The United States is not just an economic and political giant on the global stage—the country also has one of the largest land masses at its disposal. Altogether, the country spans 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million km²)—making it the third largest country in the world. Even without...
The period of imperialism (until the end of World War 1). At the end of the 19th century the USA entered the stage of imperialism. The entire economic and political system was influenced by the big trusts, which V. I. Lenin called “the highest expression of the economics of imperialism...
The percentage of the country’s population with access to improved drinking water sources, such as piped water or protected wells. physicians per 1,000 people 2.61/1000 The number of physicians (generalist and specialist medical doctors) per 1,000 people. According to the World Health Organizatio...
Shift Towards Family Planning: One of the tangible results of The Limits to Growth was theemphasis on family planning programsas a tool to manage population growth. The UN worked closely with governments around the world to promote family planning as a way to mitigate the environmental and econom...
The compound nature of large wildfires in combination with complex physical and biophysical processes affecting variations in hydroclimate and fuel conditions makes it difficult to directly connect wildfire changes over fire-prone regions like the western United States (U.S.) with anthropogenic climate ch...
the United States introduced one of the highest de minimis values in the world, increasing it from $200 to $800. Indeed, reports that the United States may reduce its threshold as part of 2019 trade negotiations with Mexico and Canada quickly raised the hackles of e-commerce platforms such ...
Founded in 1959, Pleasant Holidays is one of the largest tour operators in the United States offering vacation packages, flights, hotels, cruises, car rentals, travel protection and related travel services to the world’s most popular destinations, including Africa, Asia, Canada, Caribbean, Central...
Costello’s government does have some success with Ireland becoming a member of the United Nations in 1955, and a highly successful visit to the United States in 1956, which begins the custom by which the Taoiseach visits the White House each Saint Patrick’s Day to present the U.S. ...
Sansom: The Economics of Insurgency in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, MIT Press, Cambridge Mass. 1970. Pp. xviii 283 $12.50. Stanford Research Institute: Land Reform in Vietnam. Report prepared for the Republic of Vietnam and the United States Agency for International Development. Published ...
Defense is a large percentage of the federal budget. Since the bases are more likely to be in more rural, conservative areas, that spending will necessarily be there. I don’t think it’s fair though to count Fort Benning’s expenses “against” Georgia. Third, much of the federal spendin...