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Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll: Two-thirds of Americans say fix Obamacare, don't repeal it. [1] More than half say, get on to other priorities. Has Congress ever changed the Affordable Care Act? Yes, it has and with bipartisan support. A short history. [2] President Trump ratcheted up his pressure on lawmakers to pass a healthcare plan with a threat to end key Obamacare payments and cancel some of ...

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Exam 2

(30 pts) 1. You have been requested to troubleshoot problems with a well stirred reactor in your Texas chemical production plant. After taking the red eye flight and a long taxi ride to your hotel and then the plant your arrive exhausted, but eager to solve this problem. Apparently the problem with this 165 L reactor is that the conversion of the reactant, Anychemical, is too low at XA = 0.53. ...

Exam fairness

It is widely agreed that exams must be fair; yet what this exactly means is not made clear. One may mean fairness of treatment, but this merely propagates the fairness or unfairness of pre-existing rules. Fairness of opportunity on the other hand necessarily leads to identical grades for everyone, which clearly makes it inapplicable. Neither view is helpful to make decisions on competing claims...