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Showing 1 to 20 of 323 for “"1970's"”.
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Uranium Leached From Pre-1970's Ceramic Dinnerware
Uranium has been as a coloring agent in glazed ceramics for many years to produce a wide range of colors. In low-lead glazes, the presence of uranium produces yellows and ivories, whereas uranium in high-lead, low-fired glazes produces deep orange or red colors. The purpose of this research was to …
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Homebuilders and the suburbs in the 1970's.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1971. M.C.P.
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u.s. Immigration in the 1970's: Settlement Patterns and Processes
… pattern within the United States during the 1970's. In response to public concern over an upsurge in both legal and illegal immigration the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy was formed in 1978 to study the existing immigration laws. The Commission directed most of its …
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Production function shifts in Soviet postwar industry: the mid 1970's shift
… in the rate of growth of output in the mid 1970s. Research was conducted for Soviet postwar industry in order to try and identify when the shift was strongest, and in which industrial branches. A statistical technique known as the "Chow Test" was used to test for a "break" year -- the year …
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Inflation in the housing market : the housing affordability experience of the 1970's
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1984.
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Federal and state renewable energy policy: lessons from the late 1970's and early 1980's
Based on federal and state experience of the late 1970's and early 1980's, this paper examines various policy alternatives that government could implement in promoting renewable energy. The paper assumes that government has an interest in promoting renewables. Therefore, it makes no attempt to …
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The 1970's as Hollywood's Golden Economic Age: A Critical, Interpretive Analysis of the Blaxploitation Cinematic Movement
The direction of this dissertation is to focus on the relationship between Hollywood and African-Americans at the point where a fiscal crisis and social-political climate came together to produce blaxploitation. In three critical narratives it will focus on the production of Shaft, the success of …
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Collective bargaining in the railway industry: progress and problems of the 1960's projected to the 1970's.
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1973
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The Teaching of French in The United States in The Early 1970's: A Descriptive and Comparative Study (Foreign Language)
… part of the IEA Six-Subject Survey in the early 1970's. Among the subjects included in that survey were French and English as foreign languages. In order to describe the nature of the teaching of French in the United States during that period, this study includes discussions of enrollment trends, …
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The University of the Witwatersrand History Workshop and radical South African historical scholarship in the 1970's and 1980's
… past may have similar directions in the late 1970's and 1980's without the presence of the Workshop, that presence gave a coherence and an added impetus to those routes of Marxist social history.
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Labor Force Participation of Married Women When Wages and Employment Are Risky: Theory and Estimation
… 1950's and 60's virtually disappeared during the 1970's, participation rates grew steadily throughout the period. Thus, the principle source of participation rate growth for married women, as identified by the literature of the last three decades, essentially vanished during the 1970's, while …
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The term structure of interest rates: U.S. government bonds, 1955-1989
… the yield curve, from the mid-1950's until the 1970's, is consistent with previous norms that there are synchronous changes in all maturities but that there has been an increase in the relative sensitivity of changes in longer term rates since the 1970's per unit change in the short term rates. …
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Social democracy and the crime question in Britain : 1945 to 1980.
… the early 1960's, the late 1960's to early 1970's, and the late 1970's respectively. But they also depart from a purely chronological presentation in order to allow a more detailed interrogation of particular topics in popular, political and academic debate. Thus, Chapter One attempts to …
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Status of the Ozark Hellbender (Cryptobranchus Alleganiensis Bishopi): a Long-Term Assessment
… has been noted by biologists since the early 1970's. There are two problems with documenting the decline of amphibian populations: natural fluctuations in population numbers and lack of long-term data. I censused populations of the long-lived Ozark hellbender, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis …
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Physical and Economic Models of Natural Resource Scarcity: Theory and Application to Petroleum Development and Production in the Lower 48 United States, 1955-1985
… period, followed by increasing scarcity in the 1970's. Average production costs showed no trend through the early 1970's, after which they exhibited increasing scarcity. The oil price shocks had a significant cost-increasing impact.
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Birth Parent Love Portrayed in Domestic Adoption Children's Literature
… adoption children’s literature published in the 1970’s, 1980’s, and 1990’s, to assess if the authors portrayed birth parent love through narration and/or illustration toward the child relinquished for adoption. The study reveals that over time there is a statistical increase in publications …
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Specialized Services and Programs for Handicapped Illinois Community College Students: A Status Report
… of a number of pieces of legislation in the 1970's which addressed the matter of educational programming for handicapped students, community colleges began to develop a number of enabling practices. As the number and types of practices expanded, faculty, a
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