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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Necessary Evil"”.
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Veil Piercing - A Necessary evil? A critical study on the doctrines of limited liability and piercing the corporate veil
This paper will focus on the limited liability of the company and one of the important exceptions to this rule: piercing the corporate veil. This paper reveals, after a detailed analysis, that the doctrine of piercing the corporate veil is inherently flawed. While accepting the necessity for such a …
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"Can These Be The Sons of Their Fathers" The Defense of Slavery in Virginia, 1831-1832
… argument subverted the traditional necessary evil justification for slavery. Defenders of slavery became impaled upon the horns of a dilemma. If they continued to acknowledge that slavery was evil, then they risked engendering the expansive government powers that the emancipationists …
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Changing images: The end of legalized prostitution in Las Vegas
… had once viewed legalized prostitution as a "necessary evil," but realized that it had no place in a modern resort city that Las Vegas evolved into after World War II.
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"Bondage or Barbarism," Parson Brownlow and the Rhetoric of Racism in East Tennessee, 1845-1867.
… of the 1850s shifted from defending slavery as a necessary evil to promoting slavery as an unqualified blessing in the years before the Civil War. Furthermore, during Brownlow's governorship of Tennessee during Reconstruction, Brownlow argued that slavery was economically deleterious to poor white …
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Improving maintenance work flow processes in a volatile assembly factory environment : maintenance people and processes, spares inventory, and equipment reliability
… companies, had been relegated to the status of necessary evil, a cost center that was necessary but not always effective or efficient. Historically, the maintenance organization had been almost entirely reactive in its approach to maintenance. This study reviews many ideas for how CEI could, …
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Beyond Food Access: Accumulation by Dispossession and Dollar General in Central Appalachia
… Appalachian people perceive the chain as a necessary evil. I argue that the complicated relationship between Dollar General and Central Appalachian people is an example of David Harvey's theory of accumulation by dispossession. Neoliberal globalization created the conditions that allow …
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An investigation into the need and implementation of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) in Libyan cement industry
… activities from what is considered to be the 'necessary evil' into an essential part of the business. In TPM, maintenance and downtime is integrated within the production system and scheduled as an essential part of the manufacturing process. This thesis investigates the problems facing four …
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Islands of effectiveness in co-government arrangements : the case of three coalition-led municipalities in South Africa
Co-government arrangements are a necessary evil that provides political parties with an opportunity to take office, exercise power and share the spoils of power. My dissertation examines the reforms and principles that are most useful in co-government arrangements, which are characterised by …
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The social construction of female criminality : women, mental health, and the criminal justice system
… myth and painting women in a picture of natural evil, a temptation, but a necessary evil . This interpretation has been re-constructed in a capitalist society because in order to function, a capitalist society needs women in the home to ensure its survival. Therefore, the social construction of …
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Unraveling selves: A Butlerian reading of managerial subjectives during organizational change.
… excuses unethical behaviour and relations as a ‘necessary evil’.
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Corporate real estate occupancy costs and its correlation to company performance
… a lack of investment strategy and treated as the necessary evil for operating the core businesses. Corporate real estate generally involves activities such as long-term leasing, acquisition, in some cases ground-up developments, management, and disposal of real estate assets. Due to the long …
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Smokkel for the pot : the politics of liquor retail in the Western Cape, a case study of Atlantis
… other public officials. Shebeens are viewed as a necessary evil since there is a stigma attached to selling liquor and many respondents believe that liquor abuse is the cause of many socio economic problems facing Atlantis. However there are no other viable job opportunities in the area forcing …
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Contribution or corruption? A survey of supervisory, managerial and administrative attitudes toward the use of discretion in adult male prisons
… picture of discretion as a sin to be avoided, a necessary evil to be scrupulously controlled, or a valuable tool which properly applied can lead to safe, secure, humane prisons. These conflicting perspectives at one time or another have described the use of discretion in most, if not all, prisons …
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Evil Becomes Her: Prostitution's Transition from Necessary to Social Evil in 19th Century America
… prostitution as immediately declared a “social evil” or briefly mentions why Americans assigned it such a role. While correct that it eventually did become a “social evil,” the evolution of discourse relating to prostitution is a bit more complex. This thesis provides a survey of this evolution …
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Development of Asset Information Requirements to support Asset Management
… that are seeing maintenance moving from a "necessary evil" to a value-adding exercise. This is enforced by the need to achieve greater asset performance within increasing financial constraints, aiming to achieve "more for less" while limiting impact on the natural environment. The …
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Pro-environmental behaviours of hospitality employees : a practice theory approach
… that food waste is viewed as inevitable and a necessary evil in hospitality operations. Though multiple stages of the food cycle are responsible for food waste, a systematic approach is not adopted. Many routine practices that lead to wastage of edible food have achieved normative status. …
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The Federal Evolution of Imperial Germany (1871-1918)
… – albeit for different reasons – as a necessary evil and a means to an end. This attitude had a lasting impact on German political culture, with federal structures remaining at the mercy of power interests throughout the twentieth century. The dissertation is woven from three different …
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Design of equipment safety & reliability for an aseptic liquid food packaging line through maintenance engineering
… outcome emphasizes that maintenance is not a “necessary evil” because of costs associated, but it can be considered an “investment” that produces an added value which generates a real company profit. The existing maintenance engineering techniques pursue equipment reliability at minimum cost; …
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Towards a meaningful engagement approach to mining-induced displacements in South Africa: a legal comparative perspective
… about mining should just be excused as a 'necessary evil' or 'acceptable collateral damage'. But not now. One of the negative impacts of mining activity is displacement of people. Gaining access to a mineral resource requires displacing local communities to make way for mining operations. …
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Towards a meaningful engagement approach to mining-induced displacements in South Africa: a legal comparative perspective
… about mining should just be excused as a 'necessary evil' or 'acceptable collateral damage'. But not now. One of the negative impacts of mining activity is displacement of people. Gaining access to a mineral resource requires displacing local communities to make way for mining operations. …
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