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- 2081: Effects of the Year 2000 Problem
- ... and think it's 1900 and not 2000. This seemingly small problem will result in a loss of most records and information kept in computers causing a major headache for government agencies and major businesses, not to mention all home owners and other people. Gina Smith writes in a August 1998 issue of Popular Science about the fixing of the problem ... Global positioning satellites get lost, leaving the nation vulnerable. Some old battlefield equipment is junked rather than fixed. High-tech systems get even more temperamental. Faltering programs order $200 hammers. Government Feds lose track of government-benefits recipients. The IRS figures your tax bill is equal to the national debt. Deadly viruses kept under computer lock are released. Though it got a late start on ...
- 2082: Stalin
- ... party’s Central Committee bureau. He then asserted editorial control over the party newspaper, Pravda (Truth). Although he did not play a prominent role in the Bolshevik takeover of the government in October (November, New Style), Stalin became a member of the new government’s Soviet (Council) of People’s Commissars (Russian acronym, Sovnarkom), heading the Commissariat for Nationality Affairs. Given the vital importance of nationality issues at a time when the Bolsheviks were ... and led to a long-standing conflict with Commissar of War Lean Trotsky. Meanwhile, Stalin, whose first wife died in 1907, married Nadezhda Aliluyeva in 1918 and moved with the government from Petrograd to Moscow. After the Bolshevik victory in the civil war, Stalin threw himself into organizational work and administrative tasks. Having served for state control since 1919, he ...
- 2083: Important African American Figures
- ... M. Baruch College 1969-70, professor, Hunter College 1970-78, various committees on New York City and State housing, transportation, and rent issues 1974-84. He was a consultant to Government Accounting Office since 1974. In 1962, he won Spingarn Medal; author of 'Urban Complex', 'Dilemmas of Urban America. Marshall, Thurgood, U.S. lawyer, jurist, and champion of civil rights was ... 1870, which gave blacks the right to vote. Later he saw that Southern blacks had returned to virtual slavery under a farming system called sharecropping. He urged that the federal government grant land to blacks. Douglass earnestly supported women's rights as well. In 1848, at the first women's rights convention in the United States, he had demanded that women ... He had numerous legislative successes, especially in equal employment opportunity. He often angered other members of Congress by his frequent introduction of the "Powell amendment," a rider designed to make government "color-blind" when dispensing government funds. Powell became chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor in 1961. In 1967 the House of Representatives stripped him of his ...
- 2084: American Push For Independence
- ... from England and were looking to build a society based on religion and community. William Bradford illustrated the ideals that they would base their society on, using amongst yourselves civil government, and are not furnished with any persons of special eminency above the rest let your wisdom and godliness appear. John Winthrop later wrote, Thirdly, that every man might have need ... It is proposed that humble application be made an for an act of Parliament of Great Britain, by virtue of America, including all the said colonies, within and under which government each colony may retain its present constitution a president-general, to be appointed and supported by the crown; and a Grand Council, to be chosen by the representatives of the ... of liberty. Thomas Paine s Common Sense stirred emotions all over the nation. The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind. He later says, A government of our own is our natural right They are saying that independence as all Americans see it is being threatened by the crown and their own sovereign government is ...
- 2085: Was Andrew Jackson A Good Pres
- ... of Jackson’s presidency, he was at war with the Bank of the United States. The Bank of the United States held a monopoly on the deposits of the federal government, which owned one-fifth of the Bank’s stock. The bank provided credit to growing enterprises, issued bank notes which served as a dependable medium of exchange throughout the country ... was due to expire in 1836. When Jackson could not legally abolish the Bank of the United States before the expiration of its charter, he weakened it by removing the government’s deposits from the bank. Jackson fired two of his secretary of treasury when they refused to carry out the order because they believed that such an action would destabilize ... 1836, it left the country with a fragmented and chronically unstable banking system that plagued the economy for many years (Brinkley, 251). Jackson also wanted to make changes in the government. In his first Annual Message to Congress, he recommended eliminating the Electoral College, and tried to democratize Federal officeholding. He believed that the duties in government could be plain ...
- 2086: Franklin Delino Roosevelt
- Franklin Delino Roosevelt Franklin Delino Roosevelt died over fifty years ago yet his legacy of federal programs and ideas continue to influence almost every aspect of federal government today. President Roosevelt rose in political stature during one of Americas most troubling periods of time. With the constant threat of Russia in the back of many people’s minds ... the public didn’t understand what most of his platform was. It was just simply known as the new deal. What the public did know was that Hoovers system of government was not helping improve the country’s economic situation. What President Roosevelt came to office the country’s unemployment rates were hitting record highs. The farmers in the Midwest were ... the farmers with total crop loss the stock market crashed taking the American dollar with it. President Roosevelt turned many state problems into national one by making it the federal government responsible for providing jobs to anyone who was willing to work To do his he created companies and federally funded program that would be useful to the states and ...
- 2087: Argentine Marxist Revolutionary And Guerrilla Leader Che Guevara
- ... during the socialist Arbenz presidency; although he was by now a Marxist, well read in Lenin, he refused to join the Communist Party, though this meant losing the chance of government medical appointment, and he was penniless and n rags. He lived with Hilda Gadea, a Marxist of Indian stock who forwarded his political education, looked after him, and introduced him ... blooded cruelty in the mass execution of recalcitrant supporters of the defeated president Batista. At the triumph of the Revolution Guevara became second only to Fidel Castro in the new government of Cuba, and the man chiefly responsible for pushing Castro towards communism, but a communism which was independent of the orthodox, Moscow-style communism of some of their colleagues. Che ... administer the new agrarian laws expropriating the large land holders; ran its Department of Industries; was appointed President of the National Bank of Cuba; forced non-communist out of the government and key posts and acting obstinately against the advise of two eminent French Marxist economists who were called in by Fidel Castro and who wanted Che to advance much ...
- 2088: Ghanas Economy
- ... great progress for the situation it is in. Compared to most sub-Saharan countries, Ghana is the best off. It has been making the most efforts for recovery in the government and economy. This will provide Ghana with a better economic future and hopefully ensure political instability. Ghana's economy and development is seeing lots of pluses. The economy is finally recovering from the many coups that occurred in the government. Since 1992, the country has been making strides of progress and is looking towards a bright future. The agricultural sector is also a major plus because it provides a strong section of the economy and would allow Ghana to trade and export its goods. However, a minus of all this is the unstable government. The country has seen many military coups and never has a controlled body in power. This may change because the country's looking towards a bright future for democracy. ...
- 2089: Gilded Age
- ... dealings…" (Cherny 4). During the gilded age, parties changed their traditional ways of voting and elections. Parties were at war to gain political majority in order to have control in government decisions, so they began tactics to insure victories at the polls. Parties discouraged attendance at primaries by meeting at late hours and dangerous areas, developed bargaining tactics like "logrolling" (trading ... and boundless opportunity during the industrial progression, when in reality a worker was controlled by executive tyrants below the gilded surface. The fourteenth amendment centralized on establishing that the federal government was more powerful than the state government, something that American citizens were not going to accept. The amendment gave blacks citizenship, which then also gave them the right to vote. Legally it gave some rights to ...
- 2090: Society and The Role That Computers Play In USA
- ... all it gets is a clunker parked on the street, and a dingy apartment in a low rent building,” says Time Magazine (Jan 30, 1995 issue). However, in 1970, our government provided our children with a free education, allowing the vast majority of our population to earn a high school diploma. This means that anyone, regardless of family income, could be ... in the middle class. Even restrictions upon child labor hours kept children in school, since they are not allowed to work full time while under the age of 18. This government policy was conducive to our economic markets, and allowed our country to prosper from 1950 through 1970. Now, our own prosperity has moved us into a highly technical world, that requires highly skilled labor. The natural answer to this problem, is that the U.S. Government's education policy must keep pace with the demands of the highly technical job market. If a middle class income of 1970 required a high school diploma, and the ...
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