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… over a billion dollars to connecting computers into national networks linking universities, schools, and other … mid-1990s. In sponsoring his 1991 bill, Gore envisioned a national network that would "provide for teleconferencing, … and vice president was more important:  promoting a national policy to transfer defense-funded computer research …

… It pitted Americans and South Vietnamese against the Soviet-supported North Vietnamese and their Vietcong … … John C. Pinhiero … History News Service … Global/Transnational … South & Central America … Mexico … …

… war policies and hungry for a candidate with national security bona fides. A four-star general who led …

… cost of gasoline have been to release a tiny portion of the national oil reserves and to urge people to drive less. Yet …

… cases, particularly giant ones, raise major issues of national economic and industrial policy. Litigation …

… heterosexual and homosexual couples the option of civil unions. In Arkansas, voters decided that gay and lesbian …

… with the corrupt bank of Credit and Commerce International in the late 1980s has been long left behind. There … of history for world civilizations, human rights and international law at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, … New York. … Itai Sneh … History News Service … Global/Transnational … International Organizations … Military/War/Peace …

… Iraq was mainly an economic calculation. The Russian (and Soviet) governments had invested billions of dollars in … Service … Military/War/Peace … Terrorism … Diplomacy/International Relations … Russia … Middle East … Restoring …

… trend has left ever more complex financial markets and multinationals to operate in barely regulated risky gray areas. … of active governance: Socialist Eugene Debs argued for the nationalization of industry in the interest of labor. …

… to trump the will of of the voters at the 2008 Democratic National Convention? After the 1968 convention in Chicago … presidential candidates were nominated by their parties at national conventions. In virtually all elections from the …

… later, Mark Twain pilloried the hypocrisies of Christian nationalism in “The War Prayer,” a petition to the Almighty …

… of approximately 27,000 cases and 6,000 deaths brought national attention to the disease. As the therapeutics for … “live” strain. In 1957, he began clinical trials in the Soviet Union and in spite of its “communist” origins, the United …

… In August 1849, President Zachary Taylor declared a national day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer, but … with much truth, as the dirtiest city of its kind in the Union. Some of the gutters in the principal streets are so … in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, …

… But the party has also gotten lucky breaks in the international arena and been helped by unexpected post-1989 … Asia & Southeast Asia … Civil/Human Rights … Global/Transnational … Diplomacy/International Relations … Survivor: the Chinese Communist Party …

… M. Schocket is author of “Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia” and director of American Culture …

… despite many attempts, no beauty pageant caught on as a national, annual event. Then, in August of 1920 American … from across the county to compete in what was now a truly national event. The modern beauty pageant industry was born. …

… possibly have challenged us. Quite to the contrary, fear of Soviet expansionism encouraged them to cooperate. Iraq, by … Henry Butterfield Ryan … History News Service … Global/Transnational … World War II / WWII … Japan … Germany … …

… for seven decades. The transition of power to the National Action Party (PAN) is taking place peacefully and …

… a fierce rhetorical whipping. Newspapers declared him a “national menace,” “full of hot air.” He had warned once too …