No Contest

It is also interesting that in 1970 Chevron pleaded "no contest" to charges of "knowingly and willfully" failing to install safety devices on 90 oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico. Three other oil companies were similarly charged with the same offense (Shell, Conoco and Humble). At the time Chevron was fined 1 million U S. dollars for 500 violations under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. The violations involved failure to install safety chokes at the wells - i.e., a method to cut off the flow of oil automatically in the event of incident. 

Through careful selection and juxtaposition of language, sound, and structure in the two parts of this short poem. Whitman contrasts distinct ways of studying the natural world. One may learn as a student of facts and figures or choose instead to give oneself over to the wonders of the immediate experience itself. Within the context of this poem, it s no contest firsthand natural experience wins easily over logic and lectures. Stars, 1 astronomers, 0. 

The least common of the simple pi bond sources are allenes, R2C=C=CR2, whose two perpendicular double bonds must again be considered separately. Allene reactions have a bit of a strange twist to them, literally. There are two possible sites for the electrophile to attack on the allene above. It would seem to be no contest between a resonance-stabilized ally lie carbocation and the less stable vinyl carbocation. But a look at the orbital arrangement below for the reaction reveals that all is not right with the allylic system in fact, it is twisted 90° out of alignment, so no resonance stabilization can occur at the transition state for addition. 

Basically, in any electrolyzer you want the gas to get out of the reactor tank and away from the electrodes as fast as possible so that the gas does not interfere with the process. It was obvious at first glance that the commercial electrolyzer had gas pockets that had to be filled before the gas would be released. Even after the other electrolyzer was given time to come up to speed, it was visually evident that there was no contest. 

Using the tug-of-war analogy, consider the situation in which a sumo wrestler is at one end of a rope and a small child is at the other end, as shown in Figure 9.5. There s no contest. The same is true in a chemical bond when the A N between bonding atoms is 2.0 or greater. 

With Eric Chaisson s energy rate density (ERD), the contest between brains and galaxies turns out to be no contest at all. The Milky Way processes 50 microwatts per kilogram of energy, while your brain processes 15 watts per kilogram, so by this measure, the brain is thousands of times more complex than our galaxy. If the Milky Way s ERD was a millimeter long, your brain s ERD would be 300 meters. 

However, the biggest problem is oeated when the annual review pits one employee against another in a form of competition. This creates fear and reduces cooperation, which impair safety and productivity. Alfie Kohn, in his book No Contest (Kohn 1986), has written very eloquently on the dangers of introducing competition into business. Moreover, he cites a number of studies demonstrating that the most successM scientists and the most suc-cessM business leaders are not as competitive as their less successful colleagues. Competition among individuals does not always lead to better performance or better products. 

Kohn, A. No contest The case against competition. Boston Houghton Mifflin, 1986. 

We are confident Climatherm succeeded in resolving any issues we could think of concerning the liquid product used and the pressures the system would encounter, Fox said. The Climatherm product seemed like a no-contest decision. ... 

But it is especially when the sound of the instrument deviates more from unison, that these effects of reaction must decide, because then, in any incipient divisions, there is almost no contest the conflict is notable everywhere and as divisions of... 

In some circumstances the idea and expression are not distinguishable. A jewelry pin made in the form of a bee, or simple sweepstakes rules, may be examples of such a merger of idea and expression. There is no other way, or only a limited number of ways, to depict a bee in gold, or to express those contest rules. In such cases, copyright will not protect the work, for that would protect not only the expression, but the idea itself. 

The best characterized excited state of PN remains to be, without contest, the A FI state yet experimentally detected in 1933 [1], During the next fifty years no new excited state findings were reported for PN. However during the last decade a revival of experimental... 

A scathing rebuke came back from the CRDL commander noting that the ability of a bunch of muscle-bound doctors to defeat less athletic officers in such a contest proved nothing. In any event, it would in no way be an acceptable substitute for the official fitness test. The tone of his reply contained no hint of humor. 

Synthetic operations involving ozonolysis lead to formation of aldehydes, ketones or carboxylic acids, as shown in Scheme 16, or to various peroxide compounds, as depicted in Scheme 7 (Section V.B.5), depending on the nature of the R to R substituents and the prevalent conditions of reaction no effort is usually made to isolate either type of ozonide, but only the final products. This notwithstanding, intermediates 276 and 278 are prone to qualitative, quantitative and structural analysis. The appearance of a red-brown discoloration during ozonization of an olefin below — 180°C was postulated as due to formation of an olefin-ozone complex, in analogy to the jr-complexes formed with aromatic compounds however, this contention was contested (see also Section V1I.C.2). 

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