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- 1671: Child Labour
- ... an important causal factor, it is often the case that it is not the only factor. For example, some studies have indicated that some child workers "...are from relatively affluent families, and engage in the business for excitement and pocket money"5. This would seem to suggest that "...cultural and economic factors here interact in complex ways to encourage child work and need to be understood together"6. An examination of ... this activity also happens to be everywhere and familiar, such as a child who shines shoes for a living, who is at home tending younger children or who is helping in a family farm and business working such long hours that it is impossible to play or even attend school. If anything, this emphasizes that much of the attention that has been focused on child labour has dealt with the problems ...
- 1672: The New Federalist Party
- ... not dragged in by NATO. The next issue of foreign policy is our newfound love of being the police nation (aka. Globocop). The United States, under Bill Clinton has stuck our noses in other nations business and have therefore been dragged into the mess. Somalia is a prime example. Even though human rights are very important, it was simply none of our business. If we attempt the same thing with China we might get hurt. Now Clinton is meddling with Bosnia, a disaster in the making. The New Federalists's plan of action for the Bosnian situation would ...
- 1673: The Brady Bill
- ... wanted. Resulting from this situation was a compromise by Mitchell, Metzenbaum, and the GOP leader Bob Dole (R-KS). In this compromise, the length of the waiting period was changed from seven days to five business days, and a new provision was added which would end the waiting period in two and a half years upon the Attorney General's confirmation that the instant check system met certain standards. Nevertheless, it ... the conference report under a compromise that he would submit a separate bill with the Senate-passed provisions, which was to be considered and voted immediately in January as soon as the Senate returned to business. Obviously, this solution was prompted by the loathing of most senators to come back from their respective States to Washington after Thanksgiving break as well as by the pro-Brady public pressure. Consequently, the Senate ...
- 1674: The Four Political Parties of Canada
- ... Preston Manning (the current leader), Ted Byfield, and Stan Roberts. Byfield was not entirely comfortable with the idea of being the Reform Party's leader, however, and wanted to continue to run his own personal business. A theory that came out of the convention was that this leadership race was a battle between "Roberts' old political style and money against Manning's grass-roots populism." (Harrison, pg.117, 1995) There was ... reform policies seem to be related somewhat to the Progressive Conservatives' economic reform policies, but they do not go into nearly as much detail as the Conservatives do. Politics in Canada is an extremely volatile business. One day a party can be on top of the world, and the next day they can be the scourge of the planet. Politics in Canada has a long and interesting history, so much so ...
- 1675: Olmstead v. United States (1928)
- ... liquor, and many other caches around the area of Seattle, a maintained city office with executives, secretaries, salesmen, deliverymen, dispatchers, bookkeepers, collectors, scouts, and an attorney. Olmstead was the leading conspirator and manager of the business. His invested capital brought him 50 percent of the total income of the company (said to be over 2 million/year), and the other 50 percent went to 11 other investors. In the main office ... decision of the lower courts were upheld. Legal Reasoning: 1. "There is no room in the present case for applying the 5th amendment unless the fourth was first violated. . .[petitioners] were continually and voluntarily transacting business without knowledge of the interception." 2. The well-known purpose of the 4th was to protect against general warrants and writs of assistance to prevent the use of governmental force to search a citizen's ...
- 1676: The Communications Decency Act
- ... on the conversation in cyberspace than currently exist in the Senate Cafeteria..." (1996). The liability is still with the end-user. The American, or fireigner, who sits in front of their computer everyday to conduct business, chat with friends, or learn about something he didn't know about before. For us to take liability away from the end-user we must lay the liability on either the providers or on the ... changed. Works Cited Cavazos, E. (1994) Cyberspace and the law: Your rights and duties in the on-line world. Boston: MIT Press Macdissi, K. (1995) Enforcement is the problem with regulation of the Internet. Midlands Business Journal Stone, E. (1996) A Cyberspace independence declaration. Unpublished Essay, Heretic@csulb.com (E-Mail address)
- 1677: The Environmental Protection Agency
- ... They were upset at the new criticism of such projects, as were the construction unions whose members built these same dams and roads. Republicans too were torn. Environmentalism risked antagonizing their traditional friends in the business community. Fiscal conservatives and opponents of government intrusion were also upset by demands for increased public and private spending on pollution control. Leaders in both parties sought to frame environmental programs to avoid these divisions ... integral consideration in US policies concerning natural resources, human health, economic growth, energy, transportation, agriculture, industry, and international trade, and these factors are similarly considered in establishing environmental policy. All parts of society communities, individuals, business, state and local governments have access to accurate information sufficient to effectively participate in managing human health and environmental risks. Environmental protection contributes to making our communities and ecosystems diverse, sustainable and economically productive. The ...
- 1678: The FAA
- ... smaller aircraft are more dangerous because they have less safety and backup systems, fewer safety standards, and overworked pilots. The FAA's regulation of airline competition has hindered the advancement of safety in the airline business. The FAA needs to improve the control over the competition because the airlines lower ticket prices to drive out rival companies, but their cost of operation stays the same. This lowers their profit margin and ... This price war lead to nearly $8 billion of loses to the airline industry. (Ott, 124) These loses make it very hard for airline companies to buy new planes or safety equipment. In the airline business you must have profit before you can have maximum safety. (Ott, 124) Another thing that the FAA should regulate that would make airlines safer is peak-hour flights because overcrowded skies place a lot of ...
- 1679: Apartheid in South Africa
- ... The actual changes came at least partly because many average people would not buy things from South Africa... an attack on white South African wallets. Although the United Nations urged other countries not to do business with South Africa, many countries did not support the policy fully. Can-ada officially opposed apartheid, but Canadian purchases from South Af-rica grew. In 1970, Canada imported $46 Million Dollars worth of goods from ... Africa. By 1980, Canada buying had increased to over $388 Million dollars. For example, the Manitoba Government ignored apartheid, and bought South African wine to sell in Liquor Control Commission stores. At that time, doing business with South Africa still supported the evils of apartheid - even though South Africa bought much less from Canada, in return Real change began slowlt when a new Prime Minister, P. W. Botha, was picked in ...
- 1680: Quotas are Outdated in Affirmative Action Programs
- ... origin(Civil Rights Act Title VII). These laws can be justified by our constitutional principle that all men are created equal, and should remain a part of our laws and thought process. However, penalizing a business or school because they haven't hired or accepted the number of minorities required by law is injustice. According to Roberts (1995), a Gallup Poll taken in July of 1995 shows that Americans agree that ... reverse discrimination is the cry from the white male, it is not that wide spread. Minorities are wondering how different life would be without affirmative action programs on their side. An article in Quotas 5 Business Week by Catherine Yang gives reason that affirmative action programs are all but gone. Yang states that the U.S. market and labor pool is increasingly diverse-so a company's workforce must reflect that ...
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