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Ever since the unfulfilled promise of ”forty acres and a mule,“ America has consistently failed to confront the issue of racial injustice Exploring why America has failed to compensate Black Americans for the wrongs of slavery, Long Overdue provides a history of the racial reparations movement and shows why it is an idea whose time has come.

Martin Luther King, Jr., remarked in his ”I Have a Dream“ speech that America has given Black citizens a “bad check” marked “insufficient funds.” Yet apart from a few Black nationalists, the call for reparations has been peripheral to Black policy demands. Charles P. Henry examines Americans'unwillingness to confront this economic injustice, and crafts a skillful moral, political, economic, and historical argument for African American reparations, focusing on successful political cases.

In the wake of recent successes in South Africa and New Zealand, new models for reparations have recently found traction in a number of American cities and states, from Dallas to Baltimore and Virginia to California. By looking at other dispossessed groups — Native Americans, Holocaust survivors, and Japanese internment victims in the 1940s — Henry shows how some groups have won the fight for reparations.

As Hurricane Katrina made apparent, the legacy of racial segregation and economic disadvantage is never far below the surface in America. Long Overdue provides an up-to-date survey of the political and legislative efforts that are now breaking the surface to move reparations into the heart of our national discussion about race.

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Every year, Americans waste millions of dollars on books that promise to fix all their problems We buy each new one, believing its promises despite the failures of all the previous tomes, continuing to hope for that nonexistent magic bullet. Tom Tiede, a former syndicated columnist and the recipient of numerous journalism awards, just might be able to cure us of this addiction. In Self-Help Nation, Tiede skewers the authors of self-help books, whom he compares to modern-day snake-oil peddlers exploiting our weaknesses. As he slashes his way merrily through his least favorite books, Tiede posits a larger cultural argument about why we as a nation have fallen prey to the self-help juggernaut. Waging an eloquent attack on the salaciousness and irresponsibility of the media, the self-absorption of the Baby Boom generation, our fascination with celebrity, and other cultural afflictions, Tiede offers insightful commentary on what we've lost in our hyperaccelerated culture and calls for a return to the timeless American value of self-reliance. In urging us to trust ourselves, Tiede is perhaps writing just another self-help book, a sure sign of the mess we've gotten ourselves into. Regardless, Self-Help Nation is a delight to read-wickedly funny, refreshingly candid, and ultimately profound..
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Title: The need for a universal EMC test standard Part 1: it's no secret that a uniform, worldwide EMC test standard is long overdue. (Dealing with EMC).
Author: Ronald W. Brewer
Publication:EE-Evaluation Engineering (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2002
Publisher: Nelson Publishing
Volume: 41 Issue: 9 Page: 66(5)

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Title: The need for a universal EMC test standard: part 2; it's no secret that a uniform, worldwide EMC test standard is long overdue. (Dealing with EMC).
Author: Ronald W. Brewer
Publication:EE-Evaluation Engineering (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 2002
Publisher: Nelson Publishing
Volume: 41 Issue: 11 Page: 64(5)

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Title: New Passat is longer--and long overdue.(NOTABLE)
Publication:Automotive Design & Production (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 117 Issue: 10 Page: 30(1)

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From the supplier: Studies indicate that multi-year teacher/student relationships can boost student performance as well as teacher satisfaction. Unfortunately, such long-term relationships have yet to receive widespread support. Arguments for a serious consideration of this concept are presented.

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Title: Multi-year teacher/student relationships are a long-overdue arrangement.
Author: Daniel L. Burke
Publication:Phi Delta Kappan (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1996
Publisher: Phi Delta Kappa, Inc.
Volume: v77 Issue: n5 Page: p360(2)

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Title: Extreme makeover for the Port of Anchorage: long overdue upgrades will bring the port up to speed.(Proposed Port Expansion Project)
Author: Gary L. Martin
Publication:Alaska Business Monthly (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2004
Publisher: Alaska Business Publishing Company, Inc.
Volume: 20 Issue: 8 Page: 66(3)

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