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With high profile business violations such as those found with Enron and the rise of technology and internet companies including million to billion dollar mergers or lawsuits it seems that legal issues involving business are a regular part of the news. Also, if you are a business owner, you know that legal issues may e... | 1.420961 | 1,022 | 1,020 |
How to get people on to planes is something we have covered many times on this blog. However, it is always interesting when some airline tries something new. That gets us to Delta’s Early Valet (Airlines try to save time with speedier boarding process,
Associated Press, Jun 1).
Delta’s Early Valet service will offer to... | 1.757222 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
doing it wrong (for an example, see this recent Quartz article). Academics like publishing papers on new methodologies that purport to work better — even if their approach is at best whimsical (would an airline assign seats based on who has carry on luggage?). But what if the secret to a smooth boarding process was re... | 1.984698 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Humans still can’t predict elections but we’re pretty good at predicting the immediate future. Baby drops glass cup, cup falls and shatters, and baby starts to cry. We’re so good at these short-term forecasts that we can often even describe what events will happen next in an image.
But what’s second nature for us can p... | 1.519575 | 1,018 | 1,016 |
When Jorge Mario Bergoglio became Pope Francis last month, nearly every Vatican insider, observer, and commentator remarked that he had inherited leadership of a church that was troubled and in upheaval. For nearly three decades, the Catholic hierarchy had struggled with the challenges of a catastrophic sexual abuse sc... | 1.890405 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government
by Chairman Mary L. Schapiro U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Before the Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations June 2, 2009
Chairman Durbin, Ranking Member Collins, Members o... | 1.378379 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
investment management firms seeking to manage the assets of the New York State Common Retirement Fund. Since March, we have amended the complaint to add additional defendants, including a former New York state political party leader, a former hedge fund manager, a Dallas-based investment management firm and one of its... | 1.585154 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
, which will provide an important level of quality control over the accountants performing this review. In addition, advisers would be required to publicly disclose the name of the accountant conducting these reviews, so that our staff can better monitor compliance and assess adviser compliance risks. Accountants also ... | 1.491572 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
, shareholders should understand how compensation structures and practices drive an executive's risk-taking. The Commission will be considering whether greater disclosure is needed about how a company — and the company's board in particular — manages risks, both generally and in the context of compensation. The Commiss... | 1.404359 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
than 35,000 registrants, including about 12,000 public companies, 8,000 mutual funds, 11,300 investment advisers, 5,500 broker dealers, and 600 transfer agents. By comparison, other financial regulators often have close to parity between the number of staff and the number of entities they regulate. For additional deta... | 1.478112 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
staff in these programs, so they can be more productive and better able to match the sophisticated systems used by the financial industry.
I came to the SEC to shape public policy in the interest of investors and to strengthen our enforcement program. The things I have described in this testimony are important to thos... | 1.665203 | 966 | 964 |
How long should an essay be? Date published November 25, 2014 by Date updated: January 15, 2015 Table of contents
The short answer to this question is a bit vague: as long as it needs to be and no longer. Let’s unpack what we can draw from this answer.
Is bigger better?
No. In essays, bigger is neither better nor worse... | 1.598422 | 1,020 | 1,018 |
MEDIA CONTACT: Paige McCown, Communications and Energy Education, +1.713.457.6826, media@spe.org
Houston, Texas, USA (1 April 2014) –The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), Board of Directors has approved the publication of its first technical report titled “The Human Factor: Process Safety and Culture”, a report
The... | 1.830809 | 1,015 | 1,013 |
Contact: Phil Miller, DNREC Watershed Assessment and Management Section, 302-739-9939, philip.miller@state.de.us
Nanticoke Creekwatchers’ volunteer training and kickoff event through Reclaim Our River Program set for March 12
DOVER (Feb. 17, 2016) – The Nanticoke Watershed Alliance (NWA) seeks enthusiastic, energetic v... | 1.357159 | 1,020 | 1,018 |
WASHINGTON If he wins, President Barack Obama would try to apply the leverage of his victory toward a lasting economic revival on his terms – guided by political lessons learned and the legacy he wants.
Because Obama has made his race against Mitt Romney about two competing visions for the nation, he would interpret a ... | 1.662379 | 1,020 | 1,018 |
Set Your Certain Weight Loss Goals and Keep an eye on Them
There is no better method for accomplishing yourweight loss goals than setting a strong weight loss plan ina really clear particular format and writing it down. With that, you will be able tokeep tracking your fitness objectives gradually. You have to compose t... | 1.750698 | 909 | 907 |
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BACKGROUND States of depression are associated with increased sensitivity to negative events. For this novel study, we have assessed the relationship between the number of depressiv... | 1.336135 | 967 | 965 |
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Farmers use soil amendments such as manure and compost to improve soil fertility and soil quality, and to enhance populations of beneficial microorganisms in the soil. Sustainable and organic producers in particular rely ... | 1.379903 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
propose a new application interval. The public will have the opportunity to comment on the new proposed interval before it is finalized. This process could take anywhere between 5-10 years, during which time the Produce Rule will not require farmers to follow any particular application interval. However, FDA states th... | 1.652915 | 962 | 959 |
Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Zugibe has released the 2010 Annual Report of the District Attorney's Office.
The 48-page report outlines the accomplishments and initiatives of the District Attorney's office in 2010, setting goals for 2011 and looking ahead in a challenging fiscal climate to maintaining vision... | 1.511116 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
CountyDA.com.
We all know that raising children today is the most important and most rewarding job we could ever have. As a parent in 2011, it is equally challenging to stay informed, especially on matters such as illegal drugs, in order to help our kids make the right choices.
The fact is two out of five middle school... | 1.411994 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Bulletin Board Ideas For Easter COOL BULLETIN BOARD IDEAS FOR EASTER - Even at the workplace, eggs and Easter bunnies will rule the bulletin board at Easter time. Easter bulletin board ideas could include putting some potpourri onto the board for adding in a bit of springtime as well. You could experiment putting some ... | 1.902852 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
depend on their assistance and outline the type of information that you may need. Listen to their input and take their thoughts and ideas into consideration. Think of this as having free-lance "reporters" working for you out in the field. These workers will be exposed to different tidbits of information, events, happe... | 2.210354 | 1,021 | 1,019 |
New pill could offer hope to bowel cancer and gastrointestinal stromal tumor patients after failure of standard treatmenNovember 21, 2012 in Medicine & Health / Cancer
Two phase 3 trials, published in
The Lancet, have shown that a novel oral drug called regorafenib could offer survival benefits to people with bowel can... | 1.03474 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
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Figure 1a: Schematic illustration of the experimental set-up for surface plasmon resonance microscopy. A polarized laser beam is directed onto a gold-coated glass coverslip through an oil-immersion objective to crea... | 1.502123 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Question: We have good friends who have much more money than we do.
They regularly write large checks to charities - everything from the local homeless shelter and the symphony to national organizations such as the American Red Cross and The Nature Conservancy. I don’t know how much they give each year, but I’m sure th... | 1.704763 | 991 | 988 |
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Results from Phase 3 Study of Ivacaftor Monotherapy Showed Statistically Significant Improvements in Lung Function in People with non-G551D Gating Mutations
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (VRTX) today an... | 0.823727 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
. The efficacy and safety of ivacaftor in children younger than 6 years of age have not been evaluated.
High liver enzymes (transaminases, ALT and AST) have been reported in patients receiving ivacaftor. It is recommended that ALT and AST be assessed prior to initiating ivacaftor, every 3 months during the first year o... | 0.861596 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Creature of Habit
I would venture to say that “habit” is my middle name, except that W.H.B. isn’t exactly as elegant a monogram as the one resulting from my true middle name: Edward. W.E.B. sounds so prophetic given that when I was born, …
I would venture to say that “habit” is my middle name, except that W.H.B. isn’t ... | 1.950019 | 1,003 | 1,002 |
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 5, 2013--Autonomic Technologies, Inc. (ATI), the developer of the ATI Neurostimulation System designed for the treatment of severe headaches, today announced results of their clinical study in cluster headache, now published online.
1 The robust, multi-centre, randomized, plac... | 1.203438 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
disabling chronic neurological condition characterized by intense stabbing pain in the area of one eye, often accompanied by swelling, tears and nasal congestion. The pain inflicted by the condition is recognized as among the most severe known to humans. Sufferers can have headache attacks multiple times per day, each... | 1.216074 | 1,019 | 1,017 |
Support Groups for Mold Victims
by Charlie
(Massachusetts)
Under the shower faucet
Mold is becoming a problem for most American home owners, mostly due to building practices and materials used. Baby-boomers build houses at monumental levels, using mostly cheap, processed, materials, that often were stored or processed ... | 2.011919 | 1,001 | 999 |
Gene therapy trials shut down at University of Pennsylvania following patient death regina1934 at hotmail.com regina1934 at hotmail.com Mon Mar 13 07:45:30 EST 2000 Taken from the World Socialist Web Site of the International Committee
of the Fourth International at: http://www.wsws.org
Gene therapy trials shut down at... | 1.14631 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
studies involving cystic fibrosis, lung cancer, melanoma, breast
cancer, muscular dystrophy and brain cancer.
The FDA also found that patients in the OTC study had not been given
informed consent of the risks involved in the trial. These procedures
for
patient consent have developed as a result of the ethical question... | 1.580632 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
993, 652 of 691 reports had never been filed.
Many patients suffered fevers, clotting abnormalities and serious drops
in
blood pressure. They included several unexplained deaths raising the
possibility that Gelsinger was not the first to die during a gene
therapy
trial. These deaths were usually attributed to underlyin... | 1.662864 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Macaulay: Pioneer of India’s Modernization
By Zareer Masani,
Random House, Rs 450
Zareer Masani’s immensely readable biography of Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay comes at this time of significant policy focus on quality in state-funded education and amidst a healthy public discourse on the uses of English as a skill, a... | 1.964937 | 1,017 | 1,015 |
A New Band
Help is on the way. The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has recently allocated the 4940-4990 MHz band (4.9 GHz band) for fixed and mobile wireless services and has designated the band for use in support of public safety.
This allocation provides public safety users with an additional spectrum to suppo... | 1.843186 | 974 | 973 |
A few years ago, I posted a few things here and here about the very cool Picturing America program from the National Endowment for the Humanities and EDSITEment. This session is discussing how to use art, specifically the Picturing America collection, to help meet Common Core literacy standards.
What do you see in here... | 1.880606 | 1,012 | 1,010 |
My cousin Vandana, who is based in Ghaziabad, was on a short visit to Mumbai recently. As we were meeting after many years, it was obvious that we discussed our children. The discussion involved her son Arjun who completed his BTech last year and is a candidate for an MBA with a major in international business at a for... | 1.638912 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Sodium, Fluid, and Chronic Kidney Disease, continued Some High-Sodium Foods Limit or avoid these foods that are high in sodium: Salted butter, buttermilk and peanut butter Some cereals Sports drinks Vegetable juices Fast foods Baking powder and baking soda Canned fish: tuna, salmon, sardines Most cheese and cheese spre... | 1.383032 | 1,004 | 1,002 |
UNICEF office in Brazil launches campaign on the impact of racism on children
The event is part of the celebrations of UNICEF's 60th anniversary in Brazil and relied on the participation of its Representative in the Country, Marie-Pierre Poirier, of the Secretary for Continued Education of the Ministry of Education (ME... | 1.45403 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
If your body is rejecting spring like a mismatched kidney right now, you’re certainly not alone.
According to experts, up to one quarter of valley residents suffer from seasonal allergies, and that season of sniffling, scratching misery is well under way.
The prime culprit at the moment is a tree so noxious it’s actual... | 1.571434 | 1,004 | 1,003 |
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Overriding obsession Thought control All of us can think of an occasion when an idea or mental image has popped into our head without warning. These might be completely senseless, or they might be things we know we shouldn't do. But most of us are never bothered by these thoughts and we can easily forget... | 1.512753 | 1,024 | 1,022 |
Beer Line CleaningPrint
Packaged Beer Sales Draft Beer dispensers Draft Beer Long Draw System Common Beer Hardware Beer Line Cleaning
Beer lines must be periodically cleaned to remove impurities and deposits that can cause beer to be flat or taste “off”. Recommended is every two weeks using a caustic solution which is ... | 1.644925 | 1,019 | 1,017 |
June 4, 2004
ROSEMEAD, Calif., June 4, 2004— Southern California Edison (SCE) is joining the American Red Cross and the Congress of California Seniors to urge SCE customers to stay comfortable, cool and healthy during the hot summer months ahead.
“At SCE, we understand that the summer time can be uncomfortable for our ... | 1.308237 | 1,002 | 1,000 |
Looking to make a major remodeling change this year? Or, maybe just a small ‘sprucing up’ project – then you’ll want to check out the latest and greatest ideas as recently reported by an award-winning remodeling firm. And, don’t forget to call the Raleigh, NC based Blue Ribbon Residential Construction for projects both... | 1.779766 | 975 | 973 |
Ericsson(s eric) engineers have begun experimenting with a new type of cell site – one embedded inside a window. As demand for mobile data grows, networks must get denser. That means building increasingly smaller cells and putting them much closer to mobile users. So why not take advantage of the glass surfaces that co... | 1.7662 | 950 | 948 |
Abstract
Two decades ago, the U.S. Air Force asked human factors experts to compile a set of guidelines for command and control software because of software usability problems. Many other government agencies and businesses followed. Now hundreds of guidelines exist. Despite all the guidelines, however, most Web sites s... | 1.597368 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
ari Trewin, Jessica Paradise Elliott
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Zhe Xu, David John, Anthony C. Boucouvalas
Chapter 51
Philip Duchastel
Chapter 52
Michael J. Albers
Chapter 54
Leen-Kiat Soh, Hong Jiang
Chapter 55
Wolfgang Hürst, Tbias Lauer
Chapter 57
Leah P. Macfadyen
Chapter 58
Javier Andrade, Juan Ares, Rafael García, Santiago Rodrí... | 1.505426 | 1,024 | 1,022 |
Strength training is a fun and rewarding way to get into shape. Not only is it efficient, burning more calories than aerobic exercise over the same period of time, but it also provides a number of great health benefits.
More Muscle, Less Fat Strength training is a great way to build muscle mass and burn fat. Strength t... | 1.531191 | 1,009 | 1,007 |
CHULA VISTA, Calif. – Mexican license plates are common in parking lots of shopping malls in U.S. border cities. They will be even more familiar after Mexico raises its federal sales tax in border regions to match the rest of the country, say merchants and shoppers.
The increase to 16 percent from 11 percent, which tak... | 1.462653 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
The Rape Epidemic: India's Daughter Filmmaker Leslee Udwin and Former Malawi President Joyce Banda on How to Inspire Change 31 10 2015
SAN LEANDRO, Calif. — The
gang rape of 23-year-old Jyoti Singhin 2012 was an event that shook India to its core and caused countless men and women to flood the harsh winter streets of D... | 1.562874 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
help us understand that every human being, and not just us, has value.”
She explained how when women are allowed to meaningfully participate in society, such as in decision-making processes in the economic, political and social realms, both men and women benefit.
“This isn’t about pushing the men out,” Udwin asserted,... | 1.775977 | 928 | 926 |
Every established system in the country always attracts severe criticism. The
Indian Education System especially has been the target of many allegations from students, parents and teachers. Students think they are overburdened, teachers think they are not paid enough and parents want their children to get 99.99 percent... | 1.94131 | 1,015 | 1,013 |
Report on Course: The Impact of Public Policy on Computer Graphics Lecturers: Robert Ellis and Barbara Simons
By Ben Wyrick 8/12/01
INTRODUCTION
It used to be hard to copy things. During the Dark Ages, Monks laboriously duplicated texts word for word, by hand. Back then there was little need for licensing intellectual ... | 1.538842 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
hacker netzine 2600.com, which published DeCSS on their site and later, links to sites with DeCSS code. Reactions against CSS, DMCA, and UCITA have prompted a rash of civil disobedience among the electronic community.
LEGAL BATTLES
In addition to Johansen and Corley, two other names come up when the subject of circumv... | 1.624104 | 1,024 | 1,022 |
GENDER DIVERSTIY. Sarah Ahmed Savannah Todd Amanda Hughes ED 301 Section 4 Lesson 1. Gender Diversity Unit. Grade 9 Lesson 1 Understanding Gender Differences. Objectives. To familiarize students with gender diversities and stereotypes
Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information... | 1.673124 | 916 | 914 |
A Pioneer promotional idea is a common ingredient of various success stories so far. So what it takes for an e-commerce firm to inflate its wings to skyscrapers? Advertisement is the proven formula for search and display are the sale shafts in driving businesses to success.
So which one is superior in both the cases, s... | 2.816154 | 942 | 941 |
§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ 4.8 p.m.
§ The Minister of Technology (Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn)
I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.
This Bill consists of two separate parts. Part is concerned with specific projects for which special legislation is sought—for example, the increase in the borrowi... | 1.609932 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
, so that, however we do it, there should be ground rules which the House lays down and on which it later authorises clearly what should be done. One of the interesting things which strikes one in reflecting on the Second Reading today is that the House is having one of its very rare opportunities—I almost said its fir... | 1.815909 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
of fall-out or spin-off is, I have the gravest doubts as to whether the benefits of it correspond to the scale of the expenditure involved. Indeed, I suspect that this is not a very cost-effective way of proceeding and that, in seeking to stimulate growth more directly, as this Measure does, we could get a far better ... | 1.929308 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
possible by the Bill. The first is the shift of emphasis in industrial policy—the shift of resources from defence to civil industries, which is implicit in the policy which we have announced and which will release men and money for industrial growth. This is paralleled by an extension of capability on to the civil sid... | 1.691505 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
I can envisage circumstances in which N.R.D.C. and I.R.C. might well cooperate with each other to carry through a part of a project with or without the executive participation of a sponsoring Department. In so far as they do this, it will mean that the Government delegating as they have in a number of areas, the execut... | 1.714673 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
think the Government should do it at all."—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 15th February, 1966; Vol. 724, c. 1228.]That was his argument, so he will not be urging us to use the I.R.C. for the purposes of this Bill.
The next question 6, what safeguards are there against the support of lame 1583 ducks? This is a point which the hon. ... | 1.835122 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
is no compulsory power in the Bill.
§ Mr. Benn
I will come to that later. I did not think that I should get away with it as easily as all that. We had all this before when the I.R.C. was debated. The Chairman of the Tory Party at that time—as a matter of fact, I am not sure whether he was then Chairman of the Tory Par... | 1.656774 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Bill over the last six months if those who had had access to knowledge about its provisions had not tried to stimulate this sort of extremely irrelevant criticism of the provisions of the Bill.
§ Sir T. Brinton
Would the right hon. Gentleman make one thing clear, though? If an enterprise says to the Government, "We ne... | 1.658953 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
11 provides for the purchase of the assets of Beagle Aircraft. The need for legislation in this case arises because it is necessary to amend Section 1(1) of the Civil Aviation Act, 1949, which prevents me at the moment from manufacturing civil aircraft. One hon. Gentleman said that what had been done so far was illega... | 1.654652 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
but there were many interventions which I could not myself control. I shall now summarise what I have said about the Bill and commend it to the House. The complexity and the cost of modern industrial processes are such that Government and industry are being driven closer together in every country of the world. Other g... | 1.851514 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
its fences and force its panaceas on industry, that the Bill was conceived. I see that an hon. Gentleman opposite, who I believe is in the counsels of the Government, nods his head in approval of that. The hon. Gentleman, the Member for Heywood and Royton (Mr. Barnett) is chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party's F... | 1.814024 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
The quality and use of investment matter as much as quantity.
The Government are introducing a Bill to encourage and help investment and risk taking in private enterprise, and yet they are the same Government who in the same month have raised Corporation Tax by 2½per cent., which by all informed opinion will reduce re... | 1.974833 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
all the encouragement they want to the technological or other progress of industry.
Of course at the end of the day there will remain individual projects and schemes—and the Shipbuilding Board and the Cotton Reorganisation Board were typical—falling outside the Government's powers and outside the powers of all Governm... | 1.927136 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
the green light for another Groundnuts scheme.[Laughter.] Hon. Gentlemen opposite laugh, but I am only quoting from anarticle in last week's Sunday Times by the hon. Member for Billericay (Mr. Moonman), who is the Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party's Scientific and Technological Committee. They were not my wor... | 2.003069 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
hope it will. We wish to repeat, and repeat again, that the public sector is inherently likely to be more inefficient than the private sector because it is not subject to the discipline of the market and because, in many cases, it is subsidised. We object to the extension of the public sector, particularly when it is ... | 1.86524 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
has had a great deal of fun at the expense of a Bill which makes an attempt to provide the Government with an opportunity of assisting certain projects and which is based on a great deal of information and evidence which the Government have received over a period of time. This is not a new device. Clearly it has been ... | 2.050458 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
, and that the main contributions of the large companies were simply improvements.
I suggest that that fits in neatly with the view that Britain is a country which makes many important technological discoveries of significance and often of revolutionary application, most of which are exploited elsewhere, largely in the... | 1.967446 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
the criteria upon which assistance will be given. I offer this to the Minister in a constructive spirit. I hope that he will be able to give us more information on the 1611 phrases which appear in the Clause, saying that assistance will be calculatedto improve the efficiency of an industry or section of an industry",t... | 1.870257 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Those Ministers include the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. It is easy to see why he is included, because he promoted the National Plan. Therefore, he is very experienced in these matters. However, it is rather difficult to see why the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations should be on the list. About ... | 1.611901 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
that the Government already have these powers? My right hon. Friend spelled them out to him. The science and technology Act makes available to the Government the same sort of choice to which the hon. Gentleman is objecting now.
§ Mr. Blaker
I do not think the hon. Gentleman can mean that the Government already have th... | 1.663777 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
being behind in technology, but when a proposal is put forward to advance it, hon. Gentlemen opposite object. I see one hon. Gentleman opposite disagreeing with me. I look forward to hearing his speech.
§ Mr. Carter-Jones
This is a voluntary Measure. No one has to come along to obtain money. There is no compulsion abo... | 1.972701 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
has accelerated this process, including the Restrictive Trade Practices Act. Our concern tomorrow should not be the power of private groups but the control of the powers of the public sector. The Conservative Government tried to lay down guidelines and to interfere with industry to the absolute minimum.
The latest dic... | 1.93974 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
who wrote of this type of Bill in the Spectator of 10th November:The idea of a statutory instrument to enable government to meddle in the affairs of individual companies has always had a fairly strong appeal to left-wing theorists. However, the main impulse behind the new measure probably comes from another and more r... | 2.142722 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
spending powers that may result in taxpayers' money being used to help too many lame ducks and spending powers which, while being subject to Parliamentary control, are too great because we in Parliament do not have the mechanism to provide that scrutiny which is so essential.
It would be interesting, as the fifth point... | 1.923818 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
5 million was mentioned for subsidising sales to the Gas Council and the Central Electricity 1627 Generating Board. When we discussed the Supplementary Estimates early yesterday morning this matter was also raised, during debates on the Second Reading of the Consolidated Fund Bill. In the latter debate I summarised a n... | 1.918217 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
fuss is over this Bill. I understand that the Opposition have virtually made this a censure debate, but there does not seem to be much censure about it. I noticed that when the right hon. Member for Leeds, North-East (Sir K. Joseph) opened for the Opposition he made general criticisms of the Bill, but specific items w... | 1.740831 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
a considerable time, is a very uneven industry in development. Some sections of it are proceeding with modernisation, and sophisticated machine tools are being produced. I come from an area where this industry is still very retarded. I do not understand why we should not create a public machine tool industry. This wou... | 2.015167 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
of Technology was given the sponsorship of four very important industries, of which the machine-tool industry was one. Before more powers are given to the Minister of Technology, it might well be worth everybody's while to check up to see what wonderful achievements have come about 1634 in the industries of which the ... | 1.761169 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Bill. The same thing applied there.
I said at that time that I felt that those who were accepting jobs of that kind, to be managing director or chairman of the I.R.C. and so on were either pathetically naive or, perhaps, wanted to help the Socialist cause. I find it very hard to believe that Mr. Grierson would have ag... | 1.70887 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
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§ Mr. Joel Barnett (Heywood and Royton)
The speech of the hon. Member for Isle of Ely (Sir H. Legge-Bourke) had one thing in common with those of his hon. Friends. The whole of it lacked any constructive comment, like that of his right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, North-East (Sir K. Joseph). That right hon. Gen... | 1.760657 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
sort of problems that we all know face the Government and industry. As I said when I intervened in the speech of the right hon. Member for Leeds, North-East, he knows that the major problem is shortage of capacity. Every time we try to increase production we come up against the fundamental problem; there is a flood of... | 1.693401 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
But, of course, in the last resort, Governments must govern. They are held responsible for the faults of industry and, if they do not get co-operation, they have to intervene.
So, while I accept the need for intervention and the idea behind the Bill. I am not satisfied that what it proposes is the best set-up. It is n... | 1.73428 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
open-ended future expenditure by competent Ministers, which will be allowed if the project is not commercially viable. At this point I am not concerned about whether the advances made in the past, whether the schemes initiated by my right hon. Friends, when in office, were commercially viable. There was no doubt the o... | 1.934489 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
It has been said by hon. Members opposite that we have not put forward any alternatives or constructive criticisms. I can tell the Minister very shortly what I believe we need for industrial expansion. We do not need this Bill at all. First, industry needs to be able to keep more of its profits in order that it can fi... | 1.755463 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
which particularly pleases me about the provisions.
I turn to the question of regional development. Paragraph 18 of the White Paper entitled "Industrial Expansion" reads:In exercising the powers under the new legislation, the Government will take full account of regional needs and international obligation.We have hear... | 1.662671 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
is injected for that purpose.
We should reject the arguments which appear more and more in Labour Party dogma for State aid to industry in favour of import saving. This is a form of neoprotectionism along the lines of, "We will do it here to keep out your beastly products, though we know that we cannot do it as well".... | 1.963303 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
had power to prevent it, and that he did until the last possible moment when the time limit expired.
One final argument against investment in private industry which to my mind is conclusive—the other two are not conclusive—is that once an industry feels that it has the advantage of being able 1654 to fall back upon th... | 1.879 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
hon. Gentleman must realise that these proposals carry the need for public accountability a considerable step further. A Select Committee of the House—perhaps the Select Committee on Nationalised Industries—should be empowered to do efficiency audits on each of these projects to ensure that we, as the taxpayers' repre... | 1.70767 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
his occupation in life, they still propose to emigrate. I do not challenge their decision. It is their right. Most were bound for Australia, next in favour was Canada, then came the United States, and after that Sweden. Altogether, only half of them proposed to remain in Britain. The others felt that opportunity abroa... | 1.678812 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
admit that there are some occasions on which Government assistance and intervention is justified ——
§ Sir T. Brinton
If that was the hon. Gentleman's point, it did not seem evident to me.
I was saying that Government assistance and intervention can be justified to obtain the effects desired by society. We must admit t... | 1.946351 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
openly say that they want to get into production, they are exposing their hand and the political motive behind the Measure. It is not the function of Government to get into the ordinary productive process, except where that is required for the national interest, such as for defence or for certain social reasons.
I sai... | 1.960863 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
there.
I have a high regard for Ronald Grierson, who assisted the Government for 18 months in an unpaid job. In The Times he indicated what his problem was. 1665 His interests were in trade and banking and he could not be independent. The change now is that there is to be an independent chairman with a highly-paid job... | 1.959183 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
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