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A state agency's plan to clear-cut portions of a forest near a waterfront subdivision has a group of residents concerned about potential declines in property values, negative environmental impacts and wildfires.
In January, the Virginia Department of Forestry embarked on a plan to harvest sections of Bourassa State Forest, a 288-acre mixed hardwood/pine forest located at the entrance to Cedar Key, a residential development in Huddleston.
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Halloween 2011 is destined to be one that few North Jersey residents will forget.
Thousands remained without power Monday while crews struggled to clear roads of downed power lines and shattered tree limbs left in the wake of a rare early-season snowstorm that tore through the region on Saturday.
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Information professionals perform many tasks and activities related to designing or presenting research. For example, have you ever done any of the fo...
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The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the private litigation securities reform Act of 1995 - A. The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 - B. The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 - II. Policy, theory, and jurisprudence: corporate action and intent-components of corporate scienter - A. The Total is Greater than the Sum of its Parts-A Corporation and its Agent - B. Scienter: What Constitutes Intent under Securities Law? - C. The Doctrine of Collective Scienter - III. Landing on different sides of the fence on collective scienter-an examination of the Federal Circuit Courts‘ split - A. Two Circuits’ Outright Rejection of Collective Scienter - B. The Sixth Circuit Takes a Different Approach - C. The Fence Riders - IV. Spanning the usage spectrum - A. The Fifth Circuit’s Anal...
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Roger Harper, principal of RHarper Consulting Group, recommends getting at least three bids and having each contractor explain to you how he would approach the work. Get three customer references, at a minimum, from each contractor, as well as a bank and an insurance reference. Site managers should take the time in advance to develop their own form contract, says veteran construction and development litigator Scott W. Campbell. Campbell strongly recommends that site managers opt for a "fixed-bid" contract rather than a "time-and-materials" or "cost plus" contract. The contract should include requirements for site inspection and written change orders, assurances of contractor's ability to pay for damages, claim notice provisions, damages in the event of delay, requirement for contractor-...
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Davis reviews several books, including SLOW MAN by J. M. Coetzee, THE SUCCESSOR by Ismail Kadare and translated by David Bellos, and SEVEN LIES by James Lasdun, among others.
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Who is Stanley Fish to tell us how to write and read a sentence? Well, for starters, he has been the dean of liberal arts and sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has taught at Duke, Johns Hopkins and Berkeley universities, and today he is the Davidson-Kahn distinguished university professor and a law professor at Florida International University. OK, but university professors are not, by definition, writers of clear, sparkling prose. Then consider this: He has written 12 books and is a weekly columnist for the New York Times.
You know this is going to be a serious book, but it's heartening to see that the author has a sense of humor. He begins the book with this quatrain from Kenneth Koch's poem "Permanently":
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By Toni Guagenti
Correspondent