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- Palestinian PM pleads case for unity
- LONDON AFP — Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad insisted unified authority in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip was "absolutely essential" to progress, in a BBC radio programme broadcast Saturday. The Palestinian Authority needed to have sole control over arms in the territories for any unity to be...
- Research articles 2008-05-24
- Iran foreign ministry backs Ahmadinejad Sept 11 doubts
- TEHRAN AFP — Iran's foreign ministry on Sunday backed the doubts expressed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejed about the accepted version of the September 11, 2001 attacks, saying there were "many ambiguities." Ahmadinejad last week caused controversy when he described the airborne attacks on New York and Washington by Al-Qaeda...
- Research articles 2008-04-20
- Chevronizing foreign relations law.
- A number of judge-made doctrines attempt to promote international comity by reducing possible tensions between the United States and foreign sovereigns. For example, courts usually interpret ambiguous statutes to conform to international law and understand them not to apply outside of the nation's territorial boundaries. The international comity doctrines are...
- Research articles 2007-04-01
- Tax shelters and the Code: navigating between text and intent
- I. INTRODUCTION Tax shelters raise difficult problems of statutory interpretation. In her interesting article, Of Lenity, Chevron, and KPMG, (1) Kristin Hickman explores one of them: the recent tendency of courts to apply the rule of lenity in civil cases, potentially leading to a narrow interpretation of the Internal...
- Research articles 2007-03-22
- Does Central Bank transparency impact financial markets? A cross-country econometric analysis
- 1. Introduction Does the degree of information that a central bank releases to the public have any effect on the functioning and efficiency of financial markets? Is there a significant difference between the Federal Reserve announcing policy decisions at the time of Federal Open Market Committee FOMC meetings and...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- Beyond Marbury: the executive's power to say what the law is.(Symposium on Executive Power)
- Under Marbury v. Madison, it is "emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is." But in the last quarter-century, the Supreme Court has legitimated the executive's power of interpretation, above all in Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, the most cited...
- Research articles 2006-07-01
- What do we talk about when we talk about performance? Dialogue theory and performance budgeting.(PART SYMPOSIUM)
- INTRODUCTION: THE RETURN OF PERFORMANCE BUDGETING The President's Management Agenda PMA of 2001 heralded the most recent effort to introduce performance budgeting to the federal government, based on the seemingly indisputable premise that "everyone agrees that scarce federal resources should be allocated to...
- Research articles 2006-04-01
- Ambiguity about audit probability, tax compliance, and taxpayer welfare
- I. INTRODUCTION To encourage voluntary compliance with the tax code, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service IRS relies heavily on a policy of auditing tax returns and levying penalties when undeclared income is detected, with penalties linked to the amount of tax evasion discovered. The selection of returns for auditing...
- Research articles 2005-10-01
- Palestinian Leader Makes Political Gains During Washington Visit
- Nir, Ori Forward 06-03-2005 WASHINGTON -- Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas left the White House last week with plenty of political gains, which Israeli pundits and some high-profile Israeli officials were saying came at Jerusalem's expense. Still, Jewish groups remained silent....
- Research articles 2005-06-03
- Allen Tate
- Allen Tate Allen Tate (1899-1979), American poet, critic, biographer, and editor, was a founder and editor of the Fugitive. John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, and Cleanth Brooks were also part of the Fugitive group, and they and Tate formulated the New Critical poetic theories that arose out of the...
- Research articles 2005-01-01
- No room for nuance
- WHEN I RAN for a seat in the U.S. Congress a few decades ago, I was all unknown Democrat trying to unseat a Republican. During the campaign I was asked how, as a clergyman, I could serve in Congress, where so many compromises would have to be made. I replied...
- Research articles 2004-11-30
- Overtime regulations.(Brief Article)
- * Overtime Regulations: The Bush administration's controversial overtime rules took effect Aug. 23, despite thousands of letters to the Labor Department, heated legislative debate and loud complaints from economists and labor experts who said the new regulations fail to clear up ambiguity. The rules, which were...
- Research articles 2004-09-02
- Textualism and tax shelters
- I. INTRODUCTION During the last decade, a substantial debate has developed over the approaches courts use to interpret statutes. Some have argued that the search for a statute's meaning and purpose should focus on the text itself and should not include consulting legislative history. (1) In contrast, others have...
- Research articles 2004-06-22
- Tehran resolved "all ambiguities" with IAEA inspectors: official
- TEHRAN AFP ? An official in the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization said that Tehran had answered all the questions of the United Nations atomic watchdog and had resolved "all ambiguities". "All ambiguities relating to the Iranian nuclear activities were cleared up and the International Atomic Energy Agency's IAEA inspectors...
- Research articles 2004-04-24
- A matter of trust: a Chicago playwright probes the complicated relationship of race, community and security
- In the opening scene of "Homeland Security," the new play by Chicago writer Stuart Flack, Raj, an Indian American doctor in his 30s, and Susan, his Jewish girlfriend, are seated in a small room at the airport. Besides the two of them, it contains only a table, two chairs, a...
- Research articles 2003-11-01
- Conflict and ambiguity implementing evolutionary acquisition - Lessons Learned
- In October 2000, the Secretary of Defense announced that a new policy of "evolutionary acquisition" would become the preferred approach to acquiring defense systems. Implementation of the new policy has been far from automatic. Today -- two years after issuance of the evolutionary acquisition policy--the Department continues to struggle to...
- Research articles 2003-01-01
- War Resolution Addresses Ambiguous Issues.
- By David M. Shribman, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 11--WASHINGTON--Beneath the surface of the landmark votes on Capitol Hill yesterday ran a deep river of disquiet. On a day of uncommon solemnity in the Capitol, with grave foreign...
- Research articles 2002-05-11
- The localism principle in communications policymaking and policy analysis: Ambiguity, inconsistency, and empirical neglect.
- ********** Localism long has been a central guiding principle in communications policymaking, yet its specific meaning and objectives have not been well articulated by policymakers. This article attempts to bring greater clarity to the localism principle, through an examination of how the Federal...
- Research articles 2001-09-22
- Legislative Advisory.(Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act)
- New Developments with Respect to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act--All Good As the National Association of Credit Management ("NACM") has reported to its members throughout this year, a substantial concern had arisen with respect to the applicability of the Financial Services Modernization Act...
- Research articles 2001-07-01
- Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans. . - Capsule Reviews - book review
- Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans, by Anthony F.C. Wallace, Harvard University Press, 394 pages. Most critiques focus on Jefferson's ambivalence, not to say hypocrisy, regarding African Americans and slavery. This book focuses on his treatment of the Indians. An admirer of Indian ways and...
- Research articles 2000-09-22
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