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Review Of "Colorado's Government: Structure, Politics, Administration And Policy” By Robert Stuart Lorch, Robert Sittig

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

For some decades a number of sponsoring agencies have sought to provide a standardized work on each state's government and politics; thus far this goal has proven to be unattainable. In the meantime, studies such as this one have appeared in nearly all the states; this serves to inform interested readers about a particular state's politics, and Lorch's contribution has been a handsome one over these past years.

Lorch recounts the quite old-how Colorado was settled, got its name, and achieved statehood-and the very new-adoption of the state's first presidential preference primary for the 1992 election cycle, and the approval …

Review Of "The Wright Space: Patterns And Meaning In Frank Lloyd Wright's Houses” By Grant Hildebrand, David Seamon

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This book by architectural historian Grant Hildebrand is a search for the special quality that makes Frank Lloyd Wright's houses so well liked, both by their owners and general public. Hildebrand calls this special quality a "pattern"-that is, a repetitive configuration of architectural elements that, although uniquely expressed in each house, is an underlying motif in all of them. Hildebrand believes that this pattern involves the spatial dialectic of inside and outside as expressed through repeated architectural parts-the entry, the fireplace, ceilings, solid and windowed walls, terraces, and openings from the house to the outside, especially immediate spaces. Hildebrand's aim …

Review Of "American Indianwaterrights And The Limits Oflaw" By Lloyd Burton, Richard B. Collins

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Professor Burton's work focuses on legal recognition and enforcement of Indian tribal water rights. He explains the uncertainty of tribal rights and the difficulties of perfecting rights in court. Lawsuits encounter jurisdictional disputes between state and federal courts, huge litigation costs, technical problems with engineering and hydrologic data, years of delay, and, in his view, hostile Republican judges on the federal bench. Given the difficulties with lawsuits, he examines in some detail tribes' efforts to pursue negotiations and legislation as alternatives to litigation. He is quite critical of the alternatives and concludes that litigation is still the best choice for …

Review Of "Crane Music: A Natural History Of American Cranes" By Paul A Johnsgard, Amy Richert

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

A well-known author among wildlife enthusiasts, Paul Johnsgard has dedicated much of his life to the study of birds. In his lyrically written Crane Music, Johnsgard thoroughly compares and contrasts the natural history of the world's cranes with special emphasis on the two North American species, the sandhill crane (Grus canadensis) and the whooping crane (Grus americana).

This book begins with an interesting historical overview of the importance of cranes to human cultures around the world. Through the years, these exquisite long-legged birds have influenced religion, mythology, derivation of words, and important conservation efforts. Johnsgard …

Review Of "Twenty-Eighth Annual Alberta Soil Science Workshop Proceedings" By David T. Lewis, David T. Lewis

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This volume compiles the papers of a workshop that had several foci: the philosophies of soil conservation, the sweeping generalizations from LANDSAT data and their use in GIS, and the infinite detail of classification and genesis of soils, quantification of soil productivity, and techniques for the injection of nitrogen into the soil. The theme of this particular workshop was "Sustainable Agriculture-A Soil Science Perspective." Canadian agricultural scientists, as their U.S. counterparts, appear to have latched onto the buzz word "sustainable." Neither group seems to be able to define clearly what the phrase means. Fortunately for the reader, there is no …

Great Plains Research Introductory Note - Vol. 2, No. 2, 1992, John R. Wunder

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This issue of Great Plains Research is co-edited by Paul A. Kay and Clare V. (Bud) McKanna, Jr. Professor Kay resigned as editor to accept an academic position with the Environmental and Resource Studies Department, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Bud McKanna, former editorial assistant, will be editor of Great Plains Research beginning with Volume 3, Issue 1 (February, 1993).

Hydrology And Texas Water Law: ...A Logician’S Nightmare, Otis W. Templer

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Scientists generally consider all water as merely passing through, but in different phases of, the endless hydrologic cycle. In contrast, the law divides water in the hydrologic cycle into several different classes based on real or supposed physical differences between classes. Legal classes of water are treated separately, usually without consideration of the many interconnections existing between phases of the cycle, and different rules of law have developed concerning the ownership and use of each legal class. Texas courts, like those of other Great Plains jurisdictions, have applied this fragmented classification system, recognizing diverse public and private rights to each …

Wpa News 35 (1992), World Pheasant Association

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters

WPA News (February 1992), number 35

Published by the World Pheasant Association

The L-Word : February 1, 1992, The L-Word

The L-Word

No abstract provided.

The Predicaments Of The Bulgarian Orthodox Church Today, Spas Raikin

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

The ‘Dice’ Model: Background And Structure Of A Dynamic Integrated Climate-Economy Model Of The Economics Of Global Warming, William D. Nordhaus

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

This study is designed to present the methodological and technical assumptions and the results behind the Dynamic Integrated model of Climate and the Economy (the DICE model). It is a model that attempts to use the tools of modern economics to determine an efficient strategy for coping with the threat of global warming. The fundamental premise behind this study is that societies should undertake environmental policies only when their benefits, broadly construed, exceed their costs and that the level of environmental control should be at that point where the incremental benefits of additional controls no longer exceed the incremental costs. …

The Cowles Commission Approach, Real Business Cycle Theories, And New Keynesian Economics, Ray C. Fair

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

The Cowles Commission approach is reviewed and compared to the approaches of real business cycle (RBC) theorists and new Keynesian economists. It is argued that RBC models are not tested in a serious enough way and that the new Keynesian literature is not empirical enough for testing even to be a serious possibility. Macroeconomics seems to be moving away from its traditional empirical basis, which is sad. This paper argues for returning to the path that was abandoned by most macroeconomists around 1970, namely the specification and testing of structural macroeconometric models.

Estimates Of The Bias Of Lagged Dependent Variable Coefficient Estimates In Macroeconomic Equations, Ray C. Fair

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

A stochastic-simulation method is proposed in this paper for obtaining median unbiased estimates of lagged dependent variable coefficients in macroeconomic models. Estimated biases for 13 equations of a macroeconomic model are computed. These biases are on average somewhat smaller in absolute bias than would be expected from Andrews’ exact results for an equation with only a constant term, time trend, and lagged dependent variable, although they are larger than would be expected from Hurwicz’s original estimates. In a practical sense the estimated biases are not very large because they have little effect on the overall predictive accuracy of the model …

Reality Or Illusion: The Importance Of Creaming On Job Placement Rates In Job Training Partnership Act Programs, Kathryn H. Anderson, Richard V. Burkhauser, Jennie E. Raymond

Center for Policy Research

Critics of the Job Partnership Training Act of 1982 (JTPA) argue that most of its job placement success has been the result of the "creaming" of participants--that is, of serving individuals who are most employable at the expense of those most in need. Using a bivariate probit model of JTPA trainee selection and job placement success, this paper analyzes the selection of JTPA past recipients. It provides a first approximation of the importance of nonrandom selection on job placement rates. Creaming is found to take place within service delivery areas (SDAs), especially with respect to the avoidance of eligible high …

Hand In Hand, February-March 1992

Hand in Hand

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Milwaukee, WI

Hand in Hand Finding Aid

Sign Of God Newsletter, February 1992

Sign of God Newsletter

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Green Bay, WI

Sign of God Newsletter Finding Aid

Pvn-Drw-418-B-Str2-Section_B, Edward Schortman

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Lot-423-P-001, Ellen Bell

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Lot-423-O-038, Ellen Bell

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Parent Christian Life Identity On Problem Behavior In Children With Learning Disorders, Philip A. House

Doctor of Psychology (PsyD)

The purpose of this study conducted in the Summer and Fall of 1991 was to determine whether parent Christian life identity ameliorates problem behavior in children with learning disorders. The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and Child Behavior Checklist-Teacher Report Form (CBCL-TRF) were used to measure problem behavior of children aged 6-11 with identified learning disorders. Groupings of parents by active Christian and other (in-active Christian or non-Christian) life identity were studied. The central hypothesis was that children with identified learning disorders whose parents have an active Christian identity will have lower levels of social-emotional and behavioral problems than learning disordered …

The Impact Climate On Agriculture: A Ricardian Approach, Robert Mendelsohn, William D. Nordhaus, Daigee Shaw

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Because of the potential for global warming, there are widespread concerns about the impact of changing climate upon the productivity of land in farming and other sectors. This paper develops a new approach for measuring the economic impact of environmental factors such as climate on production by examining the direct impact of the environmental factor on land productivity as measured by land prices. This new method is applied to examine the effect of climate on agriculture using cross-sectional farm data for almost 3000 counties in the United States. It finds substantial impacts of climatic variation on both land values and …

Yale Political Monthly 1992 February, The Politic, Inc.

The Politic

No abstract provided.

News And Views Of The South Carolina Library Association V.13 N.1-N.2 02/1992-03/1992

South Carolina Libraries

News and Views of the South Carolina Library Association v.13 n.1 02/1992

W(H)Ither The Middle Class? A Dynamic View, Greg J. Duncan, Timothy M, Smeeding, Willard Rodgers

Center for Policy Research

A constant theme throughout the history of the U.S. has been the growth of the middle class and the promise of its growth for the elimination of poverty. By the late 1980s, social analysts sensed a decline in the size of the American middle class which later was verified through cross-section analysis of wage and salary and income distribution data. Using time series from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for prime-age males, this study moves beyond verification of the shrinking of the middle class. The analysis examines changes in both income and wealth and finds that wealth increases reinforced …

How People With Disabilities Fare When Public Policies Change--Past, Present, And Future, Richard V. Burkhauser, Robert H. Haveman, Barbara L. Wolfe

Center for Policy Research

In this paper the authors analyze the effects of two decades of federal disability policy and macroeconomic fluctuation on the well-being of men with disabilities. Their findings indicate that both have dramatically affected the economic well-being of people with disabilities both absolutely and relative to people without disabilities. Using data from the Current Population Survey (19681988) they find that by 1987 the households of white or well-educated male heads with disabilities had fully recovered from the program cuts and recession of the early 1980s. However, to a large extent this recovery was due to additional earnings by spouses. Alternatively, the …

Modeling Application For Disability Insurance As A Retirement Decision: A Hazard Model Approach Using Choice-Based Sampling, Richard V. Burkhauser, J.S. Butler, Yang Woo Kim, George A. Slotsve

Center for Policy Research

This paper models the decision to apply for Social Security Disability Insurance Benefitsas a special case of a more general dynamic retirement decision model. It uses a multi-state, continuous-time hazard to test the effect of policy variables on the speed at which workers applyfor benefits following the onset of a work limitation. Policy variables are found to matter. A higher expected replacement rate increases the risk of application. This effect is significant in asmall sample of the general population and in a sample which also includes a weighted choice-based sample of disability insurance applicants.

A Cautionary Tale Of European Disability Policies: Lessons For The United States, Leo Arts, Richard V. Burkhauser, Philip De Jong

Center for Policy Research

Variations in the size of the population receiving disability payments across countries cannot be explained by simple differences in health. Rather, the process to disability is shaped by both social and medical factors. When governments ignore this reality, a policy generated disability epidemic is possible. This paper compares disability policies in The Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, and the United States. It argues that the extraordinary increase in Dutch disability rolls in the 1970s was caused by a general government policy to reduce official unemployment. And that by the end of the 1980s, this policy had left Holland with a hidden unemployment …

Iii Theological Symposium "The Church, Jews And Judaism" In Poland, Waldemar Chrostowski

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Complete Issue, Journal Editors

Southern Anthropologist

No abstract provided.

Medicare Supplemental Insurance: Today's Crisis, Health Care For All, Gerontology Institute, University Of Massachusetts Boston

Gerontology Institute Publications

The purpose of health insurance is to spread risk. The system works under the assumption that, at any given point in time, only a percentage of the people in a given group will be sick. Regardless of health status, all members of the group will be paying premiums in order to cover the cost of care for those who need it.

As a group, however, seniors represent a high-risk population. They are more likely than younger people to need health care services and tend to require longer hospital stays. Yet, while their expenses are greater, their financial resources are generally …