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UPS also issues an annual Corporate Sustainability Report. It is more than eighty pages long and details how UPS balances its economic success with social and environmental objectives, and how it measures such performance. To this end, UPS and its employees were for the past four years the largest contributor to the United States United Way Campaign, contributing more than 57 million in 2005. 

Robert Steinbrook, Election 2008—Campaign Contributions, Lobbying, and the U.S. Health Sector, New England Journal of Medicine 357, no. 8, August 23, 2007, pp. 736-739. Also available online. URL http //content.nejm.org/cgi/content/ full/357/8/736. Downloaded April 7, 2009. 

The adverse effects of chemical agriculture are widely known today the adverse effects of corporate agriculture are also known as damaging rural economies human and ecological resource base. However, while taxpayers have become fed up with the subsidies going to these same large corporate farms, farm state lawmakers who benefit from their campaign contributions are reluctant to reduce their commodity payments. 

The business community s massive investment in judicial elections through the Chamber of Commerce and related organizations had an impact on judicial behavior. A study of the votes of Supreme Court justices elected in Texas between 1994 and 1998 concluded that the justices were four times as likely to hear appeals from their campaign contributors and ten times more likely to hear appeals from substantial contributors. An analysis of the Ohio Supreme Court concluded that justices receiving contributions from parties involved in cases before their courts voted in favor of their contributors 70 percent of the time. And in a 2002 poll of 894 elected judges, only 36 percent said that campaign contributions had no influence at all on their decisions. ... 

In an attempt to widen the scope of this work, unpublished information has been sought from many sources, both by published appeals and correspondence. In this latter area, the contribution made by a friend, the late Mr A. Kruk-Schuster, of Laboratory Chemicals Disposal Company, Ltd., Billericay, has been outstanding. During 1965-1968 his literature work and global letter campaign to 2000 University chemistry departments and industrial institutions yielded some 300 contributions. 

Fig. 3 Percentage contribution of various congeners to the total PBDEs detected in fish samples from the control site (VI) and contaminated area (V3) during the two sampling campaigns (2004 and 2005)...

In the middle course, a contamination pattern described by the contribution of atrazine, alachlor, metolachlor, and octylphenol (this last variable presenting a lower loading than in the pattern identified in the upper course, mostly loaded only by nonylphenol), was obtained from the analysis of summer campaigns (see middle course patterns in Fig. 8). This component was associated to agricultural practices taking place in the central region. In addition, another contamination pattern loaded by tributylphosphate and nonylphenol, which are compounds often related to industry and urbanization, was identified in both, summer and fall campaigns. 

In the lower course, four agricultural contamination patterns were resolved, two of them in summer and two in fall. They were all characterized by the presence of triazines in their chemical composition (see lower course patterns in Fig. 8). Variables diazinon and the group of chloroacetanilides also contributed to define the agricultural contamination pattern resolved in the lower course in both seasons. However, while in summer campaigns diazinon appeared in one of the identified patterns and chloroacetanilides in the other, both compounds appeared together in the same contamination pattern in fall campaigns. Neither industrial nor urban contamination was detected in SW samples analyzed in the lower course of the Ebro River basin. 

Fig. 9 Composition of the identified patterns of contamination (loadings) in surface and groundwater of the Ebro River basin and patterns contribution to the analyzed samples (scores) from year 2004 to 2006. Samples ordered for both compartments from first to sixth sampling campaigns and, for each campaign, from NW to SE. Campaigns 1,3, and 5 sampled in summer and 2, 4, and 6 sampled in fall...

Three main patterns of contamination were resolved by MCR-ALS analysis of [SE SO] data matrix (105 samples x 15 variables). Composition profiles (loadings) of the resolved components are shown in Fig. 11 (plots on the left). Variables are identified with a number in the x axis. In the y axis, the relative contribution of every scaled variable to the identified contamination pattern is given. Temporal and spatial sample distribution profiles of the contamination patterns (scores) are represented in Fig. 11 (plots on the right). In the x axis, samples are identified for the two compartments, SE and SO, successively ordered from first to third campaign and, within each campaign, form North-West to South-East. The y axis displays the contribution of every resolved contamination pattern to samples. 

There are close parallels between this analysis and that made for the PEM Tropics A campaign (Chen et al., 2001). The percentage contributions of the main OH formation reactions were 0(1D)+H20=81% (78%), H02+03=5% (12%), H02+N0=4% (5%) and CH3OOH+hv=2% (4%) the SOAPEX-2 results shown in brackets. H2O2 photolysis contributed 8% of the total in PEM Tropics A, but only 2% in... 

The American Chemical Society took pride in the role it had played in the recruitment of chemists for research on chemical warfare and it was largely responsible for the publication of the results of their work. A series of articles appeared in the widely read Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry designated as "Contributions from the Chemical Warfare Service," summarizing the techniques and findings useful to the wider study of chemistry (39). When the War Department attempted to abolish the Chemical Warfare Service in 1919, the ACS cooperated in a campaign of publicity about the work of the Chemical Warfare Service and contributed in a major way to its survival (40). Many chemists who formerly had worked in the Research Division delivered public addresses and wrote letters in support of the continuance of the Chemical Warfare Service to newspapers and to members of Congress. 

Caldin, E. F. The Structure of Chemistry in Relation to the Philosophy of Science. London Sheed and Ward, 1961. Campaigne, E. "The Contributions of Fritz Arndt to Resonance Theory." JChem.Ed. 36 (1959) 336339. Canguilhem, Georges. Etudes d histoire et de philosophie des sciences. Paris Vrin, 1979. 

The legacy of Src kinase reflects a multidisciplinary campaign involving a plethora of scientists throughout the world, from academia to industry, and with many milestone contributions to both basic research and drug discov-... 

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