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The author takes an in-depth look at the development of general liability for the physician over the last few years, as seen through the eyes of the courts. Mr. Boily speaks of a crisis in the making which, to us, appears to be an accurate perception given the situation of the last few years. However, Mr. Boily does conclude: "By clearly defining the judicial process, we will undoubtedly put a stop to abusive suits. Plantiffs will think twice before taking physicians and hospitals to court".
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ABSTRACTThe history of war focuses on soldiers. What about those they leave behind? From the moment war began in 1914, Montrealers recognized the plight of families of poorly-paid French, Belgian and British reservists and, later, of Canada's own soldiers. Montreal's Patriotic Fund inherited an old charity tradition. Leaders like Herbert Ames, Helen Reid and Raoul Dandurand made it both the model and the major source of funds for similar organizations across Canada. Meanwhile, the internal organization of the Montreal branch reflected the evolving relationship between the city's anglophone and francophone elites, the growth of professionalism in social work and the limits of voluntarism in supporting the costs of war. The three fundraising appeals by the Montreal Branch provide a surprising snapshot of French- English relations at three different phases of the war.
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SummaryOn the basis of empirical surveys made on transformations in religious beliefs and organizations in Quebec culture over the past ten years, the authors propose establishing the coordinates of a general economy of contemporary religious reality, both as a complex of institutional adaptations to modernity and individual appropriations of an imaginary order congruent with contemporary experience. The dialectics of their subject and of the institution which emerges leads to proposing the study of the market for religious articles as the institutionalization of a semiotic regulation of religion, made up of the constant tension of emerging subjectivities and of the institutions which need, for their very survival, the experiences individuals bring to them. Producers, distributors and consumers of religious articles come together here in a dynamic of change in which the religious field of modernity is itself defined as a structure of emerging elements, reactivating its perpetual function which is to ensure the representation of the imaginary unity of society and the world.
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The « War of Attrition » constituted one of the crises of the ongoing Arab-Israeli confrontation. From March 8th 1969 Arab revendications for restoration by Israel of the territories lost in 1967 took, under Egyptian direction and the urging of the Palestinian movement, the form of a limited armed conflict. We postulate that the evolution of this crisis depended not only on the capabilities of the belligerents nor on the intervention of the superpowers but also on the objectives of the principal actors. Analysis of these objectives confirms the radical nature of the hostility between Egypt and Israel and the both defensive and restitutory aspect of each country's goals. It emphasizes above all that the object of the crisis was basically the occupied territories dispute and that the cease-fire has left a legacy of heightened disaffection in comparison with the period preceding the crisis. Examination of the behavioral data enables the delimitation of not only the dyadic and polarized configuration of the confrontation but also the latter's context. The search for a purely interactional determination of behaviour leads one to put forward prudently that an increase in lsraeli coercion is related to deescalation while an aggravation of Egyptian belligerence produces the opposite effect. The latter being often preceded in Cairo by the articulation of negative objectives, one could conclude, provisionally, that the « War of Attrition » evolved according to a multivariate open model in which the objectives of Cairo determined the conduct of Israel subject to the intervening Egyptian behavioural variable.
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In the past few years, Chile has been noted as a model of international economic insertion of a developing country. Openness, de-regulation, exports growth, an important achievement in capturing direct foreign investment and a sustained growth, have been the elements on which the new strategy of searching for an integration with the large regional groups of trade has been supported. In the present study, we analyse the characteristics of the Chilean economy and the features that have remarked Us international insertion, in order to find the comparative advantages and disadvantages of an integration to the NAFTA and/or the MERCOSUR, providing antecedents on its foreign policy and its international economic relationships.