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Agricultural contracts: data and research needs
Though the use of contracts in the U.S. agriculture is not a new phenomenon, there is new interest in both the extent and consequences of their use. Some useful data regarding the extent of contracts in agriculture, which we review briefly below, do exist, but the more interesting questions for...
Tags: Jones, Macdonald, MARKETING, survey, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Research articles 2007-12-01
Hockey: Vipers pull off a Macnificent deal; EXCLUSIVE
Byline: By LEE RYDER NEWCASTLE Vipers have filled their void between the pipes by signing highly-rated Canadian goaltender Ryan Macdonald. Macdonald arrived from East Coast Hockey League side Fresno Falcons today with Vipers coach Rob Wilson delighted to win the race for his services. The 22-year-old Ontario...
Tags: CAREER, Macdonald, NHL, Ryan
Research articles 2007-07-24
Department of Defense News Release : general officer announcements
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld announced today that the president has made the following nominations: Army Brig. Gen. James E. Chambers has been nominated for appointment to the grade of major general. Chambers is currently serving as commanding general/commandant, U.S. Army Transportation Center and School, Fort Eustis, Va....
Tags: MacDonald, U.S. Department of Defense
Research articles 2007-03-01
Agricultural contracting, competition, and antitrust
Two powerful and related trends in the organization of U.S. farming are: production is shifting to larger family farms and agricultural contracts are increasingly being used to guide the production and marketing of farm commodities. These combined structural changes affect productivity and costs in agriculture and in the broader food...
Tags: antitrust, Macdonald, MARKETING, SECURITY, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Research articles 2006-12-01
General Officer Announcements.
M2 PRESSWIRE-8 November 2006-US DOD: General Officer AnnouncementsC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:07112006 Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld announced today that the President has made the following nominations: Army Brig. Gen. Charles A. Anderson has been nominated for ...
Tags: deputy, MacDonald, SOFTWARE, Troy, U.S. Army
Research articles 2006-11-08
Editorials.(News)(Editorial)
Mathias in state House 53; Roth in Senate 22 In the race for Illinois House 53rd District, incumbent Republican Sidney H. Mathias is being challenged by Democrat Michael J. MacDonald. An attorney, Mathias, 61, is seeking his fifth term as a state ...
Tags: FINANCE, MacDonald, Republican, Taxes, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2006-10-18
athenahealth Appoints James M. MacDonald as Chief Operating Officer
WATERTOWN, Mass. -- athenahealth, Inc., the premier provider of web-based services, knowledge, and software for medical practices, today announced it has named James M. MacDonald as Chief Operating Officer. MacDonald will oversee all corporate operations and will report to the Chairman and CEO of athenahealth. MacDonald brings to athenahealth...
Tags: Fidelity Investments, FINANCE, MacDonald, MARKETING, Strategy, Web
Research articles 2006-09-25
Colorado Springs Antlers Hilton Hotel hosts 10th Annual Southern
Oct. 11 will mark the 10th Annual Southern Colorado Economic Forum. The event will be from 7 a.m. until noon in the Heritage Ballroom of downtown's Antlers Hilton Hotel. Michael Swanson, senior economist and agricultural economist for Wells Fargo Bank, will give the keynote address. He's...
Tags: director, economist, FINANCE, Macdonald, president, University of Colorado
Research articles 2006-09-22
Canada's "newer constitutional law" and the idea of constitutional rights.
This article places F.R. Scott's 1935 call for entrenched constitutional rights within the context of marked changes in constitutional scholarship in the 1930s--what the author refers to as the "newer constitutional law". Influenced by broader currents in legal theory and inspired by the political and economic...
Tags: Canada, Harvard, MacDonald, Queen, Richard, Robert, scholar, scholarship, Toronto, University of Toronto
Research articles 2006-09-22
First feature film shot wholly in Uganda portrays motley Idi Amin
TORONTO AFP — The first feature film to be shot in its entirety in Uganda, about its colorful former despot, held its world premiere at the Toronto film festival Tuesday with Forest Whitaker giving a mighty performance as Idi Amin. The film "The Last King of Scotland" is based on...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, documentary, FINANCE, Investment, MacDonald, president, Scotland, Toronto, Uganda
Research articles 2006-09-12
Montreal man uses Internet to trade from paper clip to home
OTTAWA AFP — A slacker with a dream of home ownership has turned a red paper clip into a three-bedroom house in western Canada through a series of shrewd Internet trades over the past year. Canadian Kyle MacDonald, 26, started with a simple online offer on July 12, 2005...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Games, INTERNET, MacDonald, PRODUCTIVITY
Research articles 2006-07-11
Dwight and left: the centenary of Dwight Macdonald's birth should inspire more Americans to read their most crotchety, snobby, and brilliant critic.(LETTERS)
IN 1958, WRITING IN THE JESUIT weekly America, the historian John Lukacs speculated whether Dwight Macdonald might become "The American Orwell." Noting that Macdonald's American "reputation is rising," Lukacs wrote that he was already known among British intellectuals "as one of the most interesting American...
Tags: CAREER, Macdonald, SECURITY, Yale University
Research articles 2006-03-01
Evolution and Diffusion of the Michigan State University Tradition of Organizational Communication Network Research
This article documents the 30-year history of communication network research at Michigan State University (M.S.U.), providing a case study of the evolution and diffusion of an academic innovation. Three past and continuing issues for network scholars are identified: a lack of professional reward for developing user-friendly computer programs, unresolved methodological...
Tags: analysis, diffusion, Johnson, M., MacDonald, Michigan State University, Miller, network, NETWORKING, Rogers, Schwartz, Weiss
Research articles 2005-12-01
MacDonald chosen at fly-half for All Blacks against Springboks
WELLINGTON AFP — Leon MacDonald will replace the injured Dan Carter at fly-half for the All Blacks in their crucial Tri-Nations match against South Africa in Dunedin on Saturday. MacDonald, who mostly plays at fullback, was preferred to Luke MacAlister in the only change to the starting line-up following...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, MacDonald
Research articles 2005-08-22
Marshall wins crucial call to All Blacks for Lions Test
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand AFP — Evergreen Justin Marshall won the contentious battle of the New Zealand halfbacks when the All Blacks selectors showed their hand for the first rugby Test against the British and Irish Lions. Marshall's inclusion for Saturday's Test at Jade Stadium is one of five changes...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Leadership, MacDonald, Marshall
Research articles 2005-06-20
Indian Firm Opens Call Center in... Ohio?
Indian Firm Opens Call Center in... Ohio?Outsourcing to offshore locationsThere are still a number of other reasons to look to outsourcings especially in countries with a labor pool of English speaking workers like the Philippines. Call centers in the US still have high attrition rates. The production capabilities of...
Tags: American company, call-center, employee training, IBM Corp., MacDonald, outsourcing
Discussion threads 2007-08-04
Technological change and economies of scale in U.S. poultry processing
Over the past thirty years poultry processing changed from an industry of numerous small plants producing generic whole birds to one consisting of much larger plants producing deboned poultry, traypacks, and further processed products. The innovations that drove structural change had diverse impacts on costs: new processed products raised production...
Tags: Chicken, coefficient, elasticity, M., Macdonald, poultry, Strategy, Transportation, Turkey, Tyson Foods Inc., U.S. Department of Agriculture
Research articles 2005-02-01
The Federal Fisheries Service, 1871-1940: its origins, organization, and accomplishments
Introduction The Declaration of Independence does not include the pursuit of fish as one of the unalienable rights of men to be secured by government, nor does the U.S. Constitution specify the regulation and preservation of the nation's fishery resources as an enumerated power of Congress. When those documents...
Tags: agency, Alaska, Arctic, Atlantic, BUREAU, commission, conservation, Doc, Fish, food, Games, Government, Governor, knowledge, Labor, MacDonald, Manufacturing, Museum, propagation, regulation, Rep., river, secretary, species, SPENCER, statute, Strategy, Treasury, U.S., U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Senate, vessel, Washington
Research articles 2004-09-22
Testing the determinants of income distribution in major league baseball
I. INTRODUCTION Income of professional athletes is a frequent topic of discussion of fans, sportscasters, and the general public. Economists have also increasingly been attracted to this topic, because the distribution of income of these players has both policy and business implications. As a consequence, the report of Major...
Tags: alphA, beta, FINANCE, G., income, inequality, M., Macdonald, MLB, payroll, salary, Strike, team
Research articles 2004-07-01
From the armed services.(Neighbor)
News and notes of servicemen and women from the Fox Valley area: - Air Force Airman Kendra MacDonald has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. During the six weeks of training, the airman studied the Air...
Tags: Air Force, aircraft, Clark, graduate, interception, Iraq, MacDonald, Manufacturing, training, U.S.
Research articles 2004-03-21
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