The news that Bill Monroe died stimulates me to jump into this
thread.
There's a song named "you don't need a reason to sing".
(I foget who wrote this). When my mate banjo player proposed
to play this tune in my band, I opposed to it because I could not
like the phrase. It's 20 years ago, I
Treacy: You can read many British economic histories that talk about
capital formation that never mention profits of slaving. Indeed,
when you read about Liverpool, and Bristol wealth it seems that
"Black Birding" was never the main source of maritime profits.
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Profit appears under capitalism merely as a category in the ledger
of an individual enterprise. How successful that enterprise will be
in making capitalist profit will depend on the place it has in
relationship to all other enterprises. With the development of
laissez-faire capitalism into
With all this talk by Clinton and others about how "America" and "We"
are "number One", I just thought we might talk about some of the
areas in which "America" is "Number One" among 19 industrialized
countries. The following was taken from "We're Number One: Where
America Stands--and
in a missive I posted this morning on overdetermination (not
music), I referred to In many cases, we need vector
quantification, as with Howard Margolis' replacement of scalar
measurements of "intelligence" with a set of 8 different types of
intelligence.
It should be Howard _Gardner_.
Curitiba, 09/10/1996
Dear.
I am a fourth-year economy student in the Federal University of
Parana, Brazil. I knew about you through my professor Francisco P.
Cippolla that told me about the list of Pen-l. If it is possible, I would
like more information about how I can subscribe this
I didn't say history is made by elites. I said that revolutionary
movements are spearheaded by relatively well-off, well-educated people.
This is why dictators always close down the universities, and why education
and communication are so important. Of course, all the great historical
BLS DAILY REPORT, COMBINED FOR MON., SEPT. 9, AND TUES., SEPT. 10, 1996
RELEASED TODAY: The revised seasonally-adjusted annual rates of
productivity change for the second quarter of 1996 were 1.1 percent in the
business sector and 0.5 percent in the nonfarm business sector. In both
sectors,
On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Max B. Sawicky wrote that:
The brakes to U.S. public sector growth began to get a lot of
traction, as did other aspects of "Reaganomics," during the Carter
Administration. An obvious factor was the productivity slow-down,
for which causes have not been well-explained, among
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Did this end up being the Pajama Game, with Doris Day, in the 1950s? The
story IS about labor relations, with Doris as the shop steward. The
conflict is she falls in love with the boss' lackey. Likely a revision on
the ILGWU version if there's any relation.
Nancy Breen
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It's an empirical question, but I don't think one can rule out a
role for "globalization" in the 1970s productivity slowdown
completely: while some people blame the high international price of
oil for the slowdown during that decade, it's also quite possible
that
From the Wall Street Journal, Sept. 10th, *Work Week* column,
TEACHERS' UNIONS hamper student achievement, a new study argues.
School districts with teachers' unions have higher dropout rates, a study
just published by the Quarterly Journal of Economics says. Caroline Hoxby,
an assistant
The imperialist powers are trying to impose a condition of "no
war-no peace"on the world. While they launch their aggressions and
war as they have in Bosnia, Lebanon, Iraq and elsewhere, at the
same time they are indulging in imperialist peace. This "no war-no
peace" condition is favorable to
At the recent meeting of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of
Police the federal Justice Minister Allan Rock used the podium to
attack the cutbacks of the Ontario government. He was responding to
attacks by the Ontario Solicitor-General Robert Runciman who said
earlier that the federal
Breen, Nancy wrote:
Did this end up being the Pajama Game, with Doris Day, in the 1950s? The
story IS about labor relations, with Doris as the shop steward. The
conflict is she falls in love with the boss' lackey. Likely a revision on
the ILGWU version if there's any relation.
I've
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From the Wall Street Journal, Sept.
I do not think that rehashing the incident will serve much of a purpose.
I sent
Herb's statement to the list because I thought that it was was mostly a
sincere apology, for which we can be grateful.
Herb is not on pen-l and will probably not read much of this unless
someone forwards it
to him.
Here is the info you requested:
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Just one more note on music. In my original post I mentioned Joe Hill --
labor organizer and singer. His medium was what I think of as 'snide,
sarcastic folk'. Now, it is true that folk music has been co-opted by alot
of upper class types, but, Joe Hill was put to death on a frame up because
Clinton's recent welfare cuts have been estimated to take $55
billion away from 36 million Americans who rely on federal
assistance. The vast majority are women and children. One in four
of all American children depend on some form of federal welfare.
But what will it do to those capitalists
Agents of south Korea's Agency for National Security, mandated to
implement that country's fascist National Security Law which
outlaws any sentiments or activities which in any way bring
together Koreans from north and south, including letter writing to
one another, are operating abroad with
Jerry, Thanks for the suggestion but I don't think it is worth the battle
from the outside so you need not do anything. On the inside, there are
chapters who are concerned and a Chapters' Bulletin is coming out soon
which will address it and that will get the word out more (I didn't write
that).
Palestinians closed their shops and businesses throughout the West
Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem on Thursday August 29, to
protest Israel's expansion of settlements, the wanton destruction
of a Palestinian youth center in East Jerusalem by the Israeli
army, the refusal by the Israeli army
Just saw a summer stock production of Pajama Game a few weeks ago, and
I don't recall hearing these lyrics.
In this version at least, the plot was a bit different. The "lackey" was
the hero, the young management type who sets the troglodyte boss straight
and convinces him to grant a raise, thus
Also, Margolis is not named Howard, but Lynn. But I can't remember the
name of that book, which I want to read - Jim? anybody?
Thanks,
Lisa
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