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- GOP Candidates Challenged on Military's Gay Ban; Presidential Contenders Defend Unpopular Policy With Questionable Facts.
- Byline: Michael D. Palm Center SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Nov. 29 AScribe Newswire -- The Republican presidential candidates Wednesday evening defended the military's ban on openly gay service members with outdated and flawed assertions, according to researchers at the Palm Center, a think tank at...
- Research articles 2007-11-29
- COHESION POLICY : PARLIAMENT PROPOSES USE OF CRITERIA OTHER THAN GDP.
- Should criteria other than per capita gross domestic product GDP be used to measure regions' development level? The European Parliament is of that opinion and maintains that the mid-term review of Cohesion Policy, set for 2009, could be the time to make such a change. In...
- Research articles 2007-06-08
- REGIONAL POLICY : CONVERGENCE BETWEEN THE REGIONS GRADUALLY INCREASING.
- Speaking to the European Parliament committee on regional development in Brussels on 2 May, EU Regional Policy Commissioner Danuta Hubner said that the Commission's fourth report on economic and social cohesion in the EU was due to be adopted on 30 May. The last report of...
- Research articles 2007-05-16
- East Asia's success creates next wave of challenges at home.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-18 September 2006-WORLD BANK: East Asia's success creates next wave of challenges at homeC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:18092006 Singapore - East Asia - a region that has transformed itself since the financial crisis of the 1990s by creating more competitive...
- Research articles 2006-09-18
- Alternative Composite Lisbon Development Strategy Indices: A Comparison of EU, USA, Japan and Korea
- Abstract This study addresses the measurement of two composite Lisbon strategy indices that quantifies the level and patterns of development for ranking countries. The first index is nonparametric labelled as Lisbon strategy index LSI. It is composed of six components: general economics, employment, innovation research, economic reform, social cohesion and...
- Research articles 2006-07-01
- Cities and urban areas in the new European cohesion policy.(The Euro-Files)
- OVER THE past year, a number of documents have emerged at the European level that have reflected upon the issues facing urban areas in Europe and the role that cities can play in contributing to driving forward the EU's renewed commitment to the objectives of the ...
- Research articles 2006-02-01
- The European agenda and spatial planning in the UK: guest editors Stefanie Duhr and Vincent Nadin intorduce the special issue on the impact of European spatial development initiatives on the UK with an overview of European and transnational planning initi
- THIS IS A GOOD TIME to review the UK's involvement in European spatial planning. A new Commission under Manuel Barroso has taken up office with an emphasis on stimulating economic growth and employment, while also retaining the commitments to sustainable development and social cohesion. The European...
- Research articles 2005-03-01
- Stomach
- John O'Sullivan asks ("Tall Order," Sept. 27) whether the United States has the political cohesion to wage a long war in Iraq. Militant Muslims believe in the justice of their cause. After one to three generations of multiculturalism, blaming America first, and moral relativism, how many Americans believe in the...
- Research articles 2004-10-25
- Voting rights violation argued; PART ONE
- Melmer, David Indian Country Today Lakota Times 07-14-2004 RAPID CITY, S.D. - In Martin, S.D., town officials claim everyone is treated equally. That there is no discrimination between American Indians and non-Indians, and residents and officials say it may be the most...
- Research articles 2004-07-14
- A history of unit stabilization
- ONE OF THE PERSISTENT themes in the U.S. Army is the belief that stabilizing personnel in units will improve readiness and retention by slowing down the movement of soldiers and holding them together long enough for them to bond and learn to operate as teams. History and sociological studies provide...
- Research articles 2004-05-01
- BUILDING GROUP COHESION IN TYPE 2 FIRE CREWS
- Much of the training for wildland firefighters, from smokejumpers to ground pounders, centers on fire behavior, weather, fuels, fireline construction, safety, physical conditioning, and equipment use. The training is extensive and thorough, yet one element might not not always receive enough attention at the local or national level-and it can...
- Research articles 2004-04-01
- Implementing a unit manning system
- THREE YEARS into a new defense-oriented administration, the U.S. Army finds itself still adjusting to change. The services are enjoying substantial funding increases; U.S. Armed Forces have completed a successful invasion and regime change abroad; and the Army has a new chief of staff. The Army is examining new employment...
- Research articles 2004-01-01
- Implementing a unit manning system
- THREE YEARS into a new defense-oriented administration, the U.S. Army finds itself still adjusting to change. The services are enjoying substantial funding increases; U.S. Armed Forces have completed a successful invasion and regime change abroad; and the Army has a new chief of staff. The Army is examining new employment...
- Research articles 2004-01-01
- Global competition, institutions, and the diffusion of organizational practices: The International Spread of ISO 9000 Quality Certificates
- Organizational practices tend to diffuse unevenly throughout the world. Using comparative case studies of a small number of countries, researchers have found that national institutions shape processes of diffusion above and beyond the technical characteristics or efficiency of the practice (Cole, 1985, 1989; Gooderham, Nordhaug, and Ringdal, 1999; Guillen, 1994a;...
- Research articles 2002-06-01
- DoD News Briefing -- Part 2 of 2.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-15 October 2001-US DOD: DoD News Briefing -- Part 2 of 2 C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:15102001 Q: Just a point of clarification. Way back in the briefing you started to outline four areas of military confrontation. ...
- Research articles 2001-10-15
- Meps Adopt Report On Enlargement And Regional Policy
- An own-initiative report by Spanish Socialist Rosa Migulez Ramos (PES, Spain) on enlargement and regional policy was adopted by the European Parliament's Regional Policy Committee during its September 11-13 meeting in Brussels. In the report, MEPs recall that the most important things is for the EU is to provide a...
- Research articles 2000-09-20
- SECTIONALISM, POLITICAL PARTIES, AND THE ATTEMPT TO RELOCATE THE NATIONAL CAPITAL IN 1814.(Statistical Data Included)
- In one of the most destructive episodes of the War of 1812, British forces attacked Washington, D.C., in August 1814, burning the Capitol, the White House, and other public buildings. Shortly after the devastating assault, several northern cities, including Philadelphia and Lancaster, Pennsylvania, offered to house...
- Research articles 2000-03-22
- Elections, parties and institutional design: a comparative perspective on European Union democracy.
- The standard version of the European Union EU 'democratic deficit' maintains that genuine pan-European elections and parties will only come about if the EU is transformed into a classic parliamentary system: if the European Parliament EP is given more power in the legislative and executive-selection processes. Two influential critiques of...
- Research articles 1998-07-01
- NICARAGUA: Social Investment Fund
- $30 million is being sought from the World Bank for the Second Social Investment Fund, to help Government sustain its poverty alleviation efforts and maintain social cohesion through support for a three-year investment program. Details: Fondo de Inversion Social de Emergencia FISE, Apdo. 1849, Managua,...
- Research articles 1995-04-01
- TRANS-EUROPEAN NETWORKS: INTENSE PREPARATIONS FOR NEW PROGRAMMES
- Summary: The Resolution on trans-European networks, stalled in the Council of Ministers for over a year, has become radically outmoded with the addition of a special section on the subject in the Maastricht Summit agreements. The European Commission has been working to prepare the broad...
- Research articles 1992-01-27
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