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Americans Oppose Bailouts, Favor Obama to Handle Market Crisis - BloombergAmericans oppose government rescues of ailing financial companies by a decisive margin, and blame Wall Street and President George W. Bush for the credit crisis. By a margin of 55 percent to 31 percent, Americans say it's not the government's responsibility to bail out private companies with ...
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U.S. May Find Painful Parallels in Nordic Bailout - BloombergThe Nordic effort -- similar in speed and scope to what the U.S. is planning now, though smaller in size -- did manage to end the financial crisis. At the same time, it didn't prevent a deeper recession and surging unemployment in all three countries.``In the long term, there were benefits, but ...
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Reflections for people with power to change their worldThis reflection book is a compilation of the reflections we have shared in our section presentations this semester in PAL-177, Organizing: People, Power, and Change, by Marshall Ganz. If I tell you my dream you might forget it. If I act on my dream you might remember it. If I involve you in my ...
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US in 'once-in-a-century' financial crisis - GreenspanThe United States is mired in a " once-in-a century" financial crisis which is now more than likely to spark a recession, former Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan said Sunday. The talismanic ex-central banker said that the crisis was the worst he had seen in his career, still had a long way ...
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291 - Federal Lands in the US « Strange MapsThe United States government has direct ownership of almost 650 million acres of land (2.63 million square kilometers) - nearly 30% of its total territory. These federal lands are used as military bases or testing grounds, nature parks and reserves and indian reservations, or are leased to the ...
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'White space' spectrum debate to get hotter - Network WorldOver the next few weeks, the Federal Communications Commission is expected to make a decision that could completely change the mobile-broadband landscape in the United States for years to come.X X added 16 months ago
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Doctors Without Borders | MSF USADoctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971. Today, MSF provides aid in nearly 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, ...
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Civil War Preservation Trust: Saving America's Threatened Civil War BattlefieldsThe Civil War Preservation Trust is America's largest non-profit organization (501-C3) devoted to the preservation of our nation's endangered Civil War battlefields. The Trust also promotes educational programs and heritage tourism initiatives to inform the public of the war’s history and the ...
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Charity Navigator - America's Largest Charity Evaluator | HomeCharity Navigator, America's largest independent charity evaluator, provides free financial evaluations of America's charities. We are the individual donor's first source for unbiased news and information on philanthropy, nonprofit organizations, wise giving, donating money, charitable ...
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