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Government by the American Enterprise Institute, Opportunities in Higher Education by the Mercatus Center, and Mobilizing Citizens for November by Americans for Prosperity. A keynote speech by Glenn Beck was entitled Is America on the Road to Serfdom ... 

J. Theberge in Opportunities for Innovation Polymer Composites, S. H. Munson-McGee, ed, NIST GCR 90-577-1, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Md., 1990, pp. 35—44. 

Waste-to-Ene/gy— Hn Opportunity for Etllltles, EPRI TB.65.127.5.91, Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif., 1991. 

Disproportionation of Olefins. Disproportionation or the metathesis reaction offers an opportunity to convert surplus olefins to other desirable olefins. Phillips Petroleum and Institut Fransais du Petrc le have pioneered this technology for the dimerization of light olefins. The original metathesis reaction of Phillips Petroleum was intended to convert propylene to 2-butene and ethylene (58). The reverse reaction that converts 2-butene in the presence of excess ethylene to propylene has also been demonstrated (59). A commercial unit with a capacity of about 136,000 t/yr of propylene from ethylene via 2-butene has been in operation in the Gulf Coast since 1985 (60,61). In this process, ethylene is first dimerized to 2-butene foUowed by metathesis to yield propylene. Since this is a two-stage process, 2-butene can be produced from the first stage, if needed. In the dimerization step, about 95% purity of 2-butene is achieved at 90% ethylene conversion. 

To be able to systematically identify opportunities for reducing human error, it is useful to ask the question, What is human error One definition is that human error is an inappropriate or undesirable human decision or behavior that reduces, or has the potential for reducing safety or system performance (Rasmusssen 1979). There is a tendency to view errors as operator errors. However, the error may result from inadequate management, design, or maintenance of the system. This broader view which encompasses the whole system can help provide opportunities for instituting measures to reduce the likelihood of errors. 

The editors take the opportunity to thank all the contributors for their efforts Ruhrgas AG and Mannesmann Research Institute GmbH for their kind assistance and last but not least, the publishers Verlag Chemie for their generous help in publishing and designing the handbook. 

Redman, T. and Roliani, S., 1992. Control of crystal purity in a continuous KCl crystallizer. In First separations division topical conference on separations technologies New developments and opportunities, 2-6 November 1992, Miami Beach FI. (New York American Institute of Chemical Engineers), p. 685. 

The present occasion seems opportune to direct attention to the fact that one of the most familiar, most leadily procurable and most cheaply produced of all oiganic materials is placed beyond the reach of many students by the heavy duty levied upon it. May I, in the name of teachers of organic chemistry, appeal to the Board of Inland Revenue, on behalf of scientific and technical education, to provide institutions for higher education in science with a limited quantity of pure alcohol free of duty, thereby placing schools of chemistry in this country in the same position as those on the Continent ... 

Lovins, A. (1992). Energy-Efficient Buildings Institutional Barriers and Opportunities. Boulder, CO E-Sourcc, Inc. 

I would like to take this opportunity to thank my colleagues, with whom I have had the pleasure to work. I would like to extend my gratitude to the brilliant professionals at the Institute of Chemistry at the Kola Science Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Apatity, Russia), Institute of Common and Inorganic Chemistry of the Ukraine Academy of Science (Kiev, Ukraine), Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry (Moscow, Russia), Institute of Chemistry of Nitrogen (Moscow, Russia), Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa, Israel), Chemistry of Solids Laboratory of CNRS (Bordeaux, France), Tan Ceramics Ltd. (Migdal Haemek, Israel). 

Nypro Institute . Nypro Institute is the corporate university of Nypro Inc., providing educational opportunities to employees, customers, and the general public. Nypro Institute s headquarters are located in Clinton, Massachusetts, and feature a state-of-the-sdence computer laboratory, a training resource library, and individual multimedia learning centers. 

I wish to express my gratitude to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and to the California Institute of Technology for providing the opportunity for the prosecution of this work, and to Professor A. Sommer-feld for the interest he has taken in it. 

We are indebted to Mostafa Tolba, Executive Director of the United Nations Environmental Programme, for his overview. Dr. Tolba s perspective on environmental issues is clearly a global one. We take this opportunity to thank Clayton Callis, past ACS president, for his support of the symposium upon which this book is based, and the Electric Power Research Institute and the ACS Division of Environmental Chemistry for financial assistance with speakers travel to that symposium. 

The structure-activity project at M,I T was originated in collaboration with Dr. Michael C Archer, and has been carried out with Mr. Andrew Edelman, Dr William M Rand, Dr Patricia Kraft, and Ms Vicki Woolworth. We are grateful to the M.I.T Health Sciences Fund, The Marjorie Merriwether Post Foundation, The M.I.T Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, and the National Institutes of Health (Grants//R01-CA21951, 2-P01-ES00597, and 1-T32-ES-0702), for support ... 

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