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Cubans Warily Test Their New Freedom To Criticize
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 11/10/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...founded in part to root out anti- government subversion, but now it's tasked with...many Cubans who say they support the government but want it to change, he believes...for public input. Since then, the government has made limited reforms, but Cuba...
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Wounds Of Post-Election Violence Still Raw In Kenya
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 11/10/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...displaced. But Kenya's coalition government has not pursued the guilty. As NPR...political rivals share power in a coalition government. And Rono is just as landless and frustrated...Photographer): My wish would be that the government would allocate my mother some other...
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2 Ex-Bear Stearns Hedge Fund Managers Acquitted
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 11/10/2009; ; 510 words
; ...she changed her mind. She says the defendants may have misled investors but the government failed to prove their intent to defraud investors. The U.S. government wins the majority of white-collar cases that it chooses to pursue. So analysts...
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PROPOSALS FOR LONG-TERM FISCAL STABILITY:FRANK WOLF
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 11/10/2009; 700+ words
; ...November 10, 2009 I have never been more concerned about the futureof our country. America is going broke. The federal government now owesmore in debts and commitments than the total combined net worth of allAmericans. The national debt is racing toward...
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PROPOSALS FOR LONG-TERM FISCAL STABILITY:GEORGE V. VOINOVICH
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 11/10/2009; 700+ words
; ...economist to realize our courseis unsustainable. The federal government is the worst credit card abuserin the world and we`re putting...bicameral committee to draw uppolicy prescriptions for the government`s long-term budget crisis thatwould then go before Congress...
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INNOCENCE PROTECTION ACT:RUSS FEINGOLD
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 11/10/2009; 585 words
; ...crimes. From improvingaccess to post-conviction DNA testing to increasing the maximum amountof compensation that the federal government must pay in cases of wrongfulconviction, the IPA contains important reforms that passed with broad bipartisansupport in 2004...
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INTERNATIONAL TREATIES:WESLEY S. SCHOLZ
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 11/10/2009; 700+ words
; ...significant role in assistingthe Rwandan government`s efforts to become an economic hub...Commerce, the Treasury, and other U.S. government agencies. The treaty,which was signed...resolve investment disputes with a host government throughinternational arbitration. This...
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PROPOSALS FOR LONG-TERM FISCAL STABILITY:WILLIAM A. GALSTON
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 11/10/2009; 700+ words
; ...time discussing the circumstancesthat form the backdrop to these proceedings. Regardless of party, ideology,or branch of government, almost no one in possession of the facts believesthat our current fiscal course is sustainable. The level of deficits...
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PROPOSALS FOR LONG-TERM FISCAL STABILITY:MAYA MACGUINEAS
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 11/10/2009; 700+ words
; ...the Board is composed of past Directors of the Office of Managementand Budget, the Congressional Budget Office, and the Government AccountabilityOffice, as well as Chairs of the Federal Reserve Board and the Budget Committees,and other budget experts...
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DIPLOMATIC NOMINATIONS:GUSTAVO ARNAVAT
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 11/4/2009; 700+ words
; ...while attending the Kennedy School of Government, it wasmy experience as a PMF that...my keen desire to eventually returnto government and represent the people of this country...involving Latin American corporationsand governments, and also served as a strategic adviser...
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Caring for Children
Book article from: Growing Up: Issues Affecting America's Youth
...9 million. (See Table 1.7 in Chapter 1.) Changes in government programs that provided assistance to poor families also resulted...single mothers entering the workforce. In 1996 the federal government placed a two-year time limit on receiving public assistance...
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Juvenile Crime and Victimization
Book article from: Growing Up: Issues Affecting America's Youth
...TRENDSJUVENILE OFFENDERSJUVENILE VICTIMS OF CRIME THE UNIFORM CRIME REPORTS AND THE NATIONAL CRIME VICTIMIZATION SURVEY Two main government sources collect crime statistics. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) compiles the annual Uniform Crime Reports...
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Catholicism
Book article from: -Ologies and -Isms
...hierarchy and clergy in public affairs and government. 2. the principles and interests of...offices which assist the pope in the government of the Roman Church. decretist 1...saints. ecclesiarchy the control of government by clerics. Also called hierocracy...
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China
Book article from: -Ologies and -Isms
...x2014;Maoist , n., adj. Mohism the doctrines of Mo-Tze, Chinese sage of the 5th century, b.c., who advocated government by an absolute monarch and universal love. —Mohist , n., adj. Sinicism 1. a trait or custom peculiar to the...
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Communism
Book article from: -Ologies and -Isms
94. Communism See also 185. GOVERNMENT ; 322. POLITICS ; 357. RUSSIA...atheism, destruction of central government, and extreme individualism. Also...doctrines, programs, etc., of the government of the Soviet Union. —...
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