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- Bush urges passage of US-Colombia free trade deal
- WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush on Saturday urged US congressional leaders to reconsider their opposition to the US-Colombia free trade deal, calling its approval "a strategic imperative." "Our markets are open to Colombian products, but barriers that make it harder to sell American goods in Colombia...
- Research articles 2008-04-19
- Called beyond selfishness
- Since many of us have worked hard to convince Congress that legislating for the common good is a moral imperative, it is heartening to see a rising interest in the concept. Joe Feuerherd's article on the common good (NCR, Aug. 25) raises important cautions, however. Translating a term like the...
- Research articles 2006-09-08
- Benedict XVI vows to pursue dialogue with Jews
- VATICAN CITY AFP — Pope Benedict XVI has vowed to pursue better relations with Jews, following a path set by popes Paul VI and John Paul II. "My predecessors Pope Paul VI and, in a particular way, Pope John Paul II, took significant steps towards improving relations with the...
- Research articles 2005-06-09
- A Reading List for a Human Workplace
- The pressure in the business world is intense. Global competition and uncertainty, combined with high Wall Street expectations, can drive managers to a single-minded focus on streamlining their teams to improve the bottom line. Yesterday, Gill Corkindale, in his "Letter from London" column for the Harvard Business...
- Blog posts 2007-07-27
- Humanism and the Studia Humanitatis after 9/11/01: rethinking the anthropologos.
- But if man is to find his way once again into the nearness of Being he must first learn to exist in the nameless. In the same way he must recognize the seductions of the public realm as well as the importance of the private. Before he...
- Research articles 2005-01-01
- Chipping at the core of justice: our law promises every litigant one bite at the apple. The Supreme Court, apparently conscious of Adam's fateful chomp, has been doing its best to keep civil rights claimants from getting theirs.
- The Supreme Court has been limiting Americans' ability to seek remedies in court. In doing so, the Court has eroded important principles of the Constitution and of the common law that undergirds it. Worse, the Court's jurisprudence has infected doctrine in the states. (1)...
- Research articles 2004-04-01
- An interview with Philip Berrigan
- Matthew Rothschild, the editor of The Progressive, interviewed Philip Berrigan in 1996. Here is a snippet. Q: How many times have you been arrested? Philip Berrigan: I don't know, well over a hundred, I guess. Q: It's getting to be like an occupation. Berrigan: It's a...
- Research articles 2003-02-01
- Ethics and information systems: Resolving the quandries
- Abstract The information systems (I/S) community is becoming concerned with questions of ethical behavior in many realms. But those who attempt to resolve the quandaries may find themselves confused by differing approaches and theoretical assumptions that are often proffered. This paper provides a meta-framework that identifies the areas of convergence...
- Research articles 2002-07-01
- Steel Trap: How Bush could harm free trade - protection of US steel industry - Industry Overview
- Since taking office, President Bush has repeatedly voiced strong support for free trade-often in stirring terms. In a May 7 speech before the Council of the Americas, for example, he declared: "Open trade is not just an economic opportunity, it is a moral imperative." Yet not quite a month later,...
- Research articles 2001-07-09
- 'Urbanisation of everybody', institutional imperatives, and social transformation in Pakistan
- This paper argues that reforms of social institutions, namely family, community, property, work, etc., are necessary instruments of economic development. This argument goes beyond the economists' and the World Bank's conceptions of institutional reform, which tend to focus only on transactional institutions. The institutional reforms necessary for Pakistan's development should...
- Research articles 1999-12-22
- With sports, TV is crazy like a fox; But smart?
- As weeks go, the television industry just provided a pretty entertaining one, and the best action was away from the screen. The ABC, CBS and Fox networks agreed to collectively pay $17.6 billion for the rights to broadcast National Football League games for the next eight years, the...
- Research articles 1998-01-20
- Intel Executives Outline Imperatives for All-Day Mobile Computing
- SAN FRANCISCO -- Intel Corporation executives today outlined four imperatives for bringing all-day, anytime and anywhere wireless mobile PC computing closer to reality. These imperatives include new mobile PC platform capabilities, industry collaboration to drive all-day battery life, optimizing software applications for mobile computing, and the evolution of one smart,...
- Research articles 2004-09-08
- A modest proposal for a new technique of non-diversionary public spending
- There are two imperatives currently dominating the formation of public policy in the United States. The first is an economic imperative: to heal, repair, and stimulate a laggard economy in the reemployment of human and material resources. The second is the debt-reduction imperative: to lower or to eliminate the budgetary...
- Research articles 1994-09-01
- From opportunity to imperative: the history of the market
- Just about every definition of the "market" in the dictionary connotes an opportunity: as a concrete locale or institution, a market is a place where opportunities exist to buy and sell; as an abstraction, a market is the possibility of sale. Goods "find a market," and we say there is...
- Research articles 1994-07-01
- Investing by imperatives. (imperative-based management) (Special Report: Information Management)
- Imperative-based management allows organizations to streamline their corporate structures, decision-making processes, and improve business partnerships through the use of information technology applications. DuPont, Federal Express and Walmart are among the major US corporations which have already made use of imperatives to determine and delineate organizational objectives and enhance relationships with...
- Research articles 1992-07-01
- Winning in Today's Environment: Six Imperatives for the Chief Sales Officer
- This white paper examines six challenges, or imperatives, that every chief sales officer faces in the current environment, and provides recommendations on how to most effectively address and convert these obstacles into opportunities and competitive advantage. Whether it's the challenge of driving growth in a difficult economy, increasing sales capacity...
- White papers 2009-11-01
- Energy Trading & Risk Management - Top 5 IT Imperatives
- The pre-Enron era saw trading assume centre-stage. Industry deregulation, the birth of Enrononline in November 1999, and the subsequent birth of ICE in March 2000 (and ICE's takeover of the International Petroleum Exchange in 2001), were all important milestones in the trading-centric era. Derivative trading rose astronomically and industry players...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- Retaining Employees: New Imperatives, New Models
- Over the years, it has been observed that many people are planning to switch jobs at high pace. Most companies are worried about the aforesaid trend prevalent in corporate world. Researches indicate that not only are workers changing jobs frequently, but the economy is also creating new jobs. Hence, companies...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Competitive Imperative of Learning | BNET
- The Competitive Imperative of Learning | BNETRE: The Competitive Imperative of Learning | BNETIn the classroom environment, when a student feels he or she can offer an answer without the fear of being wrong they engage in the conversation. They are willing to make mistakes that will lead to...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-27
- Employee Life Cycle: A Roadmap For Aligning HR Strategy To Organizational Imperatives
- Organizations seeking to align their people strategies to organizational imperatives must remain committed to a sound strategy for achieving this end. This article presents a framework based on the 'employer life cycle' that can give HR professionals a means by which to better align their program and practices to the...
- White papers 2004-02-01
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