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2005

The University of Maine

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Funding Women And Girls (2005 - Fall), Maine Women's Fund Staff Sep 2005

Funding Women And Girls (2005 - Fall), Maine Women's Fund Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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The Importance Of Nonviolence In United Nations Peacekeeping, Jeffrey Lowell Aug 2005

The Importance Of Nonviolence In United Nations Peacekeeping, Jeffrey Lowell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The previous two decades have brought to light many issues with the role of the United Nations in peacekeeping. The disasters in Rwanda, Kosovo, Somalia, and now the Sudan, give credence to the idea that something is a serious fundamental flaw in the United Nation's approach to making the world a more peaceful place. The use of violence, or the threat of violence, cannot be used to bring about lasting peace. Evidence of this fundamental flaw is seen throughout the UIV's history, but perhaps nowhere as glaring as the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. That peace enforcement operation ran just as …

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Maine Women's Advocate No. 39 (Summer 2005), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Jul 2005

Maine Women's Advocate No. 39 (Summer 2005), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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Equality News (Summer 2005), Equality Maine Staff Jul 2005

Equality News (Summer 2005), Equality Maine Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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Mr436: Allagash Wilderness Waterway Vistor Survey 2003, John J. Daigle Apr 2005

Mr436: Allagash Wilderness Waterway Vistor Survey 2003, John J. Daigle

Miscellaneous Reports

During the spring, summer, and fall seasons of 2003, visitors to the Allagash Wilderness Waterway were asked to participate in a user survey. The user survey was designed to elicit information from respondents on a variety of variables to determine characteristics of the visit, including activities, method of travel on the waterway, length of stay, camping conditions encountered, and to determine visitor preferences, including satisfactions with resource and social conditions encountered at campsites and while traveling on the watercourse. Information was collected from visitors using two survey instruments: a short visitor survey card and a more extensive mail-back questionnaire. A …

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Maine Women's Advocate_No. 38 (Winter-Spring 2005), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Mar 2005

Maine Women's Advocate_No. 38 (Winter-Spring 2005), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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News From Mabel (Spring 2005), Mabel Wadworth Health Center Staff Mar 2005

News From Mabel (Spring 2005), Mabel Wadworth Health Center Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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Funding Women And Girls (2005 - Spring), Maine Women's Fund Staff Jan 2005

Funding Women And Girls (2005 - Spring), Maine Women's Fund Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.

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Tax Policy And The Principles Underlying A “Good Tax”, Kenneth L. Nichols Jan 2005

Tax Policy And The Principles Underlying A “Good Tax”, Kenneth L. Nichols

Maine Policy Review

A “good tax”—can there be such a thing? Kenneth Nichols explores the principles for evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of taxes on income, consumption, and wealth. Contrary to common argument, Nichols points out, there is no “best” tax, but there are five interrelated criteria for evaluating taxes that, collectively, may be used to assess whether tax reform efforts are moving us closer to or further away from a better overall tax system for Maine.

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Loan Forgiveness And Repayment: Can They Increase Education Attainment In Maine?, Catherine Reilly Jan 2005

Loan Forgiveness And Repayment: Can They Increase Education Attainment In Maine?, Catherine Reilly

Maine Policy Review

Maine’s level of higher education attainment has remained stubbornly low despite substantial efforts to improve the access to and availability of higher education options. Maine’s state economist, Catherine Reilly, examines the pros and cons of two perhaps underutilized policy tools for increasing Maine’s higher education attainment level—loan forgiveness and loan repayment. The design and marketing of such programs are critical, and would have to be done carefully. Reilly notes, however, that loan forgiveness and repayment are unique policy tools because they create incentives for students to live and work in the state after graduation.

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American Foreign Policy Of The Twenty-First Century: Security Through The Promotion Of Democracy, Grace Thompson Jan 2005

American Foreign Policy Of The Twenty-First Century: Security Through The Promotion Of Democracy, Grace Thompson

Maine Policy Review

Each year, the Margaret Chase Smith Library sponsors an essay contest for Maine high school seniors. We feature here Grace Thompson’s 2005 first place prize-winning essay, which draws upon historical examples as well as personal experiences and opinions to discuss American foreign policy for the 21st century.

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The 2005 Brac Process: The Case To Save Maine’S Bases, Derek P. Langhauser Jan 2005

The 2005 Brac Process: The Case To Save Maine’S Bases, Derek P. Langhauser

Maine Policy Review

Derek Langhauser gives a postmortem of Maine’s response to the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission’s announcement of imminent closure of bases in Portsmouth-Kittery, Brunswick and Limestone. Although Maine did not “win back” the Brunswick facility, Maine rescued the facilities in Portsmouth-Kittery and Limestone, secured additional resources for the Bangor Air National Guard and Bangor Naval Reserve Center, and was granted an expansion of the Limestone accounting center. Maine’s response to the BRAC Commission’s original announcement is testament to the extraordinary capacity of the states’ people to work together in times of crisis

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Solving Maine’S Health Care Crisis Requires “Tough Choices”, Wendy Wolf Jan 2005

Solving Maine’S Health Care Crisis Requires “Tough Choices”, Wendy Wolf

Maine Policy Review

Wendy Wolf’s commentary discusses the “tough choices” process which invited selected Maine citizens to participate in town hall meeting sessions to provide input on the state’s health plan. She notes that it was easier for participants to agree on health promotion and healthcare delivery processes than for them to make choices about how to pay for healthcare.

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