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Kirtley: Cabbages, Kale, and Cameras; Analyzing Leaf Shape Data Among Brassica Ferals
Title
Kirtley: Cabbages, Kale, and Cameras; Analyzing Leaf Shape Data Among Brassica Ferals
Date
2021
Summary
Virtual presentation at the Spring 2021 University of Missouri Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievements Forum, held April 2021.
Taunton-Dean letter
Title
The Taunton-Dean letter, Taunton Dean letter, Exeter queries
Tentative presidential primary and caucus dates, 1988
Title
Tentative presidential primary and caucus dates, 1988
Date
1987
Summary
This report lists the tentative 1988 Presidential primary and caucus dates for the selection of delegates to the national nominating conventions.
Analysis of U.S. energy program funding for fiscal years 1986 and 1987 in the era of Gramm-Rudman-Hollings
Title
An analysis of U.S. energy program funding for fiscal years 1986 and 1987 in the era of Gramm-Rudman-Hollings
Date
1986
Interest rates on consumer and commercial loans
Title
Interest rates on consumer and commercial loans: Why the difference?
Date
1985
Summary
This paper, using the period from May 1982 to May 1983 as a case study, will examine the reasons for the inflexibility of rates charged by banks on consumer loans relative to rates charged by banks on business loans. The first half of the paper will attempt to establish the differences, and the reasons for such differences, in changes between consumer loan rates and commercial loan charges. The second half of the paper will analyze the reasons for these differences in light of bank yields on outstanding loans to consumers and businesses from 1966 through 1983. Finally, current data will be examined from the point of view of the conclusions reached in the report.
Summary and analysis of the major legal developments under the Civil Rights Act of 1871, 42 U.S.C. 1983,
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Summary and analysis of the major legal developments under the Civil Rights Act of 1871, 42 U.S.C. 1983,: With respect to actions against schools and school officials
Date
1985
The president's steel import program
Title
The President's steel import program: One year later
Date
1985
Summary
The President's steel import restraint program has as its goal limiting imports of steel to 18.5 percent of the U.S. market for finished steel products and 20.2 percent for all steel products. One year after the announcement of the program, it appears that the goal for all steel products will only partially be achieved for the 1986-89 period. The import market share for all steel products could be reduced, but only to about 22.6 percent of the U.S. market. The ultimate success of the program hinges on the results of negotiations of voluntary export restraint agreements with countries or regions not presently subject to them.
Sex discrimination and the United States Supreme Court
Title
Sex discrimination and the United States Supreme Court: Developments in the law
Date
1984
Summary
This paper analyzes Supreme Court decisions in the area of gender discrimination from both a constitutional and statutory perspective. These decisions reveal the development and clarification of judicial interpretation with respect to sex-based discrimination.
Laws implicated by shipments of military materials to Iran
Title
Laws implicated by shipments of military materials to Iran
Date
1986
Summary
Laws Implicated By Shipments of Military Materials to Iran, Raymond J. Celada, Senior Specialist. November 20, 1986, revised November 24, 1986. Covert shipments of war materials to Iran raise issues concerning the wisdom of Administration policies and the legality of the shipments and the procedures followed in making them. This report deals with the legal issues and highlights the following authorities as being immediately implicated: the Arms Export Control Act, the Foreign Assistance Act, the Export Administration Act, the National Security Act, the Hostage Act, and potentially various funding and expenditure regulations.
Grove City College v. Bell and its aftermath
Title
Grove City College v. Bell and its aftermath
Date
1985
Measuring vitality and performance in aging workers
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Measuring vitality and performance in aging workers
Date
1985
Housing requirements in rural areas
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Housing requirements in rural areas
Date
1986
Summary
Federal housing policy for rural areas is now at a crossroads. Since 1949 more than two million rural families have received benefits through housing programs of the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) and about 700,000 through the deep-subsidy programs of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Early in 1985 the Reagan Administration proposed that additional aid under these programs be suspended for two years, after which all subsidized housing in rural areas would be provided by HUD. While Congress has not yet concurred in these proposed changes, deep cutbacks in proggram levels are expected in the process of reducing the Federal budget deficit. In this transition period, legislators and community groups are going back to the drawing board and asking basic questions about rural housing needs and programs. The questions include the following: (1) What kinds of housing difficulties face low and moderate income families in rural areas? (2) Is there a chronic credit gap for housing in rural areas? (3) What is the connection between the problems of the farm economy and housing problems in rural areas? (4) Are the Federal and State programs now in place able to deal effectively with these problems? (5) Are additional or alternative measures--private as well as public--called for?
U.S. housing
Title
U.S. housing: Problems and policies
Date
1987
Implementation of medicare's hospice benefit
Title
Implementation of medicare's hospice benefit
Date
1984
Summary
This document provides (1) background information on hospice care and a summary of current law provisions authorizing coverage for hospice care under Medicare; (2) information on the National Hospice Study; (3) information on the implementation of the hospice benefit; and (4) a discussion of hospice issues.
Recueil des familles qui portent des navires pour leurs armoirues
Title
Recueil des familles qui portent des navires pour leurs armoirues
Date
1750
The general liability category of commercial insurance
Title
The general liability category of commercial insurance: Some explanations of a "crisis"
Date
1986
Summary
This report analyses some of the available data to identify some of the reasons for the "crisis" of affordability and availability of the General Liability category of commercial insurance. Four possible reasons are identified: while there have apparently been dramatic increases in premium rates, premium income in the General Liability category is rising slowly relative to losses; insurers are writing less of these lines in comparison with other lines; the high and rising cost of litigation; and the relatively sharp swings in underwriting experience. These explanations do not necessarily cover the broad spectrum of and interaction between the legal, social, and other factors influencing the General Liability insurance market.
Trucking regulation
Title
Trucking regulation: A selected bibliography
Date
1984
Summary
The following bibliography lists important published information and opinion about the Federal regulation of trucking in the United States. The entries of the bibliography appeared in print from 1975, when the deregulation of Federal control over trucking routes, rates, entry, and exit became a prominent issue nationally, to June 1984, the date of this report.
The subsidization of natural resources in the United States
Title
The subsidization of natural resources in the United States
Date
1986
Summary
The objective of this report is to review the various ways or forms in which the Federal Government affects the costs of mining and natural resource-based products of the United States. The report describes how current Federal laws and polices affect the market costs of livestock, timber, food and fiber, fisheries, water, hardrock mining, fuel minerals, oil and gas, hydroelectric power, and petroleum substitutes. The analysis is not restricted to any particular definition of subsidy, but rather attempts to identify any domestic circumstances where it would be possible to suggest that natural resource-based products marketed by the United States are not paying the full, immediate cost of producing or consuming that resource. The report also identifies some of the broader forms of assistance provided to U.S. industry that affect all industry, not just natural resources, or are applicable to more than one resource industry category.
Tentative 1988 congressional primary dates
Title
Tentative 1988 congressional primary dates
Date
1987
Summary
This report lists the tentative 1988 Congressional Primary dates, chronologically and by state.
The Reagan approach to housing
Title
The Reagan approach to housing
Date
1987
Summary
There have been marked changes in the Federal Government's role in housing since 1981. Inflation, Federal budget deficits, slow income growth, public disenchantment with programs for the poor -- these and other factors would have compelled shifts in social programs such as housing regardless of the group who controlled the White House. But many of the housing programs in place in 1981 were essentially incompatible with the philosophy of the Reagan team. This paper identifies some of the major changes brought about or proposed by this Administration and the rationale for these efforts.

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