U.S. foreign policy and the law of the sea : hearings before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, June 17, August 12, and September 16, 1982.

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Committee findings and staff papers on national beverage container deposits of the Resource Conservation Committee : second report to the President and Congress of the United States mandated by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (Public Law 94-580)

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U.S. direct investment abroad : balance of payments and direct investment position estimates, 1982-88.

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Sweet & Maxwell's Guide to the legal profession : the London LL.B., the law clerks' certificates and to students' law books, with suggested courses of reading.

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National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Maintenance Fund Act of 2005 : report (to accompany H.R. 2107).

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Proceedings of the ... annual Convention of the Investment Bankers Association of America.

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Proceedings of the organization meeting and of the ... annual Convention of the Investment Bankers' Association of America.

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The law, without the advice of an attorney. Or, Every man his own counsellor. Containing the laws of Pennsylvania relative to bonds, promissory notes, deeds, mortgages, judgments, limitation of actions, leases by parol, property exempt from distress and levy, register and recorder, witnesses, jurors, and constables fees, education of poor children, interest, landlord and tenant, constables, innkeepers, livery stable keepers, mechanics' lien, stage drivers, carters, inland navigation, roads, bridges, fences, strays, swine, water courses, hunting &c. Together with a number of forms and other legal information useful to the farmer, mechanic, or man of business.

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Proceedings, annual convention of the Investment bankers' association of America

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Federal laws affecting national banks, including provisions of U. S. Revised statutes, Federal reserve act, Deposit insurance law, Emergency banking act, Bank conservation act, Banking act of 1933, Banking act of 1935 and other laws affecting the national banking system as of January 1, 1950.

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Federal laws affecting national banks, including provisions of U. S. Revised statutes, Federal reserve act, Deposit insurance law, Emergency banking act, Bank conservation act, Banking act of 1933, Banking act of 1935 and other laws affecting, directly or indirectly, the national banking system, as of January 1, 1936.

On cover: National bank laws as of Jan. 1, 1936

Compilation of releases, commission opinions, and other material dealing with matters frequently arising under the Investment company act of 1940.

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The impact of regulation and ownership structure on market orientation in the tourism industry in China

The nature of market orientation and its impact on business performance and other related outcomes have been extensively researched in a range of service contexts including tourism. In contrast, our understanding of the factors that influence market orientation is still limited. This paper reports on a study that contributes to our understanding of the determinants of market orientation within the tourism sector by focusing specifically on the role played by two strategically important variables, namely government regulation and ownership structure. The study analyses two national samples of hotels and travel services in the rapidly growing tourism industry in China. The hotel sector has been open to foreign investment for two decades and has a diversified ownership structure, whereas the travel services sector has been dominated by government owned firms and relatively closed to foreign investment. The results of the survey suggest that of the two new antecedents, only government regulation has a significant role to play in driving market orientation. Internally, access to appropriate managerial and marketing capabilities was identified as a significant predictor of the development of market orientation.

Public R&D policies and private R&D investment:a survey of the empirical evidence

The importance of R&D investment in explaining economic growth is well documented in the literature. Policies by modern governments increasingly recognise the benefits of supporting R&D investment. Government funding has, however, become an increasingly scarce resource in times of financial crisis and economic austerity. Hence, it is important that available funds are used and targeted effectively. This paper offers the first systematic review and critical discussion of what the R&D literature has to say currently about the effectiveness of major public R&D policies in increasing private R&D investment. Public policies are considered within three categories, R&D tax credits and direct subsidies, support of the university research system and the formation of high-skilled human capital, and support of formal R&D cooperations across a variety of institutions. Crucially, the large body of more recent literature observes a shift away from the earlier findings that public subsidies often crowd-out private R&D to finding that subsidies typically stimulate private R&D. Tax credits are also much more unanimously than previously found to have positive effects. University research, high-skilled human capital, and R&D cooperation also typically increase private R&D. Recent work indicates that accounting for non-linearities is one area of research that may refine existing results. © 2014 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Business Value of IT Investment: The Case of a Low Cost Airline’s Website

Using the case of a low cost airline company’s website we analyze some special research questions of information technology valuation. The distinctive characteristics of this research are the ex post valuation perspective; the parallel and comparative use of accounting and business valuation approaches; and the integrated application of discounted cash flow and real option valuation. As the examined international company is a strategic user of e-technology and wants to manage and account intangible IT-assets explicitly, these specific valuation perspectives are gaining practical significance.