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- 3121: Stephen Sondheim
- ... musical thriller. But their next show, Merrily We Roll Along (1981), flopped, and the two men went their separate ways. Sondheim turned to the author and director James Lapine for Sunday In The Park With George (1984), a work that seemed at times an autobiographical reflection on the problems of making art in a commercial environment. His most recent shows illustrate one of his greatest strengths, his ability to write against ...
- 3122: History of the World Bank
- ... has implemented is the "Heavily Indebted poor Countries Initiative" (HIPC). This new policy was announced by the WB President and the IMF Managing Director on September 30, 1996 in the Development Committee Meeting held in Washington. The HIPC Initiative enables poor countries with good policy performance to escape from unsustainable debt, and focus all their energies on striving for sustainable development and reducing poverty. This initiative is based on the premise ...
- 3123: The Cause of the American Revolution
- ... lifestyle. Technically the colonies were part of the British Empire but they were not directly represented in Parliament. Most early American colonies had set up systems of proprietary self-government. In the 1760s Prime Minister George Grenville past a series of acts to tax goods and restrict colonists' rights. This angered most colonists who cried out, no taxation without representation. Grenville elaborated on the theory of virtual representation and said every ...
- 3124: Pan American World Airways, Inc
- ... Key West to Havana and expanded the operation into the vast world-wide airline that at one time considered itself the "chosen instrument" of the State Department abroad. The airline was considered so official by Washington that Trippe had power to make deals with foreign governments abroad . In 1934 people thought it was virtually impossible to cross the Pacific by air, but Trippe saw a way to do it. Through the ...
- 3125: The Japan-American Trade War
- ... the Japanese economic threat higher than the Russian military threat. Yoshio Sakurachi, the speaker for the Lower House of the Diet (the Japanese Parliament), called American workers lazy and illiterate. These remarks came just after George Bush and the leaders of American Auto Corporations had visited Japan, a trip that left everyone with an impression of American weakness and whining. A few weeks ago, Minoru Arakawa, president of Nintendo of America ...
- 3126: Stephon Marbury
- ... that if he failed to make it to the National Basketball Association, he would be ridiculed in Brooklyn. New York City can be unforgiving toward its phenoms. The starmakers ballyhooed former playground legend Dwayne (Pearl) Washington, who never lived up to his precious nickname while playing at Syracuse, and struggling St. John's guard Felipe Lopez, who sat for Richard Avedon's camera while still in high school, only to turn ...
- 3127: The Causes of the Civil War: Slavery, Economics, or Constitutional Differences
- ... side. This Compromise had several provisions: California was admitted to the Union as a free state; The territories of New Mexico and Utah were created without restrictions of slavery; The slave trade was abolished in Washington, D.C.; Congress passed a stricter fugitive slave law. This compromise showed just how important slavery was to each side, and it gives us a good idea of why it could be important as one ...
- 3128: Thomas Edison
- ... Jules Marey. Marey had developed a camera capable of taking sixty photographs per second. Marey used rolled film that was only put on the market on the market a month earlier by a man named George Eastman. Edison wanted to used Mareys camera to take photographs that he could use in his kinetoscope. His kinetoscopes were showing short "films" across America. Edison is remembered as being "one of the many ...
- 3129: Farm Subsidies - A Necessary Evil?
- ... to prevent the consolidation of farms. Until some other system is developed that can deal with the problems of the farmer, subsidies will continue to be used. Works Cited Blanpied, Nancy. Farm Policy. Congressional Quarterly: Washington D.C., 1984. Fox, Michael. Agricide. Schoken Books: New York, 1986. Long, Robert Emmet. The Farm Crisis. Wilson Co.: New York, 1987. MacFadyen, J. Tevere. Gaining Ground. Holt, Reinhart, and Winston: New York, 1966. Reische ...
- 3130: Thomas Jefferson
- ... schools. After that, he entered the College of William and Mary in the year 1760. During his time at the college, he had become a close friend to three prominent residents of Williamsburg: William Small, George Wythe, and Francis Fauquier who was the lieutenant governor of the colony. Small was of the college faculty who Jefferson had studied under. Small had an in depth knowledge of the Scottish Englightenment and its ...
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