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Monday, December 27, 2010

Bronx Construction Accident Lawyer: Legal Assistance to File Your Claim

The construction industry has seen the most profitable growth in the past decade than any other industry. The construction business is made up of architects, implementation team, project managers, and finally the actual construction workers. The actual project is also headed by the company funding the project which has the most say in how much capital is going to be issued to any single project. When it comes down to it the actual construction workers are the ones making the entity while the others are doing the behind the scenes work. When you think about it, the construction workers play an integral piece of the puzzle in completing and finishing a project. Besides the architects who actually think up and plan the project, the construction workers are the only other people on the team who have hands on access. You can always find new management, gain new capital, but you cannot get other people who are not efficient in construction work to complete the job. Think about it, if you contracted a Marketing Team to come and work on a construction site could they do it? I think not. However, that analogy is a two sided street. If you sent a construction team to work on a marketing plan, could they complete it? When you think about jobs in this sense you must value the work of another to its comparative advantage and then you will get the real worth of the work.

Construction workers adhere to the elements that they are put under whether it is extreme hot, cold, rain or snow. There is no downtime for construction work because the elements are not strong enough to deter them from completing the project. When the elements arrive at a construction site, many construction workers get injured. It is very easy for a mishap to occur on a construction site because of all of the dangerous present. One must be aware of all the hazards that are prominent at the worksite and do everything they can to avoid them. Construction workers must also face the brunt of the injury for most construction workers do not get benefits. However, if any injury is due to the negligence on behalf of another worker they can file a lawsuit. If you have been injured at the fault of another construction worker, contact a Bronx Construction Accident Lawyer Today.

Safety and equipment are the two most important elements that a construction company should provide to their workers. Without proper safety standards in regulation it is very easy for construction workers to be injured. Also if shoddy equipment is being supplied to the workers, as in the case of the crane accidents, injury is going to be very prone on happening. Bronx construction accident lawyers have the experience in dealing with insurance companies that hold the key to unlocking good settlement figures. Bronx Construction Accident Lawyers also have the knowledge to determine how to figure out who is negligent in the case. Therefore if you have been hurt in a construction accident, contact a Bronx Construction Accident Lawyer today.

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Most of the construction workers are qualified and experienced. A well qualified and experienced construction worker ensures successful completion of any construction project. However, there are certain things which can go wrong at a construction site. Issues related to weather can impede the progress of a project, and thus causing delays and cancellations. New York construction accident lawyers are accustomed to these types of happening, as they usually involve some casualties. A construction worker is always at a risk of getting injured on a job. In certain cases it is observed that Construction Company or the supervisors did not provide proper safety, training, and equipments which resulted in the accident. There are several reported acts of negligence which resulted in serious injuries at the construction site. If you or someone closed to you has been a victim of any such construction accident then you must seek immediate medical help. You should also get in touch with a New York Construction accident lawyer who will help you receive justice and compensation.

Each and every year, several construction workers become victims of fatal accidents at construction accidents. However, most of these accidents could have been avoided if the construction company took adequate health measures to avoid any injuries at construction sites. There are also instances where a fellow construction worker acted in a negligent manner which resulted in an injury for the victim. If you or anyone close to you has been a victim of construction accident, then it is imperative that all records and documents from the construction site are made accessible to the Construction accident attorney so that a proper analysis can be done. You must also include documents pertaining to equipment, training, and safety standards which will help to determine if there was negligence on the part of Construction Company. Other issues such as medication, mental alertness, and substance abuse should be looked into to make sure that none of these factors contributed to the accident. In case Construction Management Company failed to comply with safety and other regulatory standards, then a thorough investigation must be conducted. This would include research on various past projects which were undertaken by the Construction Company including equipment checks. This would help New York Construction accident lawyers to prove negligence on the defendant’s behalf.

If should contact New York (NY) Construction accident lawyer if you received injuries at a construction site. You need to file a lawsuit without any delays which could hamper your case. It can also affect you from gaining proper compensation to cover your medical bills and other expenses. A settlement from a construction accident will help you cover your medical expenses, loss of wages and it will also include pain and suffering incurred by the victim.

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Monday, November 22, 2010

How foreign aid was invented by accident

Truman’s Inaugural Address on January 20, 1949 is usually taken as the beginning of foreign aid, after it included these stirring words:

Fourth, we must embark on a bold new program for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress available for the improvement and growth of underdeveloped areas…More than half the people of the world are living in conditions approaching misery….For the first time in history, humanity possesses the knowledge and the skill to relieve the suffering of these people….? And…we should foster capital investment in areas needing development.…this program can greatly increase the industrial activity in other nations and can raise substantially their standards of living.

Foreign Aid was?at first referred to as the Point Four program because it was the 4th point in the speech. I recently stumbled across an old article by a participant in the 1949 events, Louis J. Halle.[1]

The events were roughly these. Halle worked for the State Department and one evening in 1948 had a conversation with the Deputy Director of American Republic Affairs (DDARA) about a program of technical assistance that only covered Latin America. The two agreed something similar could possibly be useful other places.

In November 1948, the President’s speech-writing assistant asked the State Department for some proposals to include in the Inaugural Address. A meeting?happened and they came up with three proposals. The?Director of Public Affairs?called for additional ideas. The DDARA remembered the evening conversation and said something like “how about a program of technical assistance for undeveloped countries, like that in Latin America?” The fourth proposal was noted and the meeting adjourned.

The proposals went through the regular clearance procedures in the State Department. The fourth?proposal was killed in the clearance process. Halle thought it was probably because officials thought it would be irresponsible to announce such a program when nobody had a clue about what it would mean in practice. So only the first three points were sent over to the White House for the Inaugural Address.

Then the speechwriting assistant called the State Department’s Director of Public Affairs back a few days later complaining that the three proposals were boring. The President wanted something original. As Halle describes it:

At this juncture, without proper time for reflection, the Director of Public Affairs found himself standing on the shore of his own Rubicon. He took a deep breath, and crossed over. There had been a fourth point, he said, but it had been thrown out. What was it? The Director told what it was. “That’s great,” said the voice from the White House, and “Point Four” went back in again.

Halle says nobody gave the matter another thought until the delivery of the address. To continue his narrative:

“Point Four” was a public-relations gimmick, thrown in by a professional speech-writer to give the speech more life. When the newspapers dramatized it in their principal headlines on the morning of January 21, the White House and the State Department were taken completely by surprise. No one – not the President, not the Secretary of State, not the presidential assistant or the Director of Public Affairs –knew any more about “Point Four” than what they could read for themselves in the meager and rather rhetorical language of the speech….It was only now, after the Inaugural Address had been delivered and the “bold new program” acclaimed all over the world, that machinery was set up in the government to look into the possibilities of such a program and make plans.

President Truman was asked six days later about background on the origin of Point Four. He replied with a good story that had no relation to the reality:

The origin of Point Four has been in my mind, and in the minds of the Government, for the past two or three years, ever since the Marshall Plan was inaugurated. It originated with the Greece and Turkey propositions. Been studying it ever since. I spend most of my time going over to that globe back there, trying to figure out ways to make peace in the world.

We want always to think our leaders take intentional, decisive actions , especially on something so important as foreign aid. It’s hard to say in this case to what extent it was an “accident,” or whether?the fundamentals made aid an accident waiting to happen. But it’s good for the soul to realize that policies can happen by accident?more than we are usually willing to accept.


[1] ON TEACHING INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS , Virginia Quarterly Review, 40:1 (1964:Winter) p.11. I found the reference in Gilbert Rist’s wonderful book, The History of Development: from Western Origins to Global Faith (3rd edition 2009)

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