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  • John Beisner , a Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP partner, told a House subcommittee in May that litigation funding threatens to increase frivolous claims and exacerbate litigation abuse by making "unlimited amounts of money available to litigants and attorneys."

    Funds Spring Up to Invest in High-Stakes Litigation Vanessa O'Connell 2011

  • Mesocosm studies by Beisner et al. [34], which investigated the influence of increasing temperature and food chain length on plankton predator – prey dynamics, showed that the predator – prey system is destabilized at higher temperatures (i.e., the macrozooplankton herbivore Daphnia pulex always became extinct), irrespective of the complexity of the food web (i.e., whether a two - or three-level food web was involved).

    Changes in aquatic biota and ecosystem structure and function in the Arctic 2009

  • Take a look at the last sentence in this report on the Beisner resolution.

    And what about Fort Worth? Fr Timothy Matkin 2006

  • Take a look at the last sentence in this report on the Beisner resolution.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2006

  • If that had happened, would Beisner think we would have seen American troops fighting their way up to Peking in 1900?

    Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967

  • Beisner chides me for not having reformulated the entire argument and provided the entire answer.

    Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967

  • It is true that I do not define “American imperialism” nor do most writers on the period nor, indeed, so far as I am aware does Beisner, although he uses the term liberally in both his critique and his book.

    Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967

  • On the other hand, the underlying argument that facts are more important than labels seems to me central: as Robert Beisner has elsewhere observed, “Behavior, not occasional rhetoric, is the crucial test.”

    Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967

  • On the question of accident in history, I can only feel that Beisner fails to understand me.

    Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967

  • I must confess to a slightly bruised amour propre in that Beisner did not find, in the continuous information flow made possible by cable communications, the explanation of the shift from “incidents” to “policy” in the “new paradigm” diplomacy which he propounded but never accounted for.

    Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967

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