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Selected U.S. Tax Expenditures: Historical Trends in Regressivity
U.S. tax expenditures represent $1.2 trillion dollars of lost federal tax revenues in 2013 due to exclusions, deductions, deferrals, and credits allowed by the tax code. Without tax expenditures, the US government would ... -
Self-Assembled Antireflective Coatings Using Silica and Titania Nanoparticles (thesis)
Antiretlective coatings have a wide range of applications, from eyeglass and camera lenses to solar panels, and from microscope lenses and optoelectronic devices to skyscraper windows. It is well known that an uncoated ... -
Selling Souls From A Distance: Market Revolution Transformations in the United States Domestic Slave Trade and Slave Traders (thesis)
Chapter One of this project explores the dual stereotype of the trader created in the antebellum South. Northerners and Southerners criticized the ignorant, lowly itinerant trader but not the large-scale, wealthy trader ... -
Sen. Barry Goldwater Accepts his Nomination - 1964 Mock Convention (audiorecording)
(Washington and Lee Mock Convention Committee, 1964) -
Sen. Biden's Address - 1988 Mock Convention (audiorecording)
(Washington and Lee Mock Convention Committee, 1988) -
Sen. Hollings' Address - 1988 Mock Convention (audiorecording)
(Washington and Lee Mock Convention Committee, 1988) -
Sen. Randolph's Address - 1988 Mock Convention (audiorecording)
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Senator William Proxmire Addresses 1984 Mock Convention (audiorecording)
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Sensing Fluid Pressure During Plucking Events in a Natural Bedrock Channel: Cowpasture River, VA (thesis)
Bedrock river erosion by plucking -- the wholesale removal of bedrock blocks -- is likely the dominant non-glacial driver of incision into topography over both short- and long-term timescales. Engineering and physical/numerical ... -
Sentencing Disparities of White Collar Crime and Non-White Collar Crime
97% of criminal prosecutions end in a plea deal. Thus, the sentence recorded by the United States Sentencing Commission is most likely a sentence negotiated during a pre-trial agreement. This paper will show that a disparity ... -
Sequence Stratigraphic and Structural Interpretation, Modeling and Restoration in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA) (thesis)
This thesis examines Mesozoic progradational clinoform sequences, as well as deformation associated with the Brooks Range orogeny in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA). Brookian, Beaufortian and upper Ellesmerian ... -
Serpulids as Indicators of Mid-late Holocene Climate: Timing and Paleoclimate Significance of Large Worm Tube Aggregates, Lago Enriquillo, Dominican Republic
Large aggregates of calcareous serpulid worm tubes recorded paleoclimate conditions as they colonized the mid to late Holocene Enriquillo embayment, Dominican Republic. Serpulid worms flourished in the embayment following ... -
Setting of FOL Luncheon, May 3, 2014 (photographs)
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Setting the Precedent: NYC Education Reforms 2002-2007
This paper examines the process of reform in NYC, over the past five years, to determine whether the reforms have adequately addressed the problems within the NYC school system. The paper begins by examining the conditions ... -
Seven Novels of Angel Maria de Lera: Their Technique and Style, Their Characters, Their Meaning
The following paper is an analysis of seven novels of the contemporary Spanish writer Angel Maria de Lera. The intention is to evidence the maturation of Lera as a writer during the ten years that the seven novels cover ...