow him to purchase and resell the speedboats that Donzi Manufactured. Wallach was sold and he continued to then write a $50‚000 check for a
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