Book Review: Cases on the Law of Damages

After fifteen years of drought, relieved only once by a gentle shower in the form of a second edition of McCormick\u27s Cases, a two-casebook downpour has fallen on the field of Damages. First came Professor Wright\u27s Cases on Remedies, which concentrates on the substantive law of damages but does not neglect the alternative restitutionary and equitable remedies. It was followed within a few weeks by Professor Crane\u27s Cases on the Law of Damages, a third edition which continues to confine itself strictly to problems involving the classic damage remedy. Both books are the product of the same rainmaker, the West Publishing Company. Hence both appear in the new red-covered, two-columned, slim-jim format recently designed by West to facilitate student and teacher cartage at the expense of marginal note space. Both volumes follow the current trend toward shorter books-a trend that is unfortunately as traceable to the demands of overworked teachers for books that can be taught on an automatic for tomorrow take the next twenty pages basis as it is to increased paper and printing costs. Both books can, and will, be used by teachers offering courses called Damages. But here the resemblance ends. In both aim and attitude, Professors Crane and Wright are generations apart

Book Review: Pricing of Military Procurements

Take the profit out of war has long been a crowd-catching slogan. It has an understandable appeal. And no one denies that profiteering in time of war -whether hot war or cold -is an unsavory, wasteful and morale-destroying activity that should be stamped out. But as John Miller so persuasively argues in this second of the series Studies in National Policy, it is both undesirable and unrealistic to propose the elimination of all chance for profit in war contracts

Public Purpose in Public Housing: An Anachronism Reburied

No immediate aim of the American people is more widely supported and more insistently voiced than the desire to attack the social evils of the slums and to provide decent living quarters for at least a portion of the underprivileged. So wrote the United States Senate Committee on Education and Labor in its unanimous recommendation of the United States Housing Act of 1937. Indeed it is now common knowledge that the all too recent slum clearance, low-rent public housing program of the United States Housing Authority, and of its some 600 cooperating local authorities, is but one of many related governmental responses—required by the failure of private institutions—to insistent public demands. In a country where every third home is substandard on simple physical grounds alone ( without considering overcrowding ), every needed and relevant power of government—planning, spending, taxing, condemning, owning, lending, policing, regulating—has been marshalled at every level—federal, regional, state, and local—for the achievement of a new public goal: the provision of healthful homes, in well planned communities, for all citizens, at prices that they can afford to pay. In addition to the United States Housing Authority and its cooperating state and local authorities, a host of other new agencies—the HOLC, the FHA, the Federal Home Loan Bank System, the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, the Farm Security Administration, the TVA, and now the National Housing Agency and the Rent Division of OPA—all bear indubitable testimony to the fact that housing has in recent years in the United States achieved the status of a governmental function

Association of abdominal muscle composition with prediabetes and diabetes: The CARDIA study

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Owner-Managers and the Failure of Newly Adopted Work Councils

Using representative data from the IAB Establishment Panel, we show that the managerial environment has a strong influence on the introduction and survival of works councils. Employees in owner-managed establishments are less likely to introduce a works council. Moreover, in case of an introduction, the new works council is less likely to survive if the establishment is owner-managed. The pattern of results even holds in situations that involve positive economic effects of works councils. This suggests that owner-managers oppose works councils not primarily for economic reasons. Our findings are rather consistent with the hypothesis that owner-managers oppose co-determination because it reduces the utility they gain from being the ultimate bosses within the establishment

Expanding exertion gaming

While exertion games - digital games where the outcome is determined by physical exertion - are of growing interest in HCI, we believe the current health and fitness focus in the research of exertion games limits the opportunities this field has to offer. In order to broaden the agenda on exertion games, we link the existing fields of sports and interactive entertainment (arguing these fields have much to offer) by presenting four of our own designs as case studies. Using our experiences with these designs we highlight three key strategies to guide designers in the creation of richer exertion game experiences: designing a temporal trajectory through games with reference to the way exertion changes over time, designing for the inevitable and not necessarily negative effects of pain in exertion games, and designing for the highly socially situated nature of exertion gaming