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In 1928, Utah Construction Company completed its first project outside of the United States with the 110 mile railroad for Southern Pacific of Mexico. Over the next 30 years, UCC continued to work on projects in Mexico including dams, roads, mining, and canals. The collection contains several booklets and correspondence along with approximately 500 photographs. ; 8.5 x 11 in. paper ; follow up December 17, 1971 Mr. James H. Hannan Consulting Mining Engineer 450 Calzada Independencia Colima, Colima Mexico Dear Jim: According to recent news bulleting, the Mexican Government is going flat out to increase coal production. Herewith is a direct quote from an international coal paper: ""The Mexican Government is coming out with an expansion programme for coal exploration and production. With the aid of foreign engineering and consultant firms, likely areas of the country are now being tested for possibilities of increased output, and other areas, too, are being examined for their possible coal production potential. In the course of this activity it was found, for example, that south of Sabinas there is a large new deposit of economically workable coal."" The above statement suggests that a new coal field has been found south of Sabinas. I know you appreciate that Utah is interested in strip coal mining for power generation. For example, in New Mexico we are mining around 7.5 tons of coal a year by strip method. The same is true for Australia; we are strip mining in the Bowen Basin, but this is metallurgi-cal coal. On the odd chance that a situation might possibly develop in Mexico amenable to strip mining methods, I would appreciate your letting me know. Early in January, Utah's annual report will be coming off the press. Fortun-ately it contains a number of excellent colored photographs of our strip mines. Do you think it would be to our advantage to send a copy of this report to whatever government officials or officers are in charge of coal mining in the State of Coahuila. With the best of the Season's Greetings and wishes for success in the New Year. Sincerely yours, Weston Bourret Vice President WB/nam January 12, 1972 Mr. James H. Hannan Consulting Mining Engineer 450 Calzada Independencia Colima, Colima MEXICO Dear Jim: Further to my letter of December 17, 1971, I cannot resist sending you an early copy of Utah's Annual Report. The reason is readily evident from the beautiful photograph on the front page of this report. Also, you may note from the chart on page three that our backlog of coal sales (the green bar) looms large in our Company affairs. I can truthfully say that we do have considerable expertise in the metallurgical coal field. Will you be good enough to take it from there if there is any reasonable hope for doing business with the Mexican industry concerned with your country's steel industry. Wishing you a very prosperous and successful New Year. Yours sincerely, Weston Bourret Vice President WB/nam Enclosure - 1971 Annual Report

The State. This concept is impossible to avoid in France because the country built itself on (or around) this idea from the nineteenth century. Although the 'State' was initially ignored by the Revolution (which referred to the idea of the 'sovereign nation'), the Revolution marked the beginning of the French administration which has continued to develop ever since. However, the administration as a remedy for the instability resulting from 1789, was a legal tool which changed with the regimes. An intellectual object was therefore necessary to support it and to guarantee its continuity and stability. This is where the interest in the State lies, if only in its etymological sense.

Conditional grant programs are widely used in federal systems to address the tension between decentralized policy provision and territorial equity, given constraints on constituent units' ability to raise revenues. While enhancing their financial capacity, conditional grants are often seen as reducing constituent units' policy autonomy. Against this backdrop, this article examines the actual impact conditional grants have on the capacity and autonomy of a constituent unit. We analyze key milestones in the genesis and evolution of conditional grant programs in education and healthcare in Australia, Canada, and the United States. We find that the impact of conditional grants primarily depends on constituent units' size, fiscal capacity, and distinctiveness. Conditional grants are most beneficial to smaller and/or fiscally weaker constituent units but highly distinctive units suffer the most significant autonomy losses. If they are not to exacerbate centralization, conditional grants programs thus need to be sensitive to the preferences of the more distinctive constituent units.

At head of title: Department of commerce. ; S.W. Stratton, director. ; Mode of access: Internet.

The United States Government owns and operates by far the largest fleet in the Americas. It is a fleet which includes not only the high profile carriers, cruisers and destroyers but a miscellany of tugs, barges, tankers, frigates, car floats and lighters. It includes cargo vessels as well as warships. Thus, the potential for the commission of maritime torts is manifest simply from the number and variety of government vessels at sea. Add the myriad responsibilities exercised by Government agencies such as the United States Coast Guard, and the potential for tortious involvement is enormous.

AbstractSmall Island Developing States (SIDS) are characterized by high levels of biodiversity that are under threat. Simultaneously, the tourism sector plays a key role in many of these economies. In this paper, the Hausman-Taylor estimator is used to investigate a tourism demand function in SIDS in which marine and terrestrial biodiversity play a key role, in addition to the traditional economic and price variables. This estimator allows for both the presence of time-invariant variables, a standard feature of environmental data, and the existence of endogenous covariates. Levels of biodiversity are found to have a significant influence on tourism in SIDS and, in particular, a test for redundant variables shows that the biodiversity variables are jointly significant. This justifies their inclusion in a tourism demand function, over and above the conventional economic factors, and points to the importance of national and international policy in protecting the biodiversity of SIDS.

This thesis identifies four periods of Russian youth policy, and discusses how President Vladimir Putin's approach to youth and youth issues is markedly different than that of previous heads of state, and that it has evolved even within his tenure. My content coding analysis of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs' 2013-2025 Strategy identifies the main values the Russian government seeks to impart upon youth, and my analysis of public opinion surveys of youth provides evidence that there is a connection between the 2013 Strategiia and youth attitudes and values.

Ibn Khaldun and Thomas Hobbes both present the pre-political state as characterized by intolerable violence, and view the establishment of a strong political authority as the best hope of stability. Yet they differ in tracing the origin of this authority. For Hobbes, sovereignty arises due to universal consent and agreement inspired by a collective desire for peace, while for Ibn Khaldun it is consolidated only through the overwhelming power of a tribal feeling known as asabiyya. Modern politics inevitably combines the emphasis on popular consent and law so characteristic of Hobbes, and the tribal feeling, patronage, and special interests so characteristic of Ibn Khaldun. ; İbn Haldun ve Thomas Hobbes siyaset kurumu öncesi durumu tolere edilemez cebir ile tasvir etmekte ve sağlam bir siyasi otoritenin kurulmasını istikrar için en önemli umut olarak görmektedir. Ne var ki, bu otoritenin kaynağını tespit noktasında ikisi ayrılmaktadır. Hobbes açısından egemenlik, toplu bir barış arzusundan ilham alan umumi bir rıza ve muvafakat ile ortaya çıkarken; İbn Haldun, bunun ancak "asabiyya" olarak bilinen, kapsamlı bir kavmiyet duygusundan gücünü alarak pekiştiğini söylemektedir. Modern siyaset, yaygın rıza ve hukuka vurgu yapan Hobbes'un yaklaşımını, kavmiyet duygusu, himaye ve özel çıkarlara vurgu yapan İbn Haldun'un yaklaşımı ile kaçınılmaz olarak birleştirmektedir.

İbn Haldun ve Thomas Hobbes siyaset kurumu öncesi durumu tolere edilemez cebir ile tasvir etmekte ve sağlam bir siyasi otoritenin kurulmasını istikrar için en önemli umut olarak görmektedir. Ne var ki, bu otoritenin kaynağını tespit noktasında ikisi ayrılmaktadır. Hobbes açısından egemenlik, toplu bir barış arzusundan ilham alan umumi bir rıza ve muvafakat ile ortaya çıkarken; İbn Haldun, bunun ancak "asabiyya" olarak bilinen, kapsamlı bir kavmiyet duygusundan gücünü alarak pekiştiğini söylemektedir. Modern siyaset, yaygın rıza ve hukuka vurgu yapan Hobbes'un yaklaşımını, kavmiyet duygusu, himaye ve özel çıkarlara vurgu yapan İbn Haldun'un yaklaşımı ile kaçınılmaz olarak birleştirmektedir. ; Ibn Khaldun and Thomas Hobbes both present the pre-political state as characterized by intolerable violence, and view the establishment of a strong political authority as the best hope of stability. Yet they differ in tracing the origin of this authority. For Hobbes, sovereignty arises due to universal consent and agreement inspired by a collective desire for peace, while for Ibn Khaldun it is consolidated only through the overwhelming power of a tribal feeling known as asabiyya. Modern politics inevitably combines the emphasis on popular consent and law so characteristic of Hobbes, and the tribal feeling, patronage, and special interests so characteristic of Ibn Khaldun.