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Trends. The Psychology Of Military Readiness, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The IBPP editor discusses military readiness and national security.

New Century 2000 10-K, New Century Financial Corporation

Documents

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A Brief Overview Of The Enforceability Of Forum Selection, Choice Of Law, And Arbitration Clauses And The Doctrine Of Forum Non Conveniens Under The Admiralty Law Of The United States, Donald R. Abaunza

Dalhousie Law Journal

Forum selection, choice of law and arbitration clauses are of great significance in offshore contracts, where disputes may arise in locations far removed from the fora identified in those contracts. In this article, the author provides an examination of the enforceability of these clauses in the United States, together with an explanation of the operation of the doctrine of forum non conveniens in that country.

Barrens Memoir By John Timon, C.M. (1861), John Timon C.M., John E. Rybolt C.M., Ph.D.

Vincentian Studies

John Timon gives his account of Congregation’s development in the United States from the mission’s beginning until 1847. The narrative is largely focused on Timon’s own work and ends when he becomes bishop of Buffalo, New York. He recounts the growth of the foundation at the Barrens, his mission trips with Jean-Marie Odin in the surrounding area, and their 1824 trip through Arkansas. He recalls many conversions, including those of condemned men, his successful public defenses of Catholicism against anti-Catholic Protestant ministers, and the acquisition of the Congregation’s property and foundation of the parish in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Much attention …

Sentencing In The States: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, Julie Stewart

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

Mandatory sentencing laws are responsible for the booming prison population in the United States. They are applied most frequently to crimes involving drugs and mandate harsh penalties of five, ten, twenty years or more behind bars for crimes involving no violence. Julie Stewart, President of the Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation (FAMM) and the sister of a marijuana user who spent five years in a federal prison, describes the unfairness of America’s sentencing policies, with a particular emphasis on the application of mandatory minimum sentences to drug-related convictions. These laws have led to a marked increase in the number of …

Recent Findings In The Economics Of Education Reform And Prospective Work At The Jim Self Center On The Future, 2001 March, Anthony J. Jones

Publications

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Protecting Privacy And Enabling Pharmaceutical Sales On The Internet: A Comparative Analysis Of The United States And Canada, Nicole A. Rothstein

Federal Communications Law Journal

The Internet raises enhanced and unique concerns regarding informational health privacy and Internet pharmacy sales. As technology advances and the Internet changes the way people obtain medical services and products, protecting consumers and their informational health data in online pharmaceutical transactions is paramount. This Comment charts and compares the existing legal frameworks in the United States and Canada relative to informational health privacy. Following this discussion, each legal framework comes into sharp focus with regard to Internet pharmacy sales. Ultimately, this Comment concludes that based on the highly sensitive nature of personal medical information, a baseline privacy standard should be …

An Analysis Of The Acquisition Process For Simplified Acquisition Of Base Engineering Requirements (Saber) Contracts And Its Potential Impact On Contractor Performance, Brian J. Heaps

Theses and Dissertations

The Simplified Acquisition of Base Engineering Requirements (SABER) contract's main purpose is to expedite contract award of civil engineer requirements through the issuance of individual delivery orders. The contract contains a collection of detailed task specifications that include most types of real property maintenance, repair, and construction work. The Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition's Operational Contracting Division (SAF/AQCO) identified a number of failed SABER contracts. The problem statement designed for this research effort was: There are a large number of SABER contractors that are failing during the performance period on their SABER contracts. SAF/AQCO is trying to …

Minutes Of The Federal Open Market Committee, January 30-31, 2001, Federal Reserve System: Board Of Governors: Federal Open Market Committee (Fomc)

Documents

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Letter From Golding To Seiler, Regarding Freddie Mac's Comments On Ofheo Systemic Risk Report, Edward L. Golding

Documents

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Two Decades Of Water Law And Policy Reform: A Retrospective And Agenda For The Future: Conference Report, Douglas S. Kenney, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Books, Reports, and Studies

17 p. : ill. ; 28 cm

A Collection Of Papers, 1997-2001, Clinton H. Whitehurst Jr.

Publications

This compilation of papers written by Clinton H. Whitehurst, Jr. includes:

1. Defining America's military sealift capability: U.S. or foreign flag, 2001

2. Facing up to another cold war, 2000 June

3. Taiwan's role in WWII forgotten, 2000

4. American military options in a Taiwan Strait conflict, 1999

5. Alliances, the balance of power, and American national interests, 1998

6. Last clear chance for an enduring maritime policy, 1998

7. The forgotten concepts of sovereignty, independence and nationhood as criteria for UN membership, 1998 July

8. Limited wars, civilian casualties, and who must decide, 1998

9. Criticizing India's nuclear weapons …

An Empirically Based Comparison Of American And European Regulatory Approaches To Police Investigation, Christopher Slobogin

Michigan Journal of International Law

This article takes a comparative and empirical look at two of the most significant methods of police investigation: searches for and seizures of tangible evidence and interrogation of suspects. It first compares American doctrine regulating these investigative tools with the analogous rules predominant in Europe. It then discusses research on the American system that sheds light on the relative advantages and disadvantages of the two regulatory regimes.

The Hydrology And Water Quality Of Select Springs In The Southwest Florida Water Management District, Roberta Starks, Kyle M. Champion

KIP Data Sets and Technical Reports

Report prepared by the Water Quality Monitoring Program of the Southwest Florida Water Management District (May 2001). This report, entitled The Hydrology and Water Quality of Springs in west-central Florida, combines and condenses into one document a wealth of information collected during previous water-quality studies performed by the Water Quality Monitoring Program (WQMP) at the Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD). The report is designed to present the reader with an up-to-date catalog of some of the larger and better known springs within the District, summarize nearly 10 years of research conducted on springs, and provide a detailed description of …

Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone - Chapter 213 Rules

KIP Data Sets and Technical Reports

"This dataset represents the geographic areas identified in TCEQ rules as being subject to regulation under the Edwards Aquifer Protection Program. The coverage was derived from existing official hard copy maps, containing regulatory boundaries based on previous geologic interpretation of the Edwards Aquifer Recharge, Transition, Contributing and Contributing Within the Transition zones, as defined in 30 TAC 213. This dataset contains lines, area features and zone types attributes extended to all 90 USGS 7.5-minute maps under TCEQ rules." -- Author Open Access Edwards Aquifer Authority Collection See Extended description for more information.

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles And The Need For Consensus: An Australian And United States Comparison Case Study, Renee Haas

Honors Capstones

Cross-border financial statements can confuse users of financial statements, therefore the development ofInternational Accounting Standards is important in the accounting profession. Comparing countries financial statements can be difficult because Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) vary in different countries. To illustrate the need for harmonization of accounting standards, this paper is divided into three research sections. The first section discusses the history, organizations, and conceptual framework of United States and Australian accounting professions. The second section compares and contrasts the similarities and differences between United States GAAP and Australian GAAP. The final section provides a financial statement analysis of two Australian …

Water Quality Study Of The Barton Springs Segment Of The Edwards Aquifer, Southern Travis And Northern Hays Counties, Texas Bseacd Report Of Investigations 2001-0801, Barton Springs/Edwards Aquifer Conservation District

KIP Data Sets and Technical Reports

PREFACE This report is a reprint of a portion of a report titled: "Water Quality and Flow Loss Study of the Barton Springs Segment of the Edwards Aquifer, Southern Travis and Northern Hays Counties" completed in August 2001. The original report addressed three main topics including: water levels, flow loss, and water quality. This report is a reproduction of the information pertaining to the water quality portion only. Text, tables, and figures pertaining to the water quality investigation are generally the same as in the original 2001 report. Changes to the original report include the addition of an abstract, reformatting …

"In Passion And In Hope:" The Pilgrimage Of An American Radical, Martha Dodd Stern And Family, 1933--1990, John Francis Fox Jr.

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation explores the literary/political pilgrimage of Martha Dodd Stern (1908--1990), an unusually promising writer. Using Martha's writings, government intelligence files like the Venona Transcripts, I develop a narrative and analytic family biography to analyze the faith of this leftist and develop a typology of the fellow traveler that shows its roots in the Progressive Era and their radicalization under the Great Depression and growth of fascism.

Martha's father, historian William E. Dodd (1869 to 1940), imparted to Martha his Wilsonian progressivism and resentment of social distinctions. Martha's experience in Nazi Germany (1933 to 1937) radicalized these roots. She placed …

Juggling With Three Identities: Ideology Of Yugoslavism Among The American Serbs (1900--1993), Vladimir B. Pistalo

Doctoral Dissertations

During the late 19th century and throughout the 20 th century, three waves of Serbian immigrants left the constant political flux of the Balkans to arrive in a constantly changing America. This dissertation examines how the political changes in the mother country and in the United States influenced the self-identification of each wave of immigrants as Serbs, Yugoslavs and Americans. I draw upon oral histories of Serbian-American intellectuals, Serbian language newspapers in the United States, immigrant memoirs and literature, and secondary sources in both Serbian and English to document the construction and reconstruction of Serbian, Yugoslav and American identity.

Before …

The Price Of Patriotism Alberta Cattlemen And The Loss Of The American Market, 1942-48, Max Foran

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

One of the most controversial episodes in the history of the western Canadian cattle industry occurred during the years 1942-48 when the Canadian government imposed an embargo on Canadian cattle entering the United States. This unprecedented measure was a reaction to the extraordinary demands of the national war effort, and was accepted conditionally by the cattle industry as a necessary patriotic gesture. However, official wartime policies respecting this embargo, and its retention beyond the war until late 1948 were neither anticipated nor appreciated by western Canadian stockmen. Their efforts to restore a market deemed crucial to their industry's survival, and …

Predictions Of Sediment Toxicity In The Barton Springs Watershed Located In Texas Using Sediment Quality Guidelines, Christopher G. Ingersoll, Ning Wang, Jeannie M.R. Hayward

KIP Data Sets and Technical Reports

Elevated concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), organochlorine pesticides, and metals have been documented in bed sediments or in resuspended particles in water in the Barton Springs watershed located in Austin, Texas. The endangered Barton Springs salamander (Eurycea sosorum) inhabits the springs and concern has been expressed that sediments in the springs may be contaminated to concentrations that may be toxic to invertebrates that serve as a food source for these salamanders. Consensus-based probable effect concentrations (PECs) were used to predict the potential for toxicity in sediments collected from the springs. These PECs were developed to determine the concentration of …

How Free Trade Can Save The Everglades, Aaron Schwabach

Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Best Of Times And The Worst Of Times: Lessons From Recent Reforms Of The French Retirement System, Kathryn L. Moore

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

Principally because of increasing life expectancy and the fact that the baby boom generation is reaching retirement age and is followed by a much smaller generation, the American social security system is facing a long-term funding deficit. The Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors and Disability Trust Funds predicts that unless corrective action is taken, social security benefits will exceed dedicated tax revenues by the year 2016, and the social security system will become insolvent, that is, unable to pay benefits in full, by the year 2038.

The United States is not alone in facing these circumstances. …

Rape, Murder And Formalism: What Happens If We Define Mistake Of Law, Gerald Leonard

University of Colorado Law Review

No abstract provided.

Blanchard And Simon, The Long And Large Decline In U.S. Output Volatility, Olivier Blanchard, John Simon

Documents

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Frb Summary Of Supervisory Activity And Findings 2001-01-01 - 2001-12-31 On Citi, Homer Hill Iii, Federal Reserve System: Federal Reserve Bank Of New York, Thacher Proffitt & Wood

Documents

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Youth Ministry Strategies For Korean Seventh-Day Adventists In The United States, Joon Hwan Huh

Doctor of Ministry Projects

Problem

Since the ministries of Korean-American churches have focused mainly on the first generation, little relevant ministry to second- and third-generation Korean-Americans has been developed. The youth have been ignored by the church leadership. Consequently there has been a need to encourage the spiritual developmental stage of youth leadership, to clarify worship and relationships, and to design an effective youth ministry for the SDA Korean-American church.

Method

The task of this dissertation was to discover biblical principles and guidelines for the development of effective and relevant youth ministries for Korean-American Seventh-day Adventist churches. In order to meet this aim, Scripture …

Grain Handling Facility Safety Program, Leif H. Schonteich

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Sovereign Immunity: Should The Sovereign Control The Purse?, Thomas P. Schlosser

American Indian Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Study Of The Impact Of Teacher Perceptions On The Implementation Of The Success For All Program In An Urban School District In New Jersey, Joseph Sinatra Fulmore Sr.

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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