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… Crisis.” Jefferson, on the other hand, believing that his national service had been completed with the writing of the …

… but lacked the political power or will to resolve. International politics is no longer the important factor it was … of space exploration has meant that only the American and Soviet governments could afford to send people into space. … The annual budgets of the Defense Department, NASA, and the National Science Foundation are, respectively, $385 billion, …

… became a test of how well the United States, and the international community could create institutions of governance … cleansing" of Bosnia, the United Nations created the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia in … Statute in 1998 and the establishment of a permanent International Criminal Court (ICC) that began operation in 2002. …

… leaders expressing displeasure at the prospect that the Nationalist Party would remain in power on Taiwan, which was … of the once dominant but now increasingly unpopular Nationalist Party. One of the keys to his victory was, …

… unerring language was coming.” —Dr. Isaac Cline Today, the National Weather Service (NWS) is trusted to provide timely … a fraction of the Galveston Hurricane of 1900. The NWS’s National Hurricane Center is now Americans’ primary source …

… and Wellesley, Harvard alumni in 1915 introduced the first national multi-year fundraising campaign, administered by … legislative appropriations, such as the G.I. Bill (1944), National Defense Education Act (1957), Higher Education …

… the “Ostpolitik” or eastern policy. This recognized the Soviet Bloc as a political reality while simultaneously … Diplomacy/International Relations …

… Bolivians don’t trust their politicians to do anything with national resources that will benefit the country. Bolivians … populism and a defense of the coca leaf as a sacred national plant. One of this movement’s leaders, Evo Morales, …

… executive, he fought bitterly with Congress to cut the national debt. He famously disliked pomp and circumstance, … only his dressing gown and slippers. It caused an international incident.   Yet Jefferson himself couldn’t resist … pursuit of happiness,” embodied in nothing so much as our national pursuit of real estate, .   We can recognize …

… residents about the current status of a quarantine ( National Park Service ). The gauze mask was another … Global/Transnational …

… to focus on other issues besides its rivalry with the Soviet Union. In fact, Russia today is playing a constructive role …

… center. And yes, by the 1990s, it's going to become a truly national brand in the sense that it's in every single state, … retail model. And then, of course, it became becomes this national brand. The problem, and I'll talk about from the … impact that Walmart's having is this, of course, transnational global network of trade, that our laws can't really …

… a sense that China is under subtle threat from hostile international forces, and that patriotism means defending the … in 1991 the first and greatest of the Communist powers, the Soviet Union, astonishingly annulled itself. The eagerness of … Diplomacy/International Relations …

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… on behalf of a coalition of militant groups called The International Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders. … In early 2001, when the Bush administration took office national security officials were slow to realize how … Bombings: The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United …

… a difficult first year in office. But Kennedy shifted the national debate by attacking the John Birch Society and its … label. William F. Buckley Jr. and his magazine, “The National Review,” in a 1965 special issue, read the John …

… a striking resemblance to his “southern children.” Other Unionists followed in a similar vein portraying the Confederates and their cause as one of “disunion,” influenced and directed by the devil, while African …

… so long for one of these massive disruptions to erupt on a national scale. A poster from 1942 made by The … more of it. Fixation on growth has been hard-wired into our national policies and personal expectations. Presidential … wonder Americans rarely question this design feature of our national self-perception. During the signing ceremony of S. …

… Middle East is how quickly popular uprisings spread across national borders.  Between January and June 1848, as the …

… highest drug-related death rate in Europe. According to the National Records of Scotland, 1,187 people in Scotland died … House, third from the left. The former headquarters of the National Seamen’s Union are now flats. Although this project diversified the …

… proliferated; millions of Central Eurasians suffered under Soviet and Chinese regimes. To Beckwith, the conquest of … with the collapse of the USSR, and the rise of the European Union as a new peripheral power. In this new period of … an enlightened, liberal confederation like the European Union" (313). In Empires of the Silk Road , Beckwith writes …

… speakers. The controversy today seems to be over white nationalists and some of the ultra, right people, and the … consulting with the campus president and ordered the National Guard to restore order. There was a peaceful … be Monday, May 4, at about noon, students did gather, the National Guard told him that the protest was unlawful under …