the u s petroleum refining industry

... competitiveness issues waxes and wanes with the U.S business cycle and its position relative to other countries After the cyclical downturn of the early 1990s, the rest of the decade has seen an unprecedented ... encourage small manufacturing firms to upgrade their production technologies and the skills of their workers While Luria's chapter stresses the role played by small businesses in the productivity ... nesses of technology policy as currently proposed for the United States In so doing, she assesses past efforts to evaluate the successes and failures of tech-nology policy and concludes that there

Ngày tải lên: 03/01/2020, 16:14

... findings answer the researchquestions Part 3: Conclusion summarizes the findings of the study, giving concluding remarks, implications, limitations of the study and suggestions for further studies ... political science The study is pure linguistic research, conducted with the aim todiscuss what and how linguistic strategies contribute to the success and popularity of thespeech 4 Aims of the study ... the discourse willhelp them understand more comprehensively the political discourses 3 Scope of the study The linguistic features of the inaugural address made by President G.W Bush inthe U.S election

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 10:08

... but the substructure is reused, “Year Built” remains the year of original substructure construction “Year Reconstructed” would then indicate the year the superstructure was replaced Such a situation ... prestressed concrete, structural steel and timber based on the superstructure material for the main span Values shown in the “Total” columns include bridges constructed using other materials such as ... considered for this report because they are typically buried structures Therefore, the database of structures used for this report contains a total of 474,515 struc- tures This subset of the

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 20:15

... creditworthinessand a keen understanding of business conditions in the communitiesthey serve In this way, the bifurcated banking system has served theneeds of a diverse U.S economy composed of businesses ... smaller share ofbank assets and loans than of bank deposits is that they have less accessthan larger banks to nondeposit sources of funds such as federal funds,repurchase agreements, and subordinated ... roles as providers of relationship-based andinformation-intensive banking services These services are consumedmainly by smaller customers such as small businesses, family farmers,and depositors

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20

... of statistical and measurement issues havebeen debated in the literature on the U.S savingrate evolution The literature on the subject israther voluminous We choose to focus on at leastfour distinct ... BEA.14 Other Issues with the NIPA Measures of the Personal Saving Rate Economists and the financial press havefocused on a few other accounting issues in theirattempt to make sense of the recent ... discuss pros and cons of two standard definitions of the personalsaving rate Because the decline manifests itself in all standard measures and cannot be easilyexplained by measurement issues,

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20

... slaves then established their own parallel, or underground, churches These churches often blended Christianity with aspects of the slaves’ former African religious cultures and beliefs Religious services ... Douglass launched The North Star, the first of several newspapers he would publish to promote the causes of equal rights for blacks and for women Its motto was “Right is of no Sex — Truth is ... rights movement that sought its objectives by peaceful means Many of the powerful voices of the civil rights movement — King, of course, but also such powerful and significant figures as U.S Representatives

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... arena The United States has used its nuclear forces for most of those pur-poses Even more significant, it has not used them in combat since Nagasaki Most notably, of course, the United States used ... in the old. As Quinlivan put it: 1Russians raise this possibility occasionally in conversations with U.S analysts It is unclear whether they believe that Russia would actually adopt such ... geographic accidents: on both sides Although these factors helped reduce the stress and fog of the U.S.-Russian nuclear confrontation, it was still very dangerous Because of the stakes in the competition

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 11:20

... Sys-tem (ILS) The program, the largest and most complex acquisitioneffort in USCG history, was originally designed to maintain thestatus quo at the USCG as it pursues its traditional missions ... DeepwaterSystem⎯explored whether the USCG’s original replacement and _ re-4 Homeland security encompasses missions that the USCG performs for DHS Homeland defense encompasses missions the USCG performs for the ... allow the USCG to enhance its surveillance, reconnaissance, andsearch and rescue capabilities Such alternatives may involve less-costly assets than platforms the USCG currently uses to handle itsresponsibilities

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 11:20

... concern because the more stamps you put on documents the less security you are going to have at the very sensitive levels where maximum security should be always safeguarded.”4Following these early ... Disease Control (CDC) * Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU) Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) * Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU) [DHS] Customs and Border Protection (CBP) * Sensitive But ... agencies to develop standard procedures for handling Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU) information, including SHSI These procedures, the memo asserted, “must promote appropriate and consistent safeguarding

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 05:20

... well-defined inputs and measurable outputs Inputs include the characteristics of the students and their par-ents, the type and amount of purchased inputs provided by the schools themselves, and the social ... earnings, residential property values, manufactur-ing activity in a state, and small business start-ups in a state The studies the paper discusses are for the most part regression analyses, which ... community environment in which the school operates Measurable outputs can include such things as standardized test scores, graduation rates, the results of parental and stu-dent surveys on the quality

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 19:20

... holdings into U.S financial securities, including U.S Treasury securities, U.S agency debt, U.S corporate debt, and U.S equities U.S Treasury securities, which are used to finance the federal budget ... industries As a result, China consumes much less than it produces Such policies have contributed to China’s large annual trade surpluses The combination of China’s large merchandise trade surpluses ... constituted 43.7% of its holding of U.S securities, which were greater than its holdings of LT U.S Treasury securities (43.3%) However, the bursting of the U.S housing bubble and the subsequent federal

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 20:20

... smooth surface Large clumps will result in uneven soil moisture as the tops of clumps dry much faster and create conditions more conducive to less desirable species, such as coffeebean and cocklebur ... Techniques Plant species composition in moist-soil units should be monitored throughout the growing season Cursory samples should be conducted at least weekly early in the growing season to ... moist-soil plant responses and associated waterfowl use, controlling nuisance plants, and archiving of data are the keys to successful, consistent moist-soil seed production and waterfowl use

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 12:20

... Vehicles: Summary of a Symposium U. S BATTERY INDUSTRY FOR ELECTRIC DRIVE VEHICLES the U. S has the supply base and skilled workforce to sustain a globally competitive industry These issues present ... means of reducing energy use and as an important manufacturing industry This is no less the case for the United States Currently, the transportation sector accounts for two-thirds of U. S petroleum ... lithium-ion battery makers A major reason for the conversion is that the business case for trucks is more clear-cut Because trucks burn so much petroleum- based fuel, investments in hybrids can sometimes...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 21:20

... annual sales of new products This could result in the loss of hundreds of thousands of U. S manufacturing jobs and reduce the standard of living and personal mobility of millions of U. S consumers ... non-exclusive externalities with a public value of little marginal consequence to the average consumer As shown in Figure 9, the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U. S Census (BEA /U. S Census) estimate ... values With these prices and the fuel savings estimated at each of the 2025 mpg scenarios, it is possible to calculate two estimates for the monetary value of the annual fuel savings These results...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 11:20

... about losing exports to the EU if they cultivated GE crops The United States successfully challenged the EU s biotech approval rules and EU member states’ unwillingness to approve GE crops at the ... member state moratoriums at the WTO While the WTO was considering the dispute, the United States continued to push for the EU to drop its biotech rules In 2005, the USTR demanded that the United States ... the cables (32.6 percent) addressed environmental issues, primarily repeating the industry contention that GE crops reduce pesticide use and soil erosion as well as the promised drought-resistance...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 21:49

... handful of very successful drugs Thus the U. S. -owned share of these best selling drugs is an important and superior measure of the U. S share of innovational earnings And it is precisely these earnings ... Yet, several substantially varying perspectives immediately present themselves American labor will assess the pharmaceutical industry on the basis of the number of jobs and the volume of salaries ... exclude sales of bulk drugs and veterinary drugs SOURCE: Annual Survey Reports (Washington, DC: Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association, various years) Starting in the 195 0s, American firms began...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 11:20

... processed for use as fuel or sold for other purposes such as mulch for gardens The debarked logs are washed and passed through stone separators to remove all the bark The logs also pass through ... enhance the effect of the sulfur gases 4.5 Effluents Pulping Uses Larges Quantities of Water and Produces Significant Amounts of Wastewater The pulp and paper industry is the largest industrial ... effluents Wastes, Residuals, or Byproducts Bark and fines that are burned as fuel in boilers No significant wastes, residuals, or byproducts No significant wastes, residuals, or byproducts No significant...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 02:20

... The U. S Newspaper Industry in Transition Summary The U. S newspaper industry is suffering through what could be its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression Advertising revenues have ... Business Models The Harvard Business School has developed a case study, entitled The Newspaper Industry in Crisis, as a teaching tool “to help students to understand the dynamics of radical industry ... industry change and foster a discussion around potentially viable business models on the internet.” The premise of the study is that the newspaper s 19th century business model has been turned upside...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 02:20

... captured particulate or gaseous pollutant species The disposal of ashes and scrubber sludge is a concern in the industry, due to the generally low pH of these wastes Many mills must raise the pH by ... organic compounds (VOCs), some of which may also be HAPS SOx, SO2 and, to a lesser extent NO, are also a concern The following sections discuss emission sources for these pollutants and the associated ... pollutants, toxics and, in particular, chlorinated organic compounds Section 2.2 discusses the solid wastes, while Section 2.3 discusses air emissions 2.1 EFFLUENTS Pulp and paper mills require large...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 05:20

... agriculture and food industry to bioterrorism is difficult to address in a systematic manner due to the highly dispersed nature of the industry and because many of the risk evaluations used to assess ... significant, these figures represent only a fraction of the total value of agriculture to the U. S economy This is because the statistics not take into account allied industries and services, such as suppliers, ... MSX disease [Haplosporidium nelsoni], perkinsosis, bonamiosis) • Crustacean diseases (e.g., white spot disease, yellowhead disease) For further details, see the OIE classification of diseases...

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