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...isted. Most of the Democrats accepted this solution. This led to a schism in the Democratic party. The "fire eaters" left it and established thei... ... of the Democrats accepted this solution. This led to a schism in the Democratic party. The "fire eaters" left it and established their own pro-s... ...64, the Republicans became so unpopular, they had to change their name to the Union Party. Lincoln's vice-president, Johnson, actually was a Democr... ...n Shelton Laurel, North Carolina. The Ku Klux Klan was the paramilitary arm of the Democratic party in the South, though never officially endorsed ... ...aurel, North Carolina. The Ku Klux Klan was the paramilitary arm of the Democratic party in the South, though never officially endorsed by it. It w... ...n and lived most of his early life in Portugal, not in Spain. He was born in Genoa, Italy, no one knows when. He did "discover" America, the contin... ...- a form of mass hysteria - were most common between the 13th and 17th centuries in Italy, notably in Taranto. Hence "tarantism". But occurrences w... ...e the mania first manifested. The bite of the tarantula, called in many parts of Italy "Taranta" (also named after the town of Taranto) was long ... ...1906 Gorky lived in St. Petersburg and participated in the activities of the Social Democratic Party. When it split in 1903, he, indeed, supported t...
...a, The 87 Gaza Strip (see West Bank and Gaza Strip entry on page 276) German Democratic Republic (East Germany) 88 Germany, Federal Republic of (West ... ...Iraq 117 Ireland 119 Israel (West Bank and Gaza Strip entry on page 276) 120 Italy 122 Ivory Coast (Cote d'lvoire) 124 Jamaica 125 Japan 126 Jersey 12... ... 264 Western Samoa 265 Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) 266 Yemen, People's Democratic Republic of (South Yemen) 267 Yugoslavia 269 Zaire 270 Zambia ... ...l African Republic FRG Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) GDR German Democratic Republic (East Germany) PDRY People's Democratic Republic of Y... ...nstitution Government leaders: NAJIB, General Secretary, People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (since May 1986); Haji Mohammad CHAMKANI, Acting Cha... ...al from age 18 Political parties and leaders: the ruling People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) has two factions the Parchami faction has bee... ...st elections 1 February 1987 Political parties and leaders: Albanian Workers Party only; First Secretary, Ramiz Alia (since April 1985) Communists: 14... ...uticals Major trade partners: exports Yugosla- via, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Italy, Po- land, France; imports Yugoslavia, Czech- oslovakia, FRG, Roman... ...o- land, France; imports Yugoslavia, Czech- oslovakia, FRG, Romania, Poland, Italy, Greece, France Budget: revenues $2.24 billion, expendi- tures $2.2...
...Hindu society we believe in the Upanishads and the Gita. If it is a truly democratic country we believe in certain humanistic principles. If it is a... ...ineer. To do this I must graduate from college. What if I want to go to a party with my friends now, but I have an important engineering test tomorro... ...ow? Which do I choose, the present desire or the future desire? I‘m at a party and recognize that I have had too much to drink but I want to go hom... ...te gratification of a donut, the temptation of the TV, or the appeal of a party. It is so easy to follow the path of least resistance rather than the... ...n. 44 ―Whether it is the Cosa Nostra in the U.S., the mafia in Italy, the yakuza in Japan, or the Latin American drug lords--criminals in... ...ats and payoffs keep the authorities away. ―In Europe we point to Italy, with corruption at many levels of the legitimate economy as well as... ... have input from pressure groups, often with great financial sources. Our democratically elected representatives are nearly always beholden to someb... ...that older version of English.‖ --―Let‘s get back on track men. Democratic politicians call for ―moral values‘. But the political course t... ...eographical cultural sub-societies—the Chinatowns, Koreatowns, and little Italys that slow integration for generations. ―Should we mold the ne...
...ni (who also supported them financially), with the Ustashe (similarly supported by Italy) and with the Nazis (under Ivan Mihailov, who became the n... ...e tacit blessing of Tsar Boris and the forming National Alliance (later renamed the Democratic Alliance), they did away with the hated man. Follow... ...e full - though clandestine - support of the Bulgarian Ministry of War and Fascist Italy. From Pirin, they attacked Greece as well. These were exac... ... - a promise which he kept. The modern Republic of Macedonia is today ruled by a party called VMRO-DPMNE. It is one of a few political parties to... ...d in a naval arms race which depleted the coffers and the social cohesion of both. Italy declared war on Turkey in 1911 and even invaded the Dardan... ...pponents of his dictatorship, communists and anti-monarchists. He introduced a one-party, government-controlled electoral system. Thus, in an iro... ...create a centralist and bureaucratic court. When the Croat delegates of the Peasant Party withdrew from the fragmented Constituent Assembly in 1920 ... ... parties but did not reinstate parliament. All this time, a Yugoslav opposition of democratic forces included Croat as well as Serb intellectuals a... ...as the only obstacle to a "Great Albania". Within less than a year, in 1990, the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) was able to claim a membership...
... III. Islam and Liberalism IV. The New Rome - America, the Reluctant Empire V. The Democratic Ideal and New Colonialism VI. Add Me to the List VI... ...ek an analysis titled "American Empire Steps Up Fourth Expansion" in the communist party's mouthpiece People's Daily. Expansionism is an "eternal t... ... success to its political stability, neglecting to mention its pluralism and multi- party system, the sources of said endurance. But then, in an int... ... sources of said endurance. But then, in an interesting departure from the official party line, it praises US "scientific and technological innovati... ...fies America's (capitalistic) economy and its (liberal, pluralistic, religious and democratic) values as its competitive mainstays and founts of st... ... was, he thought, about "the future model of international order: a multipolar and democratic one, or the US strategic goal of a unipolar world." C... ...r than one's arbitrary birth determined one's place in life. The Roman takeover of Italy is reminiscent of the expansion of the United States durin... ... talented populist. Caesar crossed the Rubicon, the river that separated Gaul from Italy, and subdued a rebellious and obstructive Senate. He was o... ... Turks in 1456-58, and in 1460 the two despots of Morea surrendered. Thomas fled to Italy, Demetrius to the Sultan's court. In 1461 Trebizond, capit...
...wants to grow. Then there is the conundrum of poor uneducated people. The democratic ideal and the socialistic goal is to equalize opportunities and ... ...e capital has been streaming into India as its potential unfolds. And the democratic government and economic freedom make India a safer bet for the ... ... fledgling democracies and absolute monarchies to warring militias or one party rule—there are a bunch of hungry mouths crying for food while a numb... ...edy. They are right to be skeptical. But here we are—needy, honest, truly democratic, peaceful, eager to work—and only a few philanthropists to help... ...an educated people.‘ In your country and in many Catholic countries, like Italy, births are dropping. I would guess that the realities of potential ...
...the impoverished. 9 “There are a couple of problems however. In a democratic world would the people of Connecticut vote for reducing their... ... that are reducing their native populations. Countries like Japan, Germany, Italy and South Korea would lose population if they didn’t take in immig... ...dea. This is especially true in countries that call themselves religious or democratic because either God told us to have a bunch or babies or becau... ... He wanted all the power of a Medieval religious king. While he was elected democratically, democracy was not one of his goals for his country. Chet... ...will have populations below what they are now. Russia will lose 31 million, Italy over 7 million, Poland almost 7 million, and Germany almost 4 milli... ...its rate will go back up. But in Europe, Spain is way down, just 1.15, with Italy not far behind at 1.18. It just goes to show that even in these su... ...ten. They have just as many abortions. They don’t follow the same political party lines in elections. They act as if they are secular—except for a f...
...arm that real farming is decreasing. ―The realities of politics in a democratic-republic is that to get the necessary votes for a measure you ... ...he political consideration to make a state become beholden to the political party that gives it the most money. So you wouldn‘t expect politicians to... ...m to the top as quickly as has China. It‘s getting it right. And as former party leader Deng Xiaoping said ‗to get right is glorious.‘ 11 ... ...a big gap between rich and poor. Civil liberties are barely surfacing. One party rule has many drawbacks. But the strong central government has made... ...entific method that it applied to directing our society. While we have some democratic tendencies, enough to keep the people happy by thinking that t... ...ring for others, because we are all in this together. This is what allows a democratic society to evolve toward the ‗good.‘ Without this altruistic e... ... 16 to 26% of the population. In China it will rise from 10 to 32%. Japan, Italy, Germany and France have over 20% of their populations in that age ...
...id-2008, with the squeeze in liquidity and grow- ing concerns over counter-party risk and payment defaults. Banks were not willing to increase credit ... ...ever, are running large current account deficits, particularly the US, UK, Italy and most Eastern European countries. Although the trade surplus of As... ... election campaign in Germany, Franz Muntefering, then Chair of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), described private equity firms as “locusts.” He sub... ...ampaign in Germany, Franz Muntefering, then Chair of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), described private equity firms as “locusts.” He subsequently p... ... This trend is most evident in several African economies such as Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Mali, and Nigeria where profit remitta... ...ross the border with impunity – belongs to this community. From Poverty to Democratic Power Financial stability calls for a grater role of the state a...
...ion processors, meaning they could be repurposed with new software, no third-party software industry existed. All software was bundled with the machin... ...are, beginning a slow evolution toward in-house programming talent and third-party software makers. Nevertheless, for years after the unbundling annou... ...veloped their own versions of word processing software to compete with third-party ver- sions, and the Microsoft antitrust cases of the 1990s arose fr... ...12 9 2 9 11 9 Canada 5 23 5 7 10 5 Spain 13 5 15 16 5 7 Taiwan 8 11 6 6 7 11 Italy 2 8 10 14 12 10 Source: S C., S I S ... ...t. But not every society operates according to a framework of laws that are democratically promulgated and then enforced by an independent judiciary.... ...f liberty along all three vectors of liberal political morality. They enable democratic discourse to flow among constituents, rather than primarily thr... ...r balance between enforcement and restraint is an age-old question in market-democratic societies, and solutions have always entailed compromise. It w...
...hopathic personalities to power is most pronounced in countries that lack a democratic tradition (such as China, Russia, or the nations that inhabit... .... Yet, all these polities maintain a theatre of democracy, or a theatre of "democratically-reached consensus" (Putin calls it: "sovereign democracy"... ... are replete and concurrent with a personality cult or the adoration of the party in power. In most developing countries and nations in transition, ... ...opaganda, a plurality of media, and voting. But its quiddity is absent. The democratic principles are institutions are being consistently hollowed o... ...e prevail even when the leader is chosen by a select few (the nobility, the party). Thus, information about the leader is gathered from open sources... ...and exclusive role: to get re-elected. His primary responsibility is to his party and its members. He owes them patronage: jobs, sinecures, guarant... ...He narrowly escaped death at the hands of Austrian troops in a rebellion in Italy in 1831. His brother was not as lucky. Louis-Napoleon's claim to t...
...lly spread their alphabet‘s use to places as far-flung as Greece, Sicily, Italy, North Africa, southern Spain, and the British Isles. Vowel signs ... ...s on to Tunisia and Islamic Spain by the eleventh. Papermaking reached Italy by way of Sicily in 1268, but Central Europe didn‘t take up paper un... ...osses. Simplifying accounting by introducing double-entry bookkeeping set Italy‘s world trade soaring. Bankers were major beneficiaries, because... ...ed mists of free speech and free thought that swirled into rain clouds of democratic ideals. They would water the seeds of the American Revoluti... ...ts of free speech and free thought that later swirled into rain clouds of democratic ideals. By fostering major growth in literacy and education a... ... mention Barack Obama‘s election in 2008 and the boost it gave to the Tea Party in 2010. By the beginning of 2011, social bonds forged in Cybersp...
...lly spread their alphabet‘s use to places as far-flung as Greece, Sicily, Italy, North Africa, southern Spain, and the British Isles. Vowel signs ... ...was on to Tunisia and Islamic Spain by the eleventh. Papermaking reached Italy by way of Sicily in 1268, but Central Europe didn‘t take up paper un... ...osses. Simplifying accounting by introducing double-entry bookkeeping set Italy‘s world trade soaring. Bankers were major beneficiaries, because t... ...ed mists of free speech and free thought that swirled into rain clouds of democratic ideals. They would water the seeds of the American Revolution... ...ts of free speech and free thought that later swirled into rain clouds of democratic ideals. By fostering major growth in literacy and education ... ... mention Barack Obama‘s election in 2008 and the boost it gave to the Tea Party in 2010. By the beginning of 2011, social bonds forged in Cyberspac...
...ll of one of the parties and despite all the reasonable measures that the unwilling party adopted to prevent it. If a mother uses contraceptives in... ...ontract should be voided. Much more serious problems arise when we study the other party to these implicit agreements: the embryo. To start with, i... ...the siege of Leningrad), members of exploratory expeditions gone astray (the Donner Party in Sierra Nevada, California and John Franklin's Polar exp... ...bility between the order of the world (read: the church doctrine) and meritocratic (democratic) capitalism? Could Thomas Aquinas' "Summa Theologica... ...itly state so in the preamble to the law. Other, mightier, countries have done so. Italy, for instance, modelled its Law number 287 dated 10/10/90... ...gislature, the judiciary, and the world of business. This clubbish rendition of the democratic ideals is a travesty and a mockery. People power is t... ... the world ... indeed, it is the only thing that ever has" (Margaret Mead) I. The Democratic Ideal and New Colonialism "Democracy" is not the rule... .... This, too, is a confabulation. The Weimar Republic gave birth to Adolf Hitler and Italy had almost 50 governments in as many years. The bloodiest ... ...stria, Venezuela, Estonia, Argentina, Norway, Denmark, Sweden (until 1976), Brazil, Italy, Greece, and Spain. They talk about free contraceptives f...
...there s a lot of safety and security in having mama take care of you. When do they start becoming responsible for themselves and the society? Italy‘... ... on to observe that these self actualized people have a deep feeling of kinship with others, especially other self actualized people. They are democr... ...ions are based on the traditions of our family or our culture. But because it is common, is it right? ―If I say ‗My family has voted Democr... ... ―I cringed when I saw the African dictators, like Mugabe and Taylor, ruining their countries. And the fact that they supposedly came to power democr... ...xtroversion or being outer directed as being motivational forces. The meditating Zen monk shows much more of the inner directedness, while the party ... ...hort term goals should probably include: completing college and law school, participating in college activities, and working with a political party.... ...y wander down the crater of Vesuvius when the magma is rising and the eruption column of smoke blocks out the sun. It makes no sense to host a party ...
... to it, if we imaging the provoking substitution of the great words of the party propaganda by the great silences of the relentless deniers? The cl... ..., with a pulverization of the cultural and judging with an expert eye the democratic re-equilibrium of the entirety, paradoxism reanalyzes the Being... ...a revealing illumination and liberate our significant energies through the democratic re- evaluation of the languages. Our senses seem to function i... ...iberties: semantic coincidences, formal oppositions, notional extensions, democratic equalitarianism, indecency, obsessively-free speech in ceaseles... ...e glean here and there: “they had revolted without having permit from the party and without preventing the govern to take repressive measures”, “her... ...etailing so many specific aspects as we had not met even in the generous “party propaganda”. The first picture is a dialogued essay on the annihilat... ... Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, England, India, Israel, Eire, Italy, Romania, Russia, Spain, USA (a partial synthesis of the “fellow trav... ...the International College of the Avant-garde Review Poesie in India; from Italy he receives the great prize “Goccia di Luna”; is selected in the poet...
...raduation,” Alex began, “Alicia and some of her classmates had arranged for a party that night – you know – the kind of party when you’re not sure i... ...hat I’ve pieced together from police reports, other teenagers who attended the party, and from their parents.” Alex paused and shifted behind the c... ...id just as a horn honked from outside. “It’s David. It’s going to be a great party,” she giggled. “Promise, I won’t be too late,” she said half-ski... ...ions being expressed without regard to who thought what. This was Sicily, not Italy. The minute he had spoken to his father, his proper Italian turn... ...s into his pockets, and limped off through the crowd. CHAPTER 12 ROME, ITALY The first round of talks with the NATO Delegations went ju... ...’s help we never would have been able to release Mussolini's strangle hold on Italy." The words struck Gallucci like the booming sound of a banging... ...heart pounded with excitement. Thousands of Americans would die. Their sacred democratic shrines would be blown to rubble. Millions would be panicke...
...off without it. Enter Amazon. Its "Honour System" is licenced to third party web sites (such as Bartleby.com and SatireWire). It allows people to... ...and obscenity laws). There was little or no difference between royal and "democratic" governments. They all acted ruthlessly to preserve their contr... ...eries), with a few exceptions (e.g., in Augsburg, Germany and in Subiaco, Italy) shunned it and regarded it as a major threat to culture and civiliza... ...ickiness and attract monetizable "eyeballs". In the absence of such third party accreditation, the Internet risks both irrelevance and disrepute. ... ...ad been legal to publish all of a sudden were not. Friends told me that in Italy, for example, all the great Italian operas that had entered the publ... ...hes or to confusion? In other words: all PG e-texts are "equal". It is a "democratic" system. There is no "text rating", historical context, peer re... ...s the vending of reference goes. Many people will subscribe through third-party organizations such as Internet service providers with whom we have e... ... constantly re-jigged on the Wikipedia! 2. The Wikipedia is anarchic, not democratic The Wikipedia is not an experiment in online democracy, but a f...
...ate an artificial universe in which synthetic contracts replace real ones and third party and moral hazards replace business risks. Moral hazard is... ...s of credit instruments, loans, corporate debt, and bonds - quality-graded by third party rating agencies. Insurance companies have thus become bac... ... $300 million, it will offer up to $1.5 billion per airline for passenger and third party war and terror risks. Some insurance companies - and corp... ...stitutions in doubt, tarnishes the entire political class, and, thus, endangers the democratic system and the rule of law, property rights included.... ...red no more than hospitality, or an expression of gratitude, in another (France, or Italy). Corruption is discussed freely and forgivingly in one p... ... constituency. Though unelected and ignorant of local realities, they confront the democratically chosen and those who voted them into office. A fe... ...ities and finances. Light disinfects. The solution is to force NGOs to become both democratic and accountable. All countries and multinational orga...