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Islam And Resistance In Afghanistan, By Olivier Roy, Shahrough Akhavi Aug 1989

Islam And Resistance In Afghanistan, By Olivier Roy, Shahrough Akhavi

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No abstract provided.


The Political Ideas Of Leo Strauss By Shadia B. Drury, Daniel R. Sabia Aug 1989

The Political Ideas Of Leo Strauss By Shadia B. Drury, Daniel R. Sabia

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No abstract provided.


Privatize Deposit Insurance, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel Jul 1989

Privatize Deposit Insurance, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel

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No abstract provided.


Job Displacement, Relative Wage Changes, And Duration Of Unemployment, John T. Addison, Pedro Portugal Jul 1989

Job Displacement, Relative Wage Changes, And Duration Of Unemployment, John T. Addison, Pedro Portugal

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Using special CPS data on displaced workers, this article investigates the wage consequences of job displacement in a framework that emphasizes the effects of past job duration(s) and unemployment duration(s) on postdisplacement wages. Our model also attempts to take account of the simultaneity between unemployment duration and the postdisplacement wage. It is found that duration strongly reduces subsequent earnings and that considerable overstatement of the loss in firm-specific training investments is implied by conventional routes to measuring wage losses.


A Proposal For Reallocation Of Federal Grazing-Revisited, B. Delworth Gardner Jun 1989

A Proposal For Reallocation Of Federal Grazing-Revisited, B. Delworth Gardner

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Over a quarter of a century ago, I analyzed the allocation procedures utilized by the federal agencies which administer livestock grazing on the public lands (Gardner 1962). Two factors contributing to grazing misallocation and reduced range productivity were identified: (1) the "eligibility" requirements that qualify permittees for grazing privileges prevented the utilization of forage by ranchers who would value it most, and (2) use-tenure insecurity resulting from cuts in permitted grazing impeded private investment in range improvements on the public ranges. In a second paper, I proposed that the grazing privilege system be reformed such that efficient allocation of forage …


Unobtrusive Studies And The Quality Of Academic Library Reference Services, Jo Bell Whitlatch Jan 1989

Unobtrusive Studies And The Quality Of Academic Library Reference Services, Jo Bell Whitlatch

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This article uses empirical data from a recent obtrusive study of reference performance to explore content validity and assumptions regarding unobtrusive studies. Data collected by author support the contention that improvements are highly desirable before conducting more unobtrusive studies of reference service. The two most important changes concern the development of test questions representing all types of queries and supplementing the correct fill rate with other measures of reference performance.


Research In Teacher-Librarianship: The Implications For Professional Practice, Ken Haycock Jan 1989

Research In Teacher-Librarianship: The Implications For Professional Practice, Ken Haycock

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No abstract provided.


A View From The Front Line: Literacy Outreach Of Los Angeles Public Library, Anthony Bernier Jan 1989

A View From The Front Line: Literacy Outreach Of Los Angeles Public Library, Anthony Bernier

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No abstract provided.


Clip Art: Suggestions For Use And A Guide To Sources, Ken Haycock, L. Austrom Jan 1989

Clip Art: Suggestions For Use And A Guide To Sources, Ken Haycock, L. Austrom

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No abstract provided.


Beyond Courtesy: School And Public Library Relationships, Ken Haycock Jan 1989

Beyond Courtesy: School And Public Library Relationships, Ken Haycock

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No abstract provided.


Union Effects On Productivity, Profits, And Growth - Has The Long Run Arrived?, John T. Addison, Barry T. Hirsch Jan 1989

Union Effects On Productivity, Profits, And Growth - Has The Long Run Arrived?, John T. Addison, Barry T. Hirsch

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This article interprets literature examining union effects on economic performance. Production function studies indicate small overall union impacts on productivity; positive effects, where they exist, appear to result from management response to decreased profit expectations and from a natural selection process. Lower profitability among unionized firms is well established; more interesting is the possibility that unions appropriate quasi rents deriving from long-lived tangible and intangible capital. the connection between unions, investment behavior, and productivity growth emerges as a particularly fruitful line of empirical inquiry, although it does not encourage a sanguine view of unionism's long-run impact.


An Incentive-Based Wild Horse Management System On Public Rangeland, Ray G. Huffaker, James E. Wilen, B. Gardner Delworth Jan 1989

An Incentive-Based Wild Horse Management System On Public Rangeland, Ray G. Huffaker, James E. Wilen, B. Gardner Delworth

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This paper explores an incentive-based management system to induce federal grazing permittees to choose sustained cattle stocking strategies which accommodate government-set wild horse numbers and nongrazing uses. Particular attention is paid to constraints imposed by federal grazing statutes. The proposed system employs increased livestock grazing fees to induce permittees to provide increased vegetation for consumption by wild horses and nongrazing uses. The negative impact of increased fees on permittee wealth is counterbalanced with compensatory transfer payments. Taken together, grazing fees and compensation payments induce multiple-use compliance by permittee-stewards and keep their discounted livestock profits intact at some predetermined level.


Using The Lnformation Resources Of The Global Village: The Information Systems Of International Inter-Governmental Organizations, Robert V. Williams Jan 1989

Using The Lnformation Resources Of The Global Village: The Information Systems Of International Inter-Governmental Organizations, Robert V. Williams

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No abstract provided.


Removing Impediments To Water Markets, B. Delworth Gardner Nov 1988

Removing Impediments To Water Markets, B. Delworth Gardner

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A few years ago it was mostly economists, notably those of a libertarian stripe who were advocating voluntary market exchanges of water in the West. Now these exchanges, or transfers as they are sometimes referred to, are being unabashedly recommended by water users, politicians, bureaucrats, and even environmental organizations, who have come to see their value for achieving a more efficient water allocation. Water markets are an idea whose time has finally arrived.


Tomorrow's Research Library: Vigor Or Rigor Mortis?, Richard Hacken Nov 1988

Tomorrow's Research Library: Vigor Or Rigor Mortis?, Richard Hacken

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The gamut of futuristic visions in library literature—from optimistic to pessimistic, from realistic to fanciful. Contradictory answers to recurring questions are found: Can we finally say goodbye to Gutenberg? Will the library card be replaced by the telephone credit card? Will book ownership give way entirely to information access. Will "books without pages" and "libraries without walls" necessarily lead to librarians without jobs? Is it possible to set timetables? After past crystal ball gazers are compared, contrasted, and critiqued, positive plans for progress are suggested.


Regional Security Organizations And National Interests: Analyzing The Nato-Greek Relationship, Constantine P. Danopoulos Oct 1988

Regional Security Organizations And National Interests: Analyzing The Nato-Greek Relationship, Constantine P. Danopoulos

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This article analyzes the reasons which account for Greece's continuing membership in the Atlantic Alliance, even though NATO has not lived up to expectations and has failed to protect the nation's security against threats from Turkey. Following a brief examination of Greek attitudes toward NATO and the nature of dissatisfaction, the article argues that strategic concerns are, at best, of secondary importance. Instead, Greece's continuing membership in the Alliance is a result of the nation's economic ties to the West and the dependency of its military on NATO and Washington for advanced training, arms, war materiel, and other professional considerations. …


Cutting The Loss From Federal Irrigation Water Subsidies, B. Gardner Delworth, Ray G. Huffaker Oct 1988

Cutting The Loss From Federal Irrigation Water Subsidies, B. Gardner Delworth, Ray G. Huffaker

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The Bureau of Reclamation recently announced that its prime mission since 1902-building dams to make the desert bloom in the American West-is pretty much complete. While never really admitting that its newer projects have been economically infeasible, Bureau management has at last recognized that the days of the big public water project are gone. The Bureau now plans to turn its attention and resources to other more pressing problems, such as helping other agencies with construction projects needed to cope with hazardous waste.


Opposition To Human Rights Treaties In The United States Senate: The Legacy Of The Bricker Amendment, Natalie Hevener Kaufman, David Whiteman Aug 1988

Opposition To Human Rights Treaties In The United States Senate: The Legacy Of The Bricker Amendment, Natalie Hevener Kaufman, David Whiteman

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No abstract provided.


Nonpublication In The United States District Courts: Official Criteria Versus Inferences From Appellate Review, Donald R. Songer Feb 1988

Nonpublication In The United States District Courts: Official Criteria Versus Inferences From Appellate Review, Donald R. Songer

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No abstract provided.


Have Gubernatorial Elections Become More Distinctive Contests?, Mark E. Tompkins Feb 1988

Have Gubernatorial Elections Become More Distinctive Contests?, Mark E. Tompkins

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Gubernatorial and presidential elections over the period 1947—1986 are examined, using a previously reported process for decomposing partisan electoral outcomes series into their longterm and short-term components. These measures are employed to examine the proposition that gubernatorial elections have become increasingly isolated from outside forces. It is found that presidential coattails appear to be declining in importance (but not only because a number of states have moved to off-year elections). Gubernatorial elections have converged around a national pattern of relatively close competition, unlike state-level presidential contests, which have shifted in favor of Republican candidates. The pattern of gubernatorial outcomes varies …


Prevention And Health Economics, Harold H. Gardner Feb 1988

Prevention And Health Economics, Harold H. Gardner

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The relationship between doctors and patients in the medical and health field is a topic of recurrent discussion today. The topic is of immense interest because of the questions raised about value received for services purchased and because of the large amount of economic resource consumed. The size of the stakes are such that the debate will grow in the near future until some solution is found to remedy the value and cost for service dilemma.


Book Review. Encyclopedia Of Asian History, Jo Bell Whitlatch Jan 1988

Book Review. Encyclopedia Of Asian History, Jo Bell Whitlatch

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No abstract provided.


Book Review. United States Japan Foreign Trade, Jo Bell Whitlatch Jan 1988

Book Review. United States Japan Foreign Trade, Jo Bell Whitlatch

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No abstract provided.


The Role Of Intergovernmental Organizations In International Information Transfer And Policy, Robert V. Williams Jan 1988

The Role Of Intergovernmental Organizations In International Information Transfer And Policy, Robert V. Williams

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Celebration Of Byu Library Volume #3,000,000, Richard Hacken Jan 1988

Celebration Of Byu Library Volume #3,000,000, Richard Hacken

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Rural Ventilated Improved Pit Latrines - A Field Manual for Botswana. In honor of the 3 millionth volume added to the BYU Library collection.


Corporate Loans To Directors And Officers -- Every Business Now A Bank?, Jayne W. Barnard Jan 1988

Corporate Loans To Directors And Officers -- Every Business Now A Bank?, Jayne W. Barnard

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In most states, a corporation may loan money to an officer or director if the board of directors authorizes the loan and finds that it will "benefit" the corporation. According to Professor Jayne W. Barnard, however, this benefit requirement has proved to be an illusory standard. Barnard reviews existing law on the subject and surveys the executive lending practices of 152 publicly held corporations. She concludes that executive loan enabling statutes have failed to consider the risks involved in making such loans, such as illiquidity, inadequate collateralization, inclination to default, and volatility of the economy. As a result, current laws …


Explaining Policy Failure: Japan And The International Economy, 1969-1971, Robert C. Angel Jan 1988

Explaining Policy Failure: Japan And The International Economy, 1969-1971, Robert C. Angel

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This paper examines the determinants of Japan's most serious postwar blunder: failure to define and implement effective and timely countermeasures to deal with its change from deficit to surplus international monetary status during the 1969-1971 period. It concludes that intense bureaucratic compartmentalization and a lack of supra-ministerial leadership of national policy were key determinants of this failure, leaving Japan's political system dependent upon irresistible external pressure (gai-atsu), in this case from the United States, to define and force implementation of necessary policy changes. This critical but largely ignored episode illustrates a negative aspect of the traditional insulation of Japan's national …


Psychology Among The Saints: The Development Of Behavioral Science At Brigham Young University, Bruce L. Brown, Mark K. Allen Jan 1988

Psychology Among The Saints: The Development Of Behavioral Science At Brigham Young University, Bruce L. Brown, Mark K. Allen

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There was a strong interest in psychology at Brigham Young University at the turn of the century; the third president was a psychologist and a number of distinguished psychologists regularly visited the campus. An outstanding young scholar who was destined to become the only Mormon president of the American Psychological Association started a vigorous academic psychology program in those early years, but he left the university because of a controversy over his teachings. Psychology at Brigham Young University developed little from that time until the 1940s. The 1950s were a time of rapid growth and development, expansion of the faculty, …


Appropriations Redux: A Critical Look At The Fiscal Year 1988 Continuing Resolution, Neal Devins Jan 1988

Appropriations Redux: A Critical Look At The Fiscal Year 1988 Continuing Resolution, Neal Devins

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No abstract provided.


Using Anasazi Redwares To Reconstruct Prehistoric Trade Networks, James R. Allison Jan 1988

Using Anasazi Redwares To Reconstruct Prehistoric Trade Networks, James R. Allison

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Anasazi redware ceramics were widely traded from relatively small areas which specialized in their production. They form one stylistic sequence, but exhibit technological variation due to differences in resource availability. This variation allows most redwares to be traced to specific manufacturing areas, a crucial step in the reconstruction of trade networks and alliances. However, because few archaeologists have worked with the redware production areas, the current typology is misleading and the redwares are often mistyped. As a result, patterns of distribution and the behaviors that created them are obscured.