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Insular Cases
Insular Cases The Insular Cases are a group of‐some fourteen decisions of the period 1901–1904 that involve the application of the Constitution and Bill of Rights to overseas territories (see Territories and New States). The cases arose after the United States acquired island... Read more |
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Hiss Case
HISS CASE HISS CASE. The Hiss case, which spanned the years from 1948 through 1950, helped pave the way for McCarthyism and, in particular, the Cold War search for communists thought to have infiltrated the State Department during the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.... Read more |
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Gold Clause Cases
Gold Clause Cases (1935), common collective name for three companion cases of the New Deal era: Norman v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., 294 U.S. 240; Nortz v. United States, 294 U.S. 317; and Perry v. United States, 294 U.S. 330. All three argued 8–11 Jan. 1935, decided 18 Feb. 1935 by... Read more |
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Amistad Case
AMISTAD CASE AMISTAD CASE. In 1839, fifty-three Africans, being illegally transferred on the Spanish schooner La Amistad, took control of the ship near Havana, Cuba, murdered part of the crew, and demanded transport back to Africa. Traveling toward the rising sun by day, as the Africans... Read more |
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Dartmouth College Case
Dartmouth College Case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1819. The legislature of New Hampshire, in 1816, without the consent of the college trustees, amended the charter of 1769 to make Dartmouth College public. The trustees brought suit. Daniel Webster argued successfully that the amendment... Read more |
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Steve Case
Steve Case 1958– Director, Time Warner Nationality: American. Born: August 21, 1958, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Education: Williams College, BA, 1980. Family: Son of Dan (attorney) and Carol (teacher; maiden name unknown) Case; married Joanne Baker (divorced); children: three; ... Read more |
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Case Law
CASE LAW Legal principles enunciated and embodied in judicial decisions that are derived from the application of particular areas of law to the facts of individual cases. As opposed to statutes— Read more |
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New England
...who contrasted the nature of New England manners, ranging from those...symbolized by the Sacco‐Vanzetti case, described in Upton Sinclair...conflict in 20th‐century New England. The earlier homogeneity...to destroy the leadership of New England in the ... |
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New Guinea Campaign
...with 123,000 killed.The New Guinea campaign was important...Operations in World War II. Vol. 8: New Guinea and the Marianas, March 1944...Wakde‐Sarmi Campaign as a Case Study, Journal of Military History...MacArthur's Jungle War: The 1944 New Guinea ... |
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New York Idea, The
New York Idea, The (1906), a play...Marry for whim! That's the New York idea of marriage.” The news...win both ladies away from their new amours. On the day of the...kept her wedding ring just in case. Theatrical historian Edwin... |
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New York v. Belton
New York v. Belton, 453 U.S. 454 (1981...Brennan and White in dissent. In this case six members of the Supreme Court agreed...here are similar to many automobile search cases. After the car was stopped for speeding...latitude given police officers in this case. ... |
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New York v. Miln
New York v. Miln, 11 Pet. (36 U.S.) 102 (1837), argued 27–28 Jan...Thompson concurring, Story in dissent. Miln was the first major Commerce Clause case to come before the Taney Court. It involved an ordinance requiring ships... |
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New Orleans
...and Reconstruction accelerated New Orleans's “Americanization...landmark Plessy v. Ferguson case of 1896.Late nineteenth‐ and early twentieth‐century New Orleans stagnated economically...vitality by developing jazz. The new music, Storyville (the fabled ... |
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New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan...Goldberg concurring. In this case, the Supreme Court for the first...four black clergymen and The New York Times alleging that he had been libeled...exposition of ideas (Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 1942) and that they are... |
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Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railway Co. v. Mississippi
Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railway Co. v. Mississippi, 133 U.S. 587 (1890...Power). Unlike arguments that would mature in the twentieth century, the case did not involve the Fourteenth Amendment. The Mississippi statute, in... |
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New Commerce Clause
...Commerce Clause In the wake of the New Deal, the Commerce Clause has served as the...were part of a line of recent cases within which the Court has stressed...respect for the states. This “new federalism” is likely to be the...for example, Congress passed a ... |
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New Hampshire
...philosophic attitude. He describes New Hampshire as “one of the two best...of everything as in a show‐case.” Answering the “glorious bards...he names friends among the New Hampshire people he admires and...I choose to be a plain New Hampshire farmer,” he ... |
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new technology
...dictionary. The assumed effects of new technology sometimes form the basis...social and political impact of new technologies is complex and contingent...for example, the series of case-studies reported in B. Wilkinson...The Shopfloor Politics of the New ... |
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chronology of the New Testament
chronology of the New Testament The life of Jesus and the travels...birth of Jesus being put at year 1 of the new Christian Era, corresponding to year 754...the reign of Herod the Great, and in any case did not apply to residents of Nazareth in... |
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affirmative action
...citizens' equal protection before the law. However, in the case of United Steel Workers of America v. Weber (1979), the Supreme...always been at the forefront of affirmative action, introduced a new system of admission based on ‘comprehensive review’. This... |
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avulsion
...The lateral displacement of a stream from its main channel into a new course across its flood-plain. Normally it is a result of the...The avulsion of a stream into an adjacent valley may explain some cases of apparent river capture. |
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block
...of a file (which in this context means its replacement by a new version of the same length).In conventional magnetic tape...and the subsystem itself divides the data into blocks (in this case often called blockettes) in a manner that is not visible to... |
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block-structured languages
...block and any nested blocks, unless a variable of the same name is declared at the head of an inner block. In this case the new declaration is effective throughout the inner block, and the outer declaration becomes effective again at the end of... |
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Canon
...Apocrypha). The earliest witness to the present canon of the New Testament is the Festal Letter of Athanasius for 367 CE; and the canon...text canon’), but the term is particularly awkward in this case: see DIGAMBARA; AṄGA. For Sikhs, see ĀDI GRANTH. For the... |
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capitalism
...inherent flaws would ensure its eventual collapse.The positive case for free market capitalism is based on the liberty of individuals...colonies was one means of postponing eventual collapse by securing new and additional markets. Others have explained the continued... |
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case-based reasoning
case-based reasoning A technique...that attempts to solve new problems by using past...a library of previous cases. The cases are stored together with...that when the nearest case is located the corresponding...process, the storage of the ... |
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catastrophic evolution
...which in self-fertilizing organisms may then give rise sympatrically to a new species (see SYMPATRIC EVOLUTION). Recent research suggests that at best this explanation applies only to some special cases. |
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...that which. 4. they were free, as the case had not been proved synonyms: because...relatively short distances, as Hartford to New Haven synonyms: such as, like, for instance...The same is true as to [read of] other cases finding for leaders by applying the ... |
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continual
...or intermittently.” (Santa Fe New Mexican; Sept. 8, 1996.) A good...Attorney General helping prosecute the case, told the presiding judge, Charles...course of misconduct’ in the Spath case.” (New York Times; Jan. 18, 1992... |
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gospel
...Christ's teaching; the word of God, the good news, the New Testament. 2. don't treat this as gospel synonyms: the truth; fact, actual fact, reality, actuality, factuality, the case, a certainty. 3. her gospel of nonviolence synonyms: doctrine... |
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light
...to notice, identify. come to light a fact important to this case has just come to lightsynonyms: be discovered, be uncovered...materialize, emerge. in (the) light of in light of this new information, there is no reason to continue our questioningsynonyms... |
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native
...aboriginal, endemic, indigenous A native New Yorker is probably not indigenous...elsewhere some time ago—which is the case with most New Yorkers who consider themselves natives...There are no longer any aboriginal New Yorkers, a word that refers to the... |
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situation
...circumstances, affairs, state, state of affairs, condition, case, predicament, plight; inf. kettle of fish, ball game. 3...footing, rank, degree. 4. apply for a situation in the new firmsynonyms: post, position, place, job, employment. |
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who
...subject of an infinitive is in the objective case (I know her to be good). The same is true...charged hours later with killing him.” (New York Times; Sept. 3, 1994.), at 1...manufacturer of silicone breast implants.” (New York Times; July 7, 1995.)In the citations... |
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dare
...the trickiest” (William Safire, “Love That Dare,” New York Times; May 17, 1987). The subtleties arise because...appears after the verb (dare) and is always in the nominative case—e.g.: “How dare she tell taxpayers to take on more... |
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issue
...matter in question, question, point, point at issue, affair, case, subject, topic; problem, bone of contention. 2. the issue...disseminate, transmit. 2. the students were issued with new uniforms synonyms: supply, provide, furnish, arm, equip... |
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hopefully
...word, so that anyone using it in the new sense is likely to have a credibility problem...Dummett, an Oxford logician, condemns the new usage of hopefully because only a person can be hopeful, and in many such cases there is nobody around in the sentence... |
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New age diamond merchants: branding as a way of life: 'breaking new...
...independently, and in many cases much earlier than the SoC program...Lili Diamonds, and Israel's newest addition to the sightholder...two branches in Hong Kong and New York. But allow me first to...establish a captive clientele in the new markets targeted, ... |
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a new day, a new high at the pump a new day, a new high at the pump a new...
...dramatically reversed course - appear poised to set new records above $140 a barrel. While the...this week by Saudi Arabia. Oil futures in New York touched a record $139.12 a barrel...States, said Wednesday he would make the case that supply and demand, not speculation... |
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Want the scoop on New York pizza? Better not ask a New Yorker; Want the scoop...
...greasy. The best pizzas come from New York, Mohamed says as a statement...inability to replicate the perfect New York pizza? Pure myth, says...is the infamous no-nonsense New York attitude the secret ingredient...the water," he says. In that case, we'll ... |
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ETA: 2006: new channels are lining up for their share of Asia's new capacity....
...Channel) and WE: Women's Entertainment. NEW DISCOVERIES ... and then there is Discovery's new HD channel. On 14 December, the Singapore...these as much more expensive. As is the case with many new technologies costs are already coming down... |
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HE'LL HAVE A NEW NAME, A NEW HOME, A NEW CAR, NEW FRIENDS, A NEW LIFE. BUT...
...their former life or, as in the case of mob turncoat Sammy "the...return to crime. Gravano, a New York wiseguy-turned-witness...ecstasy ring in Arizona under his new identity. Critics say the program gives wolves new identities as sheep and then... |
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Occupational safety and health statistics: new data for a new century;...
...systems, and identifies how the new systems are used to describe...the development of a completely new system--the North American...activity they perform (in this case, management, manufacturing...recognizes the development of many new industries spurred by ... |
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Predatory lending's new frontier: one of the newer notions in a number of...
...are realizing the American dream, new and profitable markets have been...to subprime loans an oft-cited case in point. The subtle difference...benefit. Several states--such as New York, Georgia and New Mexico--have adopted so-called... |
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Measurable results: a new Web-based system helps builders measure costs and...
...technology investment, but most of the case studies are geared toward information technology...February 2003. In February, Engle defined a new set of standards based on the agreed upon...so Engle's supers could learn about the new standards, and follow-up review sessions... |
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NetWorld+Interop Offers New Infrastucture and Services Content for 2005; New...
...solutions to these challenges." As new applications and media push network...advanced data center architectures, new trends and innovations are reshaping...continuity --Building the business case for technology investments For...whether building an entirely ... |
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New products for new customers in new markets: Case IH launches 4 new lines...
...North American agricultural business for Case IH, heralded the announcement of Case's new tractor lines. "With the launch of...fuel efficiency and longer engine life. New Loader Line A new line of Case-IH loaders has also ... |
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