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Portrait of Amy Mack (Mrs Lancelot Harrison) [picture] /
No full textTitle from inscription on reverse.; Condition: Fair, glued to card.; Inscriptions: "Amy Mack (Mrs. Lancelot Harrison) author of 'A bush calendar', 'Bush days', etc. photo. J. S. P. Ramsay" --In ink on reverse
The Politics of Social Policy Reform in the United States: The Clinton and the W. Bush Presidencies Reconsidered
Get PDFThe purpose of this paper is to examine what key reform attempts during the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush presidencies reveal about the wider possibilities for social policy change in the United States. Most particularly, why were Presidents Clinton and Bush able to achieve their goals in some policy realms but so badly defeated in others? As argued, institutional variation from one policy area to another helps answer this question. On the one hand, strong institutional obstacles in the fields of Social Security and health insurance largely explain the defeat of the most ambitious social policy proposal put forward by each president. On the other hand, successful reforms occurred in a comparatively favourable institutional context. Yet, the analysis also suggests that paying close attention to the strategic ideas of political actors as they interact with existing institutions and policy legacies is necessary to fully understand the politics of social policy reform.social policy, Medicare, Social Security, welfare, institutions, United States
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U. S. President George H. W. Bush and Dr. Hector P. Garcia listen to Jesse Alarid speak (photograph)
No full textU. S. President George H. W. Bush listens to Jesse Alarid speak. Dr. Hector P. Garcia stands to the right of President Bush
The Bush doctrine
No full textBook synopsis: The presidency of George W. Bush has been widely regarded as having occasioned one of the most dramatic shifts in the history of American foreign policy. The US interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq, the declaration of a ‘war on terrorism’ and the enunciation of a ‘Bush Doctrine’ of unrivalled military power, ‘regime change’ for ‘rogue states’, and preventive and pre-emptive war together generated unprecedented divisions in the international community.
In this edited volume, leading international experts analyze the nature and scale of the global transformation wrought by the Bush foreign policy in three clear parts:
part one examines the extent of the Bush administration’s break with prior American foreign policy.
in Part two, region and country-specific experts assess the responses to the Bush Doctrine and the interaction of domestic and international politics that shaped these. They explore how governments, political parties, the media and public opinion react to US foreign policy and assess the implications for domestic, regional and international politics.
part three examines the likely long-term implications of the Bush Doctrine in relation to a set of major thematic issues including: war and peace; the global economy; human rights and the UN.
Providing a balanced and dispassionate assessment of continuity and change in American foreign policy, national/regional responses to it, and the impact of US foreign policy on a set of ‘big picture’ discrete issues, this book is essential reading for scholars and researchers of international relations and contemporary history
Assessment of vegetation condition and health at Claudelands Bush (Jubilee Bush; Te Papanui)
No full textAs the largest remnant indigenous natural area, Claudelands Bush is a key asset for Hamilton city. With a history including clearance, logging and grazing; high numbers of plant species have been lost from the bush. Some of these pressures still exist today such as drainage, invasion by adventive plant species, presence of animal pests and the small size of the bush fragment. These pressures continue to contribute to native species losses. To reduce species loss and improve vegetation condition and biodiversity, management has been taking place in the area since the 1980’s. Management included planting of native species, weeding of the bush, construction of wind breaks and boardwalks
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U.S. Vice President George H.W. Bush admires Dr. Hector P. Garcia's Medal of Freedom (photograph)
No full textU.S. Vice President George H.W. Bush admires Dr. Hector P. Garcia's Medal of Freedom at the 40th annual convention of the American G.I. Forum in 1988
Correspondence
No full textBush writes to Chamber of Commerce to offer his greetings and support of the tribute the organization will hold in AF�s honor. Bush reflects on his fondness for AF and sends his congrats
Correspondence
No full textHandwritten. Bush writes AF to thank him for copying him on his letter to Japan�s Ambassador. Wishes AF luck on the DU Institute. "Life's treating Barbara and me pretty well - very private and I want to keep it that way. Love to all fletchers - Gg. Bush
The Big Bush machine
No full textAbstractIn this paper we study an example-machine Bush(S,T) where S and T are disjoint dense subsets of R. We find some topological properties that Bush(S,T) always has, others that it never has, and still others that Bush(S,T) might or might not have, depending upon the choice of the disjoint dense sets S and T. For example, we show that every Bush(S,T) has a point-countable base, is hereditarily paracompact, is a non-Archimedean space, is monotonically ultra-paracompact, is almost base-compact, weakly α-favorable and a Baire space, and is an α-space in the sense of Hodel. We show that Bush(S,T) never has a σ-relatively discrete dense subset (and therefore cannot have a dense metrizable subspace), is never Lindelöf, and never has a σ-disjoint base, a σ-point-finite base, a quasi-development, a Gδ-diagonal, or a base of countable order. We show that Bush(S,T) cannot be a β-space in the sense of Hodel and cannot be a p-space in the sense of Arhangelskii or a Σ-space in the sense of Nagami. We show that Bush(P,Q) is not homeomorphic to Bush(Q,P). Finally, we show that a careful choice of the sets S and T can determine whether the space Bush(S,T) has strong completeness properties such as countable regular co-compactness, countable base compactness, countable subcompactness, and ω-Čech-completeness, and we use those results to find disjoint dense subsets S and T of R, each with cardinality 2ω, such that Bush(S,T) is not homeomorphic to Bush(T,S). We close with a family of questions for further study
Bush encroachment control and risk management in semi-arid rangelands
Get PDFWe study the role of bush encroachment control for a farmer’s income and income risk in a stochastic ecological-economic model of grazing management in semiarid rangelands. In particular, we study debushing as an instrument of risk management that complements the choice of an adaptive grazing management strategy for that sake. We show that debushing, while being a good practice for increasing the mean pasture productivity and thus expected income, also increases the farmer’s income risk. The optimal extent of debushing for a risk-averse farmer is thus determined from balancing the positive and negative consequences of debushing on intertemporal and stochastic farm income.bush encroachment, expected utility, farm income, intertemporal optimization, risk aversion, risk management, semi-arid rangeland
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