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Prince William Sound Christian Science Monitor
1,344 wordsThe Exxon Valdez oil spill in the Prince William Sound of Alaska proved to be a disaster on many levels. The coastline, wildlife, and people of the all area were all devastated by the spill. Ten years later, the area is showing remarkable progress. Because of the cleanup efforts and new regulations, the Sound is getting ever closer to recovery. A few minutes after midnight on March 24, 1989, the T/V Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound. A few minutes later the coast gua...
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Health Care System Gross National Product
1,080 wordsChina and Japan: Asia's Sleeping Giants Of all regions in the world aiming for a bright future, none is closer to that goal than Asia. Asia, also known as the sleeping giant accounts for over sixty percent of the earths population with China holding a large amount of the sixty percent. Economically, Japan is in the forefront of the world with only the United States leading them in the category of Gross National Product (GNP). Both Japan and China are looked upon by a great number of people as fu...
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One Of The First Compton Interactive
1,504 wordsThe Chinese have long since been an enterprising group of people. Long before the introduction of Western technologies and ideas, this country has had a history of local industry dating back some 2000 years. These innovative people, from an early time, produced paper, gunpowder, and silk, and printing with one of the first movable type. In all, the manufacture of luxury items, fine handcrafts, metal crafting and the manufacture of tools were all well established businesses long before the onset ...
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Billion Dollars Trade Balance
732 wordsThe United States and Italy are interdependent on each other for various products. For example, we often see Americans wearing Italian designer clothes, while on the other hand; Italians covet the American brand clothes. As a nation, Italy has been on a steady decline with their exports to the United States. Italy has exported 238. 2 billion dollars of total in 1997; 242. 3 billion dollars of total exports in 1998; and 148. 6 billion dollars of total exports in 1999. On the reverse side, Italy h...
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38 Th Parallel End The War
1,459 words... ous Manchurian region. The Chinese troops lay coiled like a viper, and as the UN. pushed forward, they encountered Human Waves of Chinese troops. Combined with poor equipment and the brutal North Korean winter, the UN. forces had no choice but to retreat. The allies retreated back 130 miles to the North Korean border. Along with the UN. retreat, followed millions of North Korean refugees trying to escape Chinas assault. The situation was described by one G. I. , There were literally millions...
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Welfare To Work Welfare Recipients
1,587 wordsNo matter how liberal or conservative, all politicians agree that welfare costs could be greatly reduced if abuse and fraud were eliminated. Welfare was first introduced in the 20 's as a program to help people get through the depression. The government created many public works jobs to employ the thousands that lost their jobs. At the time it was a great program but seventy-five years later, major reforms are necessary to eliminate the widespread abuse and fraud. Today, the U. S. spends well ov...
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World War Ii Franklin D Roosevelt
1,564 wordsOn the morning of August 6, 1945, the first Atomic Bomb in history was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Soon after, on August 14, 1945, the Japanese abruptly surrendered, abandoning their ancient customs regarding honor in war. The fact that only two bombs were able to bring an entire country to its knees is a true testament to the awesome power they held. There is nothing in modern warfare that can compete with the devastating e...
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Billion Dollars Great Depression
1,425 wordsAfter the stock market collapse, the New York banks became frightened and called in their loans to Germany and Austria. However, without the American money, Germans had to stop paying reparations to France and Britain. This was a chain reaction and they could not repay their war loans to America, therefore, the depression had spread to Europe. The U. S. Government tried to protect domestic industries form foreign competition by imposing the Hanley-Smoot Tariff of 1930. In retaliation governments...
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Blue Ribbon Sports Track And Field
2,251 wordsNike If you have a body, you are an athlete. And as long as there are athletes, there will be Nike. Bill Bowerman Introduction Undoubtedly, Nike is one of the most influential world leaders in manufacture and design of sport footwear, clothes and accessories. By 2001 the companys annual income approached 10 billion dollars. Nike is a multinational corporation that concludes contracts with 750 factories in 55 world countries. The quantity of Nike's personnel makes up more than 28, 000 full-time e...
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Capital Financing In Health Care
942 wordsCapital Financing in Health Care The expenditures for medical care in the United States has increased during last decades. According to the data it grew from approximately $ 100 in 1960 billion dollars to $ 900 billion dollars in 1993. This rapid growth increased the role of medical services in the state economy, because the health care expenses rose from 7. 1 to 14. 7 percent of the GDP. However last time the tendency to growth in health care trend have fell down. The expenses for medical servi...
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The Implications Of Welfare Reform On Urbanized Areas
2,014 wordsThe Implications of Welfare Reform on Urbanized Areas The questions about effectiveness of a welfare programs have been of a great importance throughout the world for the last twenty years. In the United States, the problems of welfare become vital after the Great Depression. Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal proposed the creation of welfare system. It was the first time in the U. S. history when government started to use public and federal funds in order to finance people. One of the most import...
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Cash Crops Billion Dollars
728 wordsThe causes of poverty in the developing world Wars Many LDC? s have been badly affected by wars. There have been many civil wars in Africa, caused by European empire-building in the nineteenth century. Several African races were joined into one country, but half a race was left in another country. These countries were still artificial countries after they achieved independence. One race was often badly treated by the ruling race, which resulted in civil war. This also happened in Europe since th...
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Chief Executive Officer Billion Dollars
927 wordsWednesday, September 20, 1995, AT&# 038; T Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Robert E. Allen announced plans for a strategic restructuring that would separate AT&# 038; T into three publicly traded global companies. Robert E. Allen said, The company was taking this bold step to capitalize on the opportunities in each business segment of the global information industry communications services, communications equipment, and transaction-intensive computing. Under the plan, a fourth business AT&#...
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Chinese Communist Party World War Ii
2,207 wordsConstructive Relations In the name of peace, international cooperation, democracy, trade and human rights, the struggle for power is underway between the United States, and China. This struggle is motivated by the natural clash of national interests, and almost preordained process in the contemporary state system. The struggle for power has been the dynamic element of history, and it is likely to be in the future. International war (s) may or may not ensue between the two major powers, but their...
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World Trade Organization General Agreement On Tariffs
1,185 wordsThe General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was created in 1947, GATT is an agreement between many nations governing international trade. GATT provides a place for negotiating trade issues and a framework for guiding the conduct of trade. Current GATT membership includes one hundred and twenty three nations. One of the major beliefs behind GATT is that more liberalized trade would help the economies of participating nations grow (Banks 35). Some o...
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San Diego Ca War On Drugs
1,178 wordsIllegal drugs are according to the government a major problem in our society. According to the Department of Justice drugs are the cause of most of our crime. The three major drugs that are being widely used are marijuana, cocaine, and crack. These drugs are used to relieve pain and make people feel better mentally and physically (69). If we legalized crack, marijuana, and cocaine it would drop the crime rate, make the people and government more money, and cut the abuse rate. As the Collegiate d...
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Sherman Antitrust Act Twenty Five Years
899 wordsMicrosoft: THE COMPANY The thought of forming a company which supplies its customers with software, was a great idea especially coming from a college dropout. Bill Gates, along with high-school friend Paul Allen, formed a software company in 1975. From the beginning, Microsoft had a tremendous potential to become a very successful corporation. Beginning with a revenue of sixteen thousand dollars, and three employees, Microsoft developed into a huge money making machine. In its twenty-five years ...
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Cattle Ranching Shifting Cultivation
2,234 wordsname = Shiv Sudan email = publish = yes subject = Science title = Rainforest Destruction papers = Introduction With the increase of rainforest destruction that is taking place, it could take ten years for the rainforests to be destroyed for good. If we dont restrain or take action towards the destruction there is no telling what will happen to the world. Most scientists have predicted that at the rate that we are going at there will be no rainforests left by the year 2050. Long ago, rainforest w...
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International Monetary Fund Billion Dollars
953 wordsThe Russian Crisis On July 13, 1998 the Managing Director of the International Monetary fund (IMF), Michael Camdessus said, The IMF team currently in Moscow has reached an agreement with the Government of Russia on a major strengthening of Russian economic programs (IMF Board). In the agreement between the two, Russia was to receive a 22. 6 billion-dollar bailout package to help their economic crisis. The Russian Government was to submit an economic plan to cope with the crisis, and show that it...
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World War Ii Institution Of Slavery
681 wordsThe civil war was doubly tragic because it was completely unnecessary. Slavery had been ended in other nations with the stroke of a pen, and yet in the mighty United States the country was willing to go to war over the issue of whether slavery should remain. The southerners felt that it was their constitutional right to own slaves and did not see a time when they should be required to give up that right. However, upon the election of Lincoln as President, the southerners felt threatened, and fel...
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