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Stocks
Stocks Securities issued by a corporation are classified as debt, equity, or some hybrid of these two forms. Debt usually takes the form of a loan and must be repaid; equity usually takes the form of an ownership claim upon the corporation. The two main types of equity claims are common stock and... Read more |
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Methodology
Methodology A BODY OF RULES AND POSTULATES A PARTICULAR PROCEDURE OR SET OF PROCEDURES ANALYSIS OF PRINCIPLES METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE QUANTITATIVE VERSUS QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS BIBLIOGRAPHY The term methodology may be defined in at least three ways: (1) a body of... Read more |
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Free Soil Party
FREE SOIL PARTY The Free Soil Party evolved in the 1840s in response to the growing split between pro- and anti-slavery movements in the United States. National politics was controlled primarily by two parties, Democratic and Whig. Within both parties there were supporters and opponents of slavery,... Read more |
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Consumer
Consumer BASIC THEORY OF THE CONSUMER ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES APPLICATIONS EMPIRICAL ISSUES CRITICISMS AND DEVELOPMENTS BIBLIOGRAPHY The consumer plays a central role in mainstream economic analysis. This analysis explains economic behavior in terms of individual optimization, and the... Read more |
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Relevancy
RELEVANCY The tendency of a fact offered as evidence in a lawsuit to prove or disprove the truth of a point in issue. A fact offered as evidence must bear a logical relationship to a point in issue for the court to permit its admission as evidence. In addition to such relevancy, evidence must... Read more |
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Union of Concerned Scientists
Union of Concerned Scientists The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is a nonprofit alliance of some fifty thousand scientists and citizens across the United States. The group's stated goal is to combine rigorous scientific analysis with committed citizen advocacy in order to build a cleaner... Read more |
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Machinery
Machinery BIBLIOGRAPHY The adoption of new machinery, as part of technological progress, is a very controversial issue in economic analysis. Many analysts consider technology, the diffusion of technology, and technological advancements, to be very effective in promoting and attaining economic... Read more |
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Policy Sciences
Policy SciencesBIBLIOGRAPHYThe policy sciences study the process of deciding or choosing and evaluate the relevance of available knowledge for the solution of particular problems. When policy scientists are concerned with government, law, and political mobilization, they focus on particular... Read more |
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Underwrite
UNDERWRITE To insure; to sell an issue of stocks and bonds or to guarantee the purchase of unsold stocks and bonds after a public issue. The word underwrite has two meanings. To issue an insurance policy on the life of a person or on property of another is to underwrite that person or property;... Read more |
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OTHER EDITORIALS
...His comprehensive analysis of the cost of war...summary form in [a recent issue of] New York Review...Guardian (London) *** NATO grows NATO's enlargement from 19 to 26 states...decision to create a NATO ... |
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The NATO Trap
...European nations into NATO before the end...mistake. But time grows short. President...promised to expand NATO without changing...features of the NATO enlargement plan are each...will. On this issue emotions rather than ... |
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Russia-US cooperation on missile defenses
...a variety of issues since the end...concern ranged from NATO enlargement to ballistic...membership in NATO or to [a] Russian...Center for Naval Analyses, that included...the NMD system grows. But another...someday join ... |
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Blown Away
...matters, focusing on NATO expansion. Asmus...early advocates of NATO enlargement. Loop Fans will recall his trenchant analysis of the issue in the September-October 1993 issue of Foreign Affairs...White House Line ... |