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This article looks at the role of UK governments in the financialisation of the British economy and its industry. It argues two things. First, the UK state has had a rather more active role here than most observers have acknowledged. Successive governments since the 1970s have not merely abandoned industry, they have handed much of its control to the financial sector. Second, a key part of this policy shift was linked to the rising power of the Treasury and its reshaping of the former Department of Trade and Industry in its own ideal economic policy image. This both boosted the City and disadvantaged industry, thus propelling the UK towards financialisation at a faster pace than almost all rival economies. The arguments are based on evidence from a mix of interviews with central actors, published insider accounts and an analysis of budget statements in the period 1976–2010.

Abstract
According to the Laozi one of the ways to cultivate and grasp Dao is through "remaining female" and "nourishing the mother." The term mother is used in reference to the beginning of all existence—"the mother of all under heaven," "the mother of all existences." The mother is both an active force of generation and the concreteness of the generated beings. In this sense, the feminine attribute of motherhood is a living embodiment of Dao. In the world of myriad phenomena, the mother provides a location of interaction between "absence" and "presence," between wu and you. In this paper, I suggest an analysis of the metaphor of mother and other "feminine roles" in early Daoist thought through a textual examination of the Laozi. Considering the intellectual background in Warring States period China in which the common understanding of the universe and all phenomena is revealed through the interactions of correlative and complementary forces, the esteem of one over the other—the feminine over the male, the mother over father—is outstanding and deserves serious investigation. The question is what can we learn from the feminine, what can femininity teach us about the world, its generation, and even political practice?

The changes in the last decades around the study of the Spanish political transition has carried to the identification of social majority as the driving force in political change. Despite this, the Armed Left has been set aside in most of the investigations, narrations and chronicles of the period. This article hopes to revise in a critical way some of the hegemonic interpretations of the Spanish transition, as well as to provide some keys to make progress in the study of the Armed Left linked to national liberation as an involved agent in the transitional process. ; Los cambios de las últimas décadas en torno al estudio de la transición política española han conllevado a la identificación de la mayoría social como impulsora del cambio político. Pese a ello, la izquierda armada ha quedado relegada de buena parte de las investigaciones, los relatos y las crónicas del periodo. El presente artículo pretende revisar de manera crítica algunas de las lecturas hegemónicas de la transición a la vez que aportar algunas claves para avanzar en el estudio de la izquierda armada vinculada a la liberación nacional como agente implicado en el proceso transicional.

Although many changes have occurred and accumulated significantly in Arab society in Israel and in the majority-minority relationship, the great class gap between Arabs and Jewish has been retained. This gap depends on the division of the resources in Israeli society. Inequality in this division and in the social relations between Jewish and Arabs continues, although there are indications that it is lessening. It is difficult to speak about co-existence and peace between Jews and Arabs, since today the Arabs of Israel are integrated in Israeli society primarily by negative and involuntary forces, such as economic dependency, political heresy, and social ecological isolation (Smooha, 2011: 13). The present research focuses only on the Muslim Arab population integrated into the security forces in Israel. ; Although many changes have occurred and accumulated significantly in Arab society in Israel and in the majority-minority relationship, the great class gap between Arabs and Jewish has been retained. This gap depends on the division of the resources in Israeli society. Inequality in this division and in the social relations between Jewish and Arabs continues, although there are indications that it is lessening. It is difficult to speak about co-existence and peace between Jews and Arabs, since today the Arabs of Israel are integrated in Israeli society primarily by negative and involuntary forces, such as economic dependency, political heresy, and social ecological isolation (Smooha, 2011: 13). The present research focuses only on the Muslim Arab population integrated into the security forces in Israel.

Based on conference paper. Contents: The causes of the Iran-Iraq war; Costs, rationality and functionality of resort to force.

Russian Minister of Defense Marshal Igor Sergeyev has proposed merging the Strategic Rocket Forces and strategic nuclear components of the Navy and Air Force. Advocates of the proposed reform invoke Russia's need to increase its reliance on nuclear weapons in view of the decline in its conventional forces, as well as the potential savings from the merger. Critics of the plan view it as favoring the Strategic Rocket Forces at the expense of the rest of the military, and as prohibitively expensive. The NATO campaign in Kosovo has made Marshal Sergeyev vulnerable to criticism for emphasizing nuclear forces over conventional ones, and the plan has been put on hold.

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to deferred payment of ad valorem taxes for certain persons serving in the United States armed forces.