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Traditional theories hold that regulatory agencies act mainly as champions of the interest they are meant to oversee. Anderson looks at regulation within the fast-changing environment. By adding the external political and internal bureaucratic variables he evaluates the capture theory.

Archaeology, History, and Predictive Modeling" will allow scholars to more easily examine the record of human activity over the past 13, 000 or more years in this part of western Louisiana and adjacent portions of east Texas. It will be useful to southeastern archaeologists and anthropologists, both professional and amateur.

Titanic scholars contend that the demise of ?the unsinkable ship? left more behind than a memory of April 15, 1912, as an important point in history. Through books, films, stories, and songs, the archetypal shipwreck has endured as a metaphor for the perils of mankind's hubris and the fallibility of technology. In 1985, the discovery of the long-missing wreckage two miles below the surface of the Atlantic revitalized interest in the Titanic an...

This book analyzes the dramatic social impacts of global economic restructuring in the US textile industry and the consequences for Southern textile mill communities. With the expansion of markets in the global economy, government policies such as NAFTA and GATT are greatly affecting the domestic production of textiles. Increased global competitiveness has led to technological modernization, plant shutdowns, and downward pressure on wages. Man...

Information is given on Africa and the Africans before they were captured and estimates the number captured and imported. It list over sixty emancipation heroes, their accomplishments, 400 inventions, successful open heart surgery in 1893, jockeys success at the Kentucky Derby, cowboys that rode the trails and the city of Chicago was started by an African American. Schools did not develop in psychological, emotional, social, linguistic and cog...

Information is given on Africa and the Africans before they were captured and estimates the number captured and imported. It list over sixty emancipation heroes, their accomplishments, 400 inventions, successful open heart surgery in 1893, jockeys success at the Kentucky Derby, cowboys that rode the trails and the city of Chicago was started by an African American. Schools did not develop in psychological, emotional, social, linguistic and cog...

The lack of credible information on the beginning of life is amazing. It is the crux of the abortion issue and must be dealt with if any semblance of sanity is to be restored in our nation. The Supreme Court refuses to make a ruling on this issue because of the barrage of misinformation coming from theological circles. Until our religious leaders come together on the truth of when life begins, there will be no ruling, no end to violence. To ex...

Contains 475 original and previously unpublished biological drawings showing the external and internal anatomy of 80 species that are frequently studied in the laboratory in zoology and marine biology courses. They are accompanied by notes on the classification, life cycle, and habitat of each species.

...a car door slammed. Before Judd could reach the knob on the front door, an urgent knocking startled both of them. He took two steps and opened the door. There, with no color at all in his face, his breaths hard and rapid, stood Randy. He grabbed both sides of the door jamb to stead himself. His legs were shaking, and he was working to catch his breath. "Where is Saralouise?"...

The heart of a truly complete education lies in individual students' integration of understandings from the many dimensions of their lives - religious, academic, and personal. The general failing of formal schooling to achieve such an education is linked to the ongoing struggle over the role of religion, particularly in public education, where the teaching of evolution, discussions of sexual practice, and various literary interpretations pose ...

Cameron D. Anderson and Laura B. Stephenson are assistant professors in the Department of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario.Contributors: ¿ic B¿nger, Antoine Bilodeau, Amanda Bittner, Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, Mebs Kanji, J. Scott Matthews, Richard Nadeau, and Mark Pickup.

One of the major experiments in earth science at the present time is about to begin: the World Climate Research Program (WCRP). The objectives of WCRP are to determine the extent to which climate change can be predicted, and the extent to which human activities (such as increasing the level of CO ) can influence our climate. 2 To understand and possibly to predict climate change, one needs a good understanding of the dynamics of the ocean, the...

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If you lost all of your liberties, how far would you go to gain freedom? In 1982, L. D. Anderson traveled in the Russian underground where he met and interviewed seven women ... a collective. This is their story: seven survivors and manipulators of the Russian black market, the KGB, the "people's police" - seven women's undaunted drive to escape subjugation.

The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) provides a comprehensive federal scheme for the regulation of employee pension and welfare benefit plans offered by employers. ERISA contains various provisions intended to protect the rights of plan participants and beneficiaries in employee benefit plans. This book provides background on the pension laws prior to ERISA, discusses various types of employee benefit plans governed by E...

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Without purpose there can be no fulfillment?and although we can surely live without fulfillment, we will scarcely feel alive. Every one of us has a purpose in life and an array of life offices which we were destined to fulfill. Fulfillment, then, must come via the realization of our purpose and our designated offices. Therefore, seeing as we can not find fulfillment following any other course, D.L. Anderson has dedicated this leading compositi...

Excerpt from The Tehuantepec Ship Railway: A Review of Its Geographical, Commercial and Political Features and Advantages The Isthmus of Tehuantepec is a natural and central gateway for commerce between the two great oceans of the world. As may be seen by reference to the foregoing diagram, vessels can go from this Isthmus in a direct course to nearly every important port of the world. In this respect it is far superior to the Isthmus of Sue...