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Proceedings of the first Federal Aid Good Roads Convention : held at Washington, D.C., January 16 and 17, 1912 /
No full text"Called by the American Automobile Association, and participated in by United States senators and members of congress; delegates from states appointed by the governors therof; highway commissioners and state highway engineers; national and local good roads associations; businessmen's organizations; farmers' organizations and others"--title page.Includes an index.Mode of access: Internet
School choice through relocation: evidence from the Washington, D.C. area
No full textIn this paper I show how the monetary value that parents place on school quality may be inferred from their choice of residential location. The method identifies the valuation that parents place on school quality from the differential effect that measures of school quality have on the residential choices of households with and without children. I implement the method with data from the U.S. Census for Washington, D.C. using residential location decisions in 1990. For whites I find that school quality is an important determinant of residential choices and that households with children in the top income quintile are willing to pay $3,300 for schools that generate a 100 SAT point advantage. The evidence does not indicate that the choices of African Americans are influenced by school quality, which suggests that this group may be constrained in their location choices.Education ; Washington (D.C.)
Rites of Spring concert flier, Food For Thought, Washington, D.C. - December 15, 1984
No full textPhotocopy of an advertising flier promoting a concert by the Washington, D.C. punk band, Rites Of Spring. The concert occurred on December 15, 1984 at Food For Thought, a restaurant/concert venue in Washington, D.C. The other bands on the bill were the Washington, D.C. punk bands Gray Matter and Grand Mal. The photocopy was made by D.C. artist, author, and musician Sharon Cheslow as part of the research for "Banned in D.C.," a book she co-authored with Cynthia Connolly and Leslie Clague
Playbill for A Benefit Concert for Buffalo\u27s Committee for the National March on Washington D.C. & The City of Good Neighbors March on Washington Fund
No full textPlaybill for A Benefit Concert for Buffalo\u27s Committee for the National March on Washington D.C. & The City of Good Neighbors March on Washington Fund.https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/mdlevents/1009/thumbnail.jp
Beyond good and evil: the onto-ethics of global complexity
No full textThis article seeks to analyse the shift away from the moral certainties of the Cold War epoch and of humanitarian interventions in the 1990s, to suggest that ‘evil’ plays a very different role in politics and international relations today. In current constructions of the world – as much more global, complex and non-linear – the past certainties of liberal internationalism appear to be a symptom of problematic moral hubris. Rather than the transcendental moral certainties of good and evil, globalization and complexity seem to suggest a more immanent perspective of emergent causality, eliciting a reflexive ethics of continual work on ‘good’ public modes of being. In which case, ‘evil’ is no longer considered to be an exception but becomes normalized as an ethical learning resource. The 2011 case of the mass killings by Norwegian Anders Breivik will be highlighted as an example of this process. This article suggests that this ‘democratization’ of evil is problematic in articulating evil as a revealed or emergent truth in the world that requires social and personal self-reflexivity, thereby suborning moral choice to onto-ethical necessity
Eastern Europe's experience with banking reform : is there a role for banks in the transition?
No full textAre there lessons to be learned about how Eastern European countries have dealt with problems in their banking systems? What role have these countries assigned to banks during the transition? How have they used banks in dealing with the enterprise problem? The author addresses these questions by analyzing experience in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the former Czech and Slovak Federal Republic. Most of these countries have made substantial progress in restructuring their banking systems, but few have used their banking systems to improve the allocation of credit and hence stimulate the supply response. The author finds the following. The problem is not whether banks hold nonperforming loans but how banks can avoid accumulating more nonperforming loans. The underlying problem is how to close loss-making and nonviable enterprises. The countries that have encouraged the establishment of new private banks, that have introduced regulation and supervision, and that have tried to make banks more competitive have been more successful at improving the allocation of credit and achieving more control over loss-making enterprises. Banks must focus on assessing risk - and for this, capital, private ownership, and adequate regulation are crucial. How quickly banks achieve independence in credit decisions depends on how fast new governance structures can be introduced. In this, the five countries have been less successful. The objectives of bank recapitulation should be to prevent banks from accumulating more nonperforming loans (that is, dealing with the enterprise problem) and to give them the governance structure that would prevent them from incurring new nonperforming loans. This requires introducing a system of risk and reward - by making banks comply with capital adequacy requirements, by privatizing a critical number of banks, and by introducing strong regulation and supervision. Government should see that banks provide efficient payment systems, the basis for trust in banking systems. Introducing adequate regulation and supervision has been difficult as it requires knowing what the banks'role should be. Evidence strongly supports the need to recapitalize and privatize a critical number of banks. Authorities cannot rely on banks to exert control on enterprises early in the transition. In the early stages, control over state-owned enterprises should be exercised by a semipublic institution.Banks&Banking Reform,Financial Intermediation,Financial Crisis Management&Restructuring,Municipal Financial Management,Banking Law
State of Alert (S.O.A.), Untouchables, Minor Threat, Type-O concert flier, Washington, D.C., December 17-18, 1980
No full textFlier advertising State of Alert (S.O.A) concert at d.c. space, with Untouchables, Minor Threat, Type-O, Nurses, Fluffy Pig, and Wiggly Mittens, Washington, D.C., December 17-18, 1980. These concerts were also known as the Unheard Music festival. Within a year, S.O.A. vocalist Henry Garfield joined the influential California hardcore punk Black Flag and changed his last name to Rollins. He went on to a successful career as a musician, author, actor, television host and more. Guitarist Michael Hampton went on to play in the notable D.C. bands The Faith, Embrace, The Snakes, and Manifesto. These concerts were some of the first performances by Minor Threat. Fronted by vocalist Ian MacKaye (who went on to play in the bands Fugazi, Embrace, and The Evens), Minor Threat went on to become the definitive D.C. hardcore punk band
Suicidal Tendencies, Second Wind, No Trend concert flier, Space II Arcade, Washington, D.C., August 10, 1983
No full textFlier advertising a concert featuring the hardcore punk bands Suicidal Tendencies, Second Wind, No Trend, and Cause for Alarm. The concert occurred at Space II Arcade in Washington D.C. on August 10, 1983. The verso of the flier features a handwritten setlist from Second Wind. The concert was promoted by Steven Blush, later known as the author of the book "American Hardcore.
Walden's miscellaneous poems, which the author desires to dedicate to the cause of education and humanity.
No full textMode of access: Internet.Afro-American author
Good Governance, Welfare, and Transformation
No full textMarket conforming institutions are a precondition for a thriving and stable economy. This is the upshot of the Washington consensus or, of somewhat earlier origin, the "Eucken hypothesis" Another hypothesis of Eucken has it that market conforming institutions are the product of a strong state. However, more general and more important than the strong state is good governance. In this paper I refer to it as the "Lorenzetti hypothesis". The paper tries to figure out the mechanisms by which good governance and economic order influence economic outcome. Then the two hypotheses are tested for two aspects of economic outcome: productivity as measured by GNP per capita over a wide range of countries and transformation success as measured by GNP growth over the European transformation countries. The tests confirm the theoretical expectation that good governance is more important than good orderGovernance; Economic order; Development
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