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Inferential Optimization: An Algorithm for Determining Optimal Sales Commissions in Multiproduct Sales Forces

Abstract: Relatively simple experimental data which embody a salesman's assessment of relationships between his efforts and sales are used in a computational algorithm to determine the parameters of a functional relationship between sales volume and sales time spent on products in the line. These time-effectiveness functions can be aggregated over salesmen in global optimization, in developing commission rates consistent with other marketing plans or in conjunction with more detailed computer-based sales planning and control models. The procedure can also be extended to deal with errors in the input data.

Political Attitudes and Behavior Patterns of Federal Civil Servants

Abstract: The Commission issued a three-volume report in December 1967 and made ten specific recommendations.2 However, substantial disagreement occurred over several issues, including whether federal employees should be allowed to hold local offices that are partisan in nature (but not full-time) and whether such employees should be allowed to serve as officers in political organizations, including such posts as ward or precinct committeemen.3

H.R.10193 - A bill to establish a Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe.

Abstract: Establishes the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe to monitor the acts of the signatories which reflect compliance with the articles of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Provides that the Commission shall be composed of 11 members to be appointed as specified in this Act. Gives the Commission the power to subpena witnesses and records as necessary to carry out the responsibilities imposed by this Act. Requires the Commission to make reports to Congress.

The Federal Trade Commission V. Brown Shoe Company

Abstract: IN 1956, Brown Shoe Co. acquired the G. R. Kinney Co. The acquisition was challenged by the Department of Justice and found illegal by the Supreme Court.' The trial also disclosed Brown's distribution arrangements with a group of independent retailers (called Brown's franchise dealers). It was in part the information uncovered in the merger case that led the Federal Trade Commission (the FTC) to challenge Brown's arrangements with its franchise dealers.2 The proceedings were initiated more than 35 years after Brown began to distribute to franchise dealers. Brown appealed the FTC's decision and the Court of Appeals reversed.3 But the Supreme Court ultimately upheld the FTC.4 Before its case against Brown, the FTC had initiated proceedings against International Shoe Co.'s (now Interco's) distribution arrangements with a group of independent shoe retailers. These arrangements were very similar to those of Brown's. The case against Interco was settled by consent decree (in 1958).s But in 1967, after the Supreme Court upheld the FTC's decision

Manpower Services Commission — The first year

Abstract: The Manpower Services Commission has now been operating for just over a year. In that time it has assumed responsibility for the employment and training services previously provided directly by the Department of Employment. It has expressed its views on a number of issues affecting the labour market, industrial training and education, and has considered its future role. Contingency plans for high unemployment and manpower implications of offshore oil have also occupied the Commission's attention in a busy programme which included seventeen meetings of the full Commission during 1974. The MSC describes itself as ‘a new approach’. Is this claim justified?

The National Water Commission Report: A review

Abstract: The National Water Commission Report has serious limitations as a professional document judged by analytical criteria including explicit assumptions, conceptual frameworks, and coherent and consistent recommendations The report is structured by certain value positions rather than analytical concepts These include rationality, efficiency, equity, faith in dollar measurements, new federalism, and the separation of policy and administration The report falls short of a blueprint for change of present water policy because it lacks a comprehensive framework and is too discursive over too many unrelated topics

The Hunt Commission Recommendations And the Determination and Control Of the NIoney Supply

Abstract: In its report issued in December, 1971, the President's Commission on Financial Structure and Regulation recommended several reforms of the financial system with far-reaching implications.l Among the more important proposals were the following: (1) thrift institutions be permitted to offer third-party payment services including checking accounts; (2) reserve requirements be eliminated against time and savings deposits; (3) all commercial banks and thrift institutions offering third-party payment facilities be required to become members of the Federal Reserve System; and (4) reserve requirements against demand deposit liabilities be set at a uniform rate for all members of the Federal Reserve System. In view of the sweeping nature of the changes recommended by the Hunt Commission, it is surprising that little, if any, attention has been paid by the commission in its report to the potential implications of its recommendations for control of the money supply and monetary policy. In a symposium held before the commission report was issued, John Culbertson noted that "enormous social costs may attach to revisions of the monetary system that make the quantity of money impossible to control or, even worse, impossible to measure" ([5, p. 10], italics added). In view of these considerations the focus of this study is on the application and extension of a theoretical framework for analyzing the recommendations of the Hunt Commission report for the determination and control of the money supply. The paper is divided into four major parts. The following section develops the con-

The health commission of New South Wales.

Abstract: As a result of the Report of the Committee of Enquiry on Community Health Services to the Minister for Health In 1969, the Health Commission of New South Wales was established as the State's single authority in the hospital and health fields. The Commission has four functional bureaux, and thirteen administrative regions to whom authority has been delegated to make and implement day‐today decisions. Basically, the task of the Health Commission is to provide the best possible health care service to the greatest number of people. This can only be achieved by a rationalization of the existing curative services, provision of community rather than institutionalized health services, and by convincing the community of the need for emphasis on preventive medicine as the key to the future.

The European Communities and the Harmonization of Educational and Professional Qualifications

Abstract: The Treaties of the European Communities make no explicit provision for the harmonization of qualifications, but there exist a number of provisions in the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community treaties which directly or indirectly lead to it. These provisions are identified, and Commission and Council activities based on them are reported. Finally, some questions are raised in relation to the direction of further activities by the Commission, the profession, and the academic community.