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American History and Railroad Construction

end-of-the-track towns called hell-on-wheels" (The Iron Road). Explosions and avalanches were commonplace for the Chinese crews, ...

History of the Louisiana Purchase

or concerns which arose from the potential purchase of this territory. Initially, Louisiana was owned and controlled by the...

FCPA and U.S. Firms

in the Banco Naci?n project (2002). Investigators soon found that CCRs main service had really been to funnel some $4.4 million ...

U.S., Germany, and Japan Economies and Globalization

its influence is vast. This is both positive and negative. On one hand, the people are afforded some help from the government, but...

Literature on Inmate Reform

that there is a growing body of research data that indicates that rehabilitation and/or reformation through the process of incarce...

Current Perspectives/Math and Science Education

NAS emphasizes developing outstanding science and math teachers in grades K-12 (Gordon, 2007). Research has also been instigated...

Balance of Payments and Impact of Exchange Rates

represent only one segment of international financial markets. "Global financial markets are recent phenomena that embrace global...

Illegal Immigration and Economic Issues

John OSullivan writes that part of the problem lies in economic theory itself. He writes that for many years, economists have reli...

Securities Purchasing and the Federal Reserve System

such a move would not be the best idea. For one thing, the Treasury market is large, flexible and liquid (Wheelock, 2002)....

Health Care Systems, Population Subgroups, and Teen Pregnancy

in the United States alone, "the annual cost of teen pregnancies from lost tax revenues, public assistance, child health care, fos...

Post Second World War Cold War Rivalry Between the Soviet Union and the United States

the outcome of the conference. At the Teheran Conference Stalin was indifferent to the division of Germany into separate sections...

Arguing for U.S. Black Reparations

reparations for these wrongs contends, in fact, that almost all of the historical problems that have been faced by blacks can be t...

IAS 39 Problems

2004). IAS 39 is an international Accounting standard which is set to become compulsory for EU listed companies in 2005 (Deloitt...

Imports from Mexico and China and Their Impact Uponn U.S. Manufacturing

the U.S.? A huge trade deficit -- and loss of millions of manufacturing jobs (Anonymous, 2004). In terms of the trade deficit, acc...

Economy Trouble, Spending, and Debt

concern1. She points out, for example, that by measuring the ratio of consumer installment credit to disposable income (which, in ...

20th Century Development and Industrialized Countries' Impact

Part of the "umbrella of protection" that has been extended to lesser developed countries by the more industrialized countries of ...

American Trucking Industry and the Effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement

cost thousands of US jobs. None of those unions has been as successful as the Teamsters, however (No truck with free trade; NAFTA...

The Influence of Alexander Hamilton on U.S. Economics

of the country - in handling issues of economic and global nature (Alexander Hamilton, 2002). Hamilton was an "economic wizard" w...

West Indian and Italian Immigration to the U.S.

cities could eventually be found in New York, Chicago, Boston and other metropolitan areas (Hutchmacher, 1967). It was these Littl...

American Foreign Policy with China

improve conditions relative to human rights and to divert attention away from nuclear proliferation to other, more constructive pu...

Trade Structures and Economic Markets in Cuba and the U.S.

represents over 6 million people. The GDP (gross domestic product) of Caricom is approximately $28.6 million and the Dominican Rep...

China Politics and Business Climate

finally being admitted to the organization), the country has begun several reforms, including relaxation of its stance against for...

Post 911 and U.S. Islamic Communities

States. Abdulwahab Alkebsi, executive director of the Islamic Institute in Washington stated after the attacks that "this is the b...

Forests, Forest Growth, and the Effects of Deer

forests. Study after study, as well as anecdote after anecdote, are pointing to the idea that as deer population increases, potent...

American Imperialism and Vietnam

same. Because of this, the American people found it easy t believe that the South Vietnamese were, "or soon would be," just like ...

Policies of President Jimmy Carter and the Relations Between the United States and the Soviet Union

he wanted the American people to believe how the United States Government "can be both competent and more humane" (Carter, 1979, p...

1845 to 1865 History of U.S. Railroads

state. While Stevens failed to raise enough money to build his proposed railroad, he still desired to apply steam locomotion to ra...

Philippines and Strategic US Policy

(Organization of Economic and Cooperative Development) as a mature economy. It does provide electronics assembly and manufacture,...

Proposition 184

drug. Said former Drug Enforcement Agency Administrator Robert Bonner, "A very, very large percentage of those dealing in crack c...

America's Power Preeminence

this governments interactions with both the people of this and other countries and with the governments of other countries. This ...