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University of Missouri-Columbia Concert Series 1978-79
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UMC Concert Series 1978-79
Grants to state agencies for the education of neglected or delinquent children under chapter 1
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Grants to state agencies for the education of neglected or delinquent children under chapter 1: Education consolidation and improvement act, brief legislative and funding history and analysis of program evaluations
Date
1985
Summary
Since 1966, the Department of Education's State agency program for the neglected or delinquent has provided supplementary educational services to this group of educationally disadvantaged children and youth. This paper provides a legislative history, funding history, and a discussion and analysis of evaluations of this program.
Proposed sports relocation legislation
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Proposed sports relocation legislation: Background and legal implications
Date
1985
Federal spending for education
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Federal spending for education: Tables and figures portraying the president's 1984 budget plan (1983-1988) in the context of the past 20 years
Date
1983
Summary
This report portrays and discusses Federal spending for education programs in the context of a 26-year span: the past 20 years of actual experience (1963-1982) and the spending plan for the next six years proposed in the President's 1984 budget. In addition to the 26-year perspective, various measures such as spending in constant dollars, as a percent of the gross national product (GNP), as a percent of total Federal budget and annual and cumulative change analyses are used to help the reader gain a sense of context and perspective.
Worker relocation assistance
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Worker relocation assistance: Moving people to jobs
Date
1983
Summary
One characteristic of the dislocated worker problem is that a mismatch exists between the number and kinds of jobs offered by employers and the number and kinds of skills possessed by workers in the same geographic area. At the same time, other geographic areas have unfilled job openings and relatively low unemployment rates. Government-assisted worker relocation is one tool of employment policy that might be used to reduce these regional imbalances in labor supply and demand. This report describes the U.S. experience with both unassisted and Government-assisted worker relocation. It examines the applicability of this experience to the current dislocated worker problem, as well. In addition, the report evaluates the feasibility of establishing a nationwide worker relocation program.
Comparison of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's groundwater protection strategies
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Comparison of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's groundwater protection strategies
Date
1984
Summary
Since 1979, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has expended considerable effort on developing an approach to protect groundwater from pollution. Because groundwater protection has traditionally been a right of the States, EPA sought to develop a groundwater protection strategy that would establish agency policy to protect groundwater under existing Federal statutes, but be sensitive to the rights and protection efforts of the States. EPA's efforts to prepare a groundwater strategy have been controversial and the strategy has been redrafted three times. This report compares and contrasts the three EPA groundwater strategies. EPA's executive summary of the proposed third version of the groundwater strategy is included in an appendix.
Distributing acid rain mitigation costs
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Distributing acid rain mitigation costs: Analysis of a one-mill user fee on electricity generation in the contiguous 48 states
Date
1983
Ethylene dibromide
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Ethylene dibromide
Date
1984
Summary
Much attention has recently been focused on the chemical ethylene dibromide (EDB). This chemical has been widely used in leaded gasoline, and has also been used to treat grains, citrus and other crops. It has been found in foods and in groundwater. This paper examines the possible health effects of exposure to EDB, as well as its regulation. The possible health effects and regulation of various chemical and physical alternatives to EDB are also examined. This paper concludes with some policy considerations pertinent to EDB.
Meaning more than we know ...
Title
Meaning more than we know ...
Autobiography of Samuel S. Hildebrand
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Autobiography of Samuel S. Hildebrand: the renowned Missouri "bushwhacker" ... being his complete confession
The farmers home administration's new regulations for handling delinquent farm borrowers
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The farmers home administration's new regulations for handling delinquent farm borrowers: Background and current policy issues
Date
1986
Summary
On November 1, 1985, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farmers Home Administration (FeHA) published regulations instituting new procedures for handling farm loan program borrowers who are one year or more delinquent in their loan payments. This report outlines the history of the lawsuit that led to the promulgation of the new regulations, examines the arguments against them contained in the subsequent legal challenge, and discusses some of the policy issues underlying FmHA's actions regarding delinquent borrowers.
Summary of pay equity/comparable worth activities by state governments
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Summary of pay equity/comparable worth activities by state governments
Date
1985
Summary
Almost half the States have studies or are studying their civil service systems for discriminatory pay practices particularly in female-dominated classifications. These studies and their results may have implications for the Federal Government as there are similarities between the civil service systems of the state and the Federal Government. The report includes a table highlighting comparable worth activities in the States.
Housing and homelessness provisions
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Housing and homelessness provisions: A side-by-side comparison of H.R. 4, H.R. 286, and H.R. 558
Date
1987
Summary
This paper compares the provisions of three bills introduced in the 100th Congress: H.R. 4, H.R. 286, and H.R. 558. All of these bills attempt to provide not only support services and emergency shelter for the homeless, but also strive to prevent homelessness through the preservation of the existing housing stock occupied by low-income persons.
Battle of Westport
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The Battle of Westport
Title III of the Higher Education Act
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Title III of the Higher Education Act: FY 1986 budget proposal
Date
1985
Summary
This paper reviews the current structure of the programs authorized by title III of the Higher Education Act and the structural changes proposed for this title in the FY 1986 budget. Title III programs currently provide funds to institutions of higher education for development projects designed to improve academic and financial management capabilities. The Administration proposes in its FY 1986 budget to eliminate two of the current programs and focus funding on endowment building. The proposed FY 1986 appropriation level of $141,208,000 is the same as the FY 195 appropriation level.
Missouri
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Missouri
Chronicles of the Civil War in Monroe County
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Chronicles of the Civil War in Monroe County
Gross national product and basic manufacturing industries in the United States
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Gross national product and basic manufacturing industries in the United States: Comparative analysis of growth rates, 1950-1982
Date
1984
Summary
This report analyzes and compares trends in the growth of real GNP and real output in manufacturing and basic manufacturing in the Unites States between 1950 and 1982. As a corollary, the report also looks at trends in the real output growth of six basic manufacturing industries in the same period: primary metals, motor vehicles and equipment, textile mill products, paper and allied products, chemicals and allied products, and rubber and miscellaneous plastic products. The results indicate, among other things, that (1) manufacturing is not in imminent danger of disappearing, as some proponents of the "deindustrialization" thesis seem to believe, (2) since the mid-1970s, basic manufacturing at once is contributing less and less to national income and continues to be greatly influenced by changes in national income, and (3) it can be misleading to treat all basic American manufacturing industries as though they constitute a homogeneous sector facing the same competitive challenges and commercial opportunities.
Examination of farm commodity promotion programs
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An examination of farm commodity promotion programs
Date
1985
Summary
Representatives of a number of commodity groups have asked Congress in recent years for statutory authority to establish national generic promotion programs for their products. A key feature is a mandatory assessment paid by all producers to support such activities. Federal legislation has authorized nine such national promotion programs, and lawmakers now are considering whether to create new initiatives for beef, pork, and watermelons. Critics believe that such programs represent unwarranted Government interference, pit one commodity group against another for limited consumer dollars, and lack adequate evidence of success. Proponents, on the other hand, contend that the programs do work, cost the Federal Government virtually nothing, and benefit producers and consumers alike. This report discusses programs that have already been enacted by Congress and examines their records to date.
Recent cases concerning congressional standing in sue
Title
Recent cases concerning congressional standing in sue
Date
1985

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