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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 00:57:32 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: Your Idealist Updates for 10/24/2002
Hi lisa,
We thought that the following information, added to Idealist between
10/22/2002 and 10/23/2002, would be of interest to you.
Also, if you a
[ http://www.gao.gov Financial Statement Restatements: Trends, Market
Impacts, Regulatory Responses, and Remaining Challenges. GAO-03-138 ]
Restatements Cost Billions, GAO Says
Study Confirms Effect on Stock Value
By Kathleen Day
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 24, 2002; Page E02
[Charles Jannuzi, can you 'deconstruct' for us?]
[Far Eastern Economic Review]
JAPAN'S ECONOMY
A Blueprint For Recovery
http://www.feer.com
IN ONE CORNER, you have Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi,
accompanied by the mop-haired economics professor who's now his economic
tsar. In the othe
Title: RE: [PEN-L:31542] Re: question about polling data
there's a monthly magazine that reports on almost all poll results. It's got a name like AMERICAN OPINION. -- Jim
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From: Joel Blau
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Ellen:
Try Fay Lomax Cook and Edith J. Barrett, Support for the American Welfare
State (NY: Columbia University Press, 1992).
It was published ten years ago, but except for a slight diminution of the
antipathy to welfare, I'd be surprised if you found major swings in the data.
Joel Blau
Ell
Title: FW: query
where can I find data to see how the wages of (1) unskilled workers (or something like that) and (2) minority workers have changed since 2000?
thanks ahead of time. Please reply off-list.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~
I hope Bloom wasn't suggesting MDs should be reserved as a mark of
"scholarly acheivement." Last Thursday, an orthopaedic surgeon set the bones
in my sons broken arm and did a mighty fine job. I couldn't care less if the
good Dr. never published in a peer reviewed journal. Also, I once took an
unde
Try http://ippsr.msu.edu/Publications/bp0251.pdf
This is a survey done by Michigan State University's International Studies and
Programs group and touches on a number of issues mainly around how Michigan
citizens look at foreign policy, it may be relevant to what you are looking
at.
Alan Jacobson
Can anyone point me to a good source (book,
article, internet) on polling data regarding American
views on socio-economic policy? I often hear it said
that Americans support Social Security and want drug
coverage, for example, but I can't find any polls to confirm
this (on the other hand, I haven
CALL FOR PAPERS:
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Title: RE: [PEN-L:31506] Re: Re: Autism on the rise
> From: Doyle Saylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Greetings Economists,
> Charles' set of articles is interesting. However I would like to add a
> social dimension. We tend to think of Autistics as defective. Do we think
> that way about G
(From Alex Cockburn's column in the latest NY Press:
http://www.nypress.com/15/43/news&columns/wildjustice.cfm)
Fortune magazine reports that officers and directors of the 1035 companies
that have fallen the most from their recent bull-market peaks cashed in $66
billion worth of stock before th
Yes, here we regard the local bar scene as part of the University (# 2
Party School in the country -- though Playboy did not identify which party
affiliation).
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 01:53:47AM -0700, Sabri Oncu wrote:
> > K-12 US style was, for me, like a concentration
> > camp. University wasn'
Title: RE: Autism on the rise
joanna bujes wrote: I would think it would be relatively easy to determine whether you are right. Surely they must keep statistics that would help you correlate age/medical intervention with incidence of learning disorders, autism, etc.
Charles J. w
Title: authoritarian schools (was: Autism on the rise)
It's true that schools tend to be excessively regimented. But for what it's worth, that's exactly what's turning my 12 year old son on to education. As someone on the autism spectrum, he's gone from having LOUD tantrums almost every day a
> K-12 US style was, for me, like a concentration
> camp. University wasn't so bad since so much time
> was spent away from it.
>
> C. Jannuzi
I actually know why you spent so much time away from the
university: Because you did not go to Chico. If you did, you
would have spent most of your time at
One for strong stomachs, and definitely not for reading for breakfast:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/20/fashion/20BANK.html
I'd hasten to point out that none of this should be taken at face value; one
does not necessarily hear the truth if you talk to people in nightclubs.
But there is an underl
For immediate release October 22, 2002
Special MERIP Publication
Why Another War? A Backgrounder on the Iraq Crisis
As George W. Bush's administration seeks a UN resolution threatening
"consequences" for Iraqi non-cooperation with toughened weapons
inspections, US-led military intervention to
At 22/10/02 20:33 -0700, you wrote:
http://www.theonion.com/onion3839/63_percent_of_us.html
WASHINGTON, DC-The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Tuesday that
more than 63 percent of all U.S. citizens have been implicated in an illegal
stock-dumping, the latest scandal to rock the nati
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