After graduating from Yale with a history degree in 1968, George W. joined the Texas Air National Guard which some believe it was to avoid military service in Vietnam. ... Although he had never been considered an alcoholic, Bush did have a history of drinking too much, and shortly after his fortieth birthday in July1986 he gave up alcohol for good. ... After the 1988 election, Bush returned to Texas and in 1989 assembled a group of investors to buy the Texas Rangers baseball team for $86 million. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

A year later in 1989, he purchased the Texas Rangers Baseball team. ... The Republican leaders gave him more endorsements than any other candidate had received and also raised more money than any other candidate in history. ... The outcome of the election was one of the closest and costliest campaigns in American history. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Then in December 1989, the United States celebrated the fall of the Berlin wall and the end of the Cold War by invading Panama outright. ... Noriega stole an election in May 1989 again. ... By the time we invaded Panama in December 1989, the press had demonized Noriega, turning him into the worst monster since Attila the Hun. ...

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• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

The history of corporations is rich in instances where their finances have been given full consideration before that of the public's well being. ... Lastly, the Companies Act of 1989 gave the corporation the power to do " all such things as incidental or conducive to carry on any trade or business... "# The general slackening of control over corporations in the history of their development has led us to the point where they are ultra-powerful and beyond simple reproach by citizen or government. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Iraq Policy: Motives and Consequences", written in 1989 and given as part of a lecture, Noam Chomsky, Professor of linguistics at MIT and frequent critic of U.S. foreign policy, seeks to expose the U.S. for its duplicitious self interest in dealing with Iraq. ... By offering up the red herring of Hussein's rampant crime history as if to suggest that the west even cares, is all part of the orientalist's bag of tricks. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Cothern analyzes the history of Supreme Court decisions in relation to capital punishment as well as an in depth view of juveniles sentenced to death. The criteria for sentencing a juvenile to death is evaluating the seriousness of the crime, the maturity of the juvenile and their environment, the juvenile's history, and the possibility for rehabilitation of the juvenile as well as the public safety issues. ... The juvenile death penalty has been subject to national debate and Cothern describes the history of the death penalty that has authorized 20,000 executions over the last 350 yea...

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History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. ... Finally in 1989 the government paid restitution to the internees and recognized their unlawful dealings. ...

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"The purpose of British troops in Iraq is to discover and destroy any weapons of mass destruction," said the defence minister, Geoffrey Hoon, regarding the deployment of troops to the Gulf in coalition with American forces. The consequential expulsion of the regime of Saddam Hussein has, no doubt, ...

• Word Count: 2874
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate