Syria: An end to the hands-off policy. CEPS Commentary, 31 August 2015

After a year of focusing on the nuclear deal with Iran, international diplomacy is returning to consider resolution of the civil war in Syria, with each side now a little less firm in their positions as the situation on the ground deteriorates further. In this new CEPS Commentary Steven Blockmans sheds light on the highly complex and volatile environment in the Middle East, concluding that failure to seize the new diplomatic momentum to resolve this conflict will likely mean that Syria falls into the hands of IS.

An Approach to Assessment of the Technical Condition of Overhead Transmission Lines

The approach of estimating the current state of the overhead transmission lines is considering. The performance functions of the overhead transmission lines has been generated on the basis of experimental data and reports. Results of simulation of the approximation functions for overhead transmission lines are analyzed.

Statement by H. E. Manuel Trucco Ambassador of Chile to the Organization of American States, with reference to the OAS' acceptance of Chile's invitation to hold the sixth general assembly in Santiago /

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An introduction to national economic accounting.

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Some results of an effort to reform the homes of the laboring classes in New York City.

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Summary on H.R. 9827 : An act to provide revenue by imposing a corporate excess profits tax.

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Analysis of H.R. 12889 : a bill to amend an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States" approved July 1, 1898, and acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto and to repeal section 76 thereof and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent therewith /

"Containing amendments proposed by the National Bankruptcy Conference."

Revenue act of 1932--Supplement no 1. Postal rates. : Hearings before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, seventy-second Congress, first session on H.R. 10236 an act to provide revenue, equalize taxation and for other purposes, May 3, 1932.

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Revenue act of 1932--Supplement no.2. Rubber import tax. : Hearings before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, seventy-second Congress, first session on H.R. 10236 an act to provide revenue, equalize taxation and for other purposes, May 9,10, and 11, 1932.

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