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| | The Bureaucracy |
 | | However, in June 1983, the Supreme Court declared the legislative veto unconstitutional (the Chadha case). | | | Bureaucracy is an obvious feature of all modern societies, but American governmental bureaucracy is distinctive in three ways. | | | This decision's exact effect on congressional oversight of the bureaucracy is still uncertain. |
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http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/APGOV_The_Bureaucracy.htm
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| | Likewise, publicly regulated monopolies tend to incorporate the worst combination of governmental and private bureaucracies. | | | [3] Law of Bureaucracies apply outside of governmental institutions. | | | This will, eventually, serve to limit the number of bureaucrats, and thus, in turn, impose an upper limit on the size of bureaucracies." |
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| | Notes - The Bureaucracy |
| | In 1983, the Supreme Court ruled such vetoes were unconstitutional, but Congress continues to enact laws containing them. | | | These appointments occur in middle- and upper-level positions in the bureaucracy. | | | There are class notes, numerous Supreme Court case summaries and information on how to write a research paper inside. |
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http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/APGOV_Notes_WeekThirteenBureaucarcy.htm
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| | Against the Theory of State Capitalism |
| | The bureaucracy became frightened of its isolation, its divorce from the proletariat. | | | With precipitous speed the bureaucracy acted and ordered all Eastern European states to reject Marshall Aid. | | | If they do not represent the proletariat, as Trotsky said, as a special form of Bonapartism in the sense that they defend the nationalisation of the means of production, planning and the monopoly of foreign trade, whom do the Stalinist bureaucrats represent? |
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| | The Center for Local Government: Local Liberty |
| | Children as young as eight are being taught that the controversial European Constitution is up and running - even though it has been rejected by voters. | | | In recent years, SCAG has also been an unpopular state enforcer, imposing quotas for new housing on cities — a program that was intended to spread responsibility for growth but that has spread resentment as well. | | | Wash Post reports resignation, another Katrina victim: too much bureaucracy, not enough aid. |
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| | ejcjs - Bureaucrats, Politicians, and Policy Change in Japan |
| | Studies of Japanese politics, in particular studies of the policy-making process, can be generally divided into two schools: the ‘dominant bureaucracy school’ (Kanryō-shudō Ron) and the ‘dominant politicians school’ (Seijika-yūi Ron). | | | It can be indicated that in fact there were many changes of policies in Japanese politics in the 1990s, and several cabinets have attempted administrative reform. | | | Brennan and Buchanan model the behaviour of bureaucrats in monopolising information, so that they also monopolise the authority of deciding the national budget (Brennan and Buchanan 1980, 17-23). |
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http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/discussionpapers/Kamikubo.html
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| | WEBER ON BUREAUCRACY |
| | Weber is thus not one of those who regard bureaucracy as synonymous with inefficiency: quite the reverse, it is the supremely efficient way of conducting administration. | | | But although Weber regards bureaucracy as supremely efficient, he regards its inevitable triumph with distaste. | | | Rulers are recognised and obeyed if they can show a warrant in the law. |
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http://www.humanities.mq.edu.au/Ockham/y64l09.html
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| | Kuwait - Bureaucracy |
| | At the top of this bureaucracy is the cabinet, under the prime minister, a post that historically has been held by the crown prince. | | | The cabinet is appointed by the amir, who has the power to dismiss it along with almost every senior executive official, including the crown prince, local governors, and officers in the armed forces. | | | Kuwait's large state bureaucracy emerged in the post-World War II period as a result of the vast government revenues generated by oil. |
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http://countrystudies.us/persian-gulf-states/27.htm
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| | CIVITATENSIS » bureaucracy |
| | general, federal politics, scandal, corruption, bureaucracy, elections | | | general, federal politics, scandal, political parties, corruption, bureaucracy, elections, ethics | | | general, federal politics, scandal, corruption, bureaucracy, ethics |
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http://www.civitatensis.ca/archives/category/bureaucracy
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| | Bureaucracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Examples of everyday bureaucracies include governments, armed forces, corporations, hospitals, courts, ministries and schools. | | | According to his terminology, bureaucracy is part of legal domination. | | | However, he also emphasized that bureaucracy becomes inefficient when a decision must be adopted to an individual case. |
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| | The Federal Bureaucracy: |
| | Bureaucracy should be responsive to elected officials (Congress, the President) | | | Members of the bureaucracy are not elected, and must be held accountable for their actions | | | The bureaucracy should be free from political pressures |
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http://www.uky.edu/~jafine2/bureaucracy.htm
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| | Merton - Bureaucratic Structure and Personality |
| | The pure type of bureaucratic official is appointed, either by a superior or through the exercise of impersonal competition; he is not elected. | | | A system of differentiated controls and sanctions is stated in the regulations. | | | (7) This secrecy is confined neither to public nor to private bureaucracies. |
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http://www2.pfeiffer.edu/~lridener/courses/MERTONR2.HTML
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| | Bureaucracy Quotes - The Quotations Page |
| | An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty. | | | Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. | | | Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy. |
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http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/bureaucracy
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| | POLITICS & POLICY#2(MANAGING COST OF BUREAUCRACY) |
| | The decisive problem is to ensure "responsible bureaucracy". | | | Without a functioning constitutional system, there can be no responsible bureaucracy. | | | Bureaucracy - A Necessity: No Government can be run without bureaucracy. |
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http://www.pakistaneconomist.com/issue2002/issue31/etc4.htm
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| | ThisNation.com--The Bureaucracy |
| | When a government bureaucracy exercises authority, the liberty of the people is necessarily diminished. | | | The primary dilemma of bureaucracy, however, is an extension of the dilemma of popular governance -- striking the right balance between providing order and protecting liberty. | | | If so, investigate on of the programs administered by a federal agency and write to someone at the agency about it. |
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| | bureaucracy -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Resource on the chief officials of the papal bureaucracy in the Roman Catholic church. | | | An inevitable consequence of the expansion of governmental functions has been the rise of bureaucracy. | | | The government bureaucracy consisted of both elective and appointive bodies. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9018129
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| | The Role of Bolshevik Ideology in the Birth of the Bureaucracy |
| | The various technoeconomic, state-political, and "working-class" elements constitutive of the bureaucracy coexist with varying degrees of success. | | | The sole conclusion to be drawn from this kind of “analysis” is that revolutionaries should ardently hope that future revolutions break out an more advanced countries, that they should not remain isolated, and that civil wars should not in the least be devastating. | | | Nor is it born out of a new mode of production whose development had become incompatible with the maintenance of old forms of economic and social life. |
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http://www.geocities.com/cordobakaf/castbolsh.html
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| | Seth's Blog: Bureaucracy = Death |
| | Such is this post from Seth on Bureaucracy = Death. | | | Seth Godin writes in a post, Bureaucracy = Death... | | | The members of the bureaucracy seek to be beyond reproach. |
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http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2005/09/bureaucracy_dea.html
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| | My Years at the BLS |
| | The BLS would be collecting the data Congress used to see if federal salaries were high enough. | | | As Mises writes in his work Bureaucracy, which I also read during my stay inside the Beltway, "In public administration there is no connection between revenue and expenditures." And how! | | | It is Mises again who points out that the bureaucrat is not ruled by how well he can serve his fellow man, but by the budget allotted him. |
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/ritenour1.html
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| | Rich Lowry on FEMA & Katrina on National Review Online |
| | But everyone from the president on down pretended he had protected homeland security through the mere act of naming a department after it. | | | This is where the Bush administration really fell down. | | | The only eventuality that such rules and procedures can’t be written for is when someone should say, “to hell with all these rules and procedures.” Louisiana Rep. Bobby Jindal, a Republican, writes: “My office became so frustrated with the bureaucracy that we often turned to private companies. |
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| | OpinionJournal - Cross Country |
| | Four years later, despite billions spent on homeland security, state, federal, and local officials in Louisiana had the same problem. | | | My office became so frustrated with the bureaucracy that we often turned to private companies. | | | For example, on Wednesday of last week a company called my office. |
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http://www.opinionjournal.com/cc/?id=110007224
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| | bureaucracy. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
| | Management or administration marked by hierarchical authority among numerous offices and by fixed procedures: The new department head did not know much about bureaucracy. | | | The departments and their officials as a group: promised to reorganize the federal bureaucracy. | | | An administrative system in which the need or inclination to follow rigid or complex procedures impedes effective action: innovative ideas that get bogged down in red tape and bureaucracy. |
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| | The Reality Hammer Blog |
| | I thought England didn't have a death penalty? | | | Either way the taxpayer wouldn't be stuck with footing the bill year after year. | | | Tags : bureaucracy, federal spending, transportation security administration |
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http://reality-hammer.livejournal.com/tag/bureaucracy
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| | eKantipur.com - Nepal's No.1 News Portal |
| | France was held together by the bureaucracy during the political instabilities. | | | The chief secretary could help strengthen the bureaucracy by keeping it united with his inspiring leadership. | | | Bureaucracy or civil service in a civilized society is not guided by personal whims. |
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http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=52194
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| | AskOxford: bureaucracy |
| | bureaucracies) 1 a system of government in which most decisions are taken by state officials rather than by elected representatives. |
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| | Weber - Bureaucracy |
| | In public and lawful government these three elements constitute 'bureaucratic authority.' In private economic domination, they constitute bureaucratic 'management.' Bureaucracy, thus understood, is fully developed in political and ecclesiastical communities only in the modern state, and, in the private economy, only in the most advanced institutions of capitalism. | | | The principle of hierarchical office authority is found in all bureaucratic structures: in state and ecclesiastical structures as well as in large party organizations and private enterprises. | | | In principle, the modern organization of the civil service separates the bureau from the private domicile of the official, and, in general, bureaucracy segregates official activity as something distinct from the sphere of private life. |
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| | James D. Hudnall |
| | Bureaucracy • United Nations • (1) Comments • Permalink | | | Posted by James Hudnall on 03/04 at 10:59 AM | | | Posted by James Hudnall on 02/21 at 10:18 AM |
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| | Adizes - Resources for Sustainable Exceptional Performance |
| | Because bureaucracies rely on laws that provide them with a monopoly on services and allocation of funds generated by taxation, heads of bureaucracies spend most of their time in halls of government and with politicians safeguarding their source of their funds. | | | So, heads of bureaucracies are careful to ensure that there is no negative press about their agencies. | | | Lost at the end of this long list of stakeholders, are the customers whom the Bureaucracy is really supposed to be serving. |
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http://www.adizes.com/content_plain.asp?contentid=327
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| | Civilization.ca - Egyptian civilization - Government - Bureaucracy |
| | Civilization.ca - Egyptian civilization - Government - Bureaucracy | | | The creation of a bureaucracy in the Old Kingdom was a key factor in the inception of the Egyptian civilization. | | | Next to him, the most powerful officer in the hierarchy was the vizier, the executive head of the bureaucracy. |
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| | Bureaucracy (computer game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The bank finally sent a letter apologizing for the inconvenience; naturally, it was sent to his old address. | | | This may be, at least in part, because Infocom was facing grave financial difficulties in 1987. | | | This page was last modified 18:07, 5 December 2005. |
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| | BUREAUCRACY |
| | Sebastien, who admired his chief without reservation, and who was, as yet, wholly ignorant of the evils of bureaucracy, had the follies of guilelessness as well as its grace. | | | As the routine of public business must go on, a certain number of indispensable clerks are kept in their places, though they hold these places on sufferance, anxious as they are to retain them. | | | Education, equally distributed through the masses, brings the son of a porter into a government office to decide the fate of some man of merit or some landed proprietor whose door-bell his father may have answered. |
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| | Furthermore, Germany had been an early leader in developing a civil service. | | | Therefore, decision makers must be highly trained and must report their decisions promptly and accurately to their superiors. | | | For Weber the term bureaucracy was inseparable from the term rationality. |
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| | Amazon.com: Bureaucracy: Books: Ludwig Von Mises |
| | This is a short economic tract from the acclaimed Austrian economist known for his stern defense of free-markets. | | | He does not condemn bureaucracy, which is the appropriate technique for the conduct of government agencies such as courts of law, police departments, and the Internal Revenue Service; however, in economic production and distribution, the bureaucratic method is shown to be an abomination that spells universal ruin and disaster. | | | Mises does not discuss bureaus or bureaucrats, but inexorable principles of human action. |
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| | Explore Byzantium: Meet the People: Officials and Bureaucracy |
| | Byzantium’s semi-professional administrator class had no direct equivalent in any contemporary western royal court or government. | | | The Byzantine civil service can be roughly categorised into three major groupings: the palatine administration, living and working within the emperor’s great palace; the provincial government, with strong links to the military Thematic structure; and the subject of this essay: the central civil service, responsible for affairs of state policy and finance. | | | In terms of staff numbers the Byzantine bureaucracy was relatively small: a recent estimate for the ninth century central civil service places the number of core staff at five to six hundred men, split between thirteen different bureaux or departments of state. |
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| | Bureaucracy |
| | The police, courts, executive branches of government, parents, teachers, librarians, and many other people or groups of people are also responsible for applying rules, yet we don’t think of these as being bureaucracies. | | | All of these cases of bureaucracy are augmented by another systematic error. | | | If each state followed its own inclination in the matter of driver’s licensing I would expect a much wider variation among the different states. |
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| | bureaucracy. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Bureaucracy existed in imperial Rome and China and in the national monarchies, but in modern states complex industrial and social legislation has called forth a vast growth of administrative functions of government. | | | The power of permanent and nonelective officials to apply and even initiate measures of control over national administration and economy has made the bureaucracy central to the life of the state; critics object that it is largely impervious to control by the people or their elected representatives. | | | Others has been collective decision making and organizational structures that emphasize minimize hierarchies and decentralize the power to make decisions. |
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| | OEG Resources - Weber's 6 Key Characteristics of Bureaucracy |
| | The official pursues a career within the bureaucracy, moving up to more responsible positions according to his experience and ability. | | | He receives a salary and a pension when he retires. | | | Bureaucracies were a paradigm shift...efficient, rational and honest, a big improvement over practices dating back to the Middle Ages owing loyalty to the king, dukes and the church. |
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| | Bureaucracy |
| | Bureaucracy isn’t itself corrupt, but it is ineffective in dealing with corruption. | | | Bureaucracy refers to a particular form and style of administrative organization. | | | Bureaucracy may concentrate power (at the top), but also provides for checks and balances to prevent the abuse of power. |
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| | The Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News - 06-Mar-06 - Enemy bureaucracy:
TSA inflexibility ... |
| | The 9/11 Commission also found that federal bureaucracy was a major hurdle to effective national security. | | | The General Accounting Office and the U.S. Inspector General found that the Transportation Security Administration is, in the words of an Associated Press report, “an unresponsive inflexible bureaucracy.” | | | The Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News - 06-Mar-06 - Enemy bureaucracy: |
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| | Professional Bureaucracy vs. Machine Bureaucracy |
| | In machine Bureaucracies decisions flow from the top down whereas with professional bureaucracies decisions flow from the bottom up. | | | The professional work process is one that requires people to act on their own judgment and initiative, yet a machine bureaucracy's structure forbids this. | | | The organization in question would likely have large numbers of administrators and an operating core who's work would be more effectively without "administration". |
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| | Bureaucracy by Ludwig von Mises (1944) |
| | Published on the day after F. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom, Professor von Mises' Bureaucracy once more calls attention to the ironic fact that the most eminent and uncompromising of defenders of English liberty, and the system of free enterprise, which reached its highest development in America, should now be two Austrian exiles." | | | Professor von Mises is a consummate general theorist in this day of specialization, and he views the problem broadly and speaks with deep conviction." | | | That disease is excessive State domination and control.... |
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| | Rogue... |
| | Rogue Bureaucracy is a look back through recent years at the patterns of U.S. Department of Interior/Federal mismanagement - deliberate mismanagement in the author's opinion - of oil, gas, and other minerals owned by the U.S. taxpayer, State's citizens and American Indian tribes and individuals. | | | This paper demonstrates beyond any reasonable doubt that the U.S. Department of Interior has been in the past, as an agency, essentially a co-conspirator with major oil and gas industry companies to defraud the Federal government, some states and some Indian tribes. | | | This analysis covers the estimated loss of over $90,000,000,000 in hard-rock mineral wealth (on which no royalties will be paid under the 1872 Mining law). |
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http://www.dickshovel.com/rogue.html
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| | Bureaucracy: A Glossary of Political Economy Terms - Dr. Paul M. Johnson |
| | Department of Political Science, 7080 Haley Center, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849 | | | Bureaucracy: A Glossary of Political Economy Terms - Dr. Paul M. Johnson | | | Bureaucratic organizations are typically charcterized by great attention to the precise and stable delineation of authority or jurisdiction among the various subdivisions and among the officials who comprise them, which is done mainly by requiring the organization's employees to operate strictly according to fixed procedures and detailed rules designed to routinize nearly all decision-making. |
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| | There is no way to avoid a certain level of bureaucracy in government; how else could such functions as courts of law be administered without some bureaucracy? | | | The result of too much bureaucracy, says Mises, is an overly rigid, inflexible system immune to any attempts to reform or improve it. | | | He also shows why growing economic control inevitably leads to greater control over all aspects of individuals' lives. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Bureaucracy |
| | Bureaucracy, personnel and administrative structure of an organization. |
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| | Bureaucracy |
| | Of course, sometimes it's not a bank at fault: sometimes it's the postal service, or an insurance company, or the telephone company, or an airline, or the Government. | | | Bureaucracy used the standard box format which consisted of a grey box with coloured horizontal stripes. | | | But all of us, at one time or another, feel persecuted by a bureaucracy. |
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| | Bureaucracy - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | bureaucracy : Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info] | | | Bureaucracy : A Glossary of Political Economy Terms [home, info] | | | bureaucracy : Columbia Encyclopedia, Six Edition [home, info] |
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