Do you suffer from G.O.D complex?

TiengAnhVui.Com"Every time a modifier dangles, a communicator gets his wings."A look at the symptoms of the scourge of professional communicators. (I do try to correct people gently.) //<!--google_ad_client = "pub-4812195208277841";/* Blog Footer Feeder */google_ad_slot = "1926643800";google_ad_width = 728;google_ad_height = 15;//-->// Đăng ký: Hoc tieng ...

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James Q. Wilson Changes Policing in America

James Quinn Wilson  là một học giả  và là nhà chính trị xã hội . Lý thuyết về “the broken windows “ có ảnh hưởng lớn đến nhiều thay đổi trong hệ thống trị an Hoa Kỳ. Nghe Audio : Listen From Wikipedia: James Quinn Wilson (May 27, 1931 – March 2, 2012) was an American academic, political scientist, and an authority on public administration. A Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University and a senior fellow at the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College, he was a co-author of the 1982 article introducing the broken windows theory. SCRIPT: Welcome to This Is America with VOA Learning English. Today, we are talking about political and social scientist James Q. Wilson. Wilson...

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Is "Data" Singular or Plural?

The data are correct or The data is correct?  Answered from Charles Carson, managing editor of the journal American Speech The question seems easy enough: is data singular or plural? Unfortunately, the answer is that both usages are standard. We could explain why grocery store signs should read 10 items or fewer instead of 10 items or less. Count nouns are used for objects that can be counted; that is, they're distinct objects that can be numbered. For example, in my refrigerator there are eggs, apples, and lemons. These are all count nouns. Count nouns can be singular or plural, and when you use them as the subject of a sentence, the verb must correctly reflect that number, as in The last apple IS on the bottom shelf or The eggs ARE fresh. Mass nouns, on the other hand, are...

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The labor market impact of mobility restrictions | Research

Learning by Reading . This paper provides new evidence on the labor market effects of conflict-induced restrictions to mobility. To identify the effects, the analysis exploits the fact that the placement of physical barriers by Israel was exogenous to local labor market conditions and uses a measure of conflict intensity to control for the likely spurious correlation between local unrest, labor market conditions, and the placement of barriers. The study finds that these barriers to mobility have a significant negative effect on employment, wages, and days worked per month. The barriers had a positive impact on the number of hours per working day. These effects are driven mainly by checkpoints while other barriers, such as roadblocks and...

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