money put in purchasing a product‚ some times‚ due to defects in the product‚ the buyer is injured as well. In all such cases‚ there is a violation of a legal right of the buyer and he is entitled to sue the seller. Before enactment of the Consumer Protection Act‚ 1986‚ filing a civil suit for damages was the only option available to an aggrieved buyer. However‚ such a suit is very expensive and time consuming‚ because of which‚ buyers were not able to use this mechanism for relatively smaller amounts
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WorldCom was one of the leading telecommunication companies prior to its application for bankruptcy protection on July 21st‚ 2002. The firm’s decision to file for bankruptcy was a shocker move considering the amount of revenues and asset base the company had. It is believed that the firm was highly involved in fraudulent bookkeeping between the year 1999 and 2000 where they had managed to overstate its taxable income by at least $7 billion. It was also revealed that the company had committed itself
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Outline and evaluate restoration theory as an explanation of the function of sleep (8+16 marks) Sleep is believed to function as a means of restoring the biological system to a better working order this is the basis of the restoration theory‚ Sleep is divided into several different stages such as SWS‚ and REM sleep‚ Oswald proposed that each of these sleep stages has a different restorative function. SWS enables the body to repair itself and REM enables brain recovery and memory consolidation
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through source reduction and waste minimization measures‚ with the protection of public health and the environment as the primary goal. There are issues to be addressed here: (1.) lack of management system‚ (2.) lack of public support for environmental concerns‚ (3.) lack of public awareness through information and education. Solid waste management whose importance is directly related to public health‚ resource management and utilization‚ and maintaining a clean
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River Restoration - Soft Engineering The River Cole‚ Oxford The River Cole forms part of the border between the counties‚ Oxfordshire and Wiltshire. It is a tributary of the River Thames and joins it near Lechlade. Many mills have altered the river by straightening and polluting it. Much of its upper course has been built over due to urbanisation and so the exact location of the source is unknown. It also flows through National Trust land. The River Cole had become very polluted and
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Unit 5 Understand the national and local context of safeguarding and protection from abuse. National policies: Disclosure and Barring service Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) No Secrets (England) In Safe Hands (Wales) 2000 Human Rights Act 1998 Care Quality Commission (CQC) Local Systems: Safeguarding Adults boards- North Wales Area (Current Chair-Chris Pearson) These bring together a number of different local agencies‚ police‚ MIND‚ advocacy groups‚ social workers‚ G.Ps. The Police-
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MANAGEMENT AND PROTECTION The Great Barrier Reef is an extensive and intricate ecosystem which is located off the east coast of Northern Queensland. The GBR stretches roughly 2300 kilometres from as far north as Fly River in PNG to as far south as Frazer Island. The whole reef system covers 354‚ 000 square kilometres in total which makes it the largest and most famous coral reef system in the world. Holding one of the world’s broadest ranges of genetic biodiversity‚ the maintenance of the GBR is
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1 Directions Refer to: Free Credit Report on the Federal Trade Commission’s site. Identity Theft resource center on the Federal Trade Commission’s site. Provide answers to three of the following questions based on your readings and your personal experiences. Answers should be 100-to 150-words each. If you find errors on your credit report‚ what steps would you take to correct them? Steps we can take include writing to the credit reporting company describing what we feel is inaccurate
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Heroin Addiction & Methadone Maintenance Deborah Booth Psychology 305 – DO4 Liberty University Heroin Addiction & Methadone Maintenance Diacetylmorphine‚ aka: heroin‚ smack‚ horse‚ black tar‚ china white‚ and H‚ the slang names are as numerous as the places you can score this highly addictive narcotic. Heroin‚ a derivative of morphine‚ via opium‚ which comes from the resin of the Papaver somniferum plant has been in use for nearly 3500 years (Doweiko‚2012‚ p.137). To
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1. Evaluate Restoration Hardware using the value chain and competitive forces models. How is the company responding to the forces that influence it? Potential Entrants: Threat of new entrants is high because there are already many in the industry so it is obviously easy to enter. Industry Competitors: Rivalry among existing firms is high. Pottery Barn‚ Pier 1‚ and Williams Sonoma are a few. Competitors have greater financial‚ marketing‚ and operational resources. Substitutes: Threat of
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