... in account to creating this wonderland. With a tag theme of "Improving the future, restoring the past", the designer worked hard to address land, water, air, and sustainable issues the Atlantic Station may incur. The site of Atlantic Station sits on a 138 acre piece of land that had been destroyed by the ... and remediate to contaminated soil from the years of industrial use. The next phase was to clear much of the carbon monoxide present in the air. Together with the EPA many tests and evaluation were taken of the area. After analyzing the area they managed to create an outcome of 34 ....

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... than the competitor. The Microsoft Travel Technologies platform includes both the back-office server and the end-user application for making complete air, hotel and car rental reservations on-line. It will be compatible with Microsoft Office and link to American Express' Expense Manager, ... time it takes an employee to make a reservation, change an itinerary and check on the. Reservation status. The traveler also requires less assistance from travel counselors, increasing travel agency productivity. Furthermore, total-processing costs can be reduced, delivering savings to the company a...

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... Senator Hillary Clinton. For the year that the public believed the disaster area was harmless, tremendous amounts of people were exposed to asbestos and many other harmful substances in the air surrounding the disaster area. Reports have surfaced about an increase in Asthma sufferers and other respiratory problems. Furthermore, in addition to the late determination, the EPA's study concluded that ... the contaminated air only affected areas below Canal Street. Additionally, it ignored scientific and photographic evidence by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) about the spread of ha...

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... city an artist named Adrian Piper performed by herself in public by riding a bus with a towel stuffed in her mouth. This was known as feminist performance art. At one time or another performance artists borrow not only from traditional genres conventionally associated with performing arts, but also guerrilla theater, and religious rituals. Performance tended to be open.ended and ... to communicate an alternative vision of themselves and the world the lived in. The most radical and provocative feminist art works to be developed in the 70's were done by feminists who portrayed the human b...

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... and my hometown in the Rockaways. Everyone remember the blackout because of the hot sweltering nights most residents had to deal with, along without any lights and air conditioners and T.V sets especially in Westchester, and as the night went on things got a lot more Dangerous. (William Laird Siegel). The New York City ... get it. It seemed like only the criminals were stealing during this historic blackout, it didn't really have much to do with race and who is less wealthy it's about who is the ex-on and has a criminal past. A lot of poor people did loot and a lot of them would feel li...

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... -industries feel the effects of Hurricane Sandy, but individuals who lost loved ones and family members were also indirectly affected. Local Economic Costs Preliminary estimates suggest that residential damage of less than five million in Maryland is actually due to the flooding of several homes (Sharp, 2012). The overall damage estimates are about 5.5 million in Delaware and $20 million in ... to be approximately between $50 and $75 million (Blake, 2012). In New York City, the estimated loss exceeds $19 billion due to Metropolitan Transportation Authority sustaining roughly five billion...

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The obstacles facing police departments today are not new or uncommon. The problem goes back as far as the forming of the first organized police forces. Corruption has taken many forms and has continued ... Since 1995, in Philadelphia, ten police officers from the 39th District have been charged with planting drugs on suspects, shaking down drug dealers for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and breaking into homes to steal drugs and cash. In Los Angeles by 1994, 27 Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies and one Los Angeles police officer had ... been convicted of skimming millions of dollars ...

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... landmark Supreme Court case set the foundation for future cases involving stops and seizures and set the precedent for how lower courts were to handle them. Over the next thirty or so years, Criminal Procedure Law 140.50 governed stop-and-frisk procedures for law enforcement agencies. Police officers had the right to stop individuals and inquire, but had to have ... of 76 precincts, African American and Latinos comprised more than half of the stops. Even in precincts where blacks and Latinos represent 15 percent or less of the population, they were the ones stopped in more than 70 perce...

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... ®, a flavor suggested by a writer from New York City. Throughout the years, they have continued to introduce new flavors either suggested or inspired by either regular individuals or well-known celebrities.    Ben and Jerry launched their "Cowmobile ", a modified mobile home used to distribute free scoops of ice cream in ... During a period of volatility in the dairy market in 1991, the company went so far as to pay a dairy premium totaling a half million dollars to combat Vermont dairy farmers' losses. This helped protect the family farmers who supplied the milk for Ben and Jerry's i...

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... kinds of projects scattered over thirty-one states. The project received its funding from the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, in which it gave the FTP around seven million dollars to spend on wages and other materials. "With this commitment of funding, representatives of the Federal Theatre director throughout the country, set up classification boards, auditioned theatre personnel and started ... ...

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... Corporation in 1901 for $400 million, which would be a little over $4 billion today (Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Homepage). After retiring, Carnegie's fortune was estimated to be as large as half a billion dollars. From that time on, with the philosophy that the rich have a moral obligation to give away their money, he devoted himself to philanthropy. Although ironic, this man of great fortune ... community service, Carnegie is quoted as saying, "Pittsburgh entered the core of my heart when I was a boy, and cannot be torn out. I can never be one hair's breadth less loyal to her, or less ...

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... as Cornelius Vanderbilt, Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, John Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan, let nothing get in their way of achieving success. Although their methods of achieving success were sometimes questioned or considered immoral, the ways these businessmen used their success and wealth to benefit the nation, as well as other people, far outweighs any wrong they may have done on their ... to various organizations, some of which include The New York College of Physicians & Surgeons, The New York General Theological Seminary, and Yale University. He also donated more than one million dol...

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... , where businessmen of moderate means begot and reared large families of children." (Cather, 215) The fact that later in the story his father is able to pay back the thousand dollars Paul has stolen shows that he is wealthier than what the youg man had previously hinted to. This tendency to fail to recognize what is true and his narcissist personality ... ...

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... New York City Catholic Diocese, holds heavy metal liable for the increase of Satanism followers in that city. Many songs that include lyrical content relating to explicit sex, explicit violence, or explicit substance abuse are now being censored. (Radziewicz 2) Lyrics of heavy metal music communicate potentially harmful health messages, which pose unprecedented threats to the health and well-being of ... week. This survey also found that the adolescents who developed an early interest in heavy metal were more likely to be influenced by their peers and less influenced by their parents tha...

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... improving manufacturing methods of quality steel for America. His success through this enterprise can be accredited to his ardent work ethic. In 1901 the company was sold for 475 million dollars. Something new to America that came along with the economic transformation was philanthropy. Carnegie was the leader of this and donated an overwhelming amount of money, libraries, buildings, schools, etc ... of the first examples of a significant environmental change was the United States' size growing by more than 25 percent. This was completed through the purchase of Alaska for only 7.3 milli...

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... high school graduates, smaller class sizes, and have proven to better prepare students for the demands of college. Private schools can charge an elementary student one thousand to two thousand dollars a year for admittance. This presents a problem for most parents, especially those who have more than one child to send. In last year's elections, Proposition 38 was a proposed device to try ... and relieve this particular situation. Proposition 38 authorized annual state payments of at least four thousand dollars per student for public and private schools. This proposition was attempting t...

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... reflected as a natural behavior of human beings. The first element is related to mental analysis where a person doesn't want to be thought of as not doing his/her job well, or being one of those people who feel bad that they did not tip the server at the counter for getting them a cup of coffee. For example: the beggar cup on ... age and race tend to get worse service than white males. In addition, there's the problem of the power imbalance between tippers who are typically males and servers who are 70% females where a big number of sexual harassment claims has been generated. Both auth...

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... mostly agricultural to becoming industrial, Puerto Rican immigrants had to adjust to these changes, which was very difficult for them. According to Bourgois (2002: 52), over the past two or three generations, Puerto Ricans emigrants started out as peasants in New York, to becoming agricultural laborers to factory workers, to sweatshop workers, to service employees, and then to underground economy ... addicted to drugs just like their customers. Everything they earn is usually spent quickly. According to Bourgois (2002:92), "Ray's workers, for example, averaged slightly less than double t...

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... that are allowed to carry a weapon on airplanes and have the highest standard for handgun accuracy, blend in with passengers and rely on their training (Transportation Security Administration). These air marshals have a very important job and their accomplishments are very important to aviation and homeland security. There is also the National Explosive Detection Canine Team program, which prepares dogs and ... materials that could be a treat to transportation systems, as well as ruling out the presence of hazardous materials in packages that are unattended, and structures or vehicles. L...

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... . Studies have proven that when individuals buy a certain portion they are more inclined to consume what is given. Therefore it is logical to understand the means in which people become less receptive to the calories and glucose level in take when purchasing large beverages. The legislation does not apply to grocery stores, convenience stores, street vendors, and a few other establishments. This ... ...

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... roadway scene, symbolising ordinary life, look much like any other part of America. The majority of shots are of real life: taken through the car's side window or windscreen, a driver's eye view, and are of downmarket industrial areas. There is no special lighting: they are taken as from a moving car on a bumpy ... . The man in the car, for example, seems to be on his way home from work. The fact that he may work as a gangster, or in some shady business, is somewhat irrelevant; he's still doing the ordinary thing of driving home from work, stopping as everyone else does to pay his ... by...

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... best of life in an overcrowded city" (104-5). The middling folk lived much better than the mechanics because they were able to commute to work so they could live in less expensive parts of New York (106). "The removal of work from the homes of middling folk permitted the multiplication of parlors, bedrooms, and other purely domestic spaces, even in smaller ... ...

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... described how nearly the entire precinct patrol force would meet at times at an isolated location, where they would drink, shoot off guns in the air and plan their illegal drug raids. (James 3) "The cops who were engaged in corruption 20 years ago took money to cover up the criminal ... says Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Bauer (Castaneda 11). When cities enlarge their police forces too quickly, it can also mean an influx of younger and less well-suited officers. That was a major reason for the enormous corruption scandal that hit Miami in the mid-1980s, when about 10% of the ... city's ...

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... a room full of deaf people.", said Former Secretary Treasure Paul O"Neil. No one new which way to turn and no one knew exactly how to deal with the economic slump or what the right decision should be in stopping the economy from a downward spiral. The previous tax-cut packages proposed by the president was not having positive results, for the economy ... the threat against the United States, but we must no let this alter our lives even though it has changed America in many different areas such as trade, immigration, and air traffic, just to name a few. Americans need to be reunited with...

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Spike Lee has always been one of the many directors who in always wanted to keep his or her audience socially aware. Spike Lee is an American filmmaker, producer, writer, and actor. He is most known for his films such as: Malcolm X, She's Gotta Have It, Do the ... film, shot on location in Brooklyn, took twelve days to shoot with a small budget of $175,000. Despite receiving mixed reviews from the mainstream media, the film grossed over 7 million dollars in sales. The independent film earned him the Prix de Jeunesse Award at the Cannes Film Festival. The film also set Lee at the forefront of...

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