... of the A.F.L C.I.O, George Meany, was a political
force until he stepped down in nineteen seventy-nine.
Last July, the federation suffered a split that included the loss of the fastest growing ... companies.
He supports a new labor federation, Change to Win. The unions in Change to Win
together claim six million members. The A.F.L C.I.O. now has about nine million....
... features of the inaugural address made by President G.W. Bush in
the U. S election 2004 will be the focus of this study.
Of the two inaugural speeches the incumbent President of the U. S has made, ... terrorists and so forth. This has been the issue that
sharply divided the U. S and is still causing many controversies in the society as the
fatality toll of...
... but the substructure is reused, “Year Built”
remains the year of original substructure construction. “Year Reconstructed” would then indicate
the year the superstructure was replaced. Such a situation ... prestressed concrete, structural steel and timber based
on the superstructure material for the main span. Values shown in the “Total” columns include
bridges constructed usin...
... East Asian) immigrants in the U. K., including higher
SES groups. Second, we consider not only the size of the paradox at the time of the child&apos ;s birth, but
also the degree of its persistence ...
social institutions such as the educational and health care systems, and on markers of health and
social inequality. In this study we add to the long-standing sociol...
... business conditions in the communities
they serve. In this way, the bifurcated banking system has served the
needs of a diverse U. S. economy composed of businesses of all shapes
and sizes and consumers ... and
information-intensive banking services. These services are consumed
mainly by smaller customers such as small businesses, family farmers,
and depositors of low to moderat...
... holding gains and losses for
assets such as real estate and corporate equities,
including assets held indirectly through mutual
funds, pension funds, and life insurance con-
tracts. The main competing ... debated in the literature on the U. S. saving
rate evolution. The literature on the subject is
rather voluminous. We choose to focus on at least
four distinct aspects that ma...
... etc.); therefore given revenue increase results
in equivalent decrease in these alternative revenue instruments and expenditure increase results in increase in these alternative revenue
instruments.
The ... point increase in different fiscal vari-
ables provided in first column. These values are calculated as if the increase in taxes or expenditures is funded by the requ...
... improving the
status quo. Current data suggest this will include:
z Determining why women s representation in news media occupations is inverse to the
proportion of women with journalism and mass ... communication degrees
z Assessing media responsibility for the proportion of women newsmakers
z Studying the potential role of media in affecting gender equity among newsmakers
z A...
... costs and with
total economic costs the value of the coefficients decreased with successive size categories
indicating economies of size associated with these costs. Costs declined as size increased ... trucks, and purchased dairy herd
replacements used up in the annual production process, plus interest that the remaining capital
could have earned in an alternative use. Thes...
... the
joinpoint regression analyses and the results there-
fore may include spurious associations. Trends invol-
ving <10 cases/year are noted in Table 2; these
trends, as well as those with wide ... fluctuating trend
observed in the non-Hispanic group, no change in
other leukemias was detected in the Hispanic group.
There was a statistically significant increase in o...