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PLANEJAMENTO ESTRATÉGICO NAS INSTITUIÇÕES DE ENSINO SUPERIOR: TÉCNICA OU ARTE?
No full textO planejamento estratégico se tornou bastante freqüente em todos os tipos de organização. Nas últimas décadas, esta abordagem disseminou-se também na gestão das instituições de ensino superior. Contudo, seus resultados muitas vezes não são facilmente identificados nas nas organizações onde são utilizados. Vários são os problemas que podem estar afetando a prática do planejamento estratégico, que por sua vez caracteriza-se por ser um processo que combina aspectos racionais e subjetivos. Este artigo visa examinar a dimensão técnica e os fatores intuitivos, ilógicos e subjetivos como elementos importantes no referido processo. As análises racionais nem sempre conseguem captar certos fenômenos no ambiente externo e gerar a criatividade necessária que somente são percebidos através do uso de análises subjetivas e que vão além das análises racionais. O artigo analisa o uso do planejamento estratégico como uma ferramenta na gestão de instituições de ensino superior
The unbalanced Ururguay Round outcome : the new areas in future WTO negotiations
No full textThe Uruguay Round involved a grand North-South bargain: The North reduced import barriers, particularly in textiles and agriculture. The South adopted new domestic regulations in such areas as services and intellectual property-changes that would lead to increased purchases from the North. In mercantilist economics, apples for apples-imports for imports. In real economics, apples for oranges. The authors argue that while the North's reduction of import barriers benefits both the North and the South, the new domestic regulations adopted by countries of the South could prove costly to those countries. To begin with, the regulations will be expensive to implement. And while the cost side of their impact is secured by a legal obligation (in the case of intellectual property rights, for example, the cost is higher prices for patented goods), the benefits side is not so secured.Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Payment Systems&Infrastructure,Decentralization,Rules of Origin,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,TF054105-DONOR FUNDED OPERATION ADMINISTRATION FEE INCOME AND EXPENSE ACCOUNT,Trade and Regional Integration,World Trade Organization
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Letter From Emmett L. Bennett Jr. to Thomas G. Palaima, December 3, 1986
No full textBennett recaps his latest work at ASCSA, like accessing Carl W. Blegen's archives and reading through letters of Michael Ventris, attending a talk by Colin Renfrew, and some thoughts on his retirement colloquium at the University of Wisconsin--Madison. He also relates how he burned his finger recently on a tea kettle.Classic
Securing access to international markets
No full textThe unconditional extension of the fruits of trade negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is giving way to bilateral and other discriminatory trade agreements. Led by the United States, GATT has taken a strong position against discrimination: the benefits of negotiations under GATT generally have been extended to all contracting parties without specific conditions or reservations. This unconditional extension of benefits - the unconditional most favored nation principle (MFN) - is now under considerable pressure. This paper finds that the threat to multilateralism and small traders will be reduced if : (i) new trade liberalizing"clubs"that are formed in the Uruguay Round, or elsewhere, are open to new members on the same terms that apply to the founders; (ii) compliance with the rules of such clubs is determined multilaterally and not unilaterally by any existing members; (iii) markets that are levered open are opened in a nondiscriminatory manner; (iv) preferential trading agreements conform to the relevant GATT rule - Article XXIV and; (v) the main safeguard provision of GATT (Article XIX) remains nondiscriminatory.TF054105-DONOR FUNDED OPERATION ADMINISTRATION FEE INCOME AND EXPENSE ACCOUNT,Trade Policy,Economic Theory&Research,Trade and Regional Integration,Environmental Economics&Policies
Liberty and Security? Challenges in a New World Situation Transcript of the Symposium
No full textLiberty and Security? Challenges in a New World Situation A Dialogue Featuring: Anthony Lewis, former New York Times columnist and two time Pulitzer Prize-award winning author and Retired Major General Michael J. Nardotti, Jr., a former judge advocate general for the U.S. Army and decorated combat veteran, and currently a partner specializing in government contracts for the law firm Patton Boggs LLP. Moderated by Gary S. Gildin, professor of law and director of the Miller Center for Public Interest Advocacy at Penn State Dickinson School of Law. Presented Tuesday, Mar. 16, 2004 Degenstein Center Theate
An Evening with Michael Eric Dyson, Best Selling Author, Scholar, and Cultural Critic
No full textDyson, an author and scholar, has been listed by Ebony magazine as one of the 150 most powerful African Americans. His works, including Reflecting Black: African American Cultural Criticism; Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster; and Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? have provoked national conversations on race and class. Written in 1994, Dyson\u27s Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X is considered one of the most important African-American works of the 20th century, while his I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr. is written to unveil the true radical nature of a man whom most remember or are taught was the ultimate peacemaker
Becoming Douglass Commonwealth: from D.C. Disenfranchisement to Full Democracy
No full textFeaturing: José Andrés, Chef/Restauranteur; Chris Myers Asch, Visiting Instructor, History, Colby College, Co-Author of Chocolate City; Denise Rolark Barnes, Publisher, The Washington Informer; The Honorable Muriel Bowser, Mayor of Washington, D.C. (2015 to present); Rep. James Clyburn, D-SC 6th District; Robert J. Contee, III, Acting Chief, Metropolitan Police Department; Linda Cropp, Former Chairwoman, Council of the District of Columbia; John J. DeGioia, President, Georgetown University; C.R. Gibbs, Historian; The Honorable Vincent Gray, Mayor of Washington, D.C. (2011-2015); The Honorable Eric Holder, Jr., Former Attorney General of the United States; Jamal Holtz, Co-founder, Statehood 51 for 51; Harry Holzer, John LaFarge Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University and Nonresident Senior Fellow-Economic Studies, Brookings Institution; Rep. Steny Hoyer, House Majority Leader, D-MD 5th District; Ted Leonsis, founder, Chairman, and CEO of Monumental Sports & Entertainment; Jane Levey, Historian, DC History Center; Ezra Levin, Co-founder, Indivisible; William P. Lightfoot, Former Member, Council of the District of Columbia; Abbe Lowell, D.C. statehood advocate; Gregory McCarthy, Trustee, Federal City Council; SVP, Washington Nationals Baseball Club; Phil Mendelson, Chairman, Council of the District of Columbia; George Derek Musgrove, Professor of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Co-Author of Chocolate City; Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton D-DC; Philip Pannell, DC statehood advocate; Robert Patterson, Professor of African American Studies, Georgetown University; Beverly Perry, Senior Advisor to the Mayor; The Honorable Sharon Pratt, Mayor of Washington, DC. (1991-1995); Rep. Jaime Raskin, D-MD 8th District; Paul Strauss, U.S. Shadow Senator, D.C. (1997 to present); George Vradenburg, Vice President, AOL and AOL Time Warner (retired); The Honorable Anthony A. Williams, Mayor of Washington, D.C. (1999-2007);
Producers: Nolan Williams, Jr., Producer/Director; Michael D. DuBose, Associate Producer; Rod McDonald, Consulting Producer;
Director of Photography: Kadesh DuBose;
Production Supervisor: Michael D. DuBose;
Writers: Chris Myers Asch; George Derek Musgrove; Nolan Williams, Jr.;
Research Consultant: Jane Levey;
Editors: Kadesh DuBose, lead editor; Adrienne Boykin; Michael D. DuBose; Michael Lyon;
Graphics: Regi Allen; Reginald Butler; Kat Davis; Kadesh DuBose; Robert Ellis, title banner;
Camera Ops: Kadesh DuBose; Paul Fifield; William P. Haywood; Henry Joseph; Marcus Smith, III; Camille Toussaint; William P. Haywood, jib operator;
Post production: William P. Haywood; Jacques Richmond; Ryan Romkema;
Audio Technicians: Todd Berger; C. Anthony Miller; Shari Thomas;
Music Team: Nolan Williams, Jr., Music Supervisor/Editor; Michael DuBose, Sr., Music Editor;
Production Assistants: Sylveta Brown; Kyana Waters;
Sound Track Creatives: Allyn Johnson, original documentary score; Nolan Williams, Jr., contributing composer; Michael A. DuBose, contributing composer; John Stoddart, contributing arranger;
Special Acknowledgements: D.C. Office of Cable Television, Film, Music & Entertainment; D.C. Office of Community Affairs; D.C. Public Library; Office of Federal and Regional Affairs; Office of the Secretary of the District of Columbia; Office of the Senior Advisor to the Mayor;
Acknowledgements: Alice Deal Middle School; BONI Productions; DC History Center; DWP Productions; FedNet; Friendship Public Charter School; Lateef Mangum, D.C. photo archivist; ThinkFoodGroup;
Filming Locations: DC History Center; D.C. Office of Cable Television, Film, Music & Entertainment; Marion S. Barry, Jr. Building; Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library.This award-winning one-hour documentary chronicles the long and complicated journey towards Washington, District of Columbia becoming our 51st state, Washington, Douglass Commonwealth. To date, 'Becoming Douglass Commonwealth' has aired in five CBS markets and on DCTV.https://neworksproductions.com/douglass-commonwealt
Michael Attaleiates: History as politics in eleventh-century Byzantium.
No full textThis dissertation is about history as politics in eleventh-century Byzantium. Focusing on the Historia, the work of the judge and courtier Michael Attaleiates, it examines the uses of history within the Byzantine court in the 1060s and 1070s. I argue that Michael Attaleiates wrote history with his eyes firmly set on the political scene of his times. The production of history was a highly political enterprise that allowed Attaleiates to communicate with his contemporaries and express his ideas about the empire's military and political crisis. At the same time his skills as a historian were presented as skills useful in governance. By demonstrating his understanding of the past Attaleiates hinted at his ability to plan the future. The Historia was therefore the proof of his status as an advisor and an active political man. The portrait of Attaleiates emerging from this dissertation is one of an ambitious, socially conscious, patriotic and entrepreneurial political agent negotiating the pitfalls of Byzantine court life while maintaining a dialogue on current affairs with his contemporaries. In chapters 1 and 21 present a social, economic and intellectual biography of the author setting the background for the textual analysis that ensues. Chapter 2 specifically examines Attaleiates' intellectual debt to the ancient Greek historian Polybios of Megalopolis. Chapters 3 and 4 treat Attaleiates' relationship, social and intellectual, with his contemporary, the philosopher, historian, and courtier Michael Psellos. Chapter 5 closely reads the Historia and challenges Attaleiates' loyalty to the emperor to whom his work is dedicated. Chapter 6 challenges contemporary scholarship in showing Attaleiates as a pragmatic enemy of Michael Keroularios, the imperious patriarch, and friend of the Norman mercenary Rouselios. Chapters 8 and 9 look into Attaleiates' views of the divine. The author emerges as an analyst of the past, who excludes God from history. Finally in chapter 9 Attaleiates becomes a true supporter of Alexios Komnenos. The close reading of the Historia culminates in Attaleiates' covert praise of the up-and-coming general and future emperor. History in Attaleiates' hands proves, indeed, to be a form of politics.PhDMedieval historySocial SciencesUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/126083/2/3224931.pd
The rise of securities markets : what can government do?
No full textUsing U.S. securities markets as a case history, the author explores the role securities markets play in economic development, how they emerge, and how regulation can make them more effective. Why the United States? Two centuries ago, it was a small undeveloped country with serious financial problems. It confronted those problems and, guided by Alexander Hamilton, creatively reformed its financial system, which then became a foundation of the U.S. economic infrastructure and a bulwark for long-term growth. When Hamilton's program established public credit and securitiesmarkets in the 1790s, U.S. citizens were immediately able to borrow from older, richer countries. U.S. wealth then increased until, by the end of the nineteenth century, U.S. residents began to lend and invest more abroad than they borrowed. During the 1820s and 1830s, the United States (usually state governments) borrowed large sums from foreign investors to build roads, canals, and early railroads, to make other transportation improvements, and to capitalize state banks. From the 1830s to the end of the century, still larger sums from overseas went into private U.S. railway companies that provided cheap transcontinental transportation. Most of this borrowing took the form of state and corporate bond sales to overseas investors. The pristine U.S. government credit established by Hamilton thus rubbed off on U.S. state and corporate debt. The British stock market did better than the U.S. market until the United States adopted security-market regulation (including disclosuire rules) under the SEC. Then the U.S. market became a world leader. The U.S. stock market developed more slowly than the bond market, but it both aided and benefited from foreign investment in U.S. bonds. Foreign investors preferred debt securities to equities, yet equities create a safety margin for bondholders who, because of this margin, are more willing to purchase and hold bonds. Foreign investors preferred bonds; U.S. investors, after exporting bonds, held more stocks than bonds at home. Why? Because good stock markets permit the conversion of equity securities into cash.Environmental Economics&Policies,Payment Systems&Infrastructure,Financial Intermediation,International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Economic Theory&Research,Housing Finance,Insurance&Risk Mitigation,Financial Intermediation,Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research
2014 Kansas Performance Tests with Soybean Varieties
No full textSoybean performance tests are conducted each year to provide information on the relative performance of new and established varieties and brands at several locations in Kansas. Main Station, Manhattan William T. Schapaugh, Jr., Professor (Senior Author) Jane Lingenfelser, Assistant Agronomist Brent Christenson, Research Assistant Cheyenne Stephens, Research Assistant Research Centers Josh Coltrain, Crawford County Extension Patrick Evans, Colby Kelly Kusel, Parsons Monty Spangler, Garden City Experiment Fields Eric Adee, Topeka Gary Cramer, Hutchinson James Kimball, Ottawa Michael Larson, Belleville and Scandia Wendell Lilyhorn, Hutchinson Cooperators Vernon Egbert, McCune Lance Rezac, Onaga Dale Roberds, Pittsburg Clayton Short, Assari
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