Hot coffee spill worth cool award McDonald ’s may fork over $2.9 million Denver Post Copyright 1994 Friday‚ August 19‚ 1994 The Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE - A woman‚ who was scalded when her McDonald ’s coffee spilled won a jury award of $2.9 million - or about two days ’ coffee sales for the fast-food chain. Lawyers for Stella Liebeck‚ 81‚ who suffered thirddegree burns in the 1992 incident‚ contended that McDonald ’s coffee was too hot. A state district court jury imposed $2.7 million in
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Dozens of factors contributed to the rise of the Industrial Revolution but the inventions are the most important‚ such as the Spinning Jenny‚ the Telephone‚ and the Steam Engine. Before the Spinning Jenny was produced‚ workers would have to spin yarn on a spinning wheel with only one spindle. This was a laborious task and took way too much time. In 1764‚ James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny‚ which allowed workers to spin yarn on eight spindles. The Spinning Jenny rapidly increased the process
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Once the Cold War started‚ Truman was the president. He made his Truman doctrine to help influence the democracy. In other words‚ Truman’s choice to fight a limited war was not justified because the United States did not want South Korea to fall under communists rule and not lose against the Russian War. For example‚ in “Textbook A”‚ it illustrates that the American invaders were being more aggressive to the war because they wanted to destroy its infancy. Even though‚ the American invaders were carrying
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IESTAGRAM (ICCT Engineering Society Instant Telegram) INTRODUCTION This project will involve designing mobile application for the College of Engineering students only. The IEStagram application designed to the very highest standard that reflects the College of Engineering identity. It is a mobile application that provides information and encourage student to become an active member of IES (ICCT Engineering Society). Through this‚ there will be a transparency between the organization and the
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Dear Mr.jawad: As the chairperson of the cooperate campaigner-helping the homeless in Islamabad.i am writing this you to thank you personally of your company in last month fund raising effort. In fact when we spoke on telegram two weeks before‚the compaign was considered a failure but due to the efforts your company has put in this project give her a new way and its progressing where we didn’t expect it to. Actually we couldn’t succeeded without the help and generous
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Characteristics and usage of katakana The katakana syllabary consists of 48 syllables and was originally considered "men’s writing". Since the 20th century‚ katakana have been used mainly to write non-Chinese loan words‚ onomatopoeic words‚ foreign names‚ in telegrams and for emphasis (the equivalent of bold‚ italic or upper case text in English). Before the 20th century all foreign loanwords were written with kanji. Katakana are also used to write Ainu‚ a language spoken on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido
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through their computers rather than face to face. On the one hand‚ these developments can be extremely positive. Cooperation between people in different countries was much more difficult when communication was limited to written letters or telegrams. Nowadays‚ interactions by email‚ phone or video are almost as good as face-to-face meetings‚ and many of us benefit from these interactions‚ either in work or social contexts. On the other hand‚ the availability of new communication technologies
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there were no integrated Boy Scout troops in 1930’s Atlanta‚ she wrote to the Boy Scouts in New York for help in starting Troop 95‚ Atlanta’s first Boy Scout troop for African Americans.[4] When her husband died‚ Martin Luther King‚ Jr. sent Cooper a telegram; she also met with Coretta Scott King and saved photographs of the occasion.[5] Cooper first registered to vote on September 1‚ 1941. Though she was friends with elite black Atlantans like W. E. B. Du Bois‚ John Hope Franklin and Benjamin Mays‚ she
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Abstraction is a divorce from reality‚ entered into such calamities (86). When abstraction sets to killing you‚ you’ve got to get busy with it and in order to fight abstraction‚ you must have something of it in your own make-up. Abstraction sometimes proves itself stronger than happiness; and then if only then‚ it has to be taken into account (89). However‚ where some saw abstraction others saw the truth. Rambert’s perspective on the plague is that‚ the plague is everyone else’s problem but his own
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In the film “After the River I Stand”‚ it tells the story of how after integration‚ African Americans were pushed to the bottom of society. The film covers two months in 1968 that concluded with the success of the sanitation workers and the unexpected death of Martin Luther King Jr. In the documentary “At the River I Stand”‚ it tells the narrative of the sanitation workers strike in the year of 1968. In February 1968‚ the awful working conditions for African Americans came to attention with the
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