2,646 research outputs found
Series 3: Candidacy for Mayor of Los Angeles
No full textA letter to the editor of the Los Angeles Times discusses R. C. Owens' personal experience working with Walter Lindley at the Whittier reform school
Series 3: Candidacy for Mayor of Los Angeles
No full textArticle from the 1906 December 3 edition of the Los Angeles Times confutes the claim made by the Los Angeles Examiner that the Republican party was going to abandon Walter Lindley in favor of Lee C. Gates
Vitalistic information systems in the South African public health system : a transactional analysis perspective
No full textIncludes bibliographical references
Can We Tell Stories Out of Our Memories? The Contributions of Derrida and Benjamin
No full textThe author draws from Jacques Derrida’s and Walter Benjamin’s writings on
memory in order to argue that as these two thinkers deal with the simultaneity
of the diachronic and synchronic dimension of time they open up the
possibility of thinking about the relation between memory and narrative in a
more complex way. These two theorists affirm the discontinuity and the nonrecognition
between past events and present discourses and show the danger of
conflating memory and narrative without the awareness of its limits
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No full textThis fourth volume of presently six begins "Despite many requests, the flow of Foibles has continued to gush unabated (if that is the word) out of the creative organs (some would say the bowels) of their creator." Rothschild's ability to laugh with himself is a chief quality of these works. It strikes me as fitting irony that this page, verso of the title-page and facing page 3 has the page number "30." That introduction, repeating the introduction to Volume 3, has this collection right: "There is something here for everyone to find something they do NOT like but hopefully in between there might be pieces which stimulate curiosity or permit one to look at simple everyday matters in a new light." For this volume, I preselected five stories based on their titles in the opening T of C. "A Frogment of History" (#309) is a happy conglomeration of puns around a reversal: every prince that this princess kisses turns into a frog! Here is one great example: "Her suitors all croaked before they could do anything significant…." (24). I chose #313 and #314 next because they have similar titles: "Word tasting" and "Word Tasting." Unless I am missing something, the T of C has in the former case a simple typo; the story has nothing to do with tasting or the word "tasting." "Word Tasting" (#314) is just that, a delightful experiment in analyzing what it is like to taste physically some key words, including "word" and "tasting." "Dissing Abilities" (#352) questions our need to accommodate all disabilities, with sometimes hilarious results. Moral: "If you've read this far, you probably have no brain. How does it feel?" (115). "The Illegible Bachelor" (#397) is fun start to finish; the happy state of the couple does not lead to a happy ending. The author cannot reveal the couple's names because their entry in the Marriage Register is "Illegible" (219). 230 pages.Rabbi Walter Rothschil
Kenilworth : a romance
No full textby the author of "Waverley", "Ivanhoe", &c [Walter Scott]Bd. 1: 321 Seiten, [1] Blatt ; Bd. 2: 343 Seiten, [2] Blätter ; Bd. 3: 348 Seite
Voucher funds in transitional economies : the Czech and Slovak experience
No full textVoucher funds have arisen in the transitional economies of Eastern and Central Europe that have used voucher privatization. These funds collect vouchers from citizens and use them to buy shares in enterprises. In the Czech and Slovak Republics, voucher funds are typically organized as corporations owned by the citizens who contributed their vouchers. Recently, they have also been organized as unit trusts (either open-ended or closed). A management company manages the funds under a contract that specifies the management fee. The management company is typically owned by the initial sponsor of the fund - for example, a bank. Voucher funds can give owners a diversified and professionally managed portfolio. More important, the funds select who sits on an enterprise's governance boards (which oversee management and profitability). Although experience is limited, the funds in these two countries have probably stopped most fraud and self-serving by enterprise mangers and are beginning to encourage the restructuring needed for profitability. A few funds have replaced poorly performing or dishonest managers; more often, because qualified replacements are few, they encourage managers to improve performance. There have been complaints about funds'performance. Some have made unrealistic promises to voucher holders and have appointed poorly qualified members to management boards. There is concern about conflicts of interest in the bank-sponsored funds and excessive control of enterprises. Funds typically lack capital or expertise to undertake restructuring - but few other potential owners are likely to be better qualified. The author examines 27 regulations that have been proposed for funds. Regulations in transitional economies, unlike regulations in most western countries, should encourage funds to play a strong role in corporate governance, he contends, as few potential owners have this ability. Most important, regulations should require that funds disclose information about their operations so their owners can monitor and control fund managers. The regulatory regime, the author says, should discourage monopolies and anticompetitive behavior; create incentives for fund managers to improve fund performance; discourage self-serving or fraudulent behavior by fund managers, and conflicts of interest; and eliminate high-risk investments unacceptable to fund owners. Because there is so little experience with these funds, the regulatory regime should not be unduly restrictive. As problems arise, regulations to deal with them can be added.International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Economic Adjustment and Lending,Economic Theory&Research,Agricultural Knowledge&Information Systems,Payment Systems&Infrastructure
Walter Hart Blumenthal papers, undated, 1882-1969, 1900-1969
No full textWalter Hart Blumenthal was the author of more than thirty books on a wide range of subjects including etymology, women of the American Revolution, and the plight of the American Indian, among others. During World War I, he was Chief Librarian for the Camp Greene Library in Charlotte, N. C. which served close to 80,000 troops. Along with being a frequent contributor to several New York City newspapers and magazines, Blumenthal served as literary editor for the New Jewish Encyclopedia and later as an associate editor of American Hebrew magazine in New York. Due to his expertise in the literary world, he also found later success as an antiquarian book dealer in New York and Philadelphia in the 1930s. This collection consists primarily of manuscripts, printed articles and reviews, notes, news clippings, and other source material of Blumenthal’s published books and articles. In addition, the collection also includes personal materials such as genealogical information, photographs, correspondence, and several travel diaries.Gift of Mrs. Blumenthal and Leon Obermayer
The poetical works of Walter C. Smith; collected edition, revised by the author with photogravure portrait from a painting
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