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(Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics & Public Policy, 2015-03)Tariff rates on most articles of imported apparel and footwear are classified by the gender of the intended user, and for some items the rates differ. In this issue of The Takeaway the authors describe the discriminatory ...
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(1965-05-21)The author's conception of the idea of using Federal procurement to stimulate innovation in public service programs was formulated during his summer employment in 1964 in the Office of the Secretary of Defense while drafting ...
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(Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics & Public Policy, 2021-02)
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(2016-03-22)Dr. Peter Hotez discusses the future of medicine and technology in the face of new and developing diseases. He looks at recent pandemics and outbreaks and discusses how vaccine diplomacy can change the world.
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(Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics & Public Policy, 2019-12)
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Financial Support and Challenges for Educational Technology Companies: Then, Now, and Looking Ahead (Educational Technology Publications, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 2016-03)
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(2017-02-28)“A friend in Washington is someone who stabs you in the chest.” Brent Scowcroft sometimes tells this joke to break the ice when beginning a speech. The irony, though, is that Scowcroft has a great many friends and admirers. ...
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(2017-02-27)The purpose of this article is to compare the fundamental operative provisions of the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) with the equivalent directives of European surveillance law in five representative ...
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(2017-03-06)In functioning states, despite a lack of authoritative power, judiciaries are respected and their rulings are adhered to by their respective citizens. This is known as judicial legitimacy. Popular support of the court ...
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(2017-03-06)The Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), released by the Department of Defense (DoD) in 2010, announced an unprecedented shift in the U.S. nuclear policy away from state-based threats to nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism ...
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(Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics & Public Policy, 2014-11)Not only should the US lift its ban on exporting oil and natural gas in light of today’s economic and political climate, but it was wrong to ever ban such exports in the first place. The US should cease to view its energy ...
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(2019)Due to the emergence of China’s middle class and the growing global influence of Chinese investment, Microfinance Opportunities (MFO) views Chinese actors as significant stakeholders in the apparel industry in South and ...
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(2009)
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(Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics & Public Policy, 2016-05)In 2006, Texas faced a fiscal double whammy. Not only had the Texas Supreme Court ordered the state to pick up more of the tab for K-12 education, but the legislature promised voters significant property tax relief. To ...
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(2017-02-28): In the mid-1990s two infectious disease outbreaks – Pneumonic Plague in Surat, India and Ebola in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) - caused great concern globally. At that time the standard communication ...