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Immigration policy
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African Americans
African Americans Brenda Gayle Plummer Race and foreign affairs have intersected at numerous points in U.S. history. Officials in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were not always explicitly aware of the impact of race on foreign relations or on their own decision making, but its impact on... Read more |
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Cherokee Cases
CHEROKEE CASES With the creation of the U.S. Constitution and a national government, political and legal policy-makers had to determine how to deal with Native American tribes that resided on lands granted to them by treaties. By the 1820s, U.S. policy toward what was regarded as the "Indian... Read more |
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Rehabilitation
REHABILITATION Each day in the United States, the correctional system supervises over six million of its residents. Approximately two million people are in prison or jail, while four million are on probation or parole. With so many people under its control, a central policy issue is what the... Read more |
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Illegal immigrants
Chapter 5Illegal Aliens BARRIERS TO LEGAL IMMIGRATION: TIME AND MONEY According to Stuart Anderson and David Miller, in Legal Immigrants: Waiting Forever (May 2006, http://www.competeamerica.org/resource/h1b_glance/NFAP_Study.pdf), "those who 'play by the rules' are likely to wait many years" to... Read more |
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United States. Immigration and Naturalization Service
INS (United States Immigration and Naturalization Service) ¦ ADRIENNE WILMOTH LERNER The United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) was a subsidiary of the Department of Justice. Immigration services are now part of the new Department of Homeland Security. The... Read more |
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United States. Council on Environmental Quality
Council on Environmental Quality Until it was abolished by the Clinton Administration in 1993, the President's Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) was the White House Office that advised the President and coordinated executive branch policy on the environment . CEQ was established by the... Read more |
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Henry Brown Blackwell
BLACKWELL, HENRY BROWN Henry Brown Blackwell (1825–1909) was an English immigrant who became an activist for many reform issues in the United States including the anti-slavery movement. He is best known as an advocate for women's suffrage and was married to feminist Lucy Stone (1818 |
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International Affairs
International Affairs Sources Security and Expansion.American foreign policy before the mid twentieth century was generally isolationist. The United States avoided alliances or entanglements with other nations. This does not mean that diplomacy was passive. Rather... Read more |
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Nuclear War, Prevention of Accidental
...escalating to nuclear exchanges.Avoiding unauthorized use of nuclear weapons is part of the larger issue of whether control of America...undetected while at the same time avoiding false warnings of such an...timely alert of an attack and avoiding false ... |
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Cuban Missile Crisis
...Kennedy nor Khrushchev wanted to risk nuclear war over the issue, and both became increasingly concerned that an accident...had inadvertently strayed over Siberian air space, narrowly avoiding a similar fate. Kennedy resolved to bring the crisis to an... |
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Logistics
...Distribution includes the transportation, receipt, storage, and issue of materiel of all kinds. Maintenance involves the inspection, service...of materiel to other, less vital, areas. Economy involves avoiding both excessive expenditure and unnecessary duplication of resources... |
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Public Financing and Budgeting for War
...financial options. In so doing, they faced issues that far transcended the technicalities...political conflict, which often centered on issues of taxation. The politics of taxation...corporate profits and personal incomes, while avoiding the extensive taxation of wages and ... |
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Combat Effectiveness
...always considers the relationship of means to ends, and the issues of appropriateness and proportionality, when examining the...and mental conditioning. For wartime ground forces, the issue became avoiding the fatal combination of untrained volunteer officers with... |
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Impact of Court Decisions
...evasion of the ruling—giving it technical obedience but avoiding its spirit or rationale—are ways in which the public...to an abortion. The Court can have impact not only when it issues a ruling with full opinion but also by refusing to review a... |
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Atomic Scientists
...civilization led them to become involved in the most fundamental issues of international policy.In 1953, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the...working relationships with Soviet colleagues concerned about avoiding nuclear holocaust. On the other hand, the scientists on the... |
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Nelson, Samuel
...have affirmed the judgment of the lower court, deferring to state law on Dred Scott's citizenship and thus avoiding the inflammatory issue of the constitutionality of the Missouri Compromise, which mired the Court in the slavery debate. In the... |
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classification
...insurance, chartering, financing, and so on, and also for the issue of statutory certificates required by international conventions...constant voyages can have inspections on a regular basis, avoiding the need for a costly lay-up every fourth or fifth year... |
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Harrison, William Henry
...year the Whigs elevated the politics of popular amusement to unrivaled levels, eschewing a platform and avoiding positions on substantive issues to promote Harrison, the Virginia aristocrat, as a humble farmer partial to log cabins and hard cider... |
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escape
...84 to escape the police. ∎ succeed in avoiding or eluding something dangerous, unpleasant...container. ∎ [tr.] (of words or sounds) issue involuntarily or inadvertently from...POW camp. ∎ an act of successfully avoiding something dangerous, unpleasant, or unwelcome... |
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al-Ashʿarī, Abū ʾl-ḥasan ʿAlī ibn...
...about the power of human reason to solve theological problems when he raised the issue of the condemnation of those whom God might have brought to death earlier (thus avoiding the deeds for which they were condemned). He moved more toward the Ḥanbalites... |
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diet
...the animal was slaughtered specifically on his behalf, thus avoiding complicity in the breaking of the First Precept (see pañca...taking life. To understand this, one must first separate the issues of killing animals from that of eating meat. While the first... |
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euthanasia
...compassionate motivation with the end of avoiding suffering. The term ‘euthanasia’ has...Buddhist languages. Euthanasia as an ethical issue is not explicitly discussed in canonical...attempted suicide which have a bearing on the issue. One concerns the monastic precept ... |
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spade
...spade2) related to Greek spathē ‘blade, paddle’.call a spade a spade speak plainly without avoiding unpleasant or embarrassing issues. The expression is recorded in English from the mid 16th century, and derives ultimately from Plutarch... |
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gender
...art, literature, film, and cultural studies to explore issues such as the interconnections between ideas of racial purity...note, ‘gender’ has been criticized as a prudish way of avoiding the word ‘sex’. This is clearly not the case when it... |
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Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry
...parliamentary party despite bitter internal disputes, mainly through avoiding controversial policy commitments, as well as his charming...debates which might split the Liberal Party, most notably the issue of Irish Home Rule. As a result, his short term of office... |
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Fabianism
...from a Roman general whose motto was ‘slow but sure’. Avoiding both revolutionary Marxism and Owenite utopianism, the early Fabians...to British politicians and civil servants rather than wider issues, grass-roots politics, and the common people. However... |
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Avoiding the issues.(Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs's advises on tax )
...of the Chartered Institute of Taxation Avoiding the issues Anyone -- competent, qualified, or...Perhaps this is now too serious an issue to leave alone. In the US, the practice...international norm. Regulation raises many issues -- the first being what is it ... |
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IFP conference put off yet again Expelled members challenge dismissals;...
...recent developments showed that the IFP had failed to manage the issue of succession. "This demonstrates a serious problem under...shows that his leadership has failed to deal with the whole issue of succession and this is probably because they have never had... |
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There's no avoiding the issue Better the devil you know? It seems so when it...
Byline: damian wild There's no avoiding the issue Better the devil you know? It seems so when it comes to tax. As recently as five years ago, even talk of a mini-GAAR was anathema... |
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Avoiding the issues
...trimming or postponement," said a senior Pentagon official. The squeeze in weapons development and procurement will be a central issue facing the Quadrennial Defence Review, a Pentagon-wide study of how military forces should be reshaped to fit the post Cold... |
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AVOIDING THE ISSUES NATIONAL CANDIDATES TODAY FAVOR SLOGANS OVER...
...the White House today is to sedulously avoid talking about issues, and to resort instead to catchy themes and focus-group...The Quadrennial Fear of Ideas,'' appears in the new issue of Policy Review. Looking back at 30 years of presidential...drugs and crime,' or `education' as the most ... |
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Avoiding Antitrust Issues
The Interface of America's Antitrust and Intellectual Property Laws The Antitrust Laws Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1890.1 Since then, America's antitrust laws have sought to protect the integrity of our free enterprise system by outlawing various restraints of trade that threaten |
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REP. BUYER: PRESIDENT OBAMA AVOIDING ISSUE ON HOW NATIONAL HEALTHCARE REFORM...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 -- Republicans on the House Veterans' Affairs Committee issued the following news release: Ranking Member of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs, Steve Buyer, responded today to President's Obama comments at the National Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) in |
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Anderson presents legislative agenda, says Boozman avoiding the issues.
...who wants to glide toward re-election without addressing voters' concerns about the Iraq war, gas prices or health-care issues. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Northwest Edition) |
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House nixes special session on immigration Springs lawmaker accuses...
...body has done more this session on this issue when compared to past sessions, it has...kicking and screaming and avoided several key issues," Schultheis said. "This is not what...has proven incapable of dealing with the issue," he said. But Rep. Terrance Carroll... |
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The Politics Of Symbolism; We spend a lot of time debating measures that...
Byline: Robert J. Samuelson Fulfilling their promise, democrats in the House have voted to raise the minimum wagefrom its current $5.15 an hour to $7.25 by 2009. But before you count the big gains for low-income families, consider this fact: among the poorest fifth of U.S. households (their 2005 |
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