Author: Michael Martin
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: vietnam, relations, orange, agent, victims, vietnamese
Number of Pages: 35
Published: 2010-11
ISBN-10: 143792753X
ISBN-13: 9781437927535

Contents: (1) Brief History of Post-War U.S.-Vietnam Relations and the Agent Orange Issue; (2) U.S. Govżt. Assistance; (3) The Effects of Agent Orange on Vietnam: Brief History of the Use of Agent Orange in Vietnam; Estimates of Vietnamese Exposure to Agent Orange; Amount Used; Vietnamżs Health Claims; (4) Clean-Up Efforts; (5) Vietnamżs Assistance to the Victims: Government Support; AO Central Payments Programme; U.S. Civil Suit for Compensation; Vietnamese Americans and Agent Orange; (6) Other Sources of Assistance: Vietnamese Non-Governmental Assistance; Peace Villages; Ford Fdn.; UNICEF

Author: Michael F. Martin
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: vietnam, relations, orange, agent, victims, vietnamese
Number of Pages: 35
Published: 2010-10
ISBN-10: 1437927939
ISBN-13: 9781437927931

Contents: (1) History of Post-War U.S.-Vietnam Relations and the Agent Orange Issue; (2) U.S. Govżt. Assist.; (3) Effects of Agent Orange on Vietnam: History of the Use of Agent Orange in Vietnam.; Estimates of Vietnamese Exposure to Agent Orange; (4) Clean-Up Efforts; (5) Vietnamżs Assist. to the Victims: Govżt. Support; Health Insur. Card; U.S. Civil Suit for Compensation; Vietnamese Amer. and Agent Orange; (6) Other Sources of Assist.: Vietnamese Non-Governmental Assist.; Vietnam Red Cross; Charity Events; Peace Villages; International Sources of Assist.; Ford Fdn.; UNICEF; UNDP; Gates F

Author: Richard Curtis
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Keywords: getting, book, published, guide, insider, literary, agent, own
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2003-11-17
eBookDB-ID: 9780547524

How to Be Your Own Literary Agent takes the mystery out of book publishing for any writer, published or not. Richard Curtis -- a top literary agent for more than thirty years -- provides a comprehensive practical overview of the publishing process, from submissions to contract negotiations to subsidiary rights to marketing, publicity, and beyond. He also gives away trade secrets and invaluable wisdom -- candid advice that can be found nowhere else. Now completely revised and expanded, How to Be Your Own Literary Agent is essential reading for all writers.* Big publishers, small publishers, sel

Author: Donald Maass
Publisher: Heinemann
Keywords: strategies, success, offers, agent, novelist, literary, career
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1996-07-01
ISBN-10: 0435086936
ISBN-13: 9780435086930

The Career Novelist is like having your own personal literary agent on your bookshelf!

Author: Robert E. Robertson
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: vietnam, exposed, workers, compensation, claims, civilians, number, orange, limited, information, available, agent
Number of Pages: 44
Published: 2005-09-01
ISBN-10: 1422300447
ISBN-13: 9781422300442

Civilian employees of the U.S. gov't. may have difficulty in obtaining workers' compensation benefits for medical conditions they developed as a result of their exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam. This report determines: (1) what is known about the number of civilians who served in Vietnam, both those employed directly by the U.S. gov't. & those employed by companies that contracted with the gov't.; (2) what is known about the number, processing, & disposition of claims filed by these civilians; & (3) what options are available if Congress chooses to improve access to benefits for civilians e

Author: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell
Publisher: Fundacion BBVA
Keywords: revisited, agency
Number of Pages: 51
Published: 2007
eBookDB-ID: GGKEY:85PY

The article presents a comprehensive overview of the principal-agent model that emphasizes the role of trust in the agency relationship. The analysis demonstrates that the legal remedy for breach of duty can result in a full-information efficient outcome eliminating both moral hazard and adverse selection problems in agency. The legal remedy motivates agents to behave in a trustworthy fashion and principals to place their trust in agents. In contrast to the standard agency model, a complete description of the principal-agent relationship cannot be based on explicit incentives alone but must re

Author: General Accounting Office Washington Dc National S
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: foreign, representing, interests, government, officials, federal, agent, registration, former
Number of Pages: 46
Published: 1993-07-01
ISBN-10: 1568065507
ISBN-13: 9781568065502

Identifies high-level federal officials who, after leaving government service between fiscal years 1986 & 1991, registered as foreign agents & represented foreign interests before the U.S. government. Also examines Department of Justice actions to correct problems previously reported concerning the administration of foreign agent registration. Drawings.