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The consumer credit market -- Credit risk -- Incremental loan profitability -- The fundamentals of price response -- Estimating price response -- Pricing segmentation -- Optimizing prices -- Behavioral economics and credit pricing

The UK government is hoping to improve primary care through competition. But US experience shows the difficulties created by a system reliant on market forces

Pope John Paul's great vision of communitarianism and a New Global Order has yet to receive the recognition it deserves in furthering the understanding that humanity is built on religious values, without which transformations in totalitarian regimes would have been impossible. The essence of communitarianism, as put forth by the Vatican, consists of seeking middle ground between Marxist collectivism and rigid individualism and capitalism. Phillips traces the history of communitarianism through Aristotelian and Judeo-Christian writings, clarifying the proper function of the community in helping individuals help themselves by mobilizing church resources and countering anti-religious movements such as Nazism and communism. Communitarianism presents an encouraging universal notion of freedom, transcending the one-sided stances of Marxism and libertarian capitalism and promoting the vision of a unified human destiny.

Abstract
The just war tradition stands as the moral and prudential alternative to both pacifism and realism. It forms the only reasonable ethical basis for the understanding of state initiated force. As applied to questions of nuclear deterrence, just war theory is incompatible with Mutual Assured Destruction and with the threat of MAD. Just war theory entails a move toward counterforce with discriminate targeting of military capabilities and away from city targeting . This is now becoming possible technically and is morally indicated. The counterforce option is realistic in that nuclear disarmament is an extremely remote possibility and alternate strategies such as bluff ore not workable. A counterforce strategy would be both discriminate and proportional as well as being in accord with political realism.

The Soviet ruling class, thwarted in its expansionist aims and beset by economic ills, sought to enjoy the fruits of Western culture without risking war, by a policy of "Finlandization" or neutralization of Europe. Phillips, writing in 1987, maintains that NATO had as great a moral duty to check this political ambition as it had to check Soviet military aggression. He suggests ways to reaffirm the rule of law and the commitment to social justice and to build such values into Western foreign policy, rather than use them as public relations tinsel.

The question of whether or not the military, under current volunteer conditions, provides a competitive organizational workplace for young people is addressed. Data are from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Labor Market Experience, used in interviewing young people aged 14-21 (N = 12,693), & armed forces servicemen (N = 1,281). Findings indicate that youth negatively perceive the military as an abnormal organizational work setting, as having a less satisfactory quality of work, &, in general, as less desirable than full-time civilian jobs. Women appear less dissatisfied with military life than men, probably because they are restricted in civilian organizations as well. 3 Tables, 1 Appendix. J. Cannon.