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Nicole Nuttall, non-executive director at Goodyear India resigns | Autocar Professional

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Nuttall has also been associated with Goodyear and Dunlop Tyres (Aust) Pty Ltd as legal counsel for a period of almost six years. Her area of expertise is legal and compliance. in the past in their legal department. In July 2003, Nuttall was also admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland, her profile reads.

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Granville T. Woods: Smartest Guy in the Room

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Davidson, are the subjects of Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation by Rayvon Fouché (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003). Now a professor of communication studies with a dual appointment in the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, in Evanston, Ill., Edison lost—and immediately offered Woods a job.

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The Cheesy Charm of the Clapper

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In the 1990s, he became known for his long-running legal battle against Universal Manufacturing Corp. He attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, majoring in journalism, and got his first job in radio, working on a local children’s show. Eventually, they filed for a U.S. patent for the new and improved device.

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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

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Emblematic of the hope, faith, perseverance, and drive to overcome systemic legal and social barriers the song encapsulates is the life of self-taught technical genius Lewis H. So, he was a natural choice when Edison General Electric’s legal department was looking for someone to speak for the company in a spate of patent interference cases.

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Honda under-reported to NHTSA 1,729 instances of injury or death over last decade

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Honda first recognized an issue related to the recording of a verbal date code in the legal file management system in 2011 and believed that it could have affected the accuracy of the EWR reports; however, apparently, there was no follow-up. The NHTSA made Honda aware of its under-reporting EWRs in early January 2012.

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Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

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Consumption of anhydrous ethanol has grown steadily since the 1990s, peaking in 2003. Brazil introduced its current generation of ethanol-powered cars in 2003, the same year in which anhydrous ethanol consumption peaked. Current Legal Requirement for Use of Anhydrous Ethanol in the United States. 40 CFR § 80.27

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

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The easiest conversions are for 2004-2008 Prius (not 2001-2003 Prius) and the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrid. As for warranties , there is legal precedent that original auto warranties cannot be voided completely by modifications — only the part(s) affected by retrofit will have their warranties affected.

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