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• Directory:Australia
  | bgcolor="#ffffff" | federal parliamentary democracy | bgcolor="#ffffff" | bicameral Federal Parliament consists of the Senate (76 seats; 12 members from each of the si
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• Directory:Rhode Island
  ...nvention at Philadelphia and resisted ratifying the Constitution until the federal government threatened to sever commercial relations with the state; even th * The Quonset hut was invented at Quonset Point a key naval reserve base.
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• Directory:Nelson, New Zealand
  ...st [[rugby football|rugby]] match in New Zealand took place at the Botanic Reserve in Nelson on [[May 14]], [[1870]], between the [[Nelson Football Club]] and ...n in the [[German language|German]]-speaking countries, the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Wellington has stated that a greater proportion of G
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• Directory:Alabama
  ...ating under a new constitution approved the Fourteenth Amendment. However, federal troops did not leave Alabama until 1876, and African Americans continued to ...cial hardships. The Tennessee Valley Authority, established in 1933 by the federal government, developed dams and power plants on the Tennessee River for inex
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• Directory:Sweden
  ...three years to further stimulate growth and raise revenue to pay down the federal debt. In September 2003, Swedish voters turned down entry into the euro sys ...8-12 months (Air Force); after completing initial service, soldiers have a reserve commitment until age 47 (2006)
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• Directory:OmniMediaGroup/PLR/Real Estate
  ...xas recently, major real estate companies have begun to play hardball. The Federal Trade Commission charged a local realtors board with not playing fair with The Federal Trade Commission has recently issued a helpful guide that helps new buyers
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• Directory:Gerald Ford
  ...ank)#United States|ensign]] in the [[United States Navy Reserve|U.S. Naval Reserve]] on [[April 13]], [[1942]]. On [[April 20]], he reported for active duty t ...he Navy|Secretary of the Navy]] accepted Ford's resignation from the Naval Reserve.
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• Directory:Herbert Hoover
  ...zed the [[Bureau of Indian Affairs]]; instituted prison reform; proposed a federal [[United States Department of Education|Department of Education]] (not enac ...ref>Britten, Thomas A. "Hoover and the Indians: the Case for Continuity in Federal Indian Policy, 1900-1933" Historian 1999 61(3): 518-538. ISSN 0018-2370 </r
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• Directory:OmniMediaGroup/PLR/NYSE
  ...the time Woodrow Wilson. He felt it was very important for all the Federal Reserve banks to be up and running before the stock market was reopened. But Wilson
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• Directory:Warren G. Harding
  ...list Party of America|Socialist]] [[Eugene V. Debs]], campaigning from a [[federal prison]], received 3% of the national vote. Debs was in prison for opposing ...d the Naval Petroleum Reserve Number 4, 1923 (now the [[National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska]])
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• Directory:Jimmy Carter
  ...ordered the General Services Administration to turn off hot water in some federal facilities, and requested that [[Christmas]] decorations remain dark in 197 ...1 percent, compared to 3.2 percent of the 1960s. There was also a growing federal budget deficit which increased to 66 billion dollars.
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• Directory:Grover Cleveland
  ...would violate the [[Contract Clause]] of the [[United States Constitution|federal Constitution]].<ref name=nevins116/> Despite the initial popularity of the ...208–211</ref> He also used his appointment powers to reduce the number of federal employees, as many departments had become bloated with political time-serve
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• Directory:Richard Nixon
  ...]], issued a [[Gerald Ford#Nixon pardon|controversial]] [[pardon]] for any federal crimes Nixon may have committed. Nixon is the only person to be elected twi During [[World War II]], Nixon served as a reserve officer in the [[United States Navy]], attaining the rank of [[lieutenant c
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• Directory:John F. Kennedy
  ...gnment that the [[attack on Pearl Harbor]] occurred. He attended the Naval Reserve Officers Training School and Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Training Center be ...alled his domestic program the "[[New Frontier]]". It ambitiously promised federal funding for [[education]], [[medical care]] for the elderly, and government
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• Directory:Dwight D. Eisenhower
  ...the [[United States Army]] (retiring as a brigadier general from the Army reserve), became an author, and served as U.S. Ambassador to [[Belgium]] from 1969 ...Interstate Highway System in 1956. He justified the project through the [[Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956]] as essential to American security during the Cold
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• Directory:Franklin D. Roosevelt
  ...ontinue to have instrumental roles in the nation's commerce, such as the [[Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation|FDIC]], [[Tennessee Valley Authority|TVA]], a ...ical scientists call the [[Fifth Party System]]. His aggressive use of the federal government re-energized the [[History of the United States Democratic Party
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• Directory:Thomas Jefferson
  ...d cities and financiers, and favored states' rights and a strictly limited federal government. Jefferson supported the [[separation of church and state]] an ...ally delegated to it by the states. The Resolutions meant that, should the federal government assume such powers, its acts under them could be voided by a sta
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• Directory:Ulysses S. Grant
  ...the tide of the war in the North's favor. Named commanding general of the Federal armies in 1864, he implemented a coordinated strategy of simultaneous attac ...arming. The land and cabin where Grant lived is now an animal conservation reserve, [[Grant's Farm]], owned and operated by the [[Anheuser-Busch]] Company.</r
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• Directory:George H. W. Bush
  ...10-month course, he was commissioned as an [[ensign]] in the [[U.S. Naval Reserve]] at [[Naval Air Station Corpus Christi|Corpus Christi]], Texas on [[June 9 ...Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the Persian Gulf Crisis and the Federal Budget Deficit] - transcript, speech delivered [[September 11]], [[1990]]</
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• The Horrors of Zoos and Horse Racing
  ...ecifically, Hitler’s hand-picked zoo-meister, were taken to the Schorfeide reserve in Germany, while others, those “not valuable” were shot to death. ...Africa, jailed in an enclosure so small that it fails to meet the minimum federal requirements for the space that elephants must be provided. Finally, after
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