...countries. Place particular emphasis on the resolution of policy conflicts.76 Historical backyround. — In the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth, it was believed that central banks could best serve the public interest if they operated free from political...

...replaced their overwhelmingly white faculties and administrators for "under-qualified" blacks in the last decades of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth, they exchanged the "skills of white teachers" for the "symbolism of black representation."33 It should...

...bosses and the organizations they directed nevertheless fulfilled vital functions. During the last decades of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth, American cities underwent rapid expansion in area as well as in population. Among the newcomers were...

...for or explained in social terms. These may have been two important reasons for the move in the last decades of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century to sharply separate social from physical kinship, but they were certainly not the only reasons....

...served different purposes; they were responses to different sets of circumstances. But in the closing decades of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth, their respective volumes rose and fell at precisely the same times. And in most cases, the volume of...

...emphasizes the ethnic working-class presence made visible in the Fourth of July parade in the latter decades of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century in the industrial city of Worcester, Massachusetts. In Pittsfield seventy-five years later,...

...The history of Norwegian and other Scandinavian immigration to Canada properly belongs to the last decades of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth, when large numbers of Scandinavians entered the Canadian West from Europe as well as from the Upper...

...the time series data for many metals prices rather well. The general downward trend through the last decades of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century has slowly given way to a rising trend. These U-shaped relationships may, however, be only...

...disenchantment is attributable to the remarkable growth of case reporting in this country during the last decades of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century.11 When law was grounded in natural law, the legal profession demanded case reports as the...

...countries largely had common goals. Moreover, the success of the German university system in the latter decades of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century had ensured that throughout Europe and the United States the school and university systems...