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• Illinois Technology Association Honors Fifty For The Future

  - 2008-05-19

  Program Recognizes Outstanding Illinois Students Preparing for Careers in Technology CHICAGO -- The Illinois Technology Association ITA is pleased to recognize the 2008 Fifty for the Future (F4F). Extending ITA's mission of building the technology community in Illinois, the F4F program identifies well rounded high potential students and...

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• Robert Redfield and the development of American anthropology.(book)(anthropological biography)(Book Review)

  - 2005-09-01

  WILCOX, CLIFFORD. Robert Redfield and the development of American anthropology. xi, 233 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2004. [pounds sterling]35.00 cloth Biography and biographical analysis are not adequately utilized by historians of anthropology. In fact, there is only one current scholarly...

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• Robert Clinton Claus.(Obituaries)(Obituary)

  - 2004-04-06

  Robert Clinton Claus Memorial services for Robert Clinton "Sandy" Claus, 72, were held at 4 p.m. Saturday, April 3, at Kingwood United Methodist Church, Kingwood, Texas. Another service will be held at a later date at First Congregational Church, Des Plaines. Born May 13,...

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• North American urban history: the everyday politics and spatial logics of metropolitan life.

  - 2003-09-22

  Abstract At the start of the twenty-first century, North American urban history is flourishing. Compared to twenty-five years ago, the field has become more interdisciplinary and intellectually invigorating. Scholars are publishing increasingly sophisticated efforts to understand how the city as space intersects the...

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• Dissertations listed alphabetically by author. (A-L).

  - 2003-07-01

  A Abing, Kevin J. 1 A Fall from Grace: Thomas Johnson and the Shawnee Indian Manual Labor School, 1839-1862 Ph.D., 1995, Marquette University Abraham, K. A. 2 A...

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• University of Chicago Economist Wins Award for Socio-Economic Studies.

  - 2003-04-26

  By Robert Manor, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By Robert Manor, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

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• Irving Fisher on the international transmission of booms and depressions through monetary standards.

  - 2003-02-01

  OVER THE LAST TWENTY YEARS, considerable attention has been devoted to the role of monetary standards in the international transmission of booms and depression, particularly the role of the gold standard in transmitting the Great Depression (see Choudhri and Kochin, 1980, Huffman and Lothian, 1984, Eichengreen, 1988, 1990, Fremling, 1985,...

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• At University of Chicago Conference, Judge Focuses on Role of Derivatives.

  - 2002-02-09

  By Robert Manor, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By Robert Manor, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

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• The earth is the lord's - Religious Foundations of Social Policy

  - 2001-12-01

  ROBERT V. ANDELSON (*) GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, in a letter written in 1905 to Hamlin Garland, describes how, more than twenty years earlier, he had attended Henry George's first platform appearance in London. He knew at once, he said, that the speaker must be an American, for four reasons:...

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• An Open Letter to the APSA Leadership and Members.(American Political Science Association)

  - 2000-12-01

  As many of you are aware the American Political Science Association has recently experienced an extraordinary outpouring of frustration with the current state of the American Political Science Review, the APSA, and the profession generally. An anonymous scholar writing as "Mr. Perestroika" circulated to an extensive...

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