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education and training enhance the knowledge and skills of a nation's work force-the nation's human capital-and R&D can spur technological improvement.
Setbacks in the 1930s caused by the European postwar slump were only a spur to redouble efforts by diversifying heavy industry into the machine-making, metallurgical, and chemical sectors.
Between her introduction and her conclusion, each of the "empirical" chapters--on the shipbuilders, the Citadel cadets, the "gangstas," the Spur Posse, the Vietnam vets, the Promise Keepers, the football fans, the militiamen, the porno film stars, the fashion tyrants and their slaves, and Sylvester Stallone--can stand alone as testimony to a rich and unique life-world.
Releasing performance outcome information (Quality Measures data) gives consumers additional information to consider when selecting a nursing home, and consequently, may also spur efforts to improve the quality of care provided in nursing homes overall [ 1 ] . These efforts to improve quality may result from increased consumer consciousness due to public reporting, and, consequently, heightened competition in the nursing home market based on relative quality of care, or may be a response to the incentive to compare favourably with other individual facilities based on publicly-reported data [ 2 3 ] . There may remain other motivating factors, but still open to debate is which effect has the greatest impact on healthcare providers' efforts to improve [ 4 ] .
The federal government should do more to spur the creation of such institutions, by providing resources, and by helping to equalize the shameful disparity in funding between rich and poor districts generally.
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