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How serious is medical care inflation in the United States For many years, price indexes for medical care have outstripped the overall rate of inflation.

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An examination of how newspaper and television journalists reported the 1988 forest fires in and near Yellowstone National Park; America's oil spill on March 24, 1989 in Alaska's Prince William Sound; and California's most expensive earthquake, south of San Fransisco on October 17, 1989.

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This study examines the converging culture, telecommunications and new media industries in North America. With a broadly political-economic perspective, this work the goes on to provide an account of changes in the aftermath of trade agreements, and sets these changes in a global context.

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Political scientists and media specialists accept the commonplace assumption that the mass media have a profound and direct impact on virtually every aspect of the political process, yet remarkably few systematic studies examining the relationship between media and policy exist.

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and moral restrictions concerning lies, deceit, violence, and censorship, this book argues for substantive positions concerning what we should, rationally, hold as the moral rights and duties of journalists and the media.

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and moral restrictions concerning lies, deceit, violence, and censorship, this book argues for substantive positions concerning what we should, rationally, hold as the moral rights and duties of journalists and the media.

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A new interest in media organisations is making itself felt, as more attention is paid to the influences which shape what is produced and distributed by the media. This book argues that previous work has sometimes neglected the way in which organisations are influenced by the wider context of society.

New perspective on the role of Al Jazeera English in global television reporting

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Media Wars is a timely assessment of what we are and are not being told in the most important story of our new century.

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Here, for the first time, is an accessible and practical book on mediation at work and in the workplace itself.

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A workplace mediation program supplements or replaces institutional grievance processes in order to increase job satisfaction, boost productivity, reduce employee turnover, and decrease the chances of legal action.

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Medical tourism, a complex interplay of healthcare, economics, and culture, offers both opportunities and challenges for patients, providers, and nations alike.

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This first major study of tax structure in pre-Renaissance Spain gives new insight into the condition of the conquered people of postcrusade Valencia. Drawing on tax records, it provides the reader with a fascinating glimpse of life among the thirteenth century Mudejars. By showing the financial links between a medieval ethnic enclave and the domin

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A Valuable Meeting and Procedural
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Boards, and Shareholders

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In this first comparative look at China and Zimbabwe, Gao explores the interplay between technological advance and social change in a colonial context.

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Twelve essays reflect various aspects of mega-mergers. They discuss the history of acquisitions during the last hundred years (and during the last ten especially), industry consolidation, bank mergers, risk management systems, and the difficulties mergers face. Case studies detail mergers in Switzer

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Containing a new introduction, this book on corporate power offers a theory of the effects of power and powerlessness within the corporation. The theory is updated by considering attitudes and practices in the corporate power structure of the 1990s.