In response to the shortage in primary care physicians and the government's new laws regarding private health insurance, Obama administration officials are recruiting "mystery shoppers" who will experience and report firsthand on the growing problem. ... This information will be gathered and used to determine if doctors are giving different answers to callers depending on whether they have public insurance or private insurance (Pear). The project is expected to provide extremely valuable information that will greatly benefit the government at little cost to the doctors. ... Each offi...

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In economic terms congestion is a mixture of externalities and information failure. ... Information failure is apparent as if information of delays and congestion could be relayed, alternative routes could be taken and congestion reduced. ... This diagram shows, if there are negative externalities then the marginal social benefit will be less than the marginal private benefit. ... However, when market failure occurs it would be because a market would produce where the marginal private cost is equal to the marginal private benefit (Q^). ... The lower price relative to private car use wil...

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In the highly development in technology, media has gone so far in terms of the exploit to the information. ... There has been a controversy over the action of Edward Snowden weather he is responsible for his action and the right to publicize to the information. ... There has been a similar case relating to the disclosure of the classified information. ... The NSA systematically undermined the basic encryption systems of the Internet, making it possible to access to the sensitive banking or medical data is truly private (Shane, 2013). ... His disclosures have fueled debated over mass surveil...

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It seems as if our online lives will be open to the government and nothing will be private. ... Privacy varies from information on the internet, work, even to social media. ... Generally goes around $5 to $20 to find out informations about their lives. ... There are positive and negative outcomes of being able to wiretap into societies personal and most private lives. ... This may even cause corrupt things if valuable information is found in the wrong hands. ...

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However, this also creates opportunity for misuse of such information. ... It should not be assumed that service account information is kept private. ... Companies can obtain the information of your key stokes and use that information to create a very personal description of an individual. ... Institutions and corporations that profit from the sale of private information will argue that they are only trying to bring us better services. ... In the current climate we must trust these organizations to treat our information in an ethical manner, with relatively no recourse when liberties are ta...

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Level of Growth and Development 2.1 Development of Private Properties According to URA, the amount of private properties in Singapore has been increasing steadily over the years. The available units of private residential properties has seen sharp increases over the year range of 2006-2012 while the available space of commercial and industrial private properties has only seen moderate increases over the year range of 2006-2012. ... Therefore, it is likely that the units of private residential properties being developed in 2013 will continue to decrease due to the stabilization of residential p...

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For example" should public funds be used to send private and parochial schools? ... They provide for the transfer of public funds to the public or private for the parents" choice. ... Milwaukee allowed private schools to compete for students under an experimental program: students from low-income families were given tuition at private schools that participated in the program (chira 1992;Kelly 1993;Mclarin1995). ... The information in my research supports Gary Rosen's Article. There are numerous finding that private, charter schools, and voucher system is greatly improving the minds of th...

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The Congressional Budget Office reports small increases in both employment and GDP but notes that it could produce negative growth in the long run due to crowding out in the private sector (CBO 4). Crowding out occurs when increased government spending hinders private investment. ... The unemployment rate has been hit so hard in this recovery due to people's inabilities to change their skill-sets with the shift from an industrial focused economy to one based in information technology and services. ...

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The federal government must also provide information about the country and its population. ... In the Canadian parliament there are two types of bills: public bills and private bills. ... Private bills are bills that confer special powers or bills to incorporate private companies or religious or charitable organizations or to amend existing acts of incorporation. A private bill is always founded on a petition to parliament.... "Those introduced by the government are called "government bills" and those introduced by members are called "private members' bills" or &q...

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In many circles this is believed to be a good thing as private lives are protected, however, there is a belief that these laws are not enough and greater precaution should be taken, in order to protect those citizens 'hounded' by the media. ... These Acts are meant to ensure that journalists do not receive any unauthorised or classified information. ... There have been attempts to introduce a Freedom of Information Act but thus far, all attempts have failed. ...

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It is a way of taking databases and turning it into useful information. ... This program is the Information Awareness Program (IAP). ... They could go through call logs and your credit cards which are both very private things to the average person. ... It is not ethical to track the information of citizens without informing the individuals first. ... According to Peter Piazza author of "Digging Deeper into Data Mining" many companies are practicing this tactic and are "using personal information, and many of these efforts use sensitive private-sector data such as credit repor...

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The free market approach in economic decision-making is based on private ownership of properties and resources, there is no government involvement, whereas the command approach describes a situation in which resources are jointly or publicly owned, everything is government owned. ... Buyers and sellers often don't have proper information to make informed decisions and competition may be controlled by a few large companies. ... A free market system is one in which private ownership and individual decision-making is stressed and the government has little or no involvement. ... The best thin...

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In sections 201 and 202 the government says it has the " authority to intercept wire, oral, and electronic communications relating to terrorism, computer fraud and abuse offenses" and may if they find it necessary, have the "authority to share criminal investigative information" with anyone, including other regular American citizens, as outlined in Section 203. ... This proves that the Patriot Act is clearly unconstitutional in that it gives authorities the power to invade and/or wiretap an individual's private living quarters for any reason at any given time without a warrant (as defined...

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In sections 201 and 202 the government says it has the " authority to intercept wire, oral, and electronic communications relating to terrorism, computer fraud and abuse offenses" and may if they find it necessary, have the "authority to share criminal investigative information" with anyone, including other regular American citizens, as outlined in Section 203. ... This proves that the Patriot Act is clearly unconstitutional in that it gives authorities the power to invade and/or wiretap an individual's private living quarters for any reason at any given time without a warrant (as defined...

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Censorship by its definition is the suppression of publishing or accessing information on the internet and it can be carried out by governments or by private organization, either at the order of government or on their own initiative. ... For instance, when users post material that does not belong to them or any misleading content, these acts will send a message to the private corporation and automatically shut them down and sue search engines and blogs that have links to any typical sites. ... It not only that the government is shutting down obscene websites but its also affecting Non-American...

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The database proposed would contain information about individuals that could all be held in one place for easy access. ... New information coming into the database will be sifted through by Carnivore to check for anything suspicious and if anything does come up, further tests will be conducted. ... The government, however, felt that this data was essential and thus made laws forcing companies to disclose any requested information. ... The result is that companies with something to hide will race to voluntarily disclose information about potential violations to the government. ... According to ...

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It is a non-profit, web based organization thats goal is to "bring important news and information to the public .'' ... All of this information was provided to me right from the Wikileaks page. ... Popular sites, newspapers, and data bases post information gained from wikileaks . ... They claim these government documents are private for a reason . ... Wikileaks simply gives americans access to government information, while the government hasn't lost any power due to these leaks . ...

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No significant framework discussed this kind of acquiring of information. ... The problem of giving military contractors crucial information is also evident. ... The government had not promoted policies with the media to safeguard its information. ... All sharing of sensitive information should be put in a platform whereby a standing team will have the full access to monitoring all information shared during all periods of time. ... The reason the public opinion seems to favor Snowden is because most of them feel threaten by the fact that the government listens to every private conversation t...

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These factors are usually shaped by the general corporate atmosphere in the private and public sectors and the adoption of new management strategies. ... Technology and information management were taking the center stage in the operations of organizations and the management had to come up with ways of handling these aspects. ... In addition, it is important that public sector management develop new practices that are being utilized in the private sector. ...

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A major reason for the rise in economy of China had to do with the ownership, "The reforms also gave greater room for private ownership of production, and these privately held businesses created jobs, developed much-wanted consumer products, earned important hard currency through foreign trade, paid state taxes, and gave the national economy a flexibility and resiliency that it did not have before," (Khan and Hu). ... The Chinese urban middle class is broken down into five sections: party and state cadres, business managers, private entrepreneurs, professionals, and office staff (...

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Many of us would agree that such private restraints (also called responsbility and ethics) actually limit press freedom, but for the right reasons. ... The press has the upper hand in skewing and feeding distorted information to the curious natured human minds. ... Recent history has shown that the Communist approach to the press works best in a closed society where information is tightly controlled by the government. ... They function only secondarily as sources of information and entertainment. ... The state-run media organizations have seen much of their control taken away and private media...

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During the National Policy on Women first introduced only two objectives are set that are, first to ensure the fair sharing of resources in acquiring information, opportunities and benefits of development for men and women. ... Then, in 1983, the Secretariat for Women's Affairs (HAWA) was established to monitor and assess the services provided by the public sector and the private sector for the benefit of women. In addition, the HAWA also acts as the main information centre on women's Affairs, and at the same time serves as the secretariat to the NACIWID. ...

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Private enterprises allow entrepreneurs to run businesses without central government control and can operate within a free market. Capitalism is a system of true private enterprise. Some aspects of capitalism are free choice, private ownership, private profit and free competition. ... Most of the rights enjoyed within the capitalist system are denied and private ownership is prohibited. ... It is based on the principles of private enterprise and modified capitalism. ...

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I am a little disappointed that it was an older book but I decided that I would continue on with the reading and found that there was much information that was relevant with examining the current economy, in looking at the way technology affects us. ... Technological change depends heavily on the amount of investment from either the private sector or, concerning defense, education, public health and other social needs, from the government. ... Although it was interesting to see that more research is done in universities and the development side is done in private laboratories funded by the...

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In addition it enables farmers to search for more detailed information on a particular option, such as groundwater pumping, or go even further into the database to look at relevant case studies where a particular engineering option has been applied. ... The three main strategies for the Salinity Task Force include protecting assets of high public value (water, biodiversity), investing in new industries/ technologies and providing support and incentives for smaller on ground works on private land. ...

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