From Covenant to Charter: A Legacy Squandered?

A golden opportunity, squandered.

Even when used to make products of negligible risk and that contribute significantly to public health, recombinant DNA technology (a.k.a. ‘genetic modification’, or GM) applied to agriculture has a tough row to hoe. ‘Golden Rice’, which has been enriched by the addition of genes that allow rice to synthesize b-carotene (the precursor of vitamin A) in its edible endosperm, has endured resistance...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

A Decade of Charter Schools: From Theory to Practice

The number of schools operating under charter school laws has soared over the last decade, from a small number operating in just a few states to more than 2,300 schools serving over 575,000 students in 34 states and the District of Columbia. More than half of these schools are concentrated in a few states — Arizona has over 400 charter schools, and California, Florida, Michigan, and Texas each ...

Debt Covenant Design and Creditor Control Rights: Evidence from Covenant Restrictiveness and Loan Outcomes

Using three measures of covenant restrictiveness, I examine the association between the ex ante design of debt covenant restrictiveness and the ex post exercise of creditor control rights. I find that contracts with higher level of covenant restrictiveness at loan origination are more likely to subsequently experience both covenant violations and renegotiations, suggesting that stricter covenan...

A charter to achieve health for all.