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Showing 1 to 20 of 136 for “"70s"”.
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Flawed Masculinities: “Rupturing” 1950s/60s/70s British TV Sitcom via a Performance-led Interdisciplinary Arts Practice
… male characters from TV sitcoms from the 1950s-1970s. Those characters are: Tony Hancock (Hancock’s Half- Hour, 1956-59, BBC1 UK); Harold Steptoe (Steptoe and Son, 1962-65, BBC1 UK); and the two “Likely Lads”, Bob Ferris and Terry Collier, (Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?, 1973-74, BBC1 UK). …
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Mayberry Days
… of growing up in the Deep South in the 1960s and 70s.
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Race and local governance : theoretical reflections and examination of two case studies in the United Kingdom and South Africa: or #who said we weren't interested in justice, equality, democracy and freedom?'; emancipation in the ushering dusk of Black politics as White boys try to switch off the Enlightenment
… of a theoretical project started in the '70s, an indication of areas that require further work, and thus, as that solidary prosaism would have it, "work-in-progress.
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Perils of the Heroine: The Historic Role of Woman in Comics
… the ground-breaking feminist indie comics of the 70s, and the rampant female sexualization of the 90s, examples of brilliance and drudgery will be investigated in order to gain a better understanding of how comics became what they are today.</p>
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Health spectacle in American popular literature, 1790-1870
… in the 1790s and concluding in the 1860s and 70s. Through a study of popular literature of the period and other circulating medical thought in journals and newspapers, I investigate how instances of health spectacle shaped the development of professionalized health and medicine. Ultimately, I …
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Yarditecture : new walls for trench town
… wall. During violence on the streets in the 70s, the government yards' concrete walls have been broken in certain points, allowing a new internalized circulation, and creating a fluid labyrinthine field of not only living, but also a menagerie of working , and recreational spaces within the …
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Essays on Privatization
… been adopted by many governments since the late 70s. The chapter then focuses on two important issues in the privatization debate, the underpricing of shares and the effect of ownership on performance. It reviews the most significant theoretical and empirical contributions to the analysis of …
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Jazz contacts : envisaging Basil Breakey's photographic remains beyond the archive
… Beyond the Blues: Township Jazz in the ‘60s and ‘70s, with photographs by Basil Breakey, points to the fractured and traumatic history of South African jazz culture. Complementary to this exists a layered, undisciplinable ‘Konvolut’ of Breakey’s contact sheets and fragments. Forensic-quality …
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Toward understanding the function of the universally conserved GTPase HflX
… and its cellular partners is described. 50S and 70S ribosomal particles function as GTPase activating factors for HflX by stabilizing the nucleotide binding pocket of HflX, inducing a “GTPase activated” state. These data indicates a novel mode of GTPase activation, and suggests a role for HflX in …
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As relações entre Brasil e Venezuela (2003-2010): formação de uma aliança estratégica
… have long been regarded as void. Until the 1970s they were seen on friendly terms but far from any partnership effort, its from the late 70s and early 80s that it establishes indeed a diplomatic contact quantitatively significant and also higher qualification. However, it is only in the XXI …
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Feminine Critique and Domestic Mystique: Representations of the Home in Elizabeth Madox Roberts
… the political or social agendas of the 1960s and 70s when Robert Penn Warren called for renewed interest in her work.
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Progress in colloid propulsion
… In spite of the effort by the end of the 70s the programs were stopped in the USA and Europe before any design had gotten to fly in space. An exhaustive study of the literature has been performed to identify what were the reasons behind the disappearance of Colloid Thrusters. Apart from …
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Community Development, Research, and Reinvestment: The Struggle against Redlining in Washington, DC, 1970-1995
… as isolated private advocacy in the early 1970s, it helped pass key pieces of federal legislation, such as the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) and the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). Additionally, DC’s reinvestment movement is unusual in that the city government used an interstate …
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AN APPLICATION OF DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS IN RELATIVE VALUATION OF EQUITIES
… among various organisations since the late 70s. In this research, DEA method is firstly applied to value shares that are traded in the financial market. Then the facet analysis is developed to further match two sub-groups generated in initial DEA analysis, efficient group and inefficient …
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Equity and Excellence in Education: The Fiscal and Legal Implications
In the 1960s and 70s, many states and the federal government provided more money to public schooling. The federally funded programs like Title I injected much needed categorical aid to many school districts. Similarly, many states sought to revise their general aid formulas in an attempt to achieve …
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Conceptualizing technological change: technology transfer in the green revolution
… in some Third World countries in the 1960s and 70s as a result of the transfer of high-yielding varieties (HYVs) of seeds and a new culture of agricultural practice resulting in high productivity of the land. It is found that most of the examined models of technological change do not completely …
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Water Quality and Urbanization: a Multitemporal Study of the Pierson Creek Drainage Basin, Greene County, Missouri
… Pierson Creek drainage basin during teh 1960s, 70s, 80s, and 90s were examined in this study. To accomplish this, building locations, areas served by centralized wastewater treatment, areas of increased risk for water pollution, and water quality test sites were mapped. Weights were assigned to …
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Truth and reality in Jürgen Habermas' Pragmatic Realism
… and descriptive-technical attitude. During the '70s Habermas enhances the role of communication, thus coming to a “consensualist” theory of truth, where truth is linked to justifications obtained in discurses inspired by an ideal speech situation (chapter two). Finally, he has recently come to a …
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Technological change and employment in South African agriculture : the case of maize harvesting in the Western Transvaal
… this was not fully exploited until the middle '70s. Exogenous developments in technology, rather than changes in relative factor prices, should be seen as the fundamental cause of changes in harvesting techniques. Seasonal workers were still employed to glean after combine-harvesting and to hoe …
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