Roster of United States Congressional Officeholders and Biographical Characteristics of Members of the United States Congress, 1789-1996: Merged Data

1984 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Carroll McKibbin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Congress

The United States Congress and Africanist Scholars

1991 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-13
Author(s):  
David S. Wiley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
African Studies ◽  
United States Congress ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
The U.S

Linking scholars to the Congress is difficult primarily because of the weakness of Congressional interest in Africa, but also due to the low levels of interest among academics in both Congress and its Africa foreign policy and the poor resources of African studies in the U.S. to build a foundation of knowledge useful to the Congress.

Pay Equity in Review

1986 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil E. Reichenberg
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Reagan Administration ◽  
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Congress ◽  
Pay Equity ◽  
Department Of Justice ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
State Legislative

This article provides an overview of pay equity as well as an update of recent developments concerning this issue. The article summarizes the arguments advanced by pay equity advocates and opponents. There is a discussion of the leading court decisions which is organized as cases brought before and after the United States Supreme Court's landmark decision in the case of County of Washington v. Gunther, 452 U.S. 161 (1981). The position of the Reagan Administration, as set forth by the Department of Justice and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission also is summarized. The article includes a description of the legislation pending before the 99th United States Congress along with state legislative developments. The final section of the article is a pay equity bibliography.

Bold Experiment: The Story of Educational Television in American Samoa. By W. Schramm, L. M. Nelson and M. T. Betham. Stanford University Press, 1981, $17.50, 214 pp

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. A69-A69
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Learning Curve ◽  
Educational Television ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Samoa ◽  
United States Congress ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Gulf Of Tonkin

In 1962 in the full flush of (pre-Gulf of Tonkin) expansiveness, the United States congress voted nearly $2½m to bring six channels of educational television to the atolls and islets that make up American Samoa. Those were hopeful times. Congressmen—and most other Americans—believed in educable Asians, in the great television learning curve, and social engineering on a big scale. Thus a 5,000-foot aerial tramway was strung across Pago Pago Bay to ship a television antenna to the Samoan peaks; classrooms built and sets installed; thousands of hours of programming produced.

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