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| | United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan instituted a domestic program of tax cuts on the belief that the economy would thereby expand. | | | A case may be appealed from a state court to a federal court only if there is a federal question (an issue arising under the U.S. Constitution, or laws/treaties of the United States). | | | The United States is a constitutional republic, meaning that its government is composed of and operates through a set of limited powers imposed by its design and enumerated in the United States Constitution. |
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| | Indiana, state, United States: Economy |
| | Health, economy key eastern governor races, (This is the seventh article is a series of items United Press International has developed for a comprehensive look a year ahead of the 2004 elections in the United States.). | | | Related content from HighBeam Research on: Indiana, state, United States: Economy | | | Outlook for 2002.(United States economy)(Brief Article) (Indiana Business Review) |
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| | Dr. Lesther Carl Thurow - Economic Development in the Philippines in an Emerging Global Economy |
| | In 1900, 25% of the globe was ruled from London, 15% of the globe was ruled from Paris, the United States was running Cuba and the Philippines, Japan was running Korea and Taiwan. | | | In the United States, we now have 25 states with 50 United States senators whose combined population is less than California. | | | The whole world only works in the developing world because the United States is willing to run a large trade deficit. |
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| | The Long and Short of Indiana's Economy |
| | At the start of 1969, Indiana ranked as the 11th largest economy in the United States. | | | Over the past year, the Indiana economy has outperformed the United States in personal income gains. | | | The driving force in the economy for the past year was durable goods manufacturing, which contributed 21 percent of the growth Indiana experienced. |
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| | Cubafacts.comb - The Cuban Economy: Background Information |
| | As Cuba's leading trade partner, the United States accounted for 67 percent of Cuba's exports and 70 percent of its imports in 1958. | | | Historic economic links between Cuba and the United States were based on preferential access granted by the United States for Cuban sugar. | | | The dominant feature of the Cuban economy between 1960 and 1989 was massive Soviet economic assistance, estimated to have peaked at nearly $6 billion annually in the late 1980s. |
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| | BIGpedia - Germany - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online |
| | It is made up of 16 federal Länder (states) which in certain spheres (especially in matters of cultural and educational policy, transport and economy) act independently of the Federation. | | | Germany is the world's third largest economy measured by gross domestic product, placed behind the United States and Japan. | | | It acts independently of the other state bodies but cannot act on its own behalf. |
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| | International Political Economy: Beyond Hegemonic Stability |
| | This "irresponsibility" was most vividly exemplified in the minds of many people by the infamous Smoot-Hawley Tariff (1930), which raised the average tax on imports to the United States by about 40 percent. | | | Domestic political explanations of the international political economy also focus on the definition of states' purposes, but they tend to emphasize political processes and examine the way that national interests are defined through a struggle among domestic actors. | | | In response, protectionist sentiment within the United States grew, leading to many domestic challenges to the traditional policy of freer trade. |
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| | Wifcon.Forum Archives |
| | In this regard, for purposes of the Economy Act, an agency is defined as a "department, agency, or instrumentality of the United states Government." See, 31 U.S.C. The Department of the Army and the Department of the Navy qualify as separate agencies under that definition. | | | It says, "The Economy Act also provides authority for placement of orders between major organizational units within an agency; procedures for such intra-agency transactions are addressed in agency regulations." Underlining added. | | | The agency Sups clearly seem to regard the DandF for an Economy Act contracting action OUTSIDE of DoD as THE Economy Act DandF. |
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| | US Geography Quizzes - Fun Map Games |
| | The United States has the world's largest economy and the world's largest national debt. | | | Jazz is the only musical form born in the United States. | | | Opossums are the only marsuipials native to the United States. |
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| | SICE- WTO - USA/Imports of Wheat Gluten from European Community WT/DS166/ABR |
| | We, therefore, see no error in the Panel's exercise of judicial economy as regards the European Communities claim concerning Article I of the GATT 1994 and Article 5 of the Agreement on Safeguards. | | | The Appellate Body recommends that the DSB request that the United States bring its safeguard measure found in this Report, and in the Panel Report as modified by this Report, to be inconsistent with the Agreement on Safeguards, into conformity with its obligations under that Agreement. | | | We begin by recalling certain of the statements that the Appellate Body has already made regarding the exercise of judicial economy by panels. |
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| | Preface to For the Record |
| | The book also examines the frequently repeated charge that the United States engineered the 1954 coup against the government of President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán in order to regain the land Guatemala had expropriated from the United Fruit Company. | | | Ultimately, the taxes and salaries that the United Fruit Company paid, and the millions of dollars of foreign exchange earnings that it annually generated, impacted in an important way on Guatemala's economy. | | | In its peak years, during the 1930s, United Fruit employed upwards of 100,000 persons, more than 90 percent of whom were Latin Americans. |
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| | The New York Review of Books: Europe vs. America |
| | The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy | | | The European Union is almost too attractive for its own good—in contrast with the United States, which is widely disliked for what it does, the EU appeals just by virtue of what it is. | | | The new US secretary of state was widely quoted in 2003 to the effect that the United States intends to "forgive Russia, ignore Germany, and punish France." According to the authors of a recent Atlantic Council report, the Bush administration regards Europe as being "on probation," its future standing with Washington dependent on better behavior. |
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| | by Vince Morabito, Defendant Class Actions And The Right To Opt Out: Lessons For Canada From The United States, 14 Duke J. of Comp. & Int'l L. 197 (2004) |
| | A third judicial approach in the United States has been to certify defendant classes under either Rule 23(b)(1) or Rule 23(b)(2), despite a finding that the prerequisites of Rule 23(b)(3) had also been met. | | | This judicial emphasis on individual proceedings creates a strong incentive, for those wishing to seek certification of a defendant class under Rule 23(b)(3), to commence, in conjunction with the filing of a Rule 23 proceeding, individual proceedings against most of the members of the putative defendant class. | | | The judicial system's response to such repetitive litigation has often been blind adherence to the common law's traditional notion of civil litigation as necessarily private dispute resolution. |
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| | The United Europe Foundation |
| | But the issue is sensitive in Europe, and pressure from the United States is not appreciated. | | | President Jacques Chirac of France called Friday for a strong Europe to balance U.S. might even as he and other leaders appeared to back away, at a European Union summit meeting here, from proposed reforms to resuscitate Europe's economy. | | | Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the former French president and chief architect of Europe's draft constitution, has backed a growing campaign to offer Turkey a privileged partnership with the European Union rather than full membership. |
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| | SOFARS PART 5617SPECIAL CONTRACTING METHODS |
| | In addition to those requirements, and in accordance with Section 2330(b)(1)(C)(ii), Title 10, United States Code as amended by Section 801 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002, the decision document must address the following considerations: | | | The Economy Act Determination is a decision document from the customer when a Military Interdepartmental Purchase Request (MIPR) is to be sent outside of DoD and placed on contract by another agency. | | | If the template is not used, contracting officers must ensure that all the requirements of FAR 17.503 are addressed. |
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| | ipedia.com: United States Article |
| | The economy of the United States is described as "mixed" because, while it is organized primarily on a capitalist model ( entrepreneurship is encouraged, and most enterprises are privately owned), it also limits free markets with social welfare programs like Social Security, unemployment benefits, and Medicare, as well as government regulation in virtually every industry. | | | The United States Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay is leased from Cuba and only mutual agreement or United States abandonment of the area can terminate the lease. | | | Minor party and independent candidates are very occasionally elected, usually to local or state office, but the United States political system has historically supported "catch all parties" rather than coalition governments. |
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| | Poverty in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | There are numerous perceived direct and indirect causes of poverty in the United States. | | | The newly formed United States Office of Economic Opportunity adopted the lower of the Orshansky poverty thresholds for statistical, planning and budgetary purposes in May 1965. | | | Since the 1960's, the United States Government has defined poverty in absolute terms. |
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| | New International Economic Order |
| | At the UNCTAD IV conference in Nairobi in May 1976, the proposals for the establishment of a New International Economic Order were reworded slightly in some instances, but their essence remain unchanged when they were adopted as resolutions, with only the United States and the Federal republic of Germany voting against them. | | | The negotiations leading to the resolution had the main effect of changing slightly the militant tone of the proceeding documents and led to the incorporations of some demands for changes and programs proposed by the United States. | | | This session adopted, without a vote, a manifesto entitled "Declaration and Program of Action of the New International Order." in December 1974 the General Assembly approved the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States. |
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| | Air Tankers "Compromise" Shortsighted |
| | “My provisions in the Defense Authorization Act recognize that the primary mission of military bases is to prepare and protect the United States from our enemies now and in the future. | | | Gallegly teamed up with U.S. Rep. Joel Hefley of Colorado to add a provision to the 2004 Defense Authorization Act providing for a two-year pilot program to waive the Economy Act’s provision and get all available fire-fighting equipment in the air as soon as possible. | | | Because of an arcane provision in the Economy Act, the U.S. Forest Service cannot activate the two state-of-the-art Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS) units, which are loaded onto C-130 aircraft flown by the California Air National Guard’s 146th Airlift Wing in Point Mugu, until all commercial assets are exhausted. |
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| | United States Secretary of the Treasury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | United States Department of the Treasury, concerned with finance and monetary matters, and, until 2003, some issues of national security and defense. | | | The United States Secretary of the Treasury is the finance minister of the | | | The Secretary is responsible for formulating and recommending domestic and international financial, economic, and tax policy, participating in the formulation of broad fiscal policies that have general significance for the economy, and managing the public debt. |
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| | United States - encyclopedia article about United States. |
| | The United States has the largest economy in the world, with a per-capita gross domestic product of $40,100. | | | The United States is an example of a constitutional republic, with a government composed of and operating through a set of limited powers imposed by its design and enumerated in that design or Constitution of the United States of America. | | | The President of the United States (often abbreviated "POTUS") is the head of state of the United States. |
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| | United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The structure of the United States was profoundly changed in 1788, however, when the states replaced the Articles of Confederation with the United States Constitution ; often sources use the date each of the original thirteen states adopted the Constitution as the date that state "entered the Union" (became part of the United States). | | | The United States of America âalso referred to as the United States, the USA, the U.S. America, the States, and (poetically) Columbia âis a democratic constitutional federal republic of fifty states. | | | The United States does not have an official language at federal level; nevertheless, English is the first and/or only language of the overwhelming majority of the population and serves as the de facto language: English is the language used for legislation, regulations, executive orders, treaties, federal court rulings, and all other official pronouncements. |
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| | United States: History |
| | In the United States, the Nasdaq Internet and technology stock bubble, which had begun its rise in 1999, completely deflated in the second half of 2000, as the so-called new economy associated with the Internet proved to be subject to the rules of the old economy. | | | In keeping with his announced intention of moving the United States from an era of confrontation to one of negotiation, Nixon made a dramatic visit to the People's Republic of China in Feb., 1972, ending more than 20 years of hostility between the two countries and opening the way for a normalization of relations. | | | At the same time the United States was secretly mining Nicaraguan harbors. |
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| | United States v Morrison |
| | The United States argued that the possession of guns may lead to violent crime, and that violent crime "can be expected to affect the functioning of the national economy in two ways. | | | on writs of certiorari to the united states court of | | | certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the fourth circuit |
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| | Article by Gordon Fisher on the development of the federal poverty thresholds |
| | For poverty at the "economy level" that is, the definition of poverty derived from the economy food plan that is still in use today the thresholds for unrelated individuals were set at 80 percent of the corresponding thresholds for two person families. | | | One was an SSA proposal to adjust "the nonfood portion" of the poverty thresholds for inflation by "the total CPI minus medical care," while presumably continuing to use the per capita cost of the economy food plan to adjust the food portion of the thresholds. | | | The poverty guidelines,4 on the other hand, are issued by the Department of Health and Human Services and are used for administrative purposes for instance, for determining whether a person or family is financially eligible for assistance or services under certain Federal programs. |
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| | United States |
| | Statement of the United States Concerning Approval of the Settlement of Rosner vs. United States Lawsuit. | | | Joint Statement of the United States of America and the Kyrgyz Republic on the presence of the U.S. Military in the region. | | | United States: Crystal Flash Energy of Grand Rapids, Michigan, is marketing gasoline containing a soyabean oil-based additive that is said to improve fuel economy by up to 5%. |
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| | United States - Encyclopedia of Political Information |
| | The economy of the United States is organized on the capitalist model and is marked by steady growth, low unemployment and inflation, a large trade deficit, and rapid advances in technology. | | | The United States of America (U.S.A.), also referred to as the United States (U.S. America, or the States, is a federal republic in North America and the Pacific Ocean. | | | The United States of America consists of 50 states with limited autonomy in which federal law takes precedence over State law. |
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| | Time for Kids News Convention for a United Europe |
| | Critics of the convention are quick to point out that Europe now is nothing like the United States of 1787. | | | Thanks to their efforts, the United States Constitution was born in 1789. | | | Their mission: To form a more perfect union - a European Union, that is. During their meeting, known as the Convention on the Future of Europe, various European representatives hope to balance the needs of their separate countries with the power of a united Europe. |
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| | United States - Encyclopedia: Article and Reference Information |
| | The economy of the United States is organized on the capitalist model and is marked by steady growth, low unemployment and inflation, a large trade deficit, and rapid advances in technology. | | | The United States of America consists of 50 states with limited autonomy in which federal law takes precedence over state law. | | | The United States of America ( U.S.A.), also referred to as the United States ( U.S. America, or the States, is a federal republic in North America and the Pacific Ocean. |
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