This paper proposes that budgets and control systems implemented as part of an organization can reduce conflict in decision making by small groups. The paper reviews the existing literature on topics relevant to this research question and concludes that a productive line of empirical work can be generated from this proposal.
After his younger sister was killed in the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings, Omar Samaha felt an obligation to keep guns away from criminals, drug abusers and the mentally ill. Her life was cut short by someone who shouldn't have had a gun in the first place," Samaha said Saturday outside the Downtown office of Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Forest Hills. "I need to follow through for my sister to show the country that something needs to be done to prevent this from ever happening again.
RailAmerica, Inc. (RailAmerica), Palm Beach Holding, Inc. (Palm Beach), RailAmerica Transportation Corp. (RTC), RailTex, Inc., Fortress Investment Group, LLC (Fortress), and RR Acquisition Holding, LLC (RR Acquisition) (collectively, Petitioners), seek an exemption under 49 U.S.C. 10502 from the prior approval requirements of 49 U.S.C. 11323-25 to acquire control of Marquette Rail, LLC (Marquette Rail), a Class III rail carrier. The Board seeks comments on Petitioners' proposed acquisition of control of Marquette Rail.
A national gun control group most famous for getting an assault weapons bill passed is using the case of a local gun dealer to attack the National Rifle Association. The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence Friday released a 33- page report titled "Guns for Gangs," detailing the case of Stratford gun dealer Frank D'Andrea, who is headed to prison for 3 1/2 years for an assault weapon conviction.
This study investigated whether organizational changes occurred when nicotine treatments were tested in specialty care clinics. Two intervention clinics (one drug treatment and one HIV-care) participated in clinical trials for nicotine treatment. Three clinics (two drug and one HIV-care) were control clinics. Staff in the intervention clinics (n=57) and in the control clinics (n=62) were surveyed at baseline and 18 months later. Staff surveys concerned nicotine-related knowledge, beliefs about treating smoking, self-efficacy in delivering such treatment, nicotine related practices, and barriers to providing nicotine treatment. Mean scale scores at 18 months were no different in clinics participating in the clinical trials from the control group for any of the five scales (knowledge, pra...
The nation's leading gun control group on Thursday endorsed a U.S. senator who acknowledged last year that she keeps two rifles under her bed. Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand, D-N.Y., won the endorsement of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence because she is "standing up to the gun lobby," said Michael Wolkowitz, chairman of the Brady campaign's board.
LEWISTON -- Water treatment officials didn't have to change any policies to qualify for a national certification standard -- they just had to get better at writing things down. We've always done everything we can to correct a problem, but we didn't document things as well as we could," said Mac Richardson, superintendent of the Lewiston-Auburn Water Pollution Control Authority. "That's what we had to change.
The present study examined the role of competitiveness and depression in the development of body image dissatisfaction. College student women were presented with the image of a thin, attractive model. After comparing their own body shape to the woman in the picture, participants expressed significantly higher negative feelings about their own body image than the control group. The results of this study indicate that competitiveness and depression are important contributing factors to the development of body image and shape dissatisfaction.
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