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Operation Mongoose
Operation Mongoose ¦ ADRIENNE WILMOTH LERNER In November 1961, following the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion, President John F. Kennedy and his advisors launched Operation Mongoose, a covert operation intended to disrupt Cuban government and economic infrastructure. The... Read more |
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Althing
Althing [Icel.,=general diet], parliament of Iceland. This assembly, the oldest in Europe, was convened at Thingvellir, SW Iceland, in 930. It was dissolved in 1800, was revived as an advisory body to the Danish monarchy in 1845, and in 1874, when Iceland was granted a constitution, became again a... Read more |
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Governmental Accounting Standards Board
GOVERNMENTAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS BOARD The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) was organized in 1984 under the auspices of the Financial Accounting Foundation to establish financial accounting and reporting standards for state and local government entities. These standards are important... Read more |
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International Court of Justice
International Court of Justice principal judicial organ of the United Nations, established by chapter 14 of the UN Charter. It superseded the Permanent Court of International Justice (see World Court ), and its statute for the most part repeats that of the former tribunal. The court consists of 15... Read more |
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African Union
African Union (AU), international organization established in 2002 by the nations of the former Organization of African Unity (OAU). The AU is the successor organization to the OAU, with greater powers to promote African economic, social, and political integration, and a stronger commmitment to... Read more |
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Walter Wyatt
WYATT, WALTER Walter Wyatt served as reporter of decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1946 to 1963. Prior to becoming reporter, Wyatt spent almost thirty years working for the federal reserve board as an attorney. Wyatt's tenure was marked by a series of important decisions, including brown v.... Read more |
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Eugene Paul Wigner
Eugene Paul Wigner , 1902-95, American physicist, b. Hungary, grad. Technische Hochschule, Berlin, 1925. He was a professor at Princeton Univ. from 1930 to 1936 and again from 1938 to 1971. In 1937 he became a U.S. citizen. During World War II he worked on the Manhattan Project , which resulted in... Read more |
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Business Consulting
Business Consulting BUSINESS PLAN BLAKE & ASSOCIATES 5456 Universal Ave. Cleveland, OH 76891 October 17, 1992 Blake & Associates offers numerous consulting and advisory services to primarily smaller businesses. It will specialize in advice on... Read more |
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Council of National Defense
COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE Council of National Defense (CND) was an executive branch committee charged with the duty of inventorying the nation's resources and reporting its findings and recommendations to the president during World War I (1914–1918). CND was required to appoint a... Read more |
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