1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911076196503321

Titolo

Elimination of Lamond grade crossing and extension of Van Buren Street. February 3, 1925. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : , : [publisher not identified], , 1925

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (2 pages)

Collana

House report / 68th Congress, 2nd session. House ; ; no. 1371

[United States congressional serial set] ; ; [serial set no. 8391]

Altri autori (Persone)

ZihlmanFrederick Nicholas <1879-1935.> (Republican (MD))

Soggetti

Railroad crossings

Streets

Subways

Construction

Cost

Legislative materials.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Batch processed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes.

FDLP item number not assigned.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911089285603321

Titolo

Competitiveness strategy in developing countries / / edited by Ganeshan Wignaraja

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003

ISBN

1-134-58544-6

0-203-77427-2

1-134-58545-4

1-280-07034-X

0-585-45735-2

9780203466032

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in development economics ; ; 29

Altri autori (Persone)

WignarajaGaneshan <1962->

Disciplina

338.4767091724

338.6048091724

Soggetti

Industrial policy - Developing countries

Industrial productivity - Developing countries

Investments, Foreign - Government policy - Developing countries

Technological innovations - Economic aspects - Developing countries

Competition - Developing countries

International trade

Competition, International

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A manual for policy analysis"- -Cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Editor's note; Introduction, concepts and benchmarking; Introduction; Competitiveness analysis and strategy; Benchmarking competitiveness: a first look at the MECI; Supply-side issues and policies for competitiveness; Science, technology and innovation policy; Industrial clusters and business development services for small and medium-sized enterprises; Government policies towards foreign direct investment; Financial sector policies for enterprise development; Incentive policies for competitiveness

Privatisation, regulation and domestic competition policyInternational



trade policies; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Globalization and structural adjustment offer many opportunities for export orientated industrialization in developing economies. As a group, competitiveness in the developing countries has improved, but, while East Asian economies have had rapid export growth and technological upgrades, South Asian and African economies have lagged behind. Old structures, institutions, behavioural patterns and public policies are ill-adapted to deal with the challenges posed by technological change and economic liberalization. Consequently there is an urgent need for change in government and private sector at

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911089803403321

Autore

Allen Irving L. <1931-2002.>

Titolo

The city in slang : New York life and popular speech / / Irving Lewis Allen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993

ISBN

0-19-028245-2

0-19-535776-0

1-4294-0661-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

427.97471

427/.97471

Soggetti

English language - Spoken English - New York (State) - New York

English language - Social aspects - New York (State) - New York

English language - New York (State) - New York - Slang

Popular culture - New York (State) - New York

City and town life

Americanisms - New York (State) - New York

New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-287) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; PART I: Manhattan in the Mirror of Slang; 1. New York City



Life and Popular Speech; 2. The Social Meaning of City Streets; PART II: The Modern Ruptures of Traditional Life; 3. The Bright Lights; 4. New Ways of Urban Living; 5. Tall Buildings; PART III: The Shadow Worlds of Social Class in City Life; 6. Mean Streets; 7. The Sporting Life; PART IV: The Naming of Social Differences; 8. Social Types in City Streets; 9. Us and Them; 10. The Contempt for Provincial Life; Notes; References and Bibliography; Index of Words and Phrases; Author and Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

The American urban scene, and in particular New York's, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular speech. Hot dog, rush hour, butter-and-egg man, gold digger, shyster, buttinsky, smart aleck, sidewalk superintendent, yellow journalism, breadline, straphanger, tar beach, the Tenderloin, the Great White Way, to do a Brodie--these are just a few of the hundreds of popular words and phrases that were born or took on new meaning in the streets of New York. In The City in Slang, Irving Lewis Allen traces this flowering of popular expressions that accompanied the emergence of the New York metropolis from the early nineteenth century down to the present. This unique account of the cultural and social history of America's greatest city provides ineffect a lexicon of popular speech about city life. With many stories Allen shows how this vocabulary arose from city streets, often interplaying with vaudeville, radio, movies, comics, and the popular songs of Tin Pan Alley. Some terms of great pertinence to city people today have unexpectedly old pedigrees. Rush hour was coined by 1890, for instance, and rubberneck dates to the late 1890s and became popular in New York to describe the busloads of tourists who craned their necks to see the tall buildings and thesights of the Bowery and Chinatown. The Big Apple itself (since 1971 the official nickname of New York) appeared in the 1920s, though first in reference to the city's top racetracks and to Broadway bookings as pinnacles of professional endeavor. Allen also tells fascinating stories behindonce-popular slang that is no longer in use. Spielers, for example, were the little girls in tenement districts who danced ecstatically on the sidewalks to the music of the hurdy-gurdy men and, when they were old enough, frequented the dance halls of the Lower East Side. Following the trail of these words and phrases into the city's East Side, West Side, and all around the town, from Harlem to Wall Street, and into the haunts of its high and low life, The City in Slang is a fascinating look at the rich cultural heritage of language about city life.