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	Arturo Alessandri Arturo Alessandri , 1868-1950, president of Chile (1920-25, 1932-38). The 1920 presidential candidate of the Liberal Alliance, a coalition of all the enemies of the conservatives, Alessandri was elected on a reform platform. During his first administration, the conservatives were able to block most ... Read more
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	Cosmology Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...eighteenth century a new cosmology, associated...cosmologies of these main figures...spherical, and full. Its outer boundary...naturally in a circle, at constant...structure of these shells. In the...system of moving circles carrying other...within them. These, in turn, ...
	Dwight L. Moody Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...He expanded these associations...in religious circles, chiefly through...career to work full time for the...revival meetings in New York, Philadelphia...Protestantism to the new urban environment...A theological conservative, Moody was bewildered...liberals and conservatives ...
	Pete Wilson Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Wilson has his hands full coping with California...McClintock lamented to the New Republic, "All the...taxes. The net result of these disparate forces was...became active in political circles, starting a local chapter...well-spoken, and conservative, all of which made him...
	Kenichi Fukui Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...elevated to a full professorship...bonds. Electrons circle the nuclei in...at least one of these electron bonds...altered, forming a new bond and thus...Fukui named these "frontier orbitals...began research on these same problems...Japanese are very conservative when it ...
	Richard B. Cheney Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...to the inner circle in President George...rejected by the full Senate. A day...governor's office. These whetted his appetite...Living Council. These positions, which...in fact opened new horizons. Joining...pragmatically conservative, extremely civil...hard-working. These ...
	Taft, Helen Herron Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...congressman from New York. Writing in...Taft, but none of these acquaintanceships...as a ‘ conservative feminist ’...equal to men if given full access to education...been elected to a full five-year term...political and social circles in which she had...
	Azhar, al- Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa ...official mosque of the new Fatimid regime and...Students sat in circles in the mosque, each...acquired a number of these certificates and...Organization Law. A conservative reaction thwarted...was followed by a new organization law...degree programs of a full university, including...
	Literary Criticism Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...Poe , Margaret Fuller , and James Russell...above all. The new professors of...Ransom and his circle in Nashville initiated...radical pasts, these critics embraced...response criticism. These new ways of examining...liberationist movements, these trends contributed...position ...

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Examination Systems, China
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...curriculum and to entertain new ways to improve the system...mantic arts reveal the full cultural scope and magnitude...and 17 provinces. These testing sites elicited...nineteenth-century education circles and convinced the imperial...change that superseded conservative imperial goals of ...

de Kooning, Willem
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...1927 settled in New York. For the...thereafter he was a full-time painter...work had been conservative, but in 1929...avant-garde circles. Other friends...Kooning referred to these two and Gorky...Egan Gallery, New York) he was...abstract art. One of these was Clement ...

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	Conservative circles may lose pride under Bush, Buckley says; The "Firing Line" host told a Minneapolis crowd that "conservatism is tough-minded, and we ought not to shrink from" that.(NEWS) Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 3/30/2000; ; 700+ words ; The conservative movement...banquet hall full of conservatives in Minneapolis...compassionate conservative" - as if...rise of a new breed of...conservative circles. He received...to bring these things about...the kind of conservative who will...values that ...
	An Early Eye for Political Punditry; Teenager's Pointed Views Play in Conservative Circles Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/7/2000; 700+ words ; ...Web site of the conservative National Review...national journalism circles at a very young...magazine, the American Conservative and The Washington...summer, he will be a full-time paid intern...Neither of these candidates is very...incredibly low." On the New York Senate race...
	Labour's magic circle Magazine article from: The Spectator; 3/31/2007; 700+ words ; ...denounced the 'magic circle' of senior Conservatives who had engineered...been chosen in a full-blown democratic...1990 -- the new party leader...then sort out these other issues...unleashing a full-frontal counterattack...happy one. The Conservative party in ...
	Conservatives Embrace War on Poverty;Proposals Range From Reading Bonuses to College Tuition Promises Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/19/1990; ; 700+ words ; ...guarantee full college tuition...symptoms." These conservative activists...launch a new War on Poverty-a conservative war, grounded...sufficient for conservatives to rail against...payoff-in these issues...conservative circles. "It is...
	Betraying conservative principles.(Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy)(Book review) Magazine article from: Modern Age; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Bruce Bartlett, New York, Doubleday...conservative circles principally...problems in these areas. Over...as the word conservative was generally...far from being conservative, have in fact...traditional conservatives who have long...to restrain these or other ...
	Conservative Spotlight: Competitive Enterprise Institute Magazine article from: Human Events; 5/24/2004; ; 700+ words ; In conservative Washington circles, the Competitive Enterprise...year, CEI has grown to 30 full-time staff. It celebrated...by man is "trivial." These facts didn't stop Britain...delaying the approval of new drugs or imposing fuel...
	Conservative intellectuals return to roots. Magazine article from: Insight on the News; 3/3/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...Nash's The Conservative Intellectual...for American conservatives in an epilogue to the new edition. The...schisms among conservatives continue to...I think, in conservative intellectual circles that there isn...were to do a full-length study...dealing with these kinds ...
	GOP right long frustrated with Lott; Lott flounders - not just because of his words, but because his tenure has disappointed conservatives.(USA) Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 12/19/2002; 700+ words ; ...weeks before a new Congress convenes...that many conservatives wanted on...messenger for the conservative message and...included in these programs...conservative beltway circles. The think...part of what these activists...resignation, top conservative groups early...had ...
	What Is the Vatican Saying About Women?; Conservative Catholics Might Be Surprised Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/15/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...example, certain "new approaches to...true: Read in full and in context...some Catholic conservatives want to allow...document too conservative, but from those...progressive. What are these clarifications...interpretations of the "new feminism" articulated...prominent in ...
	Team of rivals redux.('Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America' and 'The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience')(Book review) Magazine article from: The American Prospect; 4/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...FDR'S INNER CIRCLE AND THE HUNDRED...WOMAN BEHIND THE NEW DEAL: THE LIFE...with his inner circle as he tackles...FDR's inner circle during his first...emerge from these two books. The...Perkins served the full 12 years of FDR...to overcome his conservative fiscal tendencies...