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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Resources in Education
Author: Blue Ribbon Commissions and Higher Education
Author: Janet Rogers-Clarke JohnsonPublisher: George Washington University, Graduate School of Education & Human Development
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Annual Report
Author: United States. Office of Coal ResearchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Health planning reports subject index
Author: United States. Health Resources AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health planning
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Research in Education
Author: Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Appropriations
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on AppropriationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 1326
Book Description
Health Planning Reports: Subject index. 4 v
Author: United States. Health Resources AdministrationPublisher:
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Category : Health planning
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
New Weapons, Old Politics
Author: Thomas L. McNaugherPublisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 9780815718703
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Americans spend more than $100 billion a year to buy weapons, but no one likes the process that brings these weapons into existence. The problem, McNaugher shows, is that the technical needs of engineers and military planners clash sharply with the political demands of Congress. McNaugher examines weapons procurement since World War II and shows how repeated efforts to improve weapons acquisition have instead increased the harmful intrusion of political pressures into that technical development and procurement process. Today's weapons are more complicated than their predecessors. So are the nation's military forces. The design of new systems and their integration into the force structure demand more care, time, and flexibility. Yet time and flexibility are precisely what political pressures remove from the acquisitions process. In a series of case studies and conceptual discussions, McNaugher tackles concerns at the heart of the debate about acquisition—the slow and heavily bureaucratic approach to development, the preference for ultimate weapons over well-organized and trained forces, and the counterproductive incentives facing the nation's defense firms. He calls for changes that run against the current fashion—less centralization or procurement, less haste in developing new weapons, and greater use of competition as a means of removing the development process from political oversight. Above all, McNaugher shows how the United States tries to buy research and development on the cheap, and how costly this has been. The nation can improve its acquisition process, he concludes, only when it recognizes the need to pay for the full exploration of new technology.
SUNY at Sixty
Author: John B. ClarkPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438433042
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
This is a fascinating history of the State University of New York, America's largest comprehensive university system. As such, it incorporates community colleges, colleges of technology, university colleges, research universities, medical schools, health science centers, and includes specialized campuses in fields as diverse as optometry, ceramics, horticulture, fashion, forestry, and maritime training. Originating in a conference held in spring 2009 to mark SUNY's 60th anniversary, the book covers the system's origins, political landscape, varied missions, the different types of institutions, international partnerships, leadership, future directions, and more. Other state systems have been studied more closely and in depth (California, Michigan, Texas), and this book is a long overdue effort to bring New York into that conversation. Edited by a past interim chancellor of the system, and two SUNY history professors, and with a foreword by current chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher, this book is essential for anyone who has a stake in public higher education in New York state, or indeed, public higher education anywhere.
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1644
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