... These were hugely popular with Australian audiences, some shows running for up to thirty years. Although it was not just in Australia that serials and soap operas were a success, the British and the Americans audiences, it seemed, could not get enough of them. A successful serial could have an ... audience numbered in the millions. The 1940's and the 1950's were considered the "golden years" for the radio soap operas and adventure serials. Adventure serials, aimed at a male audience and, there fore, broadcast in the evenings copied their format from the classic movie ... radio adventure...

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... Economic and Monetary Union. It also explains the effects of adopting the single currency, its regional setbacks and national impacts. The European Central Bank, its policies and implications with regards to the regional economic integration and the single currency. The gains and costs are very important ... those who are at the lower end in the European Union. A single monetary policy would not only be led by one member state central bank, but it would rather be decided alongside a supranational body with representatives from all member states (Henseler, 2008). This would eliminate ......

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... significantly, and be effected by, the outcomes of current international debates on fissile material production, regulation and disposition. Summary Table: Britain's Stocks of plutonium and HEU Central estimates in tonnes, December 1996 Military inventories Weapon-grade uranium 7.8 Weapon-grade plutonium 3.1 Reactor-grade plutonium 8.7 Military inventories Separated plutonium in store 50 Plutonium in spent ... the US or France which both have large surpluses. If so, eight tonnes may be a conservative estimate of the current inventory. Table 1. Britain's military inventory of HEU Central ...

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... align the interests of the industrialists and landed gentry by creating a move for protectionism that increased the market for Germany's young industry. Germany, after unification, possessed a strong central bank which greatly contrasts the small numerous banks that existed in Britain. The bank worked closely with German industry, in some cases even serving in management for certain large ... progress through industrialization was dramatically different. Germany and France had late starts and could take lessons from Britain. Their geographic situation made them equally prone to invasion....

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... defence for peace and stability in the EU via the WEU and the Atlantic Alliance has been of some restructuring since its establishment, with NATO allowing Central and East European nations (Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland) to become member states, forging a stronger security infrastructure for Europe internationally. "The North ... a platform of stability for the member states of Europe, amidst the growing threat from lesser-developed regions such as the Middle East and Central Africa. The influence and strength in unity with the United States is justly favourable in these times for m...

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... also shows evidence of the authors Imperial upbringing, and feelings of European superiority. Kim's white blood, his identity papers, and his tendency to own and rule will prove to be central to the identity he is seeking to build, but neither at the beginning nor the end does he think of himself as a 'sahib' ( ClassicNotes). In chapter 5, when he finally finds ... the lama, he has gained an esoteric and privileged position in the native context ( Bloom 86 ). So the identity he is partly finding and partly making for himself has as a central component that in relation to both East and W...

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... , taxation, and finances of the city departments. He was much a force in Tammany Hall which was seen as a friend to the immigrants. Tweed ran the city better and built Central Park. Central Park was built on land that was not correctly suited for housing. People moved into the area when it was completed. 1883 marked a year when elevated trains catered to the ... on better land and also did not want to be annexed. Milwaukee's landscape was much different from Chicago's landscape. Milwaukee had hills and bluffs, whereas, Chicago was mostly flat land. Central Park, which is located within N...

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... World War on the 5th of July, 1948 in the United Kingdom. This new system was developed under the principles of equality and universal accessibility, with expenses covered by the central government. With a devolved system The United Kingdom has developed a Healthcare system that places the responsibility of regulating the general public's health into their individual nation's government covering a wide range of ... Health Service is composed of four publicly funded healthcare systems in the United Kingdom, and the overall system is the National Health Service (NHS). The systems are prim...

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... Maastricht Treaty on European Union cleared the way for the completion of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), involving the introduction of a single currency no later than 1999 and a European Central Bank. The Treaty also launched a Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and a Justice and Home Affairs policy which are managed at an intergovernmental level. The European Union in 1994 completed ... of sovereignty in some areas where other European Union members have fully integrated. One example of this "opting out- by Britain is its decision to remain outside of the European Centra...

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... strong a sense of their own identity willingly to surrender it for the sake of being ruled by an alien or a central Canadian majority. This determination to retain the maximum power over their own local affairs while yielding broad general powers to a central government was the basic fact of the negotiations." The greater purpose for which the union was to be established were ... ...

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... , Judd and Booth. This was also the year the Normal School was established, which was an institution that provided education and training for future teachers. Today this has evolved into Central Connecticut State University. Stanley works has made its roots in New Britain since 1843, when Frederick T. Stanley opened his bolt manufacturing company. New Britain is still known today as "The ... a self-taxing Special Services District in New Britain. It was formed by downtown property owners with the goal to promote and revitalize, and to attract new businesses to the city's central business...

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... in which people are told what to do. In a planned economy, government intervention does replace most markets, and important aspects of the economy are the result of people's reactions to a central plan. Decentralized Planning As far as possible, the planners reject the use of prices and the profit motive as a way of organising economic activities. However, it is possible to conceive ... ...

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... academic writer de Smith has dismissed the separation of powers in the context of the United Kingdom by saying that ' No writer of repute would claim that it is a central feature of the modern British constitution.' In addition, Lord Lloyd also commented that: 'the theory of the separation of powers requires that they be kept separate. The answer is ... ...

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... Union) was allowed in the London summit, but with limitations. Then in 1978 G7 began dealing with political issues with their statement on Air Hijacking. The G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors was established to facilitate better co-ordination between the finance ministers and bank governors of the member nations, and with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). However, the EU ... ...

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... of service, notably pensions and security of tenure. From the Next Steps Report of 1988 onwards, the Thatcher era witnessed radical change and it has continued since. The structure of central government departments has been reorganized along Swedish lines with executive work being hived off to agencies and this was accompanied by policies to break up the Civil Service into what ... ...

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... . The European Union also aids the United Nations by promoting political stability and economic assistance in the regions around the member-states. This is incredibly helpful in the Balkans and Central Europe, restructuring after the fall of Communism. Clive Archer, an authored political scientist states: By March 1994, the EU Council of Ministers had agreed to hold annual meetings between the ... ...

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... plans. Unfortunately, the United Nations could not take successful actions as UNSCR 1441 had to be created. UNSCR 1441, admitted as a United Nations resolution on November 8, ("U.N. Security Council), Has one central aim: the peaceful disarmament of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction through an effective inspection regime. Although it is a complex Resolution, it is carefully constructed. It sets out in its Operative ... ...

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... forces in both countries, stoking the politics of religious intolerance and hatred of minorities.5 Kashmir is symbolically and materially at the core of India - Pakistan antagonism. Both claim Kashmir as central to the survival of their ideological reason to be one a homeland for Muslims, and the other a secular state. The conflict began when the Maharaja of Kashmir agreed to sign his ... ...

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... as large as it did. By 1914 Europe had been divided into two power blocs. There was the triple alliance consisting of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy, also called the central powers and the triple entente consisting of Britain, France and Russia. Originally there was no such bloc. Under Bismarck Germany had successfully isolated France diplomatically this protected Germany from encirclement ... ...

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