Errata: The Roots of the Green Movement in the United States and West Germany

IN ALL COUNTRIES for which there are vital statistics, accidents are a major cause of death and disability among children. In countries where the food supply is adequate and infectious diseases have been brought under control, accidents have become the leading cause of death in the age group 1 to 19 years. For example, in such countries as Australia, Canada, Sweden, West Germany, and the United States, more than one-third of all deaths in this age group are caused by accidents. The number of children who are injured by accidents fan exceeds the number who are killed. Although no accurate international figures are available, the Morbidity Survey conducted by the United States Public Health Service indicates that in the United States, for every child under 15 killed by accident, 1,100 children are injured severely enough to require medical attention or to be restricted in their activity for at least a day.

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Member influence in cooperatives: Contributions of Scandinavian studies to the research conducted in the United States

Agricultural and Food Science ◽

10.23986/afsci.72162 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 56 (2) ◽

pp. 101-129

Author(s):

Petri Ollila

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Decision Making ◽

Interest Groups ◽

The United States ◽

External Factors ◽

West Germany ◽

Individual Factors ◽

Internal Factors ◽

Major Interest ◽

Interest Organizations

This literature review summarizes research on member influence in cooperatives conducted in Scandinavia and some of the research conducted in West Germany. The review divides the contents of member influence into three components; individual factors, the cooperative organization’s internal factors and the organization’s external factors. As individual factors, participation, representation and representativeness are considered. Conflicts in cooperative organizations, the effect of the growth of the organization and the rules of decision making are discussed as organizations internal factors. The major interest groups in addition to members (the market, personnel and the society) are presented as external factors. The external factors are increasingly challenging the nature of cooperatives as member interest organizations.

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Comparison of the incentives used to stimulate energy production in Japan, France, West Germany, and the United States

10.2172/6475298 ◽

1981 ◽

Author(s):

R.J. Cole ◽

B.W. Cone ◽

P. Sommers ◽

C. Eschbach ◽

W.J. Sheppard ◽

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Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Energy Production ◽

The United States ◽

West Germany

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Organization for European Economic Cooperation

International Organization ◽

10.1017/s0020818300009759 ◽

1960 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 359-360 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Economic Cooperation ◽

West Germany ◽

Trade Association ◽

European Economic ◽

Underdeveloped Countries ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

European Free Trade Association ◽

Set Up

The January 14, 1960, meeting of the Council of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC) was preceded by a meeting of representatives of the organization's eighteen members and of the United States and Canada to examine the resolutions adopted by a special economic conference. At this meeting, which ended with approval of a move sponsored by the United States that was designed to reorganize economic cooperation and transform the organization, it was decided, and subsequently approved by the OEEC Council and the United States and Canada, that: 1) four experts, representing respectively North America, the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), the European Economic Community (EEC) and other European nations, would prepare a report on the transformation of OEEC for consideration by senior officials of twenty countries, namely, the OEEC nations and the United States and Canada, at a meeting scheduled for April 19, 1960; 2) a preparatory meeting of representatives of the same twenty nations would be held in a month's time, when decisions would be taken to appoint a permanent chairman, a secretariat, and working parties to look into outstanding trade problems; and 3) a group, consisting of Canada, France, West Germany, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, the United States, the United Kingdom, and a representative of EEC, would be informally set up to coordinate aid policies to underdeveloped countries. The outcome of the discussions was regarded as paving the way for a new Atlantic economic grouping, composed of the members of OEEC plus the United States and Canada, which would give priority to consideration of the problems between the two rival European economic groups, EEC and EFTA. Other matters discussed by the Council were the removal of discriminatory measures against imports from the dollar zone and the increase in assistance to underdeveloped countries.

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