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unusual facts about nuisance



Air Inter Flight 148

This was because Air Inter – facing ferocious competition from France's TGV high-speed trains – encouraged its pilots to fly fast at low level (up to 350 knots below 10,000 feet, while other airlines generally do not exceed 250 knots), and GPWS systems gave too many nuisance warnings.

Allen Hazen

For many years, the Passaic River below Paterson, New Jersey was highly contaminated with sewage and industrial wastes, which was a nuisance to the cities below and which made it impossible to use the river water for any purpose.

Ballast water regulation in the United States

The 110th Congress considered ballast water discharge issues, specifically legislation to provide a uniform national approach for addressing aquatic nuisance species from ballast water under a program administered by the Coast Guard (S.

Bob Wise

On August 4, 2004, in an interview on The Daily Show before Wise's withdrawal, Phillip "Icky" Frye told Rob Corddry that he was running for governor, despite being unqualified, to be a nuisance to Wise.

Brinnington

Hollow End Towers in the Brinnington Housing Estate was the scene for one of the leading cases on the law of nuisance, in Transco plc. v. Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council.

Donald Andrews

Andrews, Donald W. K. & Ploberger, Werner, "Optimal Tests When a Nuisance Parameter Is Present Only Under the Alternative".

Frances Street Squats

Two days later the city council, under then-mayor Gordon Campbell and with the full support of opposition members (including Libby Davies), declared the houses a “public nuisance” and granted a demolition permit.

Gravel mines

The mines were also used by the U.S. during the Battle of Khe Sanh, however a U.S. Air Force history described them as being 'little more than a nuisance', with the Viet Cong clearing the gravel mine fields using Oxen dragging logs and the mines becoming inert after a short time.

Hunter v Canary Wharf Ltd

Several hundred claimants alleged that Canary Wharf Ltd, in constructing One Canada Square, had caused nuisance to them by impairing their television signal.

John Reuben

Relient K's Matt Thiessen contributes to the album's second track, "Nuisance".

Juglans nigra

Maggots (larvae of Rhagoletis completa and Rhagoletis suavis) in the husk are common, though more a nuisance than a serious problem for amateurs, who may simply remove the affected husk as soon as infestation is noticed.

Just Nuisance

Although the exact date of Just Nuisance's birth is not known, it is usually stated that he was born on 1 April 1937 in Rondebosch, a suburb of Cape Town.

Laystall

The siting of laystalls was a contentious issue during the rebuilding of London after the fire of 1666, due to the noise and nuisance they created.

Malathion

Today, Winnipeg is the only major city in Canada with an ongoing Malathion nuisance-adult-mosquito-control program.

Marnes-la-Coquette

The experiments required many rabbits and dogs to be caged, which became too much of a nuisance for the neighborhood around Pasteur's animal-house on Rue d'Ulm (5th arrondissement) in Paris.

Memory bound function

If a computation takes a few seconds on a new PC, it may take a minute on an old PC, and several minutes on a PDA, which might be a nuisance for users of old PCs, but probably unacceptable for users of PDAs.

My First Mister

In an effort to secure employment at the upscale Century City Mall in Los Angeles, Jennifer (Sobieski), a 17-year-old "goth-punk" girl, makes a nuisance of herself at a clothing store run by 49-year-old Randall Harris (Brooks), who eventually hires her on a trial basis as a stockroom clerk.

Neighbours From Hell in Britain

According to Neighbours From Hell in Britain, the most common forms of neighbour-orientated nuisance stem from issues around Noise, Anti-Social Behaviour, Harassment, Bullying, Boundary Problems and more frequently with Car/Vehicle Parking issues.

Oilskin

This is less important in walking jackets since when walking on land the arms usually point down away from the rain; but this nuisance can happen in motorcycling whenever the arms holding the handlebars point forward into a wet headwind.

Pitt v PHH Asset Management Ltd

Ewan McKendrick, Contract Law (7th edn Palgrave 2007) 91, says that being freed from the nuisance as being "good consideration" does not sit easily with White v Bluett.

Regulation of ship pollution in the United States

The 110th Congress (2007-2009) had been considering ballast water discharge issues, specifically legislation to provide a uniform national approach for addressing aquatic nuisance species from ballast water under a program administered by the Coast Guard.

Sai Ying Pun Station

Source from MTR Corporation Limited (MTRCL) revealed to the local newspaper Ming Pao that this location was chosen to avoid any nuisance during works under major roads.

Stapleford Park

The tight bend was a nuisance for the express trains and, later when the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway built a branch to Saxby, the opportunity was taken to reduce the curve with Saxby station being moved in the process.

Sun City, Arizona

The community is well known to law students, as it is featured in the case Spur Industries v. Del E. Webb Development Co., 494 P.2d 700 (Ariz. 1972), commonly used in first-year property law courses to illustrate nuisance law.

The Boggart

Tommy Cameron is a person who has known the boggart for years as a frequent nuisance at his family's general store in Port Appin, Scotland.

Tramway track

The invention by Alphonse Loubat in 1852 of grooved rail enabled tramways to be laid without causing a nuisance to other road users, except unsuspecting cyclists, who could get their wheels caught in the groove.

Turnley

Bamford v Turnley (1860), important English tort law case concerning nuisance and what it means to be a reasonable user of land

Werner Ploberger

#Optimal Tests When a Nuisance Parametere is Present Only Under the Alternative (with Donald Andrews), Econometrica, Vol.

What A Nuisance

What A Nuisance was retired to Hyland's property at Clyde, near Cranbourne, Victoria.


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