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… crisis since the Great Depression. In the fall of 2009, the national unemployment rate peaked at 10.1 percent and today … are hard to come by, but according to some accounts, the national unemployment rate climbed as high as 17 percent. … than denounced, government action. In his State of the Union Address in January 1983, Reagan proposed the extension …

… policies might induce the Confederate states to rejoin the Union, or might at least ensure that the four border slave states still in the Union (Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland and Missouri) would not … the possibility of an accidental collision with allied Soviet forces moving in on Berlin from the east. He also …

… under the powerful and single-minded  Mekorot, the National Water Company of Israel .  Mekorot claims it has … financing from the superpowers: Egypt’s Aswan High Dam with Soviet assistance, Brazil’s Companhia Hidro-Elétrica do São … hardworking, and honest man and who toiled in communion with beneficent nature.  Eventually, Israeli settlers, …

… As the international community struggles to respond effectively to the … with the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union each primarily responsible for peace and order within …

… socialism and communism that they watched develop in the Soviet Union. This was the era of McCarthyism, after all, in the … very active in Republican policy, but mostly in terms of national defense. She felt that the United States wasn't …

… who, in the peak Cold War years, had allied Cuba with the Soviet Union. But the exiles' relationship with Washington began … Castro. The powerful and conservative Cuban-American National Foundation, the political heavyweight of the many …

… Control , Steffen Rimner examines how this revision of international thinking came to be. The shift, as Rimner charts … and non-governmental organizations. They created an international movement against the opium trade. By broadening the … actors as diverse as the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the Sharada Saran (a school for girls in Bombay …

… on the basis of sex. Now, in an atmosphere of renewed national attention on issues affecting women, this proposed … the years, thinking about work changed in the 1960s, when union and wage-earning women came on board, and they reached … groups, supported it: religious institutions, labor unions, black civil rights organizations. It was truly a …

… representatives began in Frankfurt on March 31, and the new National Assembly met for the first time in St. Paul’s … would set the Confederation on a path toward a more unified national future, perhaps with the King of Prussia as the head of state. In the end, though, the National Assembly did not achieve those long-term goals and …

… is that? Because states will resist. Setting the date of national elections is one of the few powers that the … over election rules allows state politicians to influence national politics indirectly. Examples from both the recent … election guidelines. The threat of terrorists disrupting a national election might overwhelm this constitutional custom …

… and promoted in recent propaganda. Why and how do nationalists in Europe and the U.S. draw contemporary … existing culture for the worse is a common view among white nationalists in the US, and existential fears of losing what … and promoted and recent propaganda. Why and how do nationalists in Europe and the US draw connections to …

… second time at the end of September 2015. Does Modi’s Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, or “BJP,” also spell a … Cold War, that gave anxiety to the US at times and to the Soviet Union at times. So that's the history that we're that were …

… in the Cold War struggles between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Congo provides the most striking example of this … had the disease. Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi at the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in …

… with foreign countries, notably the “big five”: France, the Soviet Union, the United States, and United Kingdom, and China. … leads off Chapter 1, “Before we delve into the murky international dimensions of this machinery, we need to understand …

… and turn-of-the-century California. Ultimately, a international perspective helps us to understand why the world … is the real spurred to both an effort to create an international drug control regime, but also some of the kind of … that's where you start to get the development of this international movement. It's both a formal and an informal …

… in agriculture included several well-funded international programs to share technology with small farmers and … consortium known as PERU-Hub. Participants included Peru’s National Agrarian University-La Molina, the University of … Oklahoma (OU), Utah State University, Purdue, and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in …

… touches on his acceptance speech to the Republican National Convention. The night before, at the Cow Palace, he … the streets of his community,” he said in his State of the Union Message. Pledging federal assistance to local police … exploit prison labor eroded wage levels and weakened trade unions in certain industries. Widespread felon …

… Stephen Douglas, both from Illinois. Douglas was already a nationally-prominent Democrat who tried to tread a fine line … the Civil War as a chance to obtain freedom by fleeing to Union lines. “Emancipation Memorial” (1876) by Thomas Ball, … shown as remaining subservient and lacking personal agency. Union generals such as Benjamin Butler and John C. Fremont …