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The Labour Party purges
Society, Politics & Law

The Labour Party purges

...course of the campaign, many thousands have changed their minds about Labour – giving Labour hordes of new members and supporters, and a good deal more credibility in places where it previously had none. This was, after all, the entire point of having a supporter sign-up system – and many will have joined, as the system’s architects hoped, from Labour’s right as...
The GOP tries to focus: A guide to the third debate
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The GOP tries to focus: A guide to the third debate

...courses and better links between high school, two-year, and four-year colleges to bring down the cost of higher education. These Republicans and their Democratic counterparts recognize they have to focus on the issues holding back working families from realizing their dreams. Senator Rubio said it most clearly: if we don’t address these issues directly, the next...
Am I In Control?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Am I In Control?

...course of action. In the case of the well prepared student there is rarely, if ever, such a thing as an unfair test. Many times exam questions tend to be so unrelated to course work that studying is really useless. Becoming a success is a matter of hard work; luck has little or nothing to do with it. Getting a good job depends mainly on being in the right place at the...
Trade Union membership cards - more than just a card
Society, Politics & Law

Trade Union membership cards - more than just a card

...courses. Background The provision of diaries has long been part of the service that many unions provide for their members. Even in this era of online calendars and diaries, a hard copy union diary was often gratefully received by trade unionists, a good place to note details of shifts, holidays and other work-related information – in addition to many other aspects of...
“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004
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“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004

...courses Setting the scene When we think about things like militancy, trade unionism, struggle and fightback, we draw on familiar imagery of braziers at shipyard gates and pitheads. We think of charged mass meetings, packed full of angry and determined … well, men. It is perhaps hard for us to contemplate, then, that early in the first decade of the twenty-first century,...
The Psychology of Decision Making
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The Psychology of Decision Making

...accident study sourced from EF Loftus and JC Palmer, ‘Reconstruction of automobile destruction: an example of the interaction between language and memory’, Journal of Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1974. About this article This article is based on extracts taken from the Open University Business School course Making a Difference (B830). Study a free psychology course...
Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum
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Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum

...course only help to further loosen the already fraught ties that bind the UK and which also plays directly into the hands of the SNP. Gordon Brown has in recent months repeatedly attacked the Conservatives for the ‘damage’ he says that this is doing to the continuation of the Union. That there was a No vote in the 2014 Indy Ref almost seems lost in the mists of...
Technology in sport since 1969
Health, Sports & Psychology

Technology in sport since 1969

...course, we can use 3D motion capture to look at our performance from any angle, assess the forces being created by, and imparted on, our bodies during sport and we can track our training speeds with technology attached to weightlifting bars. Never before have we had access to so much information and data on our performance in sporting activities. [Sports technology]...