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Conflict of Interest
Conflict of InterestBIBLIOGRAPHYHow can there be assurance that a government official, businessman, or professional person will properly perform his duty to the public, to his employer, or to his client when that duty affects his own private economic interests? In its narrowest sense, this is the... Read more |
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trade association
trade association group of business people in the same trade or industry organized for the advancement of common interests. The trade association differs from the chamber of commerce in that membership is by industry rather than by locality. The common interests binding the members of the trade... Read more |
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Groton
Groton , town (1990 pop. 45,144), New London co., SE Conn., including the borough of Groton and the village of West Mystic, on the Thames River opposite New London; settled c.1650, inc. 1705. Shipbuilding, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, and commercial fishing are among the town's industries. The... Read more |
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High Point
High Point city (1990 pop. 69,496), Davidson, Guilford, and Randolph counties, N N.C., in a heavily forested Piedmont region; settled before 1750, inc. 1859. It is a trade, industrial, and commercial center for an agricultural area. Noted for the production of furniture and hosiery, the city has... Read more |
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Emilio Segre
SEGRè, EMILIO GINO(b. Tivoli, Italy, 30 January 1905; d. Lafayette, California, 22 April 1989), nuclear and particle physics, history of science.Segrè opened the world of antimatter to physical investigation with his discovery of the antiproton, discovered the first of the elements produced by a... Read more |
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Saint-Etienne
Saint-Étienne , city (1990 pop. 201,569), capital of Loire dept., SE France, in the Massif Central . The metropolitan region occupies much of what was once a major coal-mining and steelmaking district. Manufactures include ribbons (famous since the 15th cent.), silk, bicycles, automobile... Read more |
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Alton
Alton , city (1990 pop. 32,905), Madison co., SW Ill., on bluffs of the Mississippi River 5 mi (8.1 km) above its confluence with the Missouri; inc. 1837. Alton is a shipping and industrial center, and there are oil refineries nearby. Food products, lime, crushed stone, lumber, crystal, paperboard,... Read more |
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Woking
Woking , district (1991 pop. 84,000), Surrey, SE England. Woking is primarily a residential suburb of London. There are printing, rubber, and packing industries. Of interest is a mosque built in 1889, headquarters of the Muslim Society of Great Britain.... Read more |
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Fee
FEE A compensation paid for particular acts, services, or labor, generally those that are performed in the line of official duties or a particular profession. An interest in land; an estate of inheritance. An estate is an interest in land, and a fee, in this sense, is the shortened version of the... Read more |
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Time for Leadership: South Korea and Nuclear Nonproliferation
...export four nuclear reactors to the United...for other nuclear reactor deals as...planned power reactors. Buoyed...aiming to capture 20 percent...market for nuclear reactors...dominated ... |
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Technology transfer; Nuclear power.(British Nuclear Fuels is selling...
...purchase and sale of Westinghouse...American builder of nuclear reactors, by...owned British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL...s because the nuclear industry is in its most...Toshiba a chance to capture a big slice ... |
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Nebraska Utility Issuing $234M for Nuclear Plant.(Regional News)
...Wednesday to capture interest rate savings...Ahead of the sale, all three...on Cooper Nuclear Station have...extend the time reactors can be maintained...Fukushima nuclear disaster after...existing U.S. ... |
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Nuclear ambition fuels Westinghouse sell-off.
...billion) sale of state-owned nuclear reactor designer Westinghouse...building of nuclear and coal...light for new nuclear plants, Government...conflict of interest. Wicks said...Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, ... |
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Kazakhstan's Decision Makers - The Caspian Energy Hub - Anvar Saidenov.
...favourable interest rates set...stabilised. The sale of dollars...Chinese nuclear industry, highlighted...Soviet-built nuclear fuel pellet...advanced nuclear fuel assembly...eventually to capture about a ... |
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In quest for power, nuclear is a disunifying force ; For E.U. members, energy...
...only national interest. Pooling energy...divergence is over nuclear power. Germany...Fukushima. Nuclear power had been...where 58 reactors generate about...powerful new reactor is being built...transport and sales ... |
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BRIEFING - ASIA ENERGY - FEB 18, 2010.
...expressions of interest from a strong...MORE ASSET SALES THIS YEAR PERTH...further asset sales this year to...TEAM ON CARBON CAPTURE, STORAGE TECH...production and sale of power transmission...Bharat's sales network ... |
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Marks the spot: according to one business school professor, wind and...
...develop carbon capture and sequestration...Generation IV nuclear reactor program, which promises new reactor technologies...presentations. But sales pitches aside...high-tech industries. The results...her original ... |