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Discrimination In Qualitative Actions By Real Estate Brokers, Jan Ondrich, Alex Stricker May 1998

Discrimination In Qualitative Actions By Real Estate Brokers, Jan Ondrich, Alex Stricker

Center for Policy Research

Discrimination occurs when people in a particular class are systematically treated less favorably than other equally qualified people. This study focuses on racial and ethnic discrimination in qualitative actions by real estate brokers, such as showing a customer a housing unit that was advertised in the newspaper. The data come from the Housing Discrimination Study, which conducted over 2,000 fair housing audits of real estate brokers in 25 metropolitan areas in 1989. Each audit consists of a visit to a real estate agency by a white person and either a black or Hispanic person with similar socio-economic characteristics. Using Chamberlain’s …

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Ddasaccident216, Hd-Aid Apr 1998

Ddasaccident216, Hd-Aid

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This team was demining in an area of very difficult terrain. Dogs were the best solution to the problem at hand. Correct drills were being employed. Supervision and Quality Assurance measures were entirely sufficient. Evidence suggests that the dog sat on the mine, causing the mine to detonate. Three personnel were injured by one mine. Evacuation time was one hour and thirty-five minutes from the time of detonation to arrival at the hospital.

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Ddasaccident217, Hd-Aid Apr 1998

Ddasaccident217, Hd-Aid

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A Team Leader partially detonated a PMA-2 mine whilst deploying his team to their tasks. [Demining group] state that this mine was a re-laid mine. There is an equal amount of evidence to show that it could have been a mine that was missed on the original clearance of the lane.

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Ddasaccident019, Hd-Aid Apr 1998

Ddasaccident019, Hd-Aid

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The accident occurred near a high voltage pylon to the south of Moamba town and approximately 22 km from the demining group’s camp. The pylon was mined during the armed conflict and a barbed wire fence was put up to prevent the entry of people and animals. Outside this fence were other mines of the PMN, PMN-2 and PMD-6 types.

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Ddasaccident218, Hd-Aid Apr 1998

Ddasaccident218, Hd-Aid

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The investigator concluded that the accident occurred as a result of the victim's "total disregard of the inherent dangers of the area and [his] failure to conform to normal work procedures.

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Resource Law Notes Newsletter, No. 43, Spring Issue, Mar. 1998, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center Apr 1998

Resource Law Notes Newsletter, No. 43, Spring Issue, Mar. 1998, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Resource Law Notes: The Newsletter of the Natural Resources Law Center (1984-2002)

No abstract provided.

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Seven Steps To Achieving A Genuine Public Consensus On An Emotional Issue: With Specific Examples Of How Citizens' Task Forces Have Sometimes Failed, Sandra Vanallen Baker, Richard Matwyshen Apr 1998

Seven Steps To Achieving A Genuine Public Consensus On An Emotional Issue: With Specific Examples Of How Citizens' Task Forces Have Sometimes Failed, Sandra Vanallen Baker, Richard Matwyshen

Buffalo Environmental Law Journal

Symposium: The Increasing Conflicts of Deer and Human Populations in Suburban Areas

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The Contentious Lands: A Book Review Of Western Public Lands And Environmental Politics, Marla E. Mansfield Apr 1998

The Contentious Lands: A Book Review Of Western Public Lands And Environmental Politics, Marla E. Mansfield

Buffalo Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Roots, Trunk, And Branches Of Modern Environmental Law: A Book Review Comparison Of An Environmental Law Anthology And Foundations Of Environmental Law And Policy, Robert F. Blomquist Apr 1998

Roots, Trunk, And Branches Of Modern Environmental Law: A Book Review Comparison Of An Environmental Law Anthology And Foundations Of Environmental Law And Policy, Robert F. Blomquist

Buffalo Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Research To Practice: Disability Organizations' Perspectives On The Needs Of Youth With Disabilities Who Are Runaway Or Homeless, David Temelini, Sheila Fesko Apr 1998

Research To Practice: Disability Organizations' Perspectives On The Needs Of Youth With Disabilities Who Are Runaway Or Homeless, David Temelini, Sheila Fesko

Research to Practice Series, Institute for Community Inclusion

Findings from a national survey of state-level disability organizations on issues regarding runaway or homeless youth who have disabilities.

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Yale Political Monthly 1998 April, The Politic, Inc. Apr 1998

Yale Political Monthly 1998 April, The Politic, Inc.

The Politic

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Recasting The Role Of Government To Promote Economic Prosperity, Murray L. Weidenbaum Apr 1998

Recasting The Role Of Government To Promote Economic Prosperity, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

No government in the world has an agency with the mission of depressing the economy or accelerating the rate of inflation. Yet, many government actions - especially taxation, government spending, and regulation - have those undesirable effects. The paper focuses on government regulation of business, where the costs are especially insidious, and what can be done to reform this regulation. Government decision-makers often forget the fundamental fact that individuals and private organizations have tremendous capability to deal with the shortcomings of a modern economy on their own. Relying more heavily on private initiative moves us closer to a free society …

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Ddasaccident021, Hd-Aid Mar 1998

Ddasaccident021, Hd-Aid

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The victim was working as a deminer in a lane where “mechanical demining” had taken place. He detonated a PMN-2 mine with his “demining tool”.

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What Predicts Success In Jtpa?: Test Of A Three-Component Model, Carolyn Ball Mar 1998

What Predicts Success In Jtpa?: Test Of A Three-Component Model, Carolyn Ball

New England Journal of Public Policy

The Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), an education and training program to assist the economically disadvantaged, is one of sixty or more programs Congress is considering consolidating. This program had great success in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but its value and support have been declining. This author examines whether JTPA should continue through a test of three employment theories: discrimination, signaling, and human investment using data from Maine's JTPA program. Findings indicate that while the program can reduce discriminatory barriers and negative signals such as welfare status, it does not consistently succeed as a training investment. Enrollment in …

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Industrial Policy: Federal, State, And Local Response, Zenia Kotval Mar 1998

Industrial Policy: Federal, State, And Local Response, Zenia Kotval

New England Journal of Public Policy

During the past twenty years, many economists and policymakers have strongly advocated that the United States formulate a national industrial policy to improve the competitiveness of American firms in the global marketplace. These proposals call for both direct and indirect assistance to specific industrial sectors. Some would contend that U.S. industrial policies are being challenged by newer growth theories that shift the focus from the nation as the basic unit of industrial geography to regions and municipalities. There is little argument about the need for industrial policies that tie national, state, and local initiatives together. However, confusion and disagreement exist …

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The Professional Decline Of Physicians In The Era Of Managed Care, Aimee E. Marlow Mar 1998

The Professional Decline Of Physicians In The Era Of Managed Care, Aimee E. Marlow

New England Journal of Public Policy

Physicians have long enjoyed prestige, power, and autonomy, but the rise of managed care organizations has drastically changed their status. Many doctors are in thrall to the financial well-being of the corporations that employ them, their knowledge and expertise controlled and manipulated in the interest of profit maximization. This article investigates the professional decline of physicians, citing the use of gag clauses, incentives to withhold care, and the breakdown of their authority. In an effort to regain some measure of control, physicians have taken their concerns to the public, supporting state and federal legislation that attempts to curb questionable managed …

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Institutional Design And Regulatory Performance: Rethinking State Certificate Of Need Programs, Robert Hackey, Peter Fuller Mar 1998

Institutional Design And Regulatory Performance: Rethinking State Certificate Of Need Programs, Robert Hackey, Peter Fuller

New England Journal of Public Policy

The success of state efforts to control rising health care costs depends on the incentives contained in the legislative design of regulatory policies and in the administrative capacity and autonomy of state agencies. States have regulated the construction and expansion of health care facilities and services for more than two decades through "certificate of need" (CON) programs designed to limit the diffusion of expensive new medical technologies and to avoid the duplication of health care facilities. Although the cost-control record of state certificate of need programs has been widely criticized, Rhode Island's experience with a reformed CON process from 1985 …

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Citizen Participation And Strategic Planning For An Urban Enterprise Community, Michael Leo Owens Mar 1998

Citizen Participation And Strategic Planning For An Urban Enterprise Community, Michael Leo Owens

New England Journal of Public Policy

Public policies rarely have single objectives. For the federal Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities initiative, bettering the socioeconomic opportunity structure among a collection of the nation's low-income areas is only one of its goals. Another initiative objective is to foster the representation of common citizens, especially residents, in the planning and implementation of strategies and programs designed to redevelop these low-income areas. Strategic community planning was the method chosen by the initiative's designers to achieve both objectives. This article, which makes use of the case study approach, addresses strategic community planning as an instrument of advancing citizen representation in urban …

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Is Boston Becoming A Branch-Plant Town?, Lawrence Franko Mar 1998

Is Boston Becoming A Branch-Plant Town?, Lawrence Franko

New England Journal of Public Policy

A decade ago, Boston appeared to be emerging as a headquarters city for a large number of world-class enterprises. Notwithstanding the recovery from the early-1990s recession, and a thriving entrepreneurial economy of business acorns, Boston today seems on its way to becoming largely a branch-plant town. None of the 1980s Massachusetts Miracle saplings or the more recent acorns have grown into mighty corporate oaks headquartered here. This article discusses the risks of having our current prosperity increasingly based on branch plants acquired or established by firms centered elsewhere. Its concern is based on the proposition that having big-business corporate headquarters …

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Editor's Note, Padraig O'Malley Mar 1998

Editor's Note, Padraig O'Malley

New England Journal of Public Policy

Readers of this journal will have noticed an increasing emphasis on the impacts of globalization in recent issues. Not only has it become the mantra of the last years of the dying millennium, it is being presented as an elixir of unbounded possibilities, a process that will, with the help of some undefined alchemy, make the twenty-first century fulfill the promises and potential that somehow got lost or marginalized in the tumultuous upheavals of the twentieth. Yet its implications are largely unknown, the pace and speed of change are laboratory equations, and the unintended consequences of our hubris in our …

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Governing Massachusetts Public Schools: Assessing The 1993 Massachusetts Education Reform Act, John Portz Mar 1998

Governing Massachusetts Public Schools: Assessing The 1993 Massachusetts Education Reform Act, John Portz

New England Journal of Public Policy

The Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993 created a number of important changes in public education. In the area of local governance, the act was guided by a corporate model in which authority and responsibilities were reallocated among school committees, superintendents, principals, and newly created school councils. School committees in particular assumed a policymaking role, and superintendents became the chief executive officers of their school districts. This article, based on responses to a mail survey, is an early assessment of the act's governance changes. Superintendents are most satisfied with their role, especially their authority over principals and teachers. School committee …

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Ddasaccident126, Hd-Aid Mar 1998

Ddasaccident126, Hd-Aid

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The accident area had been cleared in the previous year and various UXO had been found, including half-buried mortars and M77 grenades. A seasonal wind had buried them. The victim was walking over the cleared area at 17:15 from his "base camp" when he initiated the device. He "lost" both legs and suffered superficial injuries on his abdomen and hands.

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Ddasaccident127, Hd-Aid Mar 1998

Ddasaccident127, Hd-Aid

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The investigators determined that the deminer was "excavating" to investigate a detector reading when the accident occurred. He was using a shovel to do so. Investigators were unable to visit the accident site [due to deminer mobility and seasonal redeployment], so the report relied on interviews and written statements.

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Ddasaccident127, Hd-Aid Mar 1998

Ddasaccident127, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

The investigators determined that the deminer was "excavating" to investigate a detector reading when the accident occurred. He was using a shovel to do so. Investigators were unable to visit the accident site [due to deminer mobility and seasonal redeployment], so the report relied on interviews and written statements.

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Ddasaccident128, Hd-Aid Mar 1998

Ddasaccident128, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

The victim said that the dogs checked a leash length (8m) and both dogs indicated a suspect point. The point was investigated and the fuse of a mortar was found. He was checking the second leash at a distance of 11 metres from the first when he stepped on a mine at 11:10.

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Ddasaccident164, Hd-Aid Mar 1998

Ddasaccident164, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

The mined area was a road that linked Malay with National Route 5. The victim was working as a prodder man in one of the ditches that ran along both sides of the road. He was squatting at the bottom and working his way up the side. The ground had a very hard crust to a depth of 2cm and was soft underneath. The victim's partner marked a reading and then moved back to allow the victim to investigate. Because the ground was hard, the victim used a "trowel" to break up the surface, but initiated the mine.

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Ddasaccident219, Hd-Aid Mar 1998

Ddasaccident219, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

The investigators concluded that the mine had been missed during the earlier clearance tasks. Also that the training area was "extremely hostile" and easier sites could have been used. The investigators observed that the UN MAC Technical Guides "give no real guidance as to what alternative procedures should be undertaken" when detecting and prodding are inadequate in an area. In previous missed mine incidents in the area (involving two other commercial companies) the mines were also PMA-2s.

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Ddasaccident007, Hd-Aid Mar 1998

Ddasaccident007, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

The investigators determined that the victim used a "long handled shovel" while investigating a detector reading. He was digging by placing his foot on the shovel when the mine went off. The proximity to the power lines made the detectors signal continually in some places. The density of sub-surface roots made the demining group feel it was unsuitable for manual prodding.

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Ddasaccident129, Hd-Aid Mar 1998

Ddasaccident129, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

This accident involved a “P2MK2” minimum metal blast mine. [P2MK1 and P2MK2 mines are frequently given the same last number.] A letter explaining why it was not identified at the time was found on file in September 1999 - stating that the same mine occurred in two accidents at the site and that survey had not thrown up the presence of minimum metal mines.

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Research To Practice: The Most Important Member: Facilitating The Focus Person's Participation In Person Centered Planning, Jean Whitney-Thomas, Jaimie Ciulla Timmons Mar 1998

Research To Practice: The Most Important Member: Facilitating The Focus Person's Participation In Person Centered Planning, Jean Whitney-Thomas, Jaimie Ciulla Timmons

Research to Practice Series, Institute for Community Inclusion

This brief summarizes research that explored the participation of young people in person centered planning, and gives specific recommendations to assist facilitators in maximizing student participation.

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