• HCU faculty share tales of patriots whose names are not well known in the pantheon of our nation's founders. (hc.edu)
  • Rising health care costs are the largest cause of projected federal deficits, and the new health reform law contains a wide range of measures that can restructure the nation's health system and slow the growth of costs. (thefiscaltimes.com)
  • Although our nation's system has had some major successes, the time has come, and various opportunities are currently available for us to look at it again, share lessons learned, identify continuous challenges and viable steps for truly protecting our public's health. (cdc.gov)
  • The justice system in America works very differently if one is powerful and wealthy versus poor and powerless. (msnbc.com)
  • This is a simply astounding and historically illiterate perspective on the legal system in America. (msnbc.com)
  • By contrast, Christian democratic parties in Latin America tend to vary in their position on the political spectrum depending on the country they are in, being either more left-leaning, [24] [25] as in the case of the Christian Democratic Party in Chile , or more right-leaning, as in the case of the National Action Party in Mexico . (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1978, when Federal Express raised the then-staggering sum of $72 million in venture capital (it would go public that same year), Memphis magazine was among the first publications in America to put company founder Fred Smith on its cover. (memphismagazine.com)
  • Including Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba Group, the world's largest e-commerce company, numerous founders and CEOs of leading Chinese companies such as Sinopec and Tsingtao attended the school. (ckgsb.edu.cn)
  • If you listen to political people, the world's always about to collapse -- unless their agenda gets voted in, of course. (2blowhards.com)
  • I recently published a column on the effort by Democrats to get Facebook and other companies to implement a system of censorship of political ads, which would be entirely unconstitutional if carried out by the government. (jonathanturley.org)
  • She insisted that "[Facebook founder] Mark Zuckerberg should pay a price for what he is doing to our democracy. (jonathanturley.org)
  • This is a unique group that wants to help and wants to lend their expertise - and they all have day jobs," DuHaime said after meeting Ginn and Johnson at a Christie fundraiser hosted by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. (politico.com)
  • I have met Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at their headquarters, and it is a fascinating thing that is going to have a huge impact, on marketing in particular. (memphismagazine.com)
  • You can count on no hands the number of times the justice system has intervened in incidents of presidential law-breaking. (msnbc.com)
  • Instead of a presidential system where the executive branch is separate from the legislative branch and the president is elected directly by the people (as in the US), Israel chose a parliamentary system based on the principles of proportional representation (PR) . (fpri.org)
  • The Republic of Turkey looks set to be on the verge of major political changes, not just with a new president, prime minister and AKP party chairman expected to be confirmed within the coming weeks, but also indications that Erdoğan could seek to transform the country from a parliamentary to a presidential political system. (aawsat.com)
  • For Erdoğan and his supporters, his ascendancy to the presidency and then converting the system into a presidential one, represent the last two steps to him being accepted as a sultan first in Turkey and later in the Islamic world," Alili said, adding that "Erdoğan wants to be a global leader. (aawsat.com)
  • There are several reasons why Dr. Vu's case may well evolve into one of the most important cases involving a political dissident in the recent history of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. (hrw.org)
  • Dissident members of these parties periodically struck out on their own and founded new parties, but they have usually foundered after a few years. (countrystudies.us)
  • Prominent figures like the journalist Maria Ressa, a founder of the news site Rappler , have voiced suspicions that these surveys are designed to reproduce the state's political message. (thenation.com)
  • The campaign of "no" to the restructuring of Pinochet's presidency in the plebiscite of October 5th 1988 provided the push that the PPD and Ricardo Lagos needed to become prominent political figures. (globalcommissionondrugs.org)
  • There are those who claim political rhetoric is to blame for the despicable act of this deranged, apparently apolitical criminal. (blogspot.com)
  • This is how rotten, moribund, and despicable the current system is, that corruption is considered commonplace, accepted as part and parcel, an unchangeable reality. (thenation.com)
  • In 2003, Saakashvili became a leading opposition figure who accused the government of rigging the 2003 Georgian parliamentary election, spearheading mass protests which saw President Shevardnadze resign from his post in the bloodless Rose Revolution. (wikipedia.org)
  • Christian Peters is a political scientist and Managing Director of the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Science. (uclpress.co.uk)
  • Episcopal priest Becca Stevens is founder of Thistle Farms, a social enterprise run by survivors of sexual abuse, trafficking, and addiction. (cac.org)
  • Christian democracy is a political ideology inspired by Christian social teaching to respond to the challenges of contemporary society and politics. (wikipedia.org)
  • [19] Christian democrats support a "slightly regulated market economy ", featuring an effective social security system, [20] a model also known as a social market economy . (wikipedia.org)
  • The book details how political economy became economics through the desocialisation and the dehistoricisation of the dismal science, accompanied by the separation of economics from the other social sciences, especially economic history and sociology. (exploring-economics.org)
  • Drawing on the rich traditions of the past, the reintroduction and full incorporation of the social and the historical into the main corpus of political economy will be possible in the future. (exploring-economics.org)
  • Performance artist Nadja Verena Marcin subverts strangely familiar cinematic sequences that are informed by social and political predefinition. (brownpapertickets.com)
  • Sign up for our newsletter to receive thought-provoking opinion articles and expert analysis on the most pressing political, economic and social issues of our time. (socialeurope.eu)
  • And the invitation is especially strong, I'll argue, in light of the phase of human history that seems to lie immediately ahead-a social, political, and even moral culmination of sorts. (metanexus.net)
  • Researchers developed the intervention based on the rational that the potential of winning a large price would attract a lot of participants, which would create social support systems. (cancercentrum.se)
  • The group included many men who later became important political figures, such as George Price, Herbert Fuller, and Philip Goldson. (countrystudies.us)
  • When Tucson Tea Party founder Trent Humphries rose to suggest that any conversation about gun control should be put off until after the funerals for all the victims, witnesses say Fuller became agitated. (blogspot.com)
  • Fuller, age 63, is a political operative who specializes in gathering petitions for ballot initiatives. (blogspot.com)
  • The roots of the KKK are in this country and that organization, its belief system and its members have are a part of our history that need to be taught. (edweek.org)
  • He built his career as both comedian and political figure on the unshakeable belief that the Italian political system is rotten to the core. (socialeurope.eu)
  • And, after months of increasing pressure, it was a time when the two competing public images ultimately led to a dramatic political resignation which is still disputed to this day. (rte.ie)
  • Historically, Israel's electoral system developed as a result of the Yishuv political landscape. (fpri.org)
  • Under this highly de-regulated system made possible by the 1836 killing of the national bank years earlier under Andrew Jackson and the passage of the 1846 Independent Treasury Act which prevented the government from influencing economic affairs, every private bank could issue currencies with no federal authority. (substack.com)
  • Authority figures constantly make mistakes. (geoffreybrock.com)
  • 7] Such challenges bring into question the age-old dilemma between autonomy for an individual (patient or family) against that of a paternalistic authority figure (justice and law enforcement). (medscape.com)
  • In the first in a new Political Scandals series for the Your Politics podcast, RTÉ journalist Fiachra Ó Cionnaith takes a trip back to autumn 2009 and the costs controversy that surrounded then Ceann Comhairle John O'Donoghue. (rte.ie)
  • Turkish writer and journalist Teoman Alili told Asharq Al-Awsat that the latest developments on the political scene represent the final steps in a long and well-laid plan. (aawsat.com)
  • Back in those "calm days" when political figures literally settled their differences with dueling pistols? (blogspot.com)
  • The new Political Scandals podcast series is part of the RTE Your Politics podcast, and over the coming months will look back on other scandals and controversies to have befallen some of the most high-profile figures in Irish political life. (rte.ie)
  • The prime rationale underpinning this account drawn from the past is to put the case for political economy back on the agenda. (exploring-economics.org)
  • These founders sat quietly in the back of the room, but still had great influence in the founding of our nation. (hc.edu)
  • Back in the States, Madison Grant, a Manhattan lawyer turned conservationist and the author of the white supremacist treatise The Passing of the Great Race, or The Racial Basis of European History , practiced a kind of masculinist scientific racism alongside the likes of Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir, the founder of the Sierra Club. (columbia.edu)
  • He is the founder and former chairman of the United National Movement party. (wikipedia.org)
  • The full scope of information that the spies may have gained access to is not clear, but they attended various events--including a fundraiser at which one of them was photographed with Tom Perez, then the chairman of the Democratic National Committee--and have now generated concerns about the possibility of other right-wing operatives and operations across the U.S. political system. (commondreams.org)
  • On March 9, National People's Congress chairman Wu Bangguo declared to the NPC that China would never introduce a system of 'multiple parties holding office in rotation', never allow separation of powers between the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government, or allow a legislature made up of lower and upper houses. (scmp.com)
  • In my last paper I introduced the figure of Alexander Hamilton (first Treasury Secretary and founder of the American System of political economy). (substack.com)
  • We're still waiting for mention of Putin's original role model, Count Alexander von Benckendorff, founder of the Tsarist-era secret police. (brookings.edu)
  • Muslim and non-Muslim figures like Ali Ibn Abi Talib, Alexander the Great, and legendary Persian figures like Rustam and Isfandiyar saw a massive spike in popularity as anti-Genghis heroes that stood for everything Genghis Khan and his Mongols were not. (todayifoundout.com)
  • If populism involves mobilising the opposition between the political establishment and 'the people', then the M5S is firmly in this tradition. (socialeurope.eu)
  • System Shock 2 , released in 1999, brought players into a freaky horror-movie plot with twists and turns that puts "Aliens" to shame. (gamerswithjobs.com)
  • All along, deep inside the insidious mind of Levine, the goal seems always to have been BioShock , the "spiritual successor" to System Shock 2 . (gamerswithjobs.com)
  • This is not the sort of statement one would expect from the Prime Minister of a government formed out of two populist political forces that are sending shock waves throughout the European Union. (socialeurope.eu)
  • On the European left-right political spectrum, Christian democracy has been difficult to pinpoint, as Christian democrats have rejected liberal economics and individualism and advocated state intervention, while simultaneously defending private property rights against excessive state intervention. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is a curious argument since, according to Clinton, Zuckerberg is apparently harming democracy by not curtailing free speech by censoring political speech. (jonathanturley.org)
  • And, where but public schools do we create a citizenry with an understanding of the relationship between rights and responsibilities, between democracy and despotism and why our founders created three branches of government with different but equal powers. (edweek.org)
  • In that location I contrasted Hamilton's system which tied the value and behaviour of money to the increasing powers of production of a society through manufacturing and internal improvements, to the opposing system of British free trade which tied value to hedonistic impulses and the worshiping of money. (substack.com)
  • This preference for a technical rather than a political approach has shaped the behaviour of M5S deputies. (socialeurope.eu)
  • The case pits an unusually powerful and well-connected legal activist against the highest political figures in the country, and involves a wide range of human rights issues including police misconduct, arbitrary detention, violation of privacy, land grabbing, neglect of due process, and repression of freedom of expression. (hrw.org)
  • According to Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin , "These charges are unprecedented, and it's a sad day for our country, especially in light of what clearly appears to be a two-tiered justice system where some are selectively prosecuted, and others are not. (msnbc.com)
  • Being a basically anti-political (or maybe regretfully political) person, I find myself rooting for the country, although I'm painfully aware how awful and high-minded that sounds. (2blowhards.com)
  • Since the birth of the country, Israel's electoral system has been criticized for favoring small parties over large ones and for granting a disproportionate amount of power to fringe ideological groups. (fpri.org)
  • The most influential and controversial economist of the twentieth century, John Maynard Keynes was the leading founder of modern macroeconomics, and was also an important historical figure as a critic of the Versailles Peace Treaty after World War I and an architect of the Bretton Woods international monetary system after World War II. (exploring-economics.org)
  • This isn't the first time in Israel's 67-year history that the electoral system has been questioned but it has sparked an important debate about how the electoral system shapes government and how it will shape the government in the future. (fpri.org)
  • It's more important to evaluate a political force based on how they are positioned on fundamental rights and freedom… And their ability to outline useful platforms for citizens. (socialeurope.eu)
  • The polarizing effect of this electoral system has led to a rapidly changing political landscape with parties popping up and disbanding with great frequency. (fpri.org)
  • At the time of its founding, Israel needed a system that supported many parties because the influx of immigrants from a wide range of countries led to a rapidly changing Israeli polity. (fpri.org)
  • In this type of system, voters cast ballots for political parties rather than individuals and all parties that surpass the minimum threshold of votes are awarded a number of seats in the Knesset that is proportionate to the percentage of votes they received. (fpri.org)
  • By keeping this electoral threshold low, there were few barriers to political entry and the system encouraged the formation of new parties with a wide range of platforms. (fpri.org)
  • All political parties stand for a range of concrete policy proposals. (socialeurope.eu)
  • In 1982 Lagos became a member of the Executive Committee of the PSCh, and from 1983 to 1984 he was President of the Alianza Demócrata (AD), a political force comprised of the majority of democratic parties opposed to General Augusto Pinochet's regime. (globalcommissionondrugs.org)
  • Some will argue it was purposeful that he did not mention the groups who were in the rally (until Monday) and that it revealed his own bias or his willingness to put his political agenda above his moral one. (edweek.org)
  • supporters compare him to the republic's founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, while opponents criticize the AKP's brand of political Islam, warning against "Sultan" Erdoğan. (aawsat.com)
  • Even though officially split from Islam, The Letterists continued to venerate the figure of Ali allowing them to fit in amongst non-orthodox Shia. (todayifoundout.com)
  • We must aggressively reform the health care payment and delivery system by conducting a wide range of pilot and demonstration projects. (thefiscaltimes.com)
  • We also must aggressively reform the health care payment and delivery system by conducting a wide range of pilot and demonstration projects, establishing a new Medicare payment method to reward accountable care organizations, conducting more research on the comparative effectiveness of different medical procedures and treatments, and creating an Independent Payment Advisory Board to develop proposals to slow Medicare and private health spending and improve the quality of care. (thefiscaltimes.com)
  • More than just an organ of denunciation, the M5S has advanced a detailed vision of political reform, centred on expanding direct forms of citizen involvement and on exploiting opportunities provided by the internet and wireless communication. (socialeurope.eu)
  • With Patricio Aylwin as the new President of Chile, Ricardo Lagos became Minister of Education (1992-1993), initiating an educational reform intended to decentralize Chile's educational system. (globalcommissionondrugs.org)
  • Many local and international political analysts have said that Erdoğan may be seeking to marginalize Gül, a powerful figure within the AKP, in order to keep hold of his grip of the party. (aawsat.com)
  • Some analysts wonder if such self-confidence might evolve into political brinkmanship? (scmp.com)
  • And while reminding listeners the Dáil expenses system was subsequently overhauled by then minister for finance the late Brian Lenihan junior, Mr Foxe says what has replaced it is far less transparent than people realise, arguing a new overhaul may be needed. (rte.ie)
  • Professor Mazhar Bağlı of Yıldırım Beyazıt University has called for a younger figure to replace Erdoğan, aged 60, as party chief and prime minister, specifically citing deputy PM Emrullah İşler (aged 54), foreign minister Ahmet Davutoğlu (aged 56) and Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekçi (aged 53). (aawsat.com)
  • He was appointed Minister of Public Works (1994-1998) by President Eduardo Frei, and in this position Lagos created an innovative system of road projects involving the participation of the private sector, which invested nearly two billion dollars in different projects. (globalcommissionondrugs.org)
  • In their minds, America's economic 'empire' has collapsed, as the Soviet Union did 20 years ago, bringing down with it the western financial system, and leaving only China to lead the world through self-perceived virtue, from behind its Great Wall. (scmp.com)
  • The current capitalist system is too short-sighted. (ckgsb.edu.cn)
  • And thus: Brief statements on current political thoughts. (scalzi.com)
  • Right To Know transparency group founder Ken Foxe, who broke the story while public affairs correspondent for the Sunday Tribune, adds that the controversy occurred at exactly the wrong time in the political climate. (rte.ie)
  • George Mason was the most respected founder in his own time, but he is virtually invisible in our time. (hc.edu)
  • Schools of thought and individuals, that have been neglected or marginalised, are treated in full, including classical political economy and Marx, the German and British historical schools, American institutionalism, Weber and Schumpeter and their programme of Socialokonomik, and the Austrian school. (exploring-economics.org)
  • The University of Texas/Texas A&M Investment Management Company (UTIMCO) is the first external investment corporation formed by a public university system and oversees investments to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University Systems. (utsystem.edu)
  • I figure that the Dems will tend to screw things up in some ways and the Reps will screw things up in a slightly different way. (2blowhards.com)
  • Suddenly, the passage to any political or historical understanding would be covered over by the abstraction of cultural exchange-a mode of communication that supposes that you don't really understand where I am from or what I have been through. (e-flux.com)
  • His fascination with historical figures (and historians) is generally well-documented. (brookings.edu)
  • Just as Paulina Ochoa Espejo asks us to move from a question of who ought to be hurried under the protection of a democratic boundary to one of where those boundaries ought to be-from Hume's desert island toy model to the wetter interdependence of watersheds [3] -questions of borders that fail to reckon with their historical construction risk both disembodied theorizing and misfires of political judgment. (columbia.edu)
  • Belize has a functioning two-party political system revolving around the PUP and the UDP. (countrystudies.us)
  • Israel adopted a closed list system wherein each party internally determines the order of the candidates on its party list before the election. (fpri.org)
  • I was one of the founders of the party. (aawsat.com)
  • To think of the M5S as a simple populist party misses much of what makes it distinctive and original as a political movement. (socialeurope.eu)
  • and Rats, Lice and History by Hans Zinsser ( Figure ). (cdc.gov)
  • Both works offer clean drafts of political and poetic history "dipped from the running stream of consciousness"-to use Holmes' phrase, later made famous by William James. (cdc.gov)
  • Here, we use an invertebrate model system to examine the effects of environmental variation (resource availability) on the evolution of phenotypic plasticity in two life history traits-age and size at maturation-in long-running, experimental density-dependent environments. (bvsalud.org)
  • Others on the left argue that support for Duterte is real, but that it's symptomatic not of enthusiasm for Duterte but of deeper indignation toward a political system perceived as corrupt. (thenation.com)
  • The other criteria were weather, airport infrastructure, political support. (memphismagazine.com)
  • Popalzai has volunteered hundreds of hours with various organizations such as Special Olympics, Carleton University (Student Mentor), Correctional Service of Canada, Volunteer Ottawa, Crime Stoppers, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario and is the co-founder of two youth sports teams. (canadianimmigrant.ca)
  • A Yale academic worries that readers "may be puzzled by the acerbic references to the literary dandies of the interwar period" ( 2 ), while a scroll down Amazon.com yields another complaint: "Some of the writing assumes that all readers were educated under an aristocratic university system, so that there are bits thrown in Latin and Greek, not to mention French and other modern languages" ( 3 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Be that as it may, Zinsser's assumption of an "aristocratic university system" did not prevent the book from becoming a best-seller in 1935 or from undergoing 75 subsequent printings. (cdc.gov)
  • Out of the ashes of the old political order, new states were formed that looked to the Mongols for legitimacy, just as new religious reactions to the carnage looked to instill hope and resistance in the conquered people. (todayifoundout.com)
  • The facts on the ground will not allow this to happen, because Erdoğan and the group around him do not have the capability or power to change the [political] system at this point. (aawsat.com)
  • He recruited several former operatives from the conservative group Project Veritas, where he had worked previously, to set up the political infiltration operation in the West. (commondreams.org)
  • The more powerful a political figure, the more likely they are to operate with near impunity when it comes to breaking the law. (msnbc.com)
  • He began his political career on a lie about President Barack Obama's citizenship and has failed to firmly condemn the words and deeds of white supremacists, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan leaders and other bigots who rallied behind him. (edweek.org)
  • The continued call for a system of censorship is chilling for the free speech community. (jonathanturley.org)
  • It is now becoming mainstream as free speech recedes into quagmire of our poisonous political environment. (jonathanturley.org)
  • CONCLUSION: Effecting policy change in this area requires the commitment of an extended period and the valuing of short-term policy outcomes, such as increasing political will. (bvsalud.org)
  • The most obvious reason is that Clinton remains a highly unpopular figure and was viewed as inauthentic on the campaign by many. (jonathanturley.org)
  • Already, Ginn and Johnson have had audiences with some significant GOP figures including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's campaign manager, Mike DuHaime, and top Republican campaign strategists Patrick Ruffini and Vince Harris. (politico.com)
  • What makes this gang different from the myriad of existing GOP digital strategy firms with hanging shingles in Washington is that the Silicon Valley bunch isn't in it for the money and they're not as interested in political gamesmanship as they are in creating useful and usable campaign tools. (politico.com)
  • Straw donations' in which donors are reimbursed for contributing to a political campaign are illegal under federal law. (commondreams.org)
  • In 1984 he headed the Comité de Izquierda pro Elecciones Libres (CIEL) and on December 15th of the same year became one of the founders of the Partido por la Democracia (PPD). (globalcommissionondrugs.org)
  • Trump's overall unemployment figure of 3.5 percent excludes "discouraged workers" and other Bureau of Labor Statistics categories that disappear the unemployed and underemployed and include workers who appear on the books for just one-quarter of the year and are jobless thereafter. (socialistaction.org)
  • Maybe it's partly age, though I was never an enthusiastic political person even when young. (2blowhards.com)
  • Leaders of the era gathered around themselves a retinue of devoted Muslim and non-Muslim followers that treated their political leaders as spiritual guides responsible for their salvation. (todayifoundout.com)
  • Compared to the pro-European EPP, those with Eurosceptic views may be members of the European Christian Political Movement . (wikipedia.org)
  • He has been working to strengthen the United Nations system and he has reached out to foundations, research centres, civil society and the private sector to help build partnerships to advance the cause of global public health. (who.int)
  • Third, we have learnt the value of investment in strong public health systems. (who.int)
  • The United States has quite a complex system for protecting the public health from exposure to harmful chemicals. (cdc.gov)
  • The expose includes some characters from Goldman and Mazzetti's previous reporting on covert right-wing operations to ' discredit ' Trump's enemies and infiltrate groups 'hostile' to the ex-president's agenda: war profiteer Erik Prince--founder of the mercenary firm Blackwater and brother of Trump Education Secretary Betsy DeVos--and former British spy Richard Seddon. (commondreams.org)
  • It has used "la casta" as a political lightning rod, as a way of stigmatising what its members see as the self-serving actions of an entire political class. (socialeurope.eu)
  • Chris Bell, who worked as a political consultant for the consortium, told the Times that 'getting the WIN stuff is really damaging' because 'it's the entire strategy. (commondreams.org)
  • In the short term, it creates a breathing space for the children, and in the longer term ULYP hopes to arouse public opinion and affect the entire education system in Lebanon. (lu.se)
  • Beate Scholz is founder and director of Scholz CTC GmbH, an independent service for higher education institutions. (uclpress.co.uk)
  • And by October, Mr O'Donoghue - who did not respond to requests to take part in the podcast - became only the second ever Ceann Comhairle to resign from the post, amid a political furore he said was unfair, saying costs were incurred by his ministerial and Ceann Comhairle offices for the purposes of carrying out the work of the offices rather than by him. (rte.ie)
  • Look at business management and political systems from a long-term perspective. (ckgsb.edu.cn)
  • First, the ability to view business management and political system together in the long term is necessary. (ckgsb.edu.cn)
  • Yet, the demand for corporate censorship of political ads has magnified this long-standing concern. (jonathanturley.org)
  • This figure represents about 13.7 percent of China's GDP. (ckgsb.edu.cn)