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Asbestos Manufacturing - Term Papers

Asbestos Manufacturing


Asbestos is a mineral fiber that has many uses. It can still be found in many types of building materials and insulation products, as well as in chemical filters and brake linings. The actual fiber is so small that it can only be positively identified with a special type of microscope. Unfortunately, it has been determined that breathing high levels of asbestos can lead to lung cancer, a chronic lung inflammation called asbestosis, or a cancer of the chest lining called mesethelioma. attacks on early asbestos producers and those who knew of its health risks. Although many valid points are raised against asbestos manufacturer, one must delve deeper than the surface issues to make a ...

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of Raybestos-Manhattan. This correspondence consisted of the editor asking permission to print an article about the dangers of asbestos inhalation. Written on September 25, 1935, the message read
Always you have requested that for certain obvious
reasons we publish nothing [about the health hazards of
asbestos], and naturally your wishes have been respected...
By this time, your objections to publicity on this subject
have been eliminated and we would like very much to review
the whole matter in "Asbestos". A discussion of
[the health hazards of asbestos] along the right lines would
serve to combat some of the rather undesirable publicity. (2)

On October 1, 1935, Simpson replied "As I see it personally, we would be just as well off to say nothing about it . . . I think the less said about asbestos the better we are. . . ." (2)This showed that Simpson was trying to protect his business interests and by using his influence, was coaxing the editor to cover up these ...

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needed to do whatever they had to in order to accomplish the �ends� that were desired; profits.
In his book, The Prince, which was originally written as advice to princes, Machiavelli suggested �a view as to how and why - what we might regard as hypocrisy, harshness, deceit, and ruthlessness in governance - occurs naturally.�(3) As such, his views offer us powerful and justly radical sense of ethics in relation to the natural flow of powerful.
One of the points raised by Machiavellianism specifically relates to the situation that Simpson and Brown faced. Machiavelli speaks to the following:
To the Prince being ready to do wrong with cunning or forceful action--when the situation ...

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