444 Cases E ot nearly a decade‚ the EU and the United I States were engaged in a heated trade dispute over bananas. The EU had introduced tariffs and quotas that discriminated in favor o[ bananas grown in former European colonies and dependencies located in the Caribbean and Africa. The new rules were favorable to the European-based banana companies‚ whose production was heavily located in these preferced regions. However‚ the new rules were disadvantageous to the U.S.-based companies‚
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“LIFTING THE CORPORATE VEIL” The recognition that a company is a separate legal entity distinct from its shareholders is often expressed as the “veil of incorporation”. General principle‚ once a company is incorporated‚ the courts usually do not look behind the veil to inquire why the company was or who really controls it. However in certain situations‚ the court will ignore the separate legal personality of a company and look to the members/controllers of the company is “lifting the veil”
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allowed to deduct the $40‚000 loss this year if he is a material participant in the business Correct Answer: False Judy owns a 20% interest in a partnership in which her at-risk amount was $35‚000 at the beginning of the year. The partnership borrowed $50‚000 on a recourse note and made a $40‚000 profit during the year. Her at-risk amount at the end of the year is $53‚000 Correct Answer: True Kelly‚ who earns a yearly salary of $120‚000‚ sold an activity with a suspended passive
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“A Particular Cheap White Wine” Response Tim Wise states that white students do receive many unearned advantages throughout their school careers. This is because white children tend to come from families who have the means and resources to ensure quality education for their children. The truth is that‚ as Wise points out‚ the majority of minority students come from backgrounds with less money and less education than their white counterparts. I believe that this cycle is deeply rooted in our country’s
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Wise Judgment Scenario PSY/220 The wise judgment scenario that I have chosen to write on is the teenage girl in love. The teenaged girl’s boyfriend that she is in love with is encouraging her to have sex; he is saying he will make sure they only have protected sex. Older woman can usually relate to situations like this‚ because we were all once young. I have personally dealt with this wise judgment
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Biol 385: Biotech. and Gen. Eng. Name ___________________________ Exam #2 - 100pts 06 April 2012 G # _____________________ ======================================================================= If necessary‚ use the back of the exam pages for the rest of your answers. Do not use other sheets of paper. Please write legibly; if I cannot read your answer‚ I will count it wrong. * BY TAKING THIS EXAM‚ YOU HAVE AGREED TO ABIDE BY THE SPIRIT AND THE LETTER
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Carriage Regimes To what extent do the international carriage regimes facilitate modern international carriage relationships? My Answer: A) Regulation of contracts by the three frameworks of liabilities and defenses; B) Historical justification for internationally recognized regulation – starting with the Harter Act 1893 and concerns about freedom of contract impact on cargo interests; At the end of the 19th century shipping started to develop more and more and during the first years
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line will be attended to first. | | | | A friend in need is a friend indeed | | A friend who helps when one is in trouble is a real friend. | | | | Discretion is the better part of valor | | If you say discretion is the better part of valor‚ you mean that avoiding a dangerous or unpleasant situation is sometimes the most sensible thing to do. | | | | A hungry man is an angry man | | A person who does not get what he wants or needs is a frustrated person and will be easily provoked to rage. |
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"Hazel Motes’ Pursuit of Truth (Truth’s Opposite) " In an unusual way‚ many of Flannery O’Connor’s characters in Wise Blood reveal many important truths about themselves and others‚ demonstrating their capacity for vision‚ despite their tendency to embark on perilous journeys in pursuit of truth’s opposite. For Hazel Motes‚ Wise Blood’s protagonist‚ the phallus becomes the vehicle that drives him on his journey into falsehood‚ and paradoxically‚ toward truth. Early in his life‚ O’Connor’s
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Nathan the Wise has been called the “Magna Carta” of Jewish emancipation in Germany. Lessing modeled the figure of Nathan on his good friend the German-Jewish Enlightenment philosopher Moses Mendelssohn‚ grandfather of the great composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. At the time that Nathan the Wise was written‚ it was a tremendous provocation for Lessing to make the hero of his play a Jew and the villain of his play an intolerant Christian patriarch. It was equally astounding for Lessing to make
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