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October 4, 2000
John Ira Petty
Johnson Space Center, TX (281) 483-5111
The technology that protects spacewalking astronauts may soon be available to firefighters on the ground through the development of an advanced suit offering greater protection, endurance, mobility and better communications.
It will be one of many s... | 1.603405 | 985 | 984 |
3 Ways to Maximise Space in a Small Apartment
Moving into a small space is a popular choice, and sometimes the only option for young professionals and couples living in bustling city centres. But it doesn’t have to be a cluttered, claustrophobic nightmare even if your daily commutes are. You can still make your little ... | 1.613217 | 949 | 947 |
The sex last night was great!" I say to my husband, Leo.
"We didn't have sex last night!" he exclaims.
"Yes, we did!" I say. "Last night you woke me up at 2 a.m. Remember?"
This debate is familiar. No, I'm not cheating on my husband, nor did I slip him a roofie. He's the only man I have sex with, but half the time he d... | 1.507741 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
In the drawing, a nude man and woman stand on either side of a wall. Each wears a plastic breathing mask that covers the nose and mouth; the masks are connected to air hoses that pass through the wall. The hoses attach to pouches at each other’s underarms and crotches.
It is a device that allows people — and there is n... | 1.834301 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
America is known as the land of opportunities, a cultural melting pot where anything is possible, and nowhere is that more evident than in
Miami Florida
. With its large international population, Miami is the ideal location for people looking for a place to learn English. Everyday there are more are people coming to Mi... | 1.582104 | 988 | 986 |
The B.A. degree in Philosophy is fundamental to liberal education, especially in its emphasis on careful, critical thinking. It challenges students to examine their societal and personal beliefs and values so that they are more creatively and responsibly chosen. To the extent that philosophy emphasizes foundational iss... | 1.432704 | 938 | 936 |
Industrial radio remote control is frequently found in industrial sectors for the proper monitoring of the status of machinery system. In addition, these industrial devices communicate with the control system through wireless communication. It means they could be utilized as an industrial radio remote control in variou... | 1.958195 | 1,000 | 998 |
My imagination is rarely captured by therapies that activate the senses. Perhaps because, over the years, mine have been dulled by too much self-abuse in the form of cigarettes and booze, as well as an unhealthy dose of cynicism. So, I tend to tune out at the mere mention of aroma therapy and as for color therapy.... a... | 1.745553 | 943 | 941 |
When I set out for a trip to the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area, I hardly thought I would find myself with a group of Kuwaitis in the back seat of a Lexus LX470 as it slipped and slid across the sandy terrain. As the sand became thicker, I knew it was inevitable we’d get stuck in the largest stretch of sand dunes ... | 1.554175 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
beyond the dunes.
We made our way to an area on the other side of a nearby dune, where they had a few small rugs spread out across the sand and a small fire burning. One member of the contingent, Saad Alajran, took out a set of pots and began preparing chai tea and coffee. Although he now lives in San Diego, this was ... | 1.675806 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
A DISTURBING examination by the New York Times has revealed that the Bush Administration is producing and distributing at taxpayer expense promotions for its policies that appear in the media as news. These "news segments," which end up primarily on television, do not acknowledge that they are government productions.
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VOICES FROM INDIA Edited by Christa Wichterich
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IN SEARCH OF ECONOMIC ALTERNATIVES FOR GENDER AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: VOICES FROM INDIA
Edited by Christa Wichterich
In search of economic alternatives for gender and social justice: Voices from ... | 1.499747 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
livelihoods of nearly 1,5 billion people in India and the EU without any transparency and democratic involvement of civil society. Since then WIDE has stressed the major conceptual shifts in EU trade policies through numerous activities 2: WIDE highlighted the asymmetries between the so-called “equal partners” India a... | 2.009884 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
thinking. Feminist economics At a theoretical level, feminist economists have developed an alternative framework which goes beyond redressing women’s exclusion, discrimination, and gender inequalities (J.K.Gibson-Graham). It conceptualises the whole of the economy, the market and the non-market sphere, paid and unpaid... | 1.921123 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
and parcel of what Paolo Freire called a “fierce struggle to recreate the world” and of unveiling opportunities for hope. It is a struggle against the global colonisation of people’s minds by the capitalist market model and its ideological pillar that “There Is No Alternative”. This “TINA”-principle - as Pierre Bordie... | 1.981795 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
been no moving away from the ‘efficient markets’ hypothesis that determined the hands-off approach of governments to the financial sector. Financial institutions have been bailed out at enormous public expense, but without changes in regulation that would discourage irresponsible behaviour. Banks that were “too big to... | 1.863644 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
little to change the broad context of employment generation and conditions of work, if the aggregate market conditions themselves are not conducive to such change. Given that external competitive pressures are creating tendencies for more exploitative and volatile use of all labour, including women’s labour, this has ... | 2.141075 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
. For example, a chaotic, polluting and unpleasant system of privatised urban transport involving many private vehicles and over-congested roads actually generates more GDP than a safe, efficient and affordable system of public transport that reduces vehicular congestion and provides a pleasant living and working envir... | 2.189183 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
The crisis hit the financial markets and the employment sheds of the Northern countries harder than it did many of the continents of the South – one could ironically say that the less developed the banking and stock market systems, the better the survival of the economy, as was proved by Latin America and some countri... | 2.459167 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
the process of removal of poverty can itself be an engine of growth, that the incomes and capabilities of those who are currently poor have the potential to generate demand which in turn will drive production, but of goods that are immediately needed by poor people which are currently peripheral in production. The oil... | 2.208963 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
ship. Therefore, what is at one level a capitalist transformation may also be characterised as a democratic transition. For instance, in the digital economy, information is commodified and sold through intellectual property regimes. Yet, in the diffusion and democratisation of information that new technologies make pos... | 2.140012 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
ing the information society alternative requires new frameworks of social analysis as well as action at political and community levels. It is important to understand the nature and implications of the techno-social infrastructure that underlies and manipulates (as it enables) the information society processes. This new... | 2.319593 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
digital monopolies. New political networks that adequately span and address the global-ness of the information society while promoting local autonomies form huge feminist challenges in this context. Many national-level policy issues, such as in areas of IP and public domain, use of the ICT context for marketisation of... | 2.252233 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
in 1990–91, to 51.5 per cent a decade later. 1. Personal Income Tax The most explicit form of gender bias exists in the PIT, as it can be applicable on either an individual or a family basis. However, PIT is relevant only in the formal sector, where a small proportion – 8 per cent – of the total workforce in India is ... | 1.702173 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
be treated as ‘women’s share in property’. The state of Delhi has recently introduced a gender-differentiated property tax – 6 per cent for women and 8 per cent for men, with women being given an additional benefit of a 30 per cent rebate. It is possible that the transfer of property to women in order to avail of thes... | 1.939764 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
generally based on the social welfare function, which states that the desired revenue and social objectives should be achieved through minimal distortions to individual and business decisions. This method, which focuses purely on the market economy, however, has been criticised on several grounds both by mainstream an... | 2.120499 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
-aware medium-term economic policy framework and so on. However, GRB is an evolving area of work. Several new and innovative strategies are being tried under GRB, and it is being applied to new areas. Budgeting for laws pertaining to women’s rights, such as domestic violence laws and maintenance laws, and applying GRB ... | 1.778486 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
others, are usually underfunded, understaffed and often do not have the mandate that would enable them to make an impact on women’s lives. It has also drawn attention to the need for other ministries, including the Ministry of Finance, to take on gender concerns as their concern. In India, for instance, research has s... | 1.79625 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
women, as a floor minimum. For instance, in India, the Women’s Component Plan provided for at least 30 per cent of plan allocations of all “women-related” ministries to be earmarked for women. Such earmarking has its merits. However, from a gender perspective, not only does one need to track what is being charged to t... | 1.913477 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
. Women’s paradigm challenges some of the key principles held up by industrial agriculture and the science on which it is based. First and foremost is the principle of productivity. Industrial agriculture is totally focused on productivity of a single grain and, therefore, measures farming success in terms of the highe... | 1.873081 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
forego the ration) as well as from the market at advantageous moments such as harvest time when prices would be at their lowest. But soon DDS realised that this was not the best strategy to allow them to gain food autonomy. Therefore, we started helping them to reclaim the infertile lands that they owned but, due to t... | 1.888111 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
reversed the gender and caste relations within their societies. Every DDS woman now has 10–15 varieties of seeds in her home. Once upon a time, she would have eaten these seeds when she had no food grains at home. But with their food sovereignty assured, the women moved towards seed sovereignty. Even as every single w... | 2.045817 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
are leaders In the last century, it was the trade unions that were the agency for organising the workers who were considered the most exploited. However, due to globalisation and
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liberalisation’ the trade unions have lost a lot of power and the focus has shifted to many new types of organising. In particular, the i... | 1.72906 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
in India, it became increasingly difficult to operate co-operatives, and easier to work with companies. SEWA has been forming women-owned producer companies which bring them up the value chain. Those women-owned co-operatives or companies can make use of the skills of women who are called ‘unskilled’ in the formal sec... | 2.02676 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
LAND The Kaimur region encompasses four districts of the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. Situated on the eastern border of the state, this area is defined by the thickly forested Kaimur hill range, which spreads over nearly 7000 km2 and extends into the neighbouring states. The area is rich in mineral resources – pri... | 1.528236 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
women from surrounding villages, all of which were under attack by the Forest Department, collected at Basoli and decided to organise and start reclaiming their traditional lands which the Forest Department was trying to prevent them from cultivating. Almost overnight, about 1500 acres of land in these six villages wa... | 1.673558 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
on us,” they say. Interestingly, this is a view not always shared by the men of these communities, who have proved highly susceptible to bribery and persuasion by the Forest Department and landlords and have often tried to persuade their wives into accepting individual titles. With a membership of more than 10,000, th... | 1.761322 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
the survival needs of the poor. It is not even true that water is not available only in arid regions due to geographical factors. A river full of water might be flowing alongside a village, and yet the same village might be facing a severe water shortage because the river water is used by the urban supply system and h... | 1.716322 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
supply system built by the government. Thus water is not a ‘free gift of nature’ for the city dwellers; it reaches them after considerable expenditure is incurred by the system. Therefore, there has to be a charge for the end users. The controversy is about how much the user should pay. The dilemma is: if too much is ... | 1.763735 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
of the village. This would check excessive withdrawal of groundwater and ensure sustainable drinking water supply over the long run. If there is a water shortage in the village, all other uses of water, except that for domestic use, would be immediately stopped. Monitoring the actual extractions by concession holders ... | 1.737958 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
schemes. At present, almost all of the social security schemes developed are restricted to Below Poverty Line (BPL) families. The worker’s name has to be on the government’s BPL list to qualify as a beneficiary of the various schemes. The net result of this approach is that large numbers of poor and deserving workers ... | 1.796357 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
negotiation to ensure that it gets the best deal for its members. Thus the risk of insurance is borne by the insurance companies. Claims-servicing is done in-house by VimoSEWA by a claims committee comprising SEWA union leaders and professional staff. The claims thus passed are sent to the insurance company for reimbu... | 1.95255 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
proper equipment, and health problems from poor working conditions. SEWA organises home-workers in nine states in India. It has over one million members and has shown that the conditions of home-workers can dramatically improve through the approach of embarking on the collective strength of the women by means of organ... | 1.972359 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Further, the limited State policies on care are still based on the notion of a ‘male breadwinner model family’, which assumes that men take primary responsibility for earning, and women for caring. Thus, in families where women from within are not available for care giving, they have to depend on individual arrangemen... | 1.838279 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
any major way in State programmes/policies. There is a growing demand for elderly care, with a near
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complete absence of institutional provisions. Largely on account of the campaign on child rights and education of children, care is now an aspect which figures off and on in many policies. Focusing on child welfare p... | 2.065776 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
rights and bargaining power. They are inclusive instead of exclusive, based on co-operation instead of competition. They counter power imbalances and policies that work increasingly in favour of capital, the resource- and energy-devouring industrial model of production and the appropriation of community resources. The... | 2.173818 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
to redistribute wealth and welfare, and to balance various interests and the growing economic and social inequalities. The essays make policy recommendations which aim to abolish discrimination, ensure access to resources and security, and enforce rights. Those altered policies would have the potential to foster a mor... | 2.199109 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
and promoted. Ideas about alternatives or visions must be nurtured, further developed and finally fed into actual policymaking. We have more questions than answers. But we have made a start.
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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Mirai Chatterjee – Co-ordinator of Social Security at SEWA: responsible for SEWA’s health care, child c... | 1.49069 | 987 | 985 |
I was reading an article the other day over at PFT about Von Miller threatening to sit out the year rather than play on the franchise tag. While I have my own opinions on that scenario it did get me thinking again about the franchise tag and something Bryce and I had discussed off the cuff on a podcast a few weeks back... | 1.939026 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
dug in back in 2011 to demand true unrestricted free agency in 2016.
Miller, or any player, sitting out as a franchise player would be foolish. The team will simply tag them the following season and in the process the player lost out on millions of dollars to be back at square one. But sitting out as a rookie costs ne... | 1.876437 | 1,024 | 1,021 |
As the international community seeks to stave off an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear program, policymakers would do well to draw lessons from the first attack to destroy a nuclear facility, Israel’s bombing of Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor on June 7, 1981. At the time, the attack drew near-universal condemnation, but ... | 1.48314 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
by the IAEA or the French.”[5] Alternatively, Iraq could have pilfered its IAEA-monitored cache of highly enriched uranium fuel provided by France to make a nuclear weapon. As it turned out, Iraq tried that in the period prior to the start of the 1991 Persian Gulf War, but failed.[6]
Hussein’s 1979 and 1980 arrests of... | 1.84095 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
the time the Gulf War started, was within a few years of fulfilling his ambition.[10]
Echoes in Iran
The Osirak story, before and after the attack, has much to teach today’s leaders as they attempt to fashion policies against Iran. At the same time, it is important to acknowledge distinctions.
Iran has in place a prog... | 1.686977 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Not long ago I published a list of elements of the original Obamacare bill that upset a lot of people who accused me of publishing lies about it, but the original bill—now something in the area of five different versions that the Senate and House will consider on their return—was every bit an abomination as the new one... | 1.934261 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Though sometimes regarded as a less than exhilarating element in product development, regulations can make or break an ingredient, a product, or even a whole industry. For innovative new ingredients, working within regulatory frameworks can be challenging enough within the U.S. This challenge can grow exponentially whe... | 1.814288 | 988 | 986 |
There is
such a rich history to the hospice and palliative care story – We invite you to take a journey with us as we guide you through the fascinating history of hospice and palliative care.
By definition, the word hospice originally meant a lodging for travelers or hosting guests or strangers. In current usage, hospi... | 1.72193 | 1,018 | 1,016 |
Working at FIRE, it can be all too easy to become somewhat inured to the seemingly endless barrage of constitutional violations taking place every day on our nation’s campuses. The sheer volume of worthy complaints and egregious unconstitutional abuses sometimes leaves us with the mistaken impression that we’ve seen it... | 1.431518 | 1,022 | 1,020 |
More than half of the mortalities of the mega earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on 11 March were old people according to calculations based on police records.
According to Yomiuri Shimbun's computations, 65.1 percent of the 2,853 fatalities who were identified as of Wednesday were 60 years old or older.
This raises... | 1.445376 | 984 | 982 |
In this paper, we introduce a framework that identifies online plagiarism by exploiting lexical, syntactic and semantic features that includes duplication-gram, reordering and alignment of words, POS and phrase tags, and semantic similarity of sentences. We establish an ensemble framework to combine the predictions of ... | 1.772101 | 976 | 975 |
How To Mentor From Your Mess Janet Thompson Founder of Woman to Woman Mentoring 2013 13 Sep
COMMENTS
My former pastor, Rick Warren, used to say we are continually going through or coming out of a tough time—a mess. Sometimes the mess is concurrent with a joyous time—a cancer diagnosis while planning a daughter’s weddin... | 1.799778 | 950 | 949 |
Was Hurricane Sandy a Democrat? Two weeks ago, Mitt Romney’s tormentor was a debate moderator named Candy. This week, Romney’s nemesis is a storm named Sandy. The latest blow to the Republican’s Presidential campaign came from an actual wind. Precious news program time, normally devoted to the battle for the White Hous... | 1.90874 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
man. (Think about that name for a second: Rich Richman.) Mr. Richman lives up to his surname and resides in the impressive Conyers Farm development in Greenwich, Connecticut. Christopher Keating of the Capitolwatch blog at courant.com provided us with the President’s remarks, addressed to the well-heeled attendees:
. .... | 1.859334 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
, as his running mate. FactCheck provided this breakdown of the misrepresentations in Ryan’s speech:
Paul Ryan’s acceptance speech at the Republican convention contained several false claims and misleading statements. Delegates cheered as the vice presidential nominee:
Accused President Obama’s health care law of funne... | 1.695561 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
an annual rate of 2.3 percent in the second half. Given the pattern of past recessions as identified by the National Bureau of Economic Research, such a contraction in output in the first half of 2013 would probably be judged to be a recession.
As the complete version of the report explained, the consequences of abrup... | 1.878172 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
That means that Romney should be denouncing austerity as “immoral” (as well as suicidal) because it will not simply increase the deficit (which he claims to find “immoral” because of its impact on children) but also dramatically increase unemployment, poverty, child poverty and hunger, and harm their education by caus... | 1.880238 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Santorum and Gingrich don’t get the GOP nomination, will they return to lobbying? Or keep their records clean for 2016?
“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.” – George Washington
RT “@maximosis: The more people wake up from their tacit acceptance of the corporatocracy, the more apparent these abuses wi... | 2.113613 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
focused on the propaganda war waged against the Occupy Wall Street movement, concluding the piece with my expectation that Jeremy Grantham’s upcoming third quarter newsletter would provide some sorely-needed, astute commentary on the situation. Jeremy Grantham, rated by Bloomberg BusinessWeek as one of the Fifty Most ... | 1.77352 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
19 opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal:
More bailouts and the reinforcement of moral hazard – protecting bankers and other creditors against the downside of their mistakes – is the last thing that the world’s financial system needs. Yet this is also the main idea of the Obama administration. Treasury Secretary Ti... | 1.732953 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Huntsman’s critique of Dodd-Frank is that it goes way too far.
Huntsman should be required to explain the issues here – is he against Dodd-Frank before being for it? Is his Too Big To Fail policy and derivatives policy the same as Dodd-Frank, and if not how do they differ? It isn’t clear from the materials he has prov... | 2.151077 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
to the Republican electorate with a series of symbolic jabs at the party’s base.
As Ross Douthat pointed out, New Hampshire will be Huntsman’s “make-or-break” state. The candidate is currently polling at 11 percent in New Hampshire and he has momentum on his side. Rachelle Cohen of the Boston Heraldfocused on Huntsman... | 1.727219 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
representing the California solar company, according to internal emails made public late Friday.
“How hard is this? What is he waiting for?” wrote Steven J. Spinner, a high-tech consultant and energy investor who raised at least $500,000 for the candidate before being appointed to a key job helping oversee the energy ... | 1.74529 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
the enthusiastic backing of the Chamber of Commerce, and in which the Koch Brothers have a “direct and substantial interest.” And not just backing. To use the words of a recent New York Times story, they are willing to “flout the intent of federal law” to get it done. Check this out as well: the State Department, at t... | 1.978564 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
The Regional Anti-Piracy Prosecution and Intelligence Coordination Centre (RAPPICC) in Seychelles, the objective of which is to undermine the piracy business model by bringing pirate leaders, financiers and enablers to justice
As we have reported here, here, and here, the UN Security Council has long expressed its inte... | 1.621219 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
We know that two-thirds of large scale transformation efforts fail. But that’s not a terribly helpful piece of information―unless we’re looking for confirmation that this is hard, really hard. What is useful is to understand what leaders can do to substantially increase the odds that their companies won’t be among the ... | 1.701582 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
develop a one-company culture, which made it difficult to integrate its offerings to an increasingly demanding customer base. As such, Stephen Green, HSBC’s Chairman at the time, set the company on a course that called for a dramatic slowdown of acquisitions, at least until the current portfolio of companies was integ... | 1.874153 | 996 | 993 |
Is Delivery Right for You?
Food service establishments are testing the waters with different options to catering to more customers, and one of those options is delivery. While typically reserved for pizza shops and fast-casual niche restaurants, other establishments are starting to consider diving into the delivery poo... | 1.664151 | 990 | 988 |
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A bean bag chair is essentially a large vinyl or leather sack filled with actual dried beans or, more commonly, synthetic polystyrene beads. The user places the bean bag chair in a chosen spot on the floor and centers his or her body over the bag before falling into i... | 1.586321 | 1,007 | 1,005 |
Any day now, the Interior Department's Fish and Wildlife Service will issue final rules on population control and management of double-crested cormorants. The rules will take effect in 2004. Unless a major rewrite has been made to the draft plan (and those following the action closely say that hasn't happened), few wil... | 1.776383 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
FWS wants us to take over regulatory aspects, but they won't tell us how to do it and they won't provide us funds either,” he says.
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Once a favorite haunt of fishermen, Arkansas' Millwood Lake is now depleted of fish and the shops and services that cater to anglers. It's no coincidence that fish p... | 1.691319 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
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The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood pushes the reader into the futuristic realm of Gilead, which is based on a satirical extrapolation of past and present reality. As Offred is submerged in this hypocritical atmosphere where opposing views of politics, religion, and feminism have been fused together, she tells th... | 1.755542 | 1,008 | 1,005 |
In contrast, the renewable portfolio standard (RPS) approach adopted by many states in the US offers an alternative mechanism for supporting renewable energy capacity expansion that is better suited our regulatory structure. Through market-based REC prices, it also does a better job of recognizing the economic burden t... | 1.721101 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
The Climate Change Bill 2010 was introduced to Parliament on 27 July 2010.
The main objective of the Bill is to create a new framework to help Victoria respond to the challenges of climate change and establish a target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent compared with 2000 levels by 2020.
The Climate Chang... | 1.483277 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
009 as an absolute minimum. You can find details on the Bill here.
The Victorian Bill should outline provisions that:
· obligate the development of strategies to meet emission reductions and drawdown targets; · establish a Climate Change Commission that will provide independent advice to Parliament on the development... | 1.735952 | 922 | 921 |
Reconstruction Conventions
Like Civil War (1861-65), Georgia had to adopt a new constitution under the rules of Reconstruction. In fact, the state went through this process twice, as attempts to reunite the Union during and after the Civil War became a prolonged two-part process that divided the executive and legislati... | 1.455922 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
The current Law on the Budget is based onunrealistic premises. First, the budget estimates proceed from an extremely lowforecast inflation rate. Given the scope of domestic financing through CentralBank loans as envisaged by the law, implementation of the declared steps torestructure the banking system, and the price g... | 1.678609 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
a redistribution of taxes between different-level budgetsand the laws come into force in the second half of the year, tax revenues tothe federal budget would rise to 9 per cent of GDP. The volume of non-taxrevenues, which the Law on the Budget estimates at 1.875 per cent of GDP,appears realistic.
Our calculations assu... | 1.749104 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
about 1.6 per cent of GDP as compared to 1997. We believe, therefore, thatin the second quarter of 1999, the federal budget expenditure on support forthe regions may already increase; this support may be essential for dealingwith the most pressing social problems. What is more, it will be necessary toincrease federal ... | 1.311485 | 1,021 | 1,019 |
Ann Short Chirhart, Betty,eds. Wood. Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume 1. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. 392 pp. $69.95 (library), ISBN 978-0-8203-3336-6; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8203-3337-3. Reviewed by Amy Benson Brown (Emory University) Published on H-SAWH (October, 2010) Commissioned by An... | 1.699499 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
, Lucy Craft Laney (who worked with and for African American children in Augusta) and Martha Berry (who worked with and for poor white children in North Georgia) make for an interesting comparison. These women rode some of the same cultural currents, despite the profound differences in their racial and economic backgro... | 1.838031 | 998 | 996 |
On the 10th anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, I spent much of the day talking with journalists who called for my thoughts and for lessons learned. That’s appropriate because one of the war’s lessons, I think, is the importance of an administration’s communications with the public.
I believe President Bush made ... | 1.817771 | 1,003 | 1,001 |
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I have had a glucose tolerance test and a clinical blood test which were both normal. However, my blood glucose meter which I test with at home (under the advice of the BDA) consistently show levels of over 10mmol/l. This is accompanied by symptoms, e.g., thirst, needing to urinate fr... | 1.51288 | 979 | 977 |
The end of another academic year provides the opportunity to both reflect on the past and look forward to the future. For the College of Humanities, the future looks bright. CSUN's new president, Dr. Dianne Harrison, is focused on the values that characterize the university: student success, commitment to faculty and s... | 1.578464 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
2003 complaint by a man who had fled a Hawaiian labor camp and made his way to Los Angeles, eventually finding Martorell's organization, which has advocated for victims of human trafficking since its founding. As ThaiCDC verified his complaints and uncovered many more victims of abuse, it exerted concerted pressure on ... | 1.8416 | 1,004 | 1,002 |
British business is caught in an investment freeze that threatens to slow the already fragile economy, a survey shows today.
Fewer than a fifth of businesses plan to boost investment for growth in the next six months, according to the Lloyds TSB Commercial Business in Britain report.
Weak domestic demand and rising cos... | 1.707934 | 1,002 | 1,000 |
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Archaeologist Ian McHardy stands atop one of Lewis island's many stacks, or coastal peaks. A surprising array of sites have been found in this forbidding terrain. (Phil Wickens) [LARGER IMAGE]
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for many centuries in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to improve male hormone levels, strength, and vitality. Monkey’s Head, or Hericium Erinaceus, is an unusual ingredient, made of a Chinese mushroom, which has been shown to increase the metabolization of fats and improve cognitive abilities. Korean Ginseng Extrac... | 1.500812 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
and Contact information that is published on their website.
However, all of the ingredients in Testo Limit XL have received media coverage from major publications and outlets. The benefits of Tongkat Ali have been reported by VICE magazine, NBC News, and Men’s Fitness as well as Men’s Health and The Huffington Post UK... | 1.455709 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Privacy Policy on its website that explains how information is collected and stored by the company. It states that the website uses cookies and web beacons to track IP addresses and improve website performance and customer service. It also retains some personal information, will use customer’s email address to contact... | 1.477379 | 1,004 | 1,002 |
NYC Financial District's Apartment Market Tighter Now Than in '06 Mar 09, 2012
New York—Who’s got the upper hand when it comes to renting an apartment in New York’s Financial District? According to the “2011 End of Year Financial District” (FiDi) report by Platinum Properties, a Wall Street-based real estate services f... | 1.603786 | 1,014 | 1,011 |
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