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	Possible crisis in Western publishing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The general complaint is that conglomerates or large corporations--having bought and merged a significant number of key publishing houses or bookstores--now exercise unprecedented influence over various aspects of publishing, from editorial decisions to the market share of bestsellers.
		This influence, critics argue, has led not only to a decline in quality of published books, but, among other things, the consolidation of politically conservative opinions, a drastic reduction in competition and in numbers of independent businesses, and a superabundance of transient, non-noteworthy literature.
		Crisis in Scholarly Publishing: Executive Summary, by Stephen Boyd and Andrew Herkovic (1999)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Possible_crisis_in_Western_publishing (226 words)

	Global Beat: Responding to the Russian Media Crisis
		Publishers have responded to the crisis with reductions in publishing volume and sharp cuts in staffing levels.
		Publishers of regional papers, as a result of the crisis, feel more sharply than ever the need for permanent representation in Moscow, both to promote their business interests with potential advertisers and to lobby their corporate interests with the government.
		The Political Crisis: NPI and the publishers with which it works recognize that the upcoming parliamentary (1999) and presidential (2000) elections represent a significant threat to the independence of the regional media a threat that looms larger because of the economic, political and social turmoil provoked by the crisis.
	www.bu.edu /globalbeat/pubs/Manoff0399.html (3654 words)

	Global Beat: Surviving the Crisis in Russia: Independent Newspapers Confront the Challenge
		Brief Description of the Crisis in the Regions: It is extremely important to emphasize that commercial newspapers in Russia have been caught up in a general economic crisis that is not unique to their sector of the economy and was not brought about by problems within the newspaper industry.
		Publishers who have received on-site consulting from Western media managers over the past couple of years underscored that this assistance yielded concrete results during the present crisis and urged NPI to continue this work.
		Publishers are eager to discuss direct investment, loans, franchising, leasing or any other mechanism that could break through this obstacle, and they are frustrated that media assistance to Russia to date has done so little to address this fundamental problem.
	www.bu.edu /globalbeat/pubs/NPI1298.html (5624 words)

	The Coming Oil Crisis, by C. J. Campbell
		The breakthrough offshore came with the development of the semi-submersible rig, in which a platform holding the drilling derrick is mounted on two submerged pontoons that lie beneath the wave base, providing a stable structure relatively unaffected by the weather.
		Of particular importance was the geochemical breakthrough of the 1980s that made it possible to identify and map the zones generating oil and gas.
		I think that the Soviet explorers were certainly as intelligent as their western counterparts, and the systematic exploration of the Soviet system was probably efficient.
	dieoff.org /page131.htm (4215 words)

	Crisis of the Modern Welfare State
		We could say, for example, that it is the outcome of a three-stage development during the last one hundred years, beginning with the stage of individual relief graded according to genuine needs, passing through public social insurance, and ending up in today's stage of universal, all encompassing security.
		It is that the first stage was one of assistance and was designed to be self-liquidating as soon as possible; this was followed by the idea that government help should become a permanent institution, though a selective one, to be drawn upon only in well-defined cases.
		In the old days, public assistance was, as we noted, intended as a subsidiary and temporary substitute for people's own provision for themselves and as such was meant to safeguard only a certain minimum; nowadays, public services are increasingly becoming the rule, often with the hardly veiled intention of meeting maximal or, indeed, luxury standards.
	www.house.gov /jec/classics/ropke.htm (8848 words)

	Issues in Scholarly Publishing
		This public session of the 2003 ACLS Annual Meeting featured panelists Carlos J. Alonso, editor of PMLA; Cathy N. Davidson, director of the Franklin Humanities Institute; John M. Unsworth, director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities; and Lynne Withey, director of the University of California Press.
		AAUP calls on all members of the university community—students, faculty, and administrators—to respect the obligation of university presses to strike a balance between the need for access to the information they publish, and the twin imperatives of protecting the legal rights of their authors and recovering publishing costs.
		By January 1, 2007, publishers are expected to have made the transition to the ISBN-13 standard.
	aaupnet.org /aboutup/issues/index.html (815 words)

	New York City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, the growth of post-war suburbs saw a slow decline in the city's population.
		One possible meaning for "Manhattan" is "island of hills"; in fact, the island was quite hilly before European settlement.
		The New York City Subway is the largest subway system in the world when measured by track mileage (656 miles or 1,056 km of mainline track) and the world's fifth largest when measured by annual ridership (1.4 billion passenger trips in 2004).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_York_City (6322 words)

	Fr. Hardon Archives - Crisis of Faith and the Eucharist
		The seat of the crisis in the Roman Catholic church is the widespread loss of faith in the Real Presence.
		By crisis we mean the need for courageous discernment of the critical situation in so many parts of the Catholic world today.
		In the sixteenth century the rise of Protestantism produced a crisis of faith in the Catholic Church.
	www.therealpresence.org /archives/Faith/Faith_006.htm (3181 words)

	Iraq Body Count \| BACKGROUND
		By requiring that two independent agencies publish a report before we are willing to add it to the count, we are premising our own count on the self-correcting nature of the increasingly inter-connected international media network.
		This is the highest number of civilian deaths published by at least two of our approved list of news media sources.
		These sources, which are predominantly Western (including long established press agencies such as Reuters and Associated Press) are unlikely to suppress conservative estimates which can act as a corrective to inflated claims.
	www.iraqbodycount.org /background.php (2305 words)

	The East German communists and the origins of the Berlin blockade crisis
		To Moscow, a Western currency threatened to expose and exploit the frail social and economic circumstances in which the East found itself in mid-1948; a sovereign Federal Republic posed much the same threat of revanchism as a reunified and revitalized Germany.
		In Western thought, elections are seen as a core component of democracy, but to the Communists, democratization meant fighting fascism by a variety of methods, including canceling elections, suppressing free speech, and denying civil liberties.
		Failing at this, however, the Western effort to establish a sovereign Federal Republic of Germany had to be undermined by all measures short of war.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/penna.htm (7143 words)

	Peter Suber, Open Access News
		However with a chief executive on over a $1 million a year it now appears to be more of a publishing conglomerate, jealously guarding its IP rights and more than happy to thwart access to knowledge and the progress of science if it harms their bottom line.
		Signatories intend to encourage their researchers/grant recipients to publish their work according to the principles of the open access paradigm....Some media reports, particularly those published outside of the Netherlands, suggest that the site is a declaration of war by universities against academic publishers.
		The proportion of authors now who are not aware of the possibility of providing open access through self-archiving is 31%....[O]f all the sources of information about self-archiving, word-of-mouth from peers was the most common (23% of authors found out about the practice that way).
	www.earlham.edu /~peters/fos/2005_05_15_fosblogarchive.html (10057 words)

	Truthdig - The Big Blowup Over Venezuela
		The discovery of a design flaw in the software of the voting machines, with the consequent remote possibility to violate the secrecy of the vote was dealt with by the CNE in a timely and adequate manner.
		The possibility of endangerment of the secrecy of the vote was evaluated by EU EOM experts as remote.
		The breach of the secrecy of the vote could only be possible if the sequence of both the identification of the voters and the votes cast was reconstructed.
	www.truthdig.com /dig/item/200512_venezuela_chavez (16801 words)

	Publisher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Working for a publisher means being faced with this on a daily basis, and when I turn to our co-publishers, and I say things like, 'Your author didn't write this.
		Publishing is the activity of putting information into the public arena.
		The general complaint is that conglomerates or large corporations --having bought and merged a significant number of key publishing houses or bookstores --now exercise unprecedented influence over various aspects of publishing, from editorial decisions to the...
	www.publishing-web.com /i/Publisher (943 words)

	Western Hemisphere
		The rights and political inclusion of marginalized and vulnerable populations in the region, including the indigenous, Afro-Latinos, women and children vulnerable to labor and sexual exploitation continued to be a primary concern for the United States.
		Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roger Noriega made public statements promoting human rights and a democratic transition in Cuba, including an October speech at the University of Miami in which he described both the continuing repression of the Castro regime and the efforts of the United States to promote a transition.
		Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roger Noriega, in an address to the Dominican Congress in December 2003, outlined U.S. policy concerns including human rights, the rule of law, trafficking in persons, building democratic institutions and the need for transparent elections.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/shrd/2003/31024.htm (17506 words)

	The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: Anatomy of a Controversey
		If the Cuban Missile Crisis was the most dangerous passage of the Cold War, the most dangerous moment of the Cuban Missile Crisis was the evening of Saturday, 27 October 1962, when the resolution of the crisis—war or peace—appeared to hang in the balance.
		Hopes that a satisfactory resolution to the crisis could be reached between Washington and Moscow had dimmed, moreover, when a letter from Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev arrived Saturday morning demanding that the United States agree to remove its Jupiter missiles from Turkey in exchange for a Soviet removal of missiles from Cuba.
		This was the version of events depicted in the first published account of the RFK-Dobrynin meeting by one of the participants, in Robert F. Kennedy's Thirteen Days: A Memoir at the Cuban Missile Crisis, posthumously published in 1969, a year after he was assassinated while seeking the Democratic nomination for president.
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/moment.htm (3981 words)

	Russian Mass Media and the Current Crisis
		Even before the crisis, a very large proportion of periodicals was sold from the stands in the streets rather than through subscription.
		Different Western foundations and organizations that generously paid for the education of Russian professionals in Western universities were and are doing a lot in this area.
		But, first of all, the numbers of graduates of Western schools is not sufficient, given the total illiteracy of the entire country in market management.
	cns.miis.edu /cres/elena6.htm (1683 words)

	TomDispatch - Tomgram: Chalmers Johnson on the Korean crisis
		On February 12, 2003, no doubt as a way both to pressure the Roh government and punish it for its positions, the Pentagon announced that it was considering withdrawing some of the troops that have been based in South Korea since the Korean War cease-fire agreement of 1953.
		Rumors began to appear in the American media that the Pentagon was preparing a possible strike against the North's nuclear facilities.
		An editor in publishing for the last 25 years, Tom is the author of The End of Victory Culture, a history of American triumphalism in the Cold War era.
	www.tomdispatch.com /index.mhtml?pid=586 (4319 words)

	Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog Archive
		Case Western Reserve University and several other collaborators (including the Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals) will create a new medical research campus on the former site of the Mt. Sinai Medical Center.
		The demolition of half of a shopping center to build housing has already begun in Willowick, which is sees this project as part of a larger plan to revitalize a city with little developable land.
		The City of Solon is exploring the possibility of engaging in a land swap at SOM Center and Bainbridge Roads.
	planning.co.cuyahoga.oh.us /blog/2005_02_01_archive.html (4240 words)

	General Circulation Models of the Atmosphere
		So Richardson attempted to compute how the weather over Western Europe had developed during a single eight-hour period, starting with the data for a day when scientists had coordinated balloon-launchings to measure the atmosphere simultaneously at various levels.
		It was possible to get a crude climate representation without the tuning, but the best simulations relied on this back-and-forth between model and observation.
		Around 1998, different groups published crudely consistent simulations of the ice age climate based on the full armament of coupled ocean-atmosphere models.
	www.aip.org /history/climate/GCM.htm (14130 words)

	The New Yorker: The Critics: A Critic At Large
		This publishing season brings us an exceptional round of new books on the subject, and it is possible to scent the first cool injections of historical embalming fluid at the edges of their pages.
		Although the Battle of the Marne was a classic battle of maneuver, the Western Front that emerged in its wake in northern France was the largest and most terrible standoff in history.
		The Western Front was the lethal situation, the Wasteland, and something entirely new in human history: the years-long, two-sided siege of an entire civilization.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/atlarge/?040823crat_atlarge (5151 words)

	Blog from Bolivia: Bolivia's Election Crisis – A Bolivian Perspective
		What hangs in the balance is equality between departments: the departments which have suffered economically, and because of this have decreased in size, are struggling against political invisibility and the loss of their voice in government.
		Because of the looming crisis, president Rodriguez has announced that he is considering issuing an executive decree establishing the number of seats in each region, and holding elections based on that configuration- with or without agreement in congress.
		In the near future it is possible that we may have a problem with Tarija, it has low population but may become the richest one (per capita), due to the fact that Bolivia’s biggest gas reserves are there.
	www.democracyctr.org /blog/2005/10/bolivias-election-crisis-bolivian.html (4436 words)

	International Crisis Group -
		Important changes in the outlook of Egyptian Islamic activism in recent years have opened up possibilities for progressive political development, but these have gone unexploited because of the conservatism of the Egyptian government's policies.
		While the concern to preserve political stability is legitimate and mandates a prudent approach to political reform, the government should recognise that delay itself is imprudent.
		In this respect, the disproportionate role of the Muslim Brothers in Egyptian society resembles that of the Algerian Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) in the run-up to the fateful 1991 elections and the tragic events that ensued.
	www.crisisgroup.org /home/index.cfm?id=2619&l=4 (1523 words)

	Crisis Magazine
		The great tipping points of history often occur beneath the radar, and it is doubtful that anyone in the year 51 noticed an itinerant rabbi from Tarsus crossing the Aegean Sea into Macedonia.
		Any departure from these teachings provoked the strong-est possible response, and the Acts of the Apostles and most of Paul’s letters show the Church facing her first doctrinal and disciplinary problems.
		The Church did Western civilization a huge favor in beating back these esoteric, anti-humanist ideas, as it would in the 13th century when it crushed the Cathar heresy, another nihilistic doctrine that had blown into Europe on the winds from Persia.
	www.crisismagazine.com /march2005/johnston.htm (3558 words)

	The Satirist's Guide To the Iranian Nuclear Crisis
		It's hard for many Westerners to understand what's going on in my fellow Iranians' heads, what with our saying we're going to wipe certain countries off of the map one moment and we're going to go nuclear or bust the next.
		This is not possible, though, because anybody who has any sense in his head has no power, and those who do have power have nothing in their heads.
		He was jailed in Iran for publishing political satire, and since 2003 has been writing in exile from Belgium.
	www.forward.com /articles/7238 (1211 words)

	The Potential Crisis of Taiwan, The T Day
		In addition to South Korea, Western Europe in the past experienced a long period under the shadow of the threat of the Warsaw Pact launching a war, and igniting a U-Day crisis.
		The Warsaw Pact's secret operational plans for attacking Western Europe during that time were discovered within the borders of East Germany in 1994, and after they had been published and brought to light, their content surprised NATO political leaders and high-ranking military officers, and even military observers could not believe what they read.
		That year, in the U.S. published magazine CHINA SPRING, it was also revealed that the Chinese Communist leadership strata had secretly planned in 1982 to use a lightning swift military maneuver, to cross the sea and attack Taiwan, and make a unified China a reality.
	www.fas.org /news/taiwan/1994/car94056.htm (4276 words)

	Crisis Magazine
		He published the encyclical Humanae Vitae, which reaffirmed Catholic teaching that contraception is wrong, in the face of bitter opposition by dissenting theologians and halfhearted support from many bishops.
		With the possible exception of his great and good friend Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who in 1979 rattled a celebrity audience in Oslo in her Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech calling abortion “the greatest destroyer of peace,” human life had no stronger defender in our times than this pope.
		Movers and shakers of Western secular culture at best patronized him as an honorable anachronism—a man of moral stature whose exhortations could be ignored.
	www.crisismagazine.com /feature3.htm (3065 words)

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