DECLARATION OF PECUNIARY INTEREST RE: COMMITTEE MEMBERS What is a Pecuniary Interest? A pecuniary interest is the opportunity‚ directly or indirectly‚ to profit or share in any profit derived from a transaction. According to Tazmania’s information Sheet 2008‚ you have a pecuniary interest when‚ if a matter before council‚ or any other committee‚ is decided in a particular way you will gain‚ lose or save money‚ gain a financial advantage‚ or suffer a financial disadvantage; could be expected
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Concept Paper: Public Interest To claim to hold the public interest is to claim something big. The ambiguity that arises from such a broad concept almost always means that it will have great‚ and sometimes detrimental‚ consequences. Because it is a sort of a “je ne sais quoi” (Sorauf – p. 623) of American politics‚ it is a strong but malleable tool that can be used by anyone who has the audacity to give it a meaning. Frank J. Sorauf‚ while conceding that no “neat and precise”(p
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National Interest The world politics revolves round the term national interest. The history is as old as the history of world. The concept of National interest is indistinct and carries a meaning according to the milieu in which it is used by the states. The term national interest gained currency with the emergence of nation state system following the end of WWII‚ National interest become a tool to increase political control and the expansion of economic relations (Thompson‚ 1966). National interest
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“What’s the Matter with Kid’s Today?” Journal Assignment I have often times been ridiculed by my parents‚ grandparents and even strangers by my use of the internet. My parents will often times say I spend way to much time on the internet‚ my grandparents say that the internet has consumed my life‚ and some strangers will mumble that I’m not paying attention to surroundings when sitting in Starbucks or Panera on my laptop‚ phone or iPad. They aren’t wrong either. I do use the internet a lot‚ and
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Interest Groups I. What is an Interest Group? II. Why do people Join Interest Groups? III. Types of Interest Groups IV. Interest Groups Incentives V. Interest Group Strategists VI. Regulating Lobbyists I. Interest Group Interest Group- An organized group of individuals having common goal and actively attempting to influence government policies. Why have interest groups been so successful in the United States? Variety of interest due to economic social cleavages among the members of the American
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Ethical Dilemma PlentErgy is an openly traded oil and gas exploration company with operations mostly in Texas and Oklahoma. We do not want to miss the oil exploration in North Dakota. We are highly skilled in hydraulic fracturing or fracking‚ which is a technique that is used to release oil and gas from rock formations. We are confident that we could use fracking safely to release oil and gas from sites in North Dakota. The ethical dilemma that stands in the way is fracking is closely linked to
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INTEREST INVENTORIES * assess the child’s likes and dislikes or the preferences * questionnaires that ask you about your likes and dislikes in a wide range of general activities. Your answers are used to develop a personal interest profile‚ which is then compared to the profiles of other students or to groups of people who are successfully employed in various occupations. A high level of similarity between your profile and the profiles of students in particular majors or people in particular
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The ethical dilemma The ethical dilemma presented in the case study examines if you would allow an innocent person to be charged with offense he did not commit. You have been asked to keep quiet by a friend‚ someone you have known for years. Although you are positive that your friends did not commit the act‚ you are sure there is an innocent person wrongfully accused. I believe that it is my duty to be honest and tell the truth about the situation. According to Northouse (2013) ethics is
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What is an Interest Group? An interest group (also referred to as advocacy groups) is an organization organized by a special set of people with specific skills to lobby for or against a specific interest to benefit their cause. They usually lobby for one or more shared concerns to manipulate public policy and opinion especially in the U.S. Congress to benefit their cause‚ supporters‚ or one segment of society. They include a vast array of organizations such as: charitable organizations‚ civil right
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Money Banking and financial Markets‚ Interest Rates An interest rate is the rate at which interest is paid by borrowers for the use of money that they borrow from a lender. Specifically‚ the interest rate is a percent of principal paid a certain amount of times per period. Small companies often borrow capital from banks to buy new assets for its business‚ and in return the lender receives interest at a predetermined interest rate for deferring the use of funds and instead lending
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