Sentences with phrase «basic public function»

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Given the lack of public enthusiasm and the failure of the Government to tell us what it believes the basic function of a reformed Lords to be, few people will mourn the Bill's likely death.

Rather than encouraging researchers to take on problems that serve the public interest — a basic function of science and the fundamental reason that citizens support funding for science — Edwards believes those «perverse incentives» make researchers cautious and only concerned with their own interests.

Included in the PowerPoint: a) Scarcity, Choice and Opportunity Cost - The Fundamental Economic Problem - The Meaning of Scarcity and the inevitability of choices at all levels (individual, firms, govt)- The basic questions of what will be produced ow and for whom - The Meaning of the term «Ceteris Paribus» - The Margin and Decision Making at the Margin - Sort run, long run, very long run b) Positive and Normative Statements - the distinction between fact and value judgements c) Factors of Production - the rewards to the factors of production: land, labour, capital and enterprise - Specialization and division of labour d) Resource Allocation in Different Economic Systems and Issues of Transition - decision making in market, planned and mixed economies - the role of the factor enterprise in a modern economy e) Production Possibility Curves - shape and shifts of the curve - constant and increasing opportunity costs f) Money - functions and characteristics in a modern economy - barter, cash and bank deposits, cheques, near money, liquidity g) Classification of Goods and Services - free goods, private goods (economic goods) and public goods - merit goods and demerit goods as the outcome of imperfect information by consumers PowerPoint Also Includes: - Key Terms for each Chapter - Activities - Multiple Choice and Essay questions from past exam papers.

Key Issues To ensure charter schools and neighborhood public schools function in the best interests of students, parents and community members, we believe that, like all public institutions, they must be guided by six basic principles of a democratic society: transparency, accountability, quality, oversight, equity and public control.

In order for libraries to continue to function as key providers of information to the public, these basic principles must be followed.

Due to their appearance and unsanitary conditions from the open burning and vermin, and a greater awareness over time of public health concerns, the open dumps of the past found at some common location (s) have evolved into the «sanitary» landfills that still serve the same basic function today.

It is certainly understandable that the objective of general deterrence is «particularly applicable to public welfare offences where it is essential for the proper functioning of our society for citizens at large to expect that basic rules are established and enforced to protect the physical, economic and social welfare of the public.»

The precise formulation differs between DDA 1995 and SDA 1975, but the basic idea is that an authority is caught — whether purely public or hybrid — to the extent to which it carries out functions of a public nature.

Similar to many customer - oriented occupations, car rental agents communicate frequently with the public and may be expected to fulfill basic sales functions as part of the job.