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The Crazy College of Qatar.
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): New Republic; Sep2016, Vol. 247 Issue 9, p10-12, 3p
Abstract: The article discusses the efforts of Houston Community College (HCC) to start a branch campus in Qatar, the Community College of Qatar. Topics include problems involving HCC's agreement with the Qatari government, the failure of the branch campus to of...
Bribery and Other Costs of Doing Business Abroad: SLUSH.
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): New Republic. 5/17/75, Vol. 172 Issue 20, p21-23. 3p.
Abstract: Focuses on the funds provided by business organizations in political contributions to stay in business in foreign country. Claim of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on the Gulf Oil for the funds provided by it; Provision of payment to foreig...
CALIFORNIA SCREAMIN'.
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): New Republic. 6/23/86, Vol. 194 Issue 25, p14-16. 3p.
Abstract: Looks at the impact of California's Proposition 13 or real property tax on California's economic and social conditions. Decline in California's per capita public spending; Popularity of the state in the last decade among upwardly mobile couples; Proble...
Inflation, 3; Carter, 0.
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): New Republic. 3/29/80, Vol. 182 Issue 13, p5-7. 3p.
Abstract: Focuses on the inflation plan of the United States President Jimmy Carter. Forecast for a fiscal budget of $16-billion deficit; Plans to raise three billion additional dollars by withholding taxes on interest and dividend payments; Initiative in the fo...
Strike Down the Band.
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): New Republic; 9/2/2013, Vol. 244 Issue 14, p46-51, 6p, 1 Black and White Photograph, 1 Illustration
Abstract: The article looks at difficulties faced by orchestras in the U.S. as of September 2013. Topics include the near-foreclosure of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra's concert hall, the Philadelphia Orchestra's 2011 bankruptcy filing, and the efforts of the ...
Why Bail Out the States?
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): New Republic. 12/12/64, Vol. 151 Issue 24, p8-10. 3p.
Abstract: Offers a look at the disadvantage of the Heller Plan, a proposal that would bolster bankrupt U.S. states with massive no-strings grants from the federal U.S. Treasury. Reason why U.S. President Lyndon Johnson will not opt to start his Administration w...
Trapped.
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): New Republic. 12/06/99, Vol. 221 Issue 23, p22-24. 3p. 1 Color Photograph.
Abstract: Presents information regarding Gene Sperling, head of the National Economic Council. Sperling's economic plan to save Social Security first, and its effect on U.S. President Bill Clinton's second term economic policy; Analysis of how the plan has block...
MONEY FOR NOTHING. (cover story)
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): New Republic. 02/09/98, Vol. 218 Issue 6, p20-23. 3p.
Abstract: Offers a look at the changes in the ideological context of fiscal politics in the U.S. as of 1998. Impact of budget surplus on the economy; Growth of the impression that the essence of modern liberalism is massive social spending; Argument on the beli...
MISS TREATMENT. (cover story)
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): New Republic. 12/29/97, Vol. 217 Issue 26, p20-22. 3p. 1 Black and White Photograph.
Abstract: Claims that managed-care companies in the U.S. impose reduced medical treatment coverage to their women subscribers in an effort to cut costs. Argument that discrimination of women patients result from rational business decisions; Move of several wome...
The Experiment.
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): New Republic; 2/16/2012, Vol. 243 Issue 2, p11-15, 5p, 1 Color Photograph
Abstract: The article discusses U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). It examines the positions of the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama on renewable energy, commenting on the department within the DOE called th...