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Last year, lawmakers reintroduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation (H.R. 1108, S. 625) to give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) broad new authority to regulate the manufacture, distribution, advertising, promotion, sale, and use of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products. Amended versions of both bills have been reported out of committee and await floor action in their respective chambers. The Secretary of Health and Human Services has stated in a July 21, 2008, letter that the Bush Adm...

Written by one of the UK's leading personal finance journalists, this book brings together 140 tips to help ensure you pay the right amount of tax. Whether it's ensuring your tax code is correct, making the most of your ISA, saving the full amount into your pension or claiming the right amount of tax credits, this is the one guidebook that you can't do without. It tells you all about the taxes that you should pay, advises on tax changes and explains who you should ask if you need detailed a...

"This new edition from Tolley provides practitioners with a practical and straightforward guide to the tax implications of trusts and the planning opportunities that arise from them. Fully updated to take into account the Finance Act 2004, it also covers the legal principles surrounding this complex area and includes examples and case studies throughout to supplement and illustrate the text."

Emlyn Williams' classic account of the notorious Moors Murderers, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, who between 1962 and 1965 abducted, brutally abused and murdered five children - Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans - and buried them in shallow graves on Saddleworth Moor, in Lancashire.

The 1970s witnessed a world-wide liberalization of economic markets. This collection of papers not only describes the major changes and sets out the underlying forces leading to them, but also offers analysis of the consequences of reform. The papers embrace national studies (ie the USA, Canada, Australia and the UK) and sectoral studies (relating to aviation, trucking, the bus industry, energy, international and domestic finance and telecommunications). The contents of the book should be of int...

The first comprehensive economic and legal analysis of hub-and-spoke cartels, with detailed case studies. A cartel forms when competitors conspire to limit competition through coordinated actions. Most cartels are composed exclusively of firms that would otherwise be in competition, but in a hub-and-spoke cartel, those competitors (“spokes”) conspire with the assistance of an upstream supplier or a downstream buyer (“hub”). This book provides the first comprehensive economic and legal analysis...

Tim Duffy's Microsoft Windows 95 has been completely updated to include Active Desktop and Windows 98 and integrates textual explanation and hands-on exercises, providing a balance between real-world practice and conceptual understanding. This innovative, highly visual, project-based text features hands-on exercises that are built around a running case study.

This book explores the ability of persons with disabilities to live independently in affordable, accessible housing. This became a prominent issue starting in 1999 as the result of a Supreme Court decision, Olmstead v. L.C., in which the court held that institutionalisation of persons with mental disabilities in lieu of community-based care may constitute discrimination. Shortly after the Olmstead decision, the President announced the New Freedom Initiative, an effort through multiple federal ag...

Understanding and Analyzing Competitive Dynamics will serve as the first book for economic development professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, and businesses because it answers the following three questions: What are the tools and techniques to analyze regional dynamics, how can these tools be used in a regional setting, and how can these tools help us formulate new directions? The book also highlights the necessity of regional level leadership in leveraging existing regional asset...

Are you a recording artist, songwriter, music business manager, music industry executive, publisher, music/TV/radio journalist, media student, accountant or lawyer? Are you fascinated by the world of the music industry that fills out daily papers? If the answer is yes, Music: The Business will tell you everything you need to know. Fully revised and updated to embrace the new challenges of the Internet downloads, ringtones and the huge changes at the major labels, this indispensable book answers...

In response to the international financial crisis of 2007, a network of social scientists from seven countries analyzed the various changes in the regulation of financial markets, and this book presents their results. The articles published here show patterns of institutional change that were triggered by the economic crisis on different political levels, and details their implementation and effectiveness. An indispensable tool for political scientists, "Crisis and Control" contributes significa...