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"Keep The Coffee Hot, Hugo": Nuclear Trauma In Fritz Lang's The Big Heat (1953), Walter C. Metz

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This essay uses nuclear criticism, particularly Jacques Derrida's "No Apocalypse, Not Now" to read Fritz Lang's The Big Heat (1953) as a Cold War allegory concerned with the threat to civilization posed by atomic culture.

Journal Of The Community Development Society Vol. 28 No. 01, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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Community Development Journal covers political, economic and social programmes that link the activities of people with institutions and government. Issues covered include, for example, community action, village, town and regional planning, community studies, and rural development.

Local Governments And Public Facilities Construction In Nebraska: Expenditures, Cooperation And Operation Of Joint Facilities, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This study of public facilities construction was completed by the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Center for Public Affairs Research for the Nebraska Commission on Local Government Innovation and Restructuring.

A New Direction For State Corporate Codes, Mark J. Loewenstein

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No abstract provided.

Playing Defense, Robert F. Nagel

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Noting that the Romer opinion condemns the motives behind Amendment 2 without pausing even briefly to examine the social context in which it was enacted, Professor Nagel describes the decision as a model of the intolerant impulse in action. He traces this impulse to the Justices' unwillingness to examine their own role--and that of the rest of the constitutional law establishment--in creating the underlying conditions that produced Amendment 2.

In order to identify those conditions, Professor Nagel analyzes the primary document used by Colorado for Family Values during its campaign on behalf of the initiative. He argues that this document …

The Empty Circles Of Liberal Justification, Pierre Schlag

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Omaha's Public Libraries, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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The Omaha Public Library began as a subscription library in 1872. The "library" was located in a rented room on 14th Street between Douglas and Dodge with a collection of 2,600 donated books. The Library Association charged an annual fee of $3.00 for membership. In 1877 the State Legislature approved an act allowing the establishment of "free public libraries and reading rooms." That same year the Omaha City Council established the Omaha Public Library at the urging of the Omaha Library Association. The Library opened with a budget of$1,274.80, a librarian, and nine appointed directors, the precursor of the Library …

Midlands Institute For Non-Profit Management: Building A Solid Foundation, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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Agenda and material from the Midlands Institute for Non-Profit Management - Building a Solid Foundation Conference, July 8-10, 1996.

Omaha Area Gambling Survey December 1995, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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The purpose of the 1995 survey was to establish baseline information on area residents' attitudes toward and participation in gambling. Our intention is to conduct at least one follow-up survey to measure changes in attitudes and gambling participation among area residents. To facilitate the establishment of a "panel" for future surveys, participants were asked if they would be willing to be interviewed again.

Education For Self-Reliance, Responsibility And Hope, John Strassburger

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This is the first in a series of occasional papers about the challenges confronting students and what Ursinus is doing to help them enter adult life.

Journal Of The Community Development Society Vol. 27, No. 02, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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Good Bye. This editor's note completes my five years as the editor of the Journal of the Community Development Society. It has been a fast and a very important five years. Like most things in this dramatically changing world, in those five years the practice of community development has changed. Likewise the Community Development Society has changed, and I think so has its Journal. Two of these changes are worth noting. First, while still retaining its social science character, the Journal has published articles with broader research questions. In other words, the goals of the articles have changed. While many …

Journal Of The Community Development Society Vol. 27, No. 01, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This year the Community Development Society continues its movement toward an international organization devoted to the practice and theory of purposive community change by holding its first annual meeting away from North America. The Australian members of CDS have organized a world class conference on community development. It is sure to have an impact on the Society for many years to come. In commemoration of the first "international" conference, this edition of the Journal of the Community Development Society is devoting a significant portion of its articles to research and commentary on community development theory and practice taking place outside …

Midlands Institute For Non-Profit Management - Building A Solid Foundation, 1995, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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Agenda and material from the Midlands Institute for Non-Profit Management - Building a Solid Foundation Conference, July 10-14, 1995.

Journal Of The Community Development Society Vol. 26, No. 02, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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An important function of the Journal of the Community Development Society is to report on research conducted in the field of community development. In particular the research that we report in this journal should have research questions that pertain to the theory and practice of purposive community change. One of the more critical tasks of journal editors, then, is to ensure that proposed articles in fact have appropriate, clear, and relevant research questions. A research question, however, is a multi-faceted creature. As many of us recall from our introductory courses in research methods, there are actually three types of research …

Journal Of The Community Development Society Vol. 26, No. 01, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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As mentioned in previous editions, one of the critical functions of this journal is to facilitate communication between researchers and practitioners working in community development. It is important to not only report on completed research, as is the major task of most research-based journals, but to also include comments from others who have reviewed the journal articles. Since this journal serves the needs of both researchers and practitioners it is necessary to stimulate a continuing dialogue among both groups on common community development topics.

The State Of Black Omaha 1994: Health Care And Criminal Justice: Executive Summary, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This report touches on two critical areas of concern: Health Care and Criminal Justice. Its purpose is to identify areas of disproportionate impact which hinder civil rights objectives and obstruct an open society.

Social Conditions Of Nebraska's Elderly, F. C. Powell, James A. Thorsen

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In 1991, the authors conducted a study of 500 older Nebraskans, comparing 300 people in Omaha and its surrounding counties with a sample of 200 who lived in the very rural Sandhills counties. The purpose of that study was to compare health and health care experience and satisfaction between urban and rural-dwelling elders. Random samples of older people were identified and interviewed by trained telephone operators; each interview took about a half hour. People were asked about their experiences with health and illness, the distance to their primary source of medical care and the distance to the hospital they use, …

Nebraska Pact Action Plan To Prevent Youth Violence, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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Nebraska is one of four jurisdictions selected to participate in Project PACT (Pulling America's Communities Together). Nebraska PACT is a state- federal initiative to empower communities to reduce crime and violence. Through this program, the state and federal governments will assist communities as they build coalitions to develop broad-based, fully-coordinated initiatives to reduce violence by and against youth.

Midlands Institute For Non-Profit Management - Building A Solid Foundation, 1994, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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No abstract provided.

Occasional Paper No. 094-1: Improving Nebraska's Job Statistics: Learning From The Annual Revision To Nebraska's 1991 Employment Figures, E. David Fifer

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Nebraska looked to be one of the leading states in the nation, if not the leading state, in job growth during much of 1991. Each month, reports of Nebraska's continued job growth made it appear that the state had somehow managed to escape the national recession.

Nebraska's apparent economic vitality caught the attention of the national media. The Wall Street Journal, citing Arizona State University, noted that "Nebraska increased non-farm employment at a faster pace than any state during March and April. ... From January through April, the state added 34,000 non-farm jobs-a 4.8 percent increase over the same period …

Omaha Conditions Survey: 1994 Omaha, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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The Omaha Conditions Survey: 1994 is the fourth in a series of studies conducted by the Center for Public Affairs Research (CPAR) at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. The studies are part of CPAR's initiative to monitor and improve the processes operating in Nebraska's urban areas by developing quality information and making it available to those who need it.

Secular Fundamentalism, Paul F. Campos

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Journal Of The Community Development Society Vol. 25, No. 02, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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For more than twenty-five years, the journal of the Community Development Society has disseminated information on the theory, research, and practice of community development. Biannual publications have contained the most relevant materials that add to our knowledge of community development. While much of the material in the Journal articles has been derived from generally accepted principles, concepts, or practices of community development, from time to time a few of the articles may have attempted to dramatically extend current thinking. We learn by challenging what has been accepted. For generations the social sciences have advanced using some modification of this learning …

Journal Of The Community Development Society Vol. 25, No. 01, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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25th Anniversary Issue: What We Have Learned

The Untermensch As Ubermensch, Paul Campos

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Attracting Primary Jobs: A Guide For Nebraska Communities, Robert F. Blair

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Local economic development can be described as the efforts of community leaders to stimulate business investment and employment to preserve or improve the quality of life in a community. Development objectives are often identified through a formal planning effort, structured public discussion, or other formal and informal processes. Objectives are the specific actions needed to meet broad community development goals. These economic development objectives selected by communities may include diversifying the area economy, increasing opportunities for employment, or expanding the local tax base.

Rural Development In The Information Age, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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Workshop Proceedings: Building Partnerships for Community Development-- Rural Development in the Information Age, April 5 and 6, 1993.

Educational Requirements Of Omaha Area Engineering, Scientific And Technical Companies, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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Educational requirements questionnaire tabulations.

Community Development Needs In Nebraska: Attitude Survey Results And Local Action Strategies, Russell L. Smith, Robert F. Blair

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Each S.T.A.R.T. Economic Development community administers a community attitude survey to local residents. Generally the survey serves at least two purposes. One is to collect information about the attitudes and behavior of local. residents. For example, respondents are asked to rate a variety· of community services, programs and organizations. The questionnaire also collects information about shopping behavior and local preferences about economic development.

Omaha Conditions Survey: 1993 North Omaha Sample, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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The Omaha Conditions Survey: 1993 North Omaha Sample found several positives as well as negatives about the North Omaha area. On the bright side, North Omaha residents like the quality of life and the people in their neighborhoods. Over seventy percent of adults, eighteen and older, are in the labor force (either working or looking for work). North Omaha residents generate $81 million in annual spending on selected items.