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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.(temporary placement firms ranked by 2000 revenues)(Directory)(Statistical Data Included)
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TEMPORARY placement firms in Los Angeles County were heading toward a second consecutive record year in 2000 until a weak fourth quarter pushed the industry off track.
Revenues of the top 25 temporary placement firms reporting for the LABJ list were just over $1 billion in 2000, down from $1.2 billion in 1999. Still, 2000 was only the second year ever that local revenues for the top temporary placement firms exceeded $1 billion.
Among the companies making substantial gains in 2000 were Los Angeles-based Aquent, which saw local revenues jump to $27 million ...
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Is there an American mind?(Books, Arts & Manners)(Beyond the Revolution: A History of American Thought from Paine to Pragmatism )
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...mindlessness, and it would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Jackson...quartet of great Harvardians--Perry Miller, Samuel Eliot Morison, Vernon Louis Parrington, and Ralph Barton Perry. The Harvard Narrative proceeds...
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Can parents make a comeback?
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...anything. The Harvard philosopher Ralph Barton Perry once made note of this evolution...Movement." According to Professor Perry, the institution of the school...elders. "The idea was," wrote Perry, "that the infant was a vegetable...
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The pragmatic American: William James and our homegrown way of thought.(William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Harper's Magazine
; ...640 pages. $30. In 1935, William James's pupil Ralph Barton Perry published The Thought and Character of William James...Recent biographers have largely taken their bearings from Perry and have been content to add some corroborative or revisionist...
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A Historian's Own History.
Magazine article from: The New Leader
; ...giving him a B). And he wrote his senior thesis under Perry Miller, described then and today as the best historical...spent his last night of bachelorhood in the company of Ralph Barton Perry, "the friend and biographer of William James and a...
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He accepted-and contested-the universe.(BOOKS)(William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: Cross Currents
; ...his sprightliness, humor, and intensity--has insured a steady flow of good books about him, beginning with Ralph Barton Perry's two-volume Thought and Character of William James (1935) and continuing through Louis Menand's The Metaphysical...
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ALMANAC
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
; ...feel it toward all men without exception, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force in human history." - Ralph Barton Perry, American author and educator (1876-1957). Copyright 2003 by Telegraph-Herald, All rights Reserved.
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Almanac
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
; ...feel it toward all men without exception, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force in human history." - Ralph Barton Perry, American author and educator (1876-1957). Copyright 2005 by Telegraph Herald, All rights Reserved.
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Today in History - March 2
News Wire article from: AP Online
; ...feel it toward all men without exception, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force in human history." _ Ralph Barton Perry, American author and educator (1876-1957). Copyright 2006, AP News All Rights Reserved
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Science & the promise of democracy in America.
Magazine article from: Daedalus
; ...explain how benevolence, by itself, could transform a complex industrial society. The "major problem of life," as Ralph Barton Perry put it, was to foster simultaneously "sentiments" and "modes of organization" by which "human suffering may...
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letters.(Letter to the Editor)
Magazine article from: The Hastings Center Report
; ...time: that of assigning value on the basis of whether some individuals value something. It was the philosopher Ralph Barton Perry in the 1920s who argued that "x has value if x is valued by someone." It was a bad argument then, and it is a...
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