... -weary officer corps. This process underscored the basic manpower problem of a small population faced with the need to mobilize a sizable army during a wartime emergency. In 1949, after study of the Swiss reservist system, Israel introduced a three-tiered system based on a small standing officer corps, universal conscription, and a large pool of well-trained reservists that could be rapidly mobilized. In early 1955 ... systems included the Reshef missile boat, the Kfir fighter plane, the Gabriel missile, and the Merkava tank. The Kfir, based on plans of the French Mirage III acquired cla...

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... of an uproar across the country and to re-establish harmony, Louis XVI agreed to convene the Estates-General for May 1789. Meanwhile, the king's new finance minister, Jacques Necker, a Swiss financial expert, delayed the effects of mercantilism by importing large amounts of grain. On May 5, the Estates-General convened at Versailles. By June 17, the Third Estate had proclaimed itself ... 's course of strengthening the federal government, at the expense of the states, America's economic expansion would have been stillborn. Fortunately, when Jefferson came to power, he brought with him the...

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... of death by firearms reaches as low as 2.91 people per 100,000 (Carter). Switzerland tackles the gun control issue with quite a different approach. Similarly to the United States, the Swiss require a permit to purchase a firearm, but without as many restrictions. In Switzerland, to bear arms in public requires an additional permit, but obtaining this permit, obligates the pursuer "to pass ... an examination on the correct handling of weapons as well as a test on legislation on the use of firearms" (Swiss Embassy). Consequently, such examinations and testing result in a rate of death by ...

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... Slaughter Controversy in 2011 Congress upset many animal rights activist with the lift of the ban of funding the horse meat inspections. The 2014 Agriculture Act (Farm Bill) "It's like a Swiss Army Knife. " (President Obama via usda.org) will be an important program to impact the lives of many Americans with jobs, economic gains and the reform of tax payer's dollars ... ...

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... of prostitution rests on the perceptions that the soldiers have in regards to these foreign women. The GI"s view the women. as desirable in their exoticism and as willing participants. A Swiss tour operator describes Thai women as "slim, sun-burnt and sweet masters of the art of making love by nature" (P. 496, Robinson). These men are looking for the ideological woman ... ...

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... the phenomenon of total internal reflections, which can confine light in material surrounding by other materials with lower refractive index, such as glass in the air. In the mid 1840s, Swiss physicist Daniel Collodon and French physicist Jacques Babinet showed that light could be guided along jet of water for fountain display. British physicist John Tyndall popularized light guiding in a demonstration ... ...

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... the phenomenon of total internal reflections, which can confine light in material surrounding by other materials with lower refractive index, such as glass in the air. In the mid 1840s, Swiss physicist Daniel Collodon and French physicist Jacques Babinet showed that light could be guided along jet of water for fountain display. British physicist John Tyndall popularized light guiding in a demonstration ... ...

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... towers provide fascinating examples of clockwork figures from medieval times, and automatons were also devised in China. By the 18th century, a number of extremely clever automatons became famous for a while. Swiss craftsman Pierre Jacquet-Droz, for example, built mechanical dolls that could draw a simple figure or play music on a miniature organ. Clockwork figures of this sort are rarely made any longer ... ...

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