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2007 |
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Bioethics and the Stem Cell Research Debate |
December 18 |
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Rebecca Dresser, Washington University in St. Louis, School of Law, gave a breakfast talk.
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Poverty
and Income Distribution |
April
18 |
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Gary Hoover,
University of Alabama and Weidenbaum Center Visiting
Professor, gave a breakfast talk. |
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Women
and Negotiation |
March
6 |
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Linda
Babcock spoke on March 6 at a public policy breakfast
meeting. |
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Securing
America's Energy Future |
February
22 |
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Red Cavaney, President and CEO of the American Petroleum
Institute, gave a breakfast talk.
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Federal
Science Policy and the Future |
January 30 |
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Mark Wrighton, Chancellor of Washington University,
gave a breakfast talk. |
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Principle
Versus Pragmatism in American Foreign Policy: Reflections
from Hungary |
January
17 |
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János
Horváth, Member of the Hungarian Parliament,
will give a breakfast talk. |
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2006 |
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The Future of the Electric Utility Industry and Its Upcoming
Challenges |
December
12 |
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Gary
Rainwater, Chairman and CEO of Ameren Corporation, gave
a breakfast talk.
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2006
Elections |
November
14 |
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On November 14, Steven Smith, Director of the Weidenbaum
Center and Professor of Political Science, gave a breakfast
talk.
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What
I Learned in Three Years in Hungar |
October
18 |
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George H. "Bert" Walker III, Chairman Emeritus
of Stifel Nicolaus, gave a breakfast talk about his
experience as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary.
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U.S.
Energy Security |
September
7 |
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John
Hofmeister, President of Shell Oil Company, gave a breakfast
talk
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New
Approaches/New Innovations to Environmental Protection |
May
16 |
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Don Coursey of the University of Chicago gave a breakfast
talk.
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Technological
Challenges for Homeland Security |
March
21 |
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Ron Indeck, Director of the Center for Security Technologies
at Washington University, gave a breakfast talk.
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Solar
Energy: Poised for a Takeoff |
February
20 |
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Anders Carlsson of Washington University gave a breakfast
talk.
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Lessons
from My Years at Edward Jones |
January
18 |
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On January 18, 2006, Robert Virgil of Edward Jones gave
a breakfast talk.
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2005 |
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Reality
Isn't Optional: The Role of Economic Education in Public
Policy |
December
5 |
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Russell Roberts, Professor of Economics at George Mason
University, gave a breakfast talk.
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Biotech
in St. Louis |
November
21 |
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On November 21, William Danforth, Chancellor Emeritus
of Washington University, gave a breakfast talk.
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The
Use and Abuse of Statistics |
November
8 |
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On November 8, Don Cox of Boston University gave a breakfast
talk. |
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The
Supreme Court Nomination and Partisanship in Congres |
September
19 |
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On September 19, the Weidenbaum Center hosted a breakfast
talk. The speaker was Jill Zuckman, National Correspondent
of The Chicago Tribune.
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Future
of Health Care |
April
26 |
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On April 26, William Peck, Director of Washington University's
Center for Health Policy, gave a breakfast talk.
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The Politics of Judicial Nomination |
March 15 |
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Sarah Binder, Professor of Political Science at George
Washington University, gave a breakfast talk.
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Election
Reform |
February
8 |
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Stephen Ansolabehere, Professor of Political Science
at MIT, gave a breakfast talk.
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Staffing the Bush Presidency: Second Term Challenges
and Opportunities |
January 19
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A breakfast talk was given by Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, Visiting
Fellow at the Center. She is also a non-resident Senior
Fellow at The Brookings Institution and an Associate
Director with the Washington Semester Program at the
University of Pennsylvania.
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2004 |
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Future
of the Space Program |
December
8 |
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Roger
Phillips, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences
at Washington University, gave a breakfast talk.
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American
Politics After the 2004 Elections |
November
9 |
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Weidenbaum
Center Director Steven Smith gave a breakfast talk on
the results of the election. |
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Voter
Turnout and Participation |
October
4 |
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Curtis
Gans, Director of the Committee for the Study of the
American Electorate, gave a breakfast talk.
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Confessions
of a Nuts-and-Bolts Economist |
September
14 |
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Weidenbaum
Center Honorary Chairman Murray Weidenbaum gave a breakfast
talk on his new book, One-Armed Economist: On the Intersection
of Business and Government.
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Outsourcing
and American Jobs |
June
24 |
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The
Weidenbaum Center hosted a breakfast talk with Honorary
Chairman Murray Weidenbaum as the guest speaker.
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Tort
Reform |
May
26 |
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The
Weidenbaum Center hosted a breakfast talk with Daniel
Popeo, Chairman of the Washington Legal Foundation,
as the guest speaker.
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Budget
Crisis at the Door |
May
22 |
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On
Wednesday, May 12, 2004, the Weidenbaum Center hosted
a breakfast talk with Dr. Rudolph Penner of the Urban
Institute as the guest speaker.
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Social
Security Reform |
March
15 |
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The
Weidenbaum Center hosted a Public Policy Breakfast Meeting
with guest speaker Olivia Mitchell from the University
of Pennsylvania.
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Social
and Economic Challenges Facing the St. Louis Area |
March
3 |
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This
St. Louis Series breakfast talk with guest speaker Valerie
Bell, an attorney and public policy consultant who is
actively involved in efforts to strengthen the St. Louis
region. She was Special Counsel to William Danforth
in his role as Settlement Coordinator for the St. Louis
school desegregation case.
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Legacy
of the Lewis and Clark Expedition |
February
18 |
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The
Weidenbaum Center hosted a Public Policy Breakfast Meeting
with guest speaker Robert Archibald, President and CEO
of the Missouri Historical Society.
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2003 |
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The
Impact of the Electronic Product Code and Radio Frequency
Identification Technology on Labor in the Retail Marketplace |
December
10 |
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The
Weidenbaum Center hosted a Public Policy Breakfast Meeting
with guest speaker Betsy Heller Cohen of Nestle' Purina. |
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2002 |
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Practical
Path for Congress |
April
30 |
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Former
Congressman Jim Talent, a candidate for the U.S. Senate,
spoke at a breakfast program about his ideas for practical
improvements in the ways government encourages entrepreneurship,
as well as the need to re-capitalize American defense
and infrastructure.
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Economic
Responses to Terrorism |
January
9 |
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Murray
Weidenbaum, Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor
at Washington University, spoke at a breakfast program
about the role of a strong U.S. economy in an extended
campaign against terrorism.
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2001 |
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War
Against Terrorism |
October
4 |
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On
October 4th, 2001, Professors Victor LeVine and Sunita
Parikh of Washington University's Department of Political
Science offered their observations at a breakfast program
about the war against terrorism.
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