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Gizzi on Politics: Putnam Says Goodbye When three-term Rep. Lloyd Bentsen (D.-Tex.) announced his retirement from Congress in 1954 at the age of 33, it was major news. Bentsen flatly told reporters that he could not maintain two residences and support his young family on a congressman's salary. So he left a secure...; Tags: House, Rodgers, U.S. Congress, Vought Corp.; Research articles 2009-02-16
Defense Watch: The Latest Word On Trends And Developments In Aerospace And Defense Washington Or Bust. Lawmakers are returning to Capitol Hill this week, though they aren't expected to hold any defense-related hearings or vote on Pentagon issues during the brief lame-duck session expected to be dominated by a...; Tags: Air Force, Black, Boeing Co., CHC Helicopter Corp., House, Navy, Northrop Grumman Corp., Pentagon, U.S. Department of Defense; Research articles 2008-12-08
Dubai or not Dubai?: A review of foreign investment and acquisition laws in the U.S. and Canada: ABSTRACT The proposed purchase of a British company that controlled several ports in the United States by Dubai Ports World could accurately be described as one of the most politically contentious acquisitions in U.S. history. The transaction raised questions not only about U.S. foreign investment laws but provoked national...; Tags: A., American, B., CNOOC Ltd., Cohen, House, L., Note, Part III, Review, Treasury, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2008-11-01
'The comforts of married life': Metis family life, labour, and the Hudson's Bay Company: SINCE THE 1980S, scholars have sought to understand how the Canadian fur trade shaped the Metis. Less attention has been paid to the impact of Metis concepts of family and community on the nature of their relationship with their employer, the Hudson's Bay Company HBC. This article focuses on how...; Tags: A., American, Charles, Culture, English, Frank, Green, House, Hudson's Bay Co., Indian, J., James, John, Joseph, Journal, Lake, Marie, Michel, Mission, Pierre, Raphael, Thomas, William; Research articles 2008-03-22
A shilling for Queen Elizabeth: the era of state regulation of church attendance in England, 1552-1969: Throughout Christian history, churchgoing has been widely regarded as one of the most important and tangible expressions of religious observance. Yet, before the Reformation, failure to attend services was subject solely to ecclesiastical sanctions, such as admonition, penance, and excommunication, as applied by the Episcopal courts. Partly as a consequence,...; Tags: Church, D., E., Easter, English, F., G., Gilbert, God, History, House, J., Jacob, James, John, Joseph, Journal, Lincoln, Lord, M., Macmillan, Oxford, Oxford University Press, P., Social, Society, T., Thomas, W., Wales, William, York; Research articles 2008-03-22

Increasing global demand for an uncensored Internet - how the U.S. can help defeat online censorship by facilitating private action: ABSTRACT This Note discusses efforts to defeat government censorship of the Internet. In the narrow meaning of that idea, this Note initially discusses technological efforts to circumvent government-imposed Internet firewalls; in the broader sense, it addresses the larger goal of inducing censoring governments to bring their firewalls down. Proposed...; Tags: Freedom, Google Inc., House, Note, U.S. Can Corp., U.S. Government, Voice; Research articles 2008-01-01
Sons of Gwalia Ltd. v. Margaretic: the shifting balance of shareholders' interests in insolvency: evolution or revolution?: [In Sons of Gwalia, the High Court of Australia found that shareholders who had been allegedly induced into purchasing shares in a company shortly prior to its insolvency by misrepresentations and inadequate market disclosure were able to lodge claims as creditors in the company's voluntary administration. The High Court interpreted...; Tags: Australian, B, Court, Dawson, F, Harris, High Court, House, John, Sons of Gwalia Ltd.; Research articles 2007-08-01
Works planners read: findings from a Canadian survey: Abstract This article reports on a survey of the readings that have most influenced the professional development of Canadian planning practitioners. Results indicate that influential writings originate from a wide diversity of sources, both inside and outside the discipline. We also detect a relationship between the age of respondents...; Tags: A., Berkeley, E., Ed, F., G., History, House, J., Journal, Ma, Nature, Oxford University Press, Power, Research, Robinson, T.; Research articles 2007-06-22
Books received: GREENSPAN, S. I., & WIEDER, S. Engaging autism. New York: DaCapo Press, 2006. Pp. 432. $26.95. ANDERMAN, E. M., & MURDOCK, T. B. Psychology of academic cheating. London:Elsevier Academic Publishing, 2006. Pp. 326. $74.95. BENJAMIN, L. T. A brief history of modern psychology. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006....; Tags: A., Cambridge University Press, E., Ed, Electronic Data Systems Corp., G., House, J., T.; Research articles 2007-03-22
Dubai ports world under Exon-Florio: a threat to national security or a tempest in a seaport?: I. INTRODUCTION In January and February of 2006, Congress and the public played a variation of the game "Which of these things does not belong?" This variation instead asked "Which of these transactions does not belong?" The list included a Singaporean company taking over a U.S. telecommunications business, (1)...; Tags: American, CNOOC Ltd., Graham, House, J., L., Reagan, Technology, Treasury, U.S. Congress, Unocal Corp.; Research articles 2007-03-22
From fretting takeovers to vetting CFIUS: finding a balance in U.S. policy regarding foreign acquisitions of domestic assets: ABSTRACT Merger law in the United States has historically relied on a system of private ordering with as little intervention from the federal government as possible. This scheme lies in stark contrast to the merger law of many other developed nations and, as such, has become a trademark of...; Tags: A., CNOOC Ltd., Delaware, House, J., L., Note, Treasury, U.S. Congress, Unocal Corp.; Research articles 2006-10-01
Defense Watch: The Latest Word On Trends And Developments In Aerospace And Defense Air Fragmentation. Customs and Border Protection CBP Chief Robert Bonner last month decided to hand permanent tactical control of most of the agency's air assets to the Border Patrol's different sector chiefs along the borders...; Tags: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., Boeing Co., House, Jones; Research articles 2005-09-06
Protecting the U.S. Flag Still an American Priority: INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., June 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Results of the most recent poll to determine America's aspirations to protect the U.S. flag show that more than 80 percent of the people believe it is important that flag desecration be against the law. Garnered from a June 16-19 telephone survey...; Tags: House, Opinion Research Corp.; Research articles 2005-06-20
Public Law: PUBLIC LAW. By Adam Tomkins. (1) Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003. Pp. xx, 231. $24.95. American constitutional lawyers have always been curious about British public law. Blackstone, of course, was the most widely-read legal work in the early republic. More recently, the United States Supreme Court has construed Congress's power...; Tags: American, Constitution, Court, English, House, J., John, Justice, Tomkins Plc., U.S. Congress; Research articles 2004-12-22
Alexander Pope and Duke Upon Duke: satiric context, aims, and means: Alexander Pope and Duke upon Duke: Satiric Context, Aims, and Means by Pat Rogers Duke upon Duke (1720) is a satirical ballad, first firmly attributed to Alexander Pope in 1949 The article considers Pope's aims and methods in the light of new evidence concerning the main target of the...; Tags: Alexander, English, House, John, King, Lord, Moore, Nicholas, Oxford, Oxford University Press, P., Press, Prince, Thompson, Wales, William; Research articles 2004-10-01
'To fly by those nets': violence and identity in Tom Murphy's A Whistle in the Dark: In 2001, the Abbey Theatre staged a season devoted to the plays of Torn Murphy, a playwright rated by Michael Billington as one of Irish theatre's proudest possessions. As Billington goes on to remark, however, Murphy is also one of Ireland's 'least known exports'. (1) By comparison with contemporaries such...; Tags: David, English, House, Pilkington Plc.; Research articles 2004-09-22
Creating community: industrial paternalism and town planning in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, 1923-1955.: Abstract In the early twentieth century numerous primary extractive industries constructed company towns on the resource frontiers of North America. Company directors hoped that massive capital infusion in remote areas in the form of planned towns would secure a much-needed skilled workforce and...; Tags: Armstrong-Whitworth and Co., Bowater Inc., House, Labrador; Research articles 2004-03-22
2002 NCSS House of Delegates: Resolutions Before the House * November 22-23, 2002 * Phoenix, Arizona Because of a failure in the audio recording system at the House of Delegates session at the NCSS Annual Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, in November 2002, Social Education is unable to present the minutes of the proceedings. The...; Tags: Be, Education, Farmers, House, Resolution, Social; Research articles 2003-05-01
Books Received: EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: di Lasso, Orlando. The Complete Motets 2: Sacrae Cantiones (Nuremberg, 1562). Ed. James B. Erb. Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2002. xliii + 188 PP. + 4 b/w pls. tbls. $85. ISBN: 0-89579-511-6. Dante Alighieri. Purgatorio. Trans. Jean Hollander and Robert Hollander. London and New York:...; Tags: A., Alexander, Cambridge University Press, Church, Court, Culture, David, De, Early, Ed, English, History, House, II, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, La, Les, Maria, Medieval, Nicholas, Oxford University Press, Paul, Philosophy, Politics, Pp, Reformation, Rome, Routledge, S., Theology, Thomas; Research articles 2003-03-22
Sad state: newspaper budget-cutting has triggered a sharp drop in the number of reporters assigned to cover the nation's increasingly important statehouses: ABOUT THIS UPDATE This is another of the periodic updates of stories that appeared in the State of the American Newspaper series in AJR. The next update, on foreign coverage, will appear in the July/August issue. The series is being reproduced in a two-volume anthology from the University of...; Tags: Brown Publishing Co., Community Newspaper Holdings Inc., Copley News Service Co., House, Journal, La, MediaNews Group, Ottaway Newspapers Inc.; Research articles 2002-06-01