Author: Thomas D. Clark
Publisher: CommuniSkills
Keywords: edit, revise, write, organize, communication, plan, power
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 1994-01
ISBN-10: 0538822996
ISBN-13: 9780538822992

Power Communication provides you with a systematic presentation of how to compose persuasive written and oral messages. Organized around the acronym POWER, you'll learn to Plan, Organize, Write, Edit, and Revise letters memos, and presentations for effective communications.

Author: Aleksandr Petrovich Kazhdan
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: twelfth, centuries, eleventh, culture, byzantine, change
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1985
ISBN-10: 0520051297
ISBN-13: 9780520051294

Byzantium, that dark sphere on the periphery of medieval Europe, is commonly regarded as the immutable residue of Rome's decline. In this highly original and provocative work, Alexander Kazhdan and Ann Wharton Epstein revise this traditional image by documenting the dynamic social changes that occurred during the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

Author: J. M. Beach
Publisher: J. M. Beach
Keywords: responding, reading, democracy, educating
Number of Pages: 156
Published: 2006-10-31
ISBN-10: 0595415636
ISBN-13: 9780595415632

This book gives an overview on how to read and write for college classrooms. It teaches an easy to learn and highly effective process. It also includes readings from American history focused on democracy and equality. Learn how to... Be a Student Communicate Clearly Read College Texts Organize Information Summarize Information Respond to Information Construct a Research Essay Edit & Revise Read and Respond to Poetry

Author: DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: implications, budgetary, updating, deficit, addressing
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 1996-11-01
ISBN-10: 0788134744
ISBN-13: 9780788134746

Helps the U.S. Congress identify options that could be used to reduce the deficit. It updates previous work with new information, and systematically identifies in a single document the budgetary implications of selected program reforms discussed but not yet implemented or enacted. There are three broad themes: reassess objectives (terminate or revise services and programs provided); redefine beneficiaries (reconsider a program's intended audience); and improve efficiency (reconsider how a program or service is provided). Charts and tables.

Author: Jim Wells
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: challenges, impede, effective, oversight, confront, ferc, markets, concerted, actions, needed, energy
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2003-11
ISBN-10: 0756728282
ISBN-13: 9780756728281

This report discusses the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) efforts to revise its approach to regulating & overseeing the nation's natural gas & electric power industries in light of these industries' evolution from highly regulated monopolies to competitive energy markets. The report contains recommendations to the Chairman of FERC on developing & implementing an effective regulatory & oversight approach for these markets. It also contains a matter for congressional consideration on the need to review FERC's legal authorities to determine whether revisions are warranted in view of

Author: Bernard L. Ungar
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: anthrax, contamination, occur, future, communication, improve, service, guidance, needed, postal
Number of Pages: 66
Published: 2003-08-30
ISBN-10: 0756735157
ISBN-13: 9780756735159

In 2001, letters contaminated with anthrax resulted in 23 cases of the disease, 5 deaths, and the contamination of numerous U.S. Postal Service facilities, including the Southern CT Processing and Dist. Center in Wallingford, CT. This report addresses whether: the Postal Service followed applicable guidelines and requirements for informing employees at the facility about the contamination; and lessons can be learned from the response to the facility's contamination. To help prevent a reoccurrence of communication problems, this report recommends that the Postal Service, OSHA, GSA, and the Nat.

Author: Phillip Herr
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: planning, based, federal, performance, oversight, exist, transportation, opportunities, statewide, transition
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 2011-04-01
ISBN-10: 1437944612
ISBN-13: 9781437944617

Through the statewide transportation planning process, states decide how to spend fed. transportation funds -- almost $46 billion in FY 2009. Draft legislation to reauthorize federal surface transportation legislation would, among other things, revise planning requirements to recognize states' use of rural planning org. (RPO) and require performance measurement. This report examined: (1) states' planning activities and RPOs' satisfaction that rural needs are considered; (2) states' planning challenges; (3) the U.S. Dept. of Transportation's approach to overseeing statewide planning; and (4) st