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A·mer·i·can·ism
/ əˈmerikəˌnizəm/
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n.
a word or phrase peculiar to or originating from the U.S.
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the qualities regarded as definitive of America or Americans.
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USPTO Issues Trademark NATIVE AMERICAN RESOURCE PARTNERS to Native American Resource Partners for Consulting Services to Native Peoples in North America
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 12/12/2009; 339 words
; ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 12 -- Native American Resource Partners LLC, Salt Lake City, has been issued the trademark NATIVE AMERICAN RESOURCE PARTNERS (Reg. No 3723610) by the USPTO. The trademark application (serial number 77638506) was...
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USPTO Issues Trademark AMERICAN CASE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION to American Case Management Association for Employment Referrals, Recruiting in the field of Hospital, Health System Case Management
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 12/12/2009; 449 words
; ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 12 -- American Case Management Association, Little Rock, Ark., has been issued the trademark AMERICAN CASE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION (Reg. No 3721163) by the USPTO. The trademark application (serial number 77642551...
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LATIN AMERICAN, IBERIAN INSTITUTE LECTURE FEATURES QUECHUAN NATIVE PRESENTING ON REGIMEN INTERNACIONAL
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 12/12/2009; 418 words
; ...Biodiversity and the International Regime on Access and Benefit Sharing," on Monday, Dec. 14 at 1 p.m. at the Latin American and Iberian Institute, 801 Yale NE, UNM campus. The presentation will cover the history of the Regimen Internacional to...
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American Giant on the rebound
Newspaper article from: The Nelson Mail; 12/14/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...when it came to nicknaming the Nelson Giants' new (old) American import player for the 2010 national basketball league season...contracted players for 2010. They are going with just one American player, having already signed Tall Blacks Rampton, Vukona...
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American women of Chinese, Korean heritage 'at increased gestational diabetes risk' (Re-issue)
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 12/13/2009; 541 words
; ...pregnancy. The study also found that Korean-American and Chinese-American women's gestational diabetes risk is one-third...more than double that of Caucasian and African-American women. Untreated gestational diabetes mellitus...
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Japanese-American family's dream restored ; Honorary degree is apology for WWII internment
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 12/15/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Fujioka and about 100 other Japanese Americans whose educations were interrupted by...Roosevelt ordered 120,000 Japanese- Americans interned during World War II, more than...unit of second-generation Japanese Americans, known as Nisei, won enduring fame...
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American Bar Association official: Discovery process rules need to be examined
Newspaper article from: THE JOURNAL RECORD; 12/15/2009; ; 700+ words
; Data from an American Bar Association survey could spawn changes in the federal civil justice system, an ABA official said this week. In a media statement...
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SURVEY: ; Americans mix and match religions
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette; 12/12/2009; ; 700+ words
; When it comes to religion, many Americans like the mix-and- match, build...the past three decades in the number of Americans who say they have had a religious or...weddings and funerals. One-third of Americans say they regularly or occasionally attend...
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Indian Americans in news for wrong reasons (Lead)
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 12/12/2009; 601 words
; ...Usually hitting headlines with their achievements in this country where they number over 2.5 million, at least four Indian Americans this week made news for crimes - ranging from armed robbery to sending hate mail to president George Bush to running healthcare...
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AMERICAN CENTER ORGANIZES SPELLING BEE BUZZ IN EASTERN INDIA
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 12/12/2009; 519 words
; ...Bee of Eastern India at the American Center, Kolkata on January...was a 13-year-old Indian American, Kavya Shivshankar, who...laodicean." Eight Indian-Americans have now won the title, including...please call 033-39846372. American Center Director Chad P. Cummins...
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Efros, Israel Isaac
Book article from: Encyclopaedia Judaica
...iyya. Among his volumes of poetry are Shirim (1932); Vigvamim Shotekim (1932), a poem about the American Indians with echoes of American epic poetry; Zahav ("Gold," 1942) about the California Gold Rush of 1849; Anaḥnu ha...
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SIC 3991 Brooms and Brushes
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries
...caused by new designs. In the 2000s, the American Brush Manufacturers Association (ABMA...potential threat caused by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Before NAFTA, the American industry was protected by a 32 percent...
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Geothermal Energy
Book article from: Alternative Energy
...Pompeii were heated with hot water that ran under them. Native Americans settled near hot springs more than 10,000 years ago. During...the 1800s European settlers moved westward across the North American continent. They noted the existence of hot springs and settled...
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SIC 2022 Natural, Processed and Imitation Cheese
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries
...cooperatives like Beatrice, Sargento, Inc., and Tillamook. As Americans' cheese palate became more adventurous in the 1990s, there...1851 in Rome, New York, and the area remained the center of American cheesemaking for the next 50 years. The U.S. cheesemaking...
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SIC 2043 Cereal Breakfast Foods
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries
...which a bowl of cereal was standard fare. The fast-paced American lifestyle has more and more consumers eating breakfast on the...ready-to-eat cereal, Wheaties, was introduced to the American public in 1924. According to General Mills, Wheaties was...
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