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- 1371: European Union 3
- ... has been favorable in a number of respects for the transition to EMU and the achievements of its objectives. The strong demand for euro-area exports from industrial countries at more advanced stages of the business cycle and the depreciation of the currencies of euro area countries over the past four years fostered a strengthening of growth in the euro area and helped to offset the effects of the Asian crisis ... zone standards. Job growth has been spurred by record low interest rates, a result of cuts from high levels to assure euro zone convergence. Low rates are fueling domestic demand, especially consumer spending and construction. Business investment is also gaining. Still, global weakness is depressing exports, and that's why job growth is expected to slow a bit in the second half. Even as construction, agriculture, and services, especially tourism, post ...
- 1372: Ending Of Apartheid In South A
- ... Cape Town at the time wondered if De Klerk fully realised what he was doing. Perhaps De Klerk thoguht he could remain in power by sharing it with the ANC. There were also economic pressures; business men were meeting with the ANC and liking them. De Klerk was practical as he was trained as a lawyer, and also religious. Apparently his brother had said he thought God had chosen him to ... and clearly showed the national’s weakening hold over the townships. Black resistance made many parts of the country ungovernable. On top of all this, there were many economic pressures. In the 1970’s, western business leaders found that apartheid laws were effecting economic progress and people began to feel that imposong sanctions on South Africa would be the only way to give political rights to blacks. Putting sanctions on South ...
- 1373: Enclosure Act
- ... farmers dropped. The landlords were not taking care of them like they us to during depressed times. The Enclosure Act broke up small traditional communities. After the Enclosure Act in England agriculture was a growing business across Europe. Many other countries enclosed their land also. The advancement of the agriculture business, such as inventions and new methods of farming were directly related to the enclosure of land. The enclosure was an economic and social breakthrough in Europe.
- 1374: Early Leaders And Great Kingdo
- ... Songhai the most powerful empire in the world, Askia Mohammed embarked on an effort to expand trade to include European countries. It was during his rule that the sale of Black slaves became a major business. He eventually controlled most of West Africa -- an area larger than Europe. Askia was a master politician and a superior leader of people. He restructured the army, secured a stronger system of banking and credit ... a grand city of about one hundred thousand residents. Its wealth in gold and its stories of intrigue and mystery made it one of the most celebrated cities of its time. It flourished as a business district with many shops, a religious site with the Great Mosque, and an intellectual center with the University of Sankore.
- 1375: Destruction (holocaust)
- ... and restructing their access to public clubs, sport facilities, and other places. By 1938, most Jews had been deprived of economic means of existing and having been expelled from the professions, arts, schools and unions. Business, marriage, real estate and other legal obligations between Jew and non-Jew could be legally broken whenever the non-Jewish partner wished to do so. In late 1939, Hilter invaded Poland, beginning the World War II. In 1939, laws came about that pressured Jewish people. Not to own a business or have their children attend public schools. On September 1, 1939, Hilter took the first step toward his dream of building a "master race." The German attack on Poland was the first step in the ...
- 1376: Cuba And The Cuban Missile Cri
- ... showed his true feelings for communism to his brother, Fidel. This causes quite a predicament for the Soviet Union to make them seen and heard by Cuba. Smartly, Russia sends Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan, who held business contacts in the US, to the states as a guest of the Russian ambassador. Fidel hears of Mikoyan’s arrival in the US and invites him to visit Cuba. Although Mikoyan is traveling throughout the ... unfortunately, Russia was unable to handle such a demand because of their limited overseas shipping capabilities. Subsequently, Russia puts an order for extra oil tankers from Italy, a capitalist country. When Italy agrees to the business proposition, the US is infuriated that another capitalist country was willing to help a communist country. Italy saw it as nothing more than an opportunity to make extra money, regardless of opposing economic systems. Back ...
- 1377: Code Of Behavior
- ... late-1100s. The idea of courtly love was that a man passionately devoted himself to a lady who was married or engaged to another man. Because medieval marriges were made up of little more than business contracts, courtly love was dubed as the only true romance in the lives of many Europeans. Knights used courtly love as a way to rember their home land and to give them a reson to ... anonymously to his beloved. Once the lovers had pledged themselves to each other and consummated their passion, complete secrecy had to be maintained. Because most noble marriages in the Middle Ages were little more than business contracts, courtly love was a form of sanctioned adultery, sanctioned because it threatened neither the contract nor the religious sacrament of marriage. In fact, faithlessness of the lovers toward each other was considered more sinful ...
- 1378: Canadian Confederation
- ... trade if Upper and Lower Canada were to send in cheap goods. The only benefit which Tilley promised the people was the Intercolonial Railway but even this idea was not accepted by everyone since some business people felt it would be more practical to develop a railway plan linking the province’s railways to the American ones through Maine. When the election was held March 6th 1865 Tilley and his government ... not been convinced that Confederation, even on the basis of the Quebec Resolutions, was unavoidable.”20 A.J. Smith’s anti-Confederation government in New Brunswick experienced many conflicts in its attempts to govern. Although business in New Brunswick had hoped for closer economic relations with the United States using railway connections to Maine, it was obvious that the New Brunswick government could not afford to build the railway on its ...
- 1379: Causes Of The Great Depression
- ... the benefits created by increased productivity fell into the hands of corporate owners. The federal government also helped to make the growing gap between the upper and middle classes. President Calvin Coolidge’s administration favored business, and as a result, the wealthy invested in these businesses. An example of this type of legislation is the Revenue Act of 1926, which significantly reduced income and inheritance taxes (Goldston 23). The introduction of ... position to pay off their debts. If they paid back the loans, they would ruin their currency. To make matters worse, U.S. placed tariffs on imports from foreign countries in order to protect American business. The effect of these tariffs was that Europeans were unable to sell their own goods in the U.S. in reasonable quantities. If the U.S would not buy from European markets, then there was ...
- 1380: Chicago Politics
- ... quick and skillful mastery of the politics of Chicago's ethnic ghettos. He opposed the Prohibition that was unpopular with immigrant workers, and carefully balanced Democratic slates and platforms among the many ethnic, labor, and business interests. He believed, like Mayor Richard J. Daley after him, that “good government was good politics-and good politics was good government. Once in office, he tried to run the city and the party like a business: competence was rewarded, but if you did not deliver, then you were out. Following Cermak’s assassination, it was assumed that Pat Nash would assume the mayoral position, yet he waived it due to his ...
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