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- Workers' comp disabling business. Gibbons, Valerie // Business Journal Serving Fresno & the Central San Joaquin Valley;6/6/2003, Issue 323096, p1
Focuses on the separate workers' compensation reforms of Democrats and Republicans to be included in California Governor Gray Davis' Economic Reform Package for 2004. Matching of the fee schedule for outpatient surgery centers and other medical providers to the fees paid by MediCal and...
- Round Two for 17200 Reform. Cziborr, Chris // Orange County Business Journal;3/1/2004, Vol. 27 Issue 9, p1
Reports on the decision to reform the state's infamous Business and Professions Code 17200 by the Assemblyman Lou Correa and other moderate Democrats in the U.S. Collection of the signatures for the 17200 initiatives; Implementation of the California Privacy Protection Act; Discussion of the...
- A Nationalist Alternative. Matthews, Owen; Kohen, Sami // Newsweek (Atlantic Edition);8/5/2002, Vol. 140 Issue 5, p17
Focuses on elections in Turkey, and the outlook for leadership by an Islamist government. Discussion of the right-wing Nationalist Action Party (MHP), which has been successful in the polls; Position of the party on democratic reforms; Desire of a number of Turks for economic reform; Idea that...
- A Nationalist Alternative. Matthews, Owen; Kohen, Sami // Newsweek (Pacific Edition);8/5/2002, Vol. 140 Issue 5, p31
Focuses on elections in Turkey, and the outlook for leadership by an Islamist government. Discussion of the right-wing Nationalist Action Party (MHP), which has been successful in the polls; Position of the party on democratic reforms; Desire of a number of Turks for economic reform; Idea that...
- THE CONTEMPORARY PERIOD, 1945-2000 - LATIN AMERICA, 1945-2000 - SOUTH AMERICA, 1945-2000 - CHILE. // Encyclopedia of World History;2001, p936
Information about Chile, during 1945-2000, is presented. In August 1958, the Communist Party was legalized after a ten-year ban while in January 1966, National Copper Corp. was established. The passage of the Agrarian Reform Act on July 1967 ensured land distribution to needy peasants. In...
- Can Arnold Save California's Economy? Moore, Stephen // Human Events;10/20/2003, Vol. 59 Issue 36, p7
Offers economic reform strategies for California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to fix the budget deficit. Adoption of a California flat tax; Revision of the workers compensation system; Elimination of Gray Davis' electricity contracts; Budget balancing through a constitutional spending cap.
- N.Y. Legislators Should Reject Increase In Business Taxes. Adams, Kenneth // Business Journal (Central New York);3/9/2007, Vol. 21 Issue 10, p33
Information about several papers discussed at a symposium on the critical challenges in Albany, New York is presented. The fiscal-reform legislation enacted in January 2007 has been tackled. The workers' compensation plan, which was outlined by Governor Eliot Spitzer, Senator Joseph L. Bruno,...
- Spitzer: N.Y.'s Hyperactive Hummingbird. Poltenson, Norman // Business Journal (Central New York);5/4/2007, Vol. 21 Issue 18, p32
The article comments on the accomplishments of Eliot Spitzer, governor of the state of New York. Spitzer persuaded the legislative leaders to sign off on an overhaul of state ethics, and convinced both political parties to keep dangerous sex offenders confined to state mental hospitals after...
- Law And Justice Prevails. // Emerging Europe Monitor: Central Europe & Baltic States;Nov2005, Vol. 12 Issue 11, p1
The article focuses on the victory of the Law and Justice Party (PiS) in the September elections in Poland. Having won 155 seats in the Polish legislature, the PiS has moved swiftly to nominate the relatively unknown Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz as the party's candidate for prime minister. Lacking a...
