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Stagnation
StagnationBIBLIOGRAPHYCentral to the definition of “stagnation,” in economics, is a situation in which total output (or output per capita) is constant, falling slightly, or rising only sluggishly, or a situation in which unemployment is chronic and growing. Such conditions may exist in particular... Read more |
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Bessie Head
Bessie Head 1937-86, South African writer. Born in South Africa to a white mother and black father, she was placed in foster homes and orphanages as a child. After 1964, she lived in exile in Botswana. Her candid writing voiced her strong concerns about racism, economic stagnation, and the status... Read more |
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Counter Reformation
Counter Reformation 16th-century reformation that arose largely in answer to the Protestant Reformation; sometimes called the Catholic Reformation. Although the Roman Catholic reformers shared the Protestants' revulsion at the corrupt conditions in the church, there was present none of the... Read more |
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Madras
Madras was founded by Francis Day of the English East India Company in 1639. It stood on a strip of the Coromandel coast famous for its textiles. A fortification (named after St George) was built and became the headquarters of company activities. The city became the capital of a presidency in the... Read more |
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Intifada
Intifada [Arab.,=uprising, shaking off], the Palestinian uprising during the late 1980s and early 90s in the West Bank and Gaza Strip , areas that had been occupied by Israel since 1967. A vehicular accident that killed four Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in Dec., 1987, sparked immediate local... Read more |
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frostbite
frostbite (chilblains), injury to the tissue caused by exposure to cold, usually affecting the extremities of the body, such as the hands, feet, ears, or nose. Extreme cold causes the small blood vessels in the extremities to constrict. The blood circulates more slowly and stagnation results.... Read more |
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Industries
INDUSTRY INDUSTRY. The subject of industry is part of the general pattern of economic development in the early modern period. This development had three basic phases: the first, a period of expansion running from the middle of the fifteenth century through to the very end of the sixteenth; the... Read more |
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Corporate taxes
O VERVIEW Extremes and Contradictions The 1990s was a decade of extremes and contradictions. Americans built bigger and more-elaborate homes and drove more-expensive automobiles, but then worked longer hours than before to pay for them. The stock market and executive... Read more |
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Monopoly capitalism
Monopoly Capitalism THEORETICAL ORIGINS CHANGING TRENDS TENDENCY TO STAGNATION CRITICAL QUESTIONS BIBLIOGRAPHY Monopoly capital theory states that capitalism undergoes phases of evolution and transformation when some of its dominant institutions change significantly over time. It also... Read more |
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glasnost
glasnost , Soviet cultural and social policy of the late 1980s. Following his ascension to the leadership of the USSR in 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev began to promote a policy of openness in public discussions about current and historical problems. The policy was termed glasnost [openness]. The... Read more |
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Women in global politics: Progress or stagnation?
...policies will reflect women's interests. " IN...illustrate women's progress in politics and the obstacles that...role of females in politics since the 1980 presidential...thinks about women in global ... |
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Cardinal George Welcomes Caritas in Veritate, Says Message on Global Economy,...
...analyzes the current global economic crisis in light...The letter affirms the progress that has been made in...emerging problems in the global society. The encyclical...principles on which a global economy must be based...calls on all men and ... |
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U.S. women's progress eclipsed by global inequities for women in economics,...
...WASHINGTON _ The women of the world would...further weakening global economic stability...largest international women's meeting in Beijing...suggests that American women's notable progress is eclipsed by huge...in economics and ... |
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In China, Progress As Nationalism.
...China's days of economic stagnation and political turmoil can...for young people. One young woman leading a tour of a Shanghai...In many ways, American politics since the 1970s has been dominated...around what has been gained. Progress has fused with ... |
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In China, Progress As Nationalism
...China's days of economic stagnation and political turmoil can...for young people. One young woman leading a tour of a Shanghai...In many ways, American politics since the 1970s has been dominated...around what has been gained. Progress has fused with ... |
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FACING UP TO THE GLOBAL AGE WAVE
...the challenge of global aging. What's...ago, the typical woman worldwide had 5...easy. Indeed, the politics are absolutely toxic...experience a long-term stagnation (or even decline...How will it affect global financial markets...death - as ... |
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Vital Voices Global Partnership Receives Institutional Excellence Award from...
...releases/vital-voices- global-partnership-receives...opportunity to amplify women's voices. "As young women, we did a lot during...challenge to keep putting women's issues onto the...It is known that the progress of women in ... |
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More than sports is at stake in 2008 Olympics in China; Though the Chinese...
...sidewalk is out. But progress on the larger issues...country has made no progress on human rights...have on China's politics, the largest and...to be part of the global community," said...Ueberroth estimated a global audience of 4 ... |
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Fertility's fires and empty wombs in recent Africanist writing.(Contingent...
...Population and Progress in a Yoruba Town...in Transition: women's education...LYNN M. THOMAS, Politics of the Womb: women, reproduction...Martin's The Woman in the Body forever...World Order: the global ... |
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Women, Politics and Power: A Global Perspective.(Book review)
Women, Politics and Power: A Global Perspective By Pamela...for choosing Women, Politics and Power as the basic...and Social Structure, Politics per se, and "Overarching...detailing the tedious progress of ... |
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