... and society in general. The Justices presiding in the Roth case not only felt that the "ideological content", or lack thereof, was relevant, but also, quite definable, that being "material appealing to the prurient interest"#. This departure from a court actually defining obscenity, to a court admitting its incapacity for doing so, reveals the growing confusion and disagreement about sexual morality ... appealing to the prurient interest". Even in the Stanley case, where the court demurred from defining obscenity, they ruled that government could regulate the production and sale of such ...

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... the communists only continued with their artillery fire, without making any type of invasion attempts, then the US would only supply the Nationalists with material, as long as the fall of Quemoy and Matsu was not imminent. This material came in the form of 8-inch howitzers, other smaller artillery pieces and numerous landing craft to transport these materials and other supplies. The ... would not be able to repel a determined Chinese communist force. If the Chinese communists included air strikes and invasion forces against Quemoy & Matsu, then the US would respond with increased materi...

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... Plastic were three of the main materials used during the post war period (Pile, 375). Historically, wood has been the primary source of construction material for furniture since ancient times. Even in contemporary furniture, wood still plays a dominant role. Woods can be divided into two main families: ... chair designed for the organic design in home Furnishing competition of 1940 (Kirkam, 67). Compared to ordinary wood, plywood is an extremely stable material (Hall, 44). The invention of molded plywood and its later use in furniture permitted an entirely different way of looking at fur...

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... English gentility and sensuous Italian vitality. Howards End (1910) also explores contrasts in relationships. The overt contrasts are drawn between two families, the Schlegels and the Wilcoxes. The Wilcoxes represent material values and the effective management of the outer life; the Schlegels represent the inner life and the importance of spiritual values. The heart of the novel is Forster's attempt to ... as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.' The theme of darkness leads to the figure of Kurtz, the central character, a portrait of how the commercial and mate...

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... , the news corporation is a business looking to generate a profit. Fabricating the truth was a simple way to make the news more entertaining to viewers. The media was unable to find sufficient material that appealed to the American audience until July of 1965. Prior to 1965 the United States had minimal involvement with the conflict in Vietnam. However in July of 1965 President ... Johnson increased to American troops stationed in Vietnam to 175,000. The increase in combat provided the media with enough material to change the public opinion of warfare within America. The media had an unp...

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... and the lethality of biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons one would have knowledge and understanding of chemistry, biology, human physiology, nuclear physics, metallurgy, and meteorology, not to mention mechanical, material , genetic, electrical, and chemical engineering" . Chemical weapons are the easiest to make and will not have the horrible that could result from the other two. Nuclear weapons are the ... weapons ever devised. Nuclear explosions are caused either "by uncontrolled nuclear fusion or uncontrolled nuclear fission" . "Nuclear fission occurs when high-explosive "lenses...

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... us a reference to see the US standpoint during the Cold War, "seeking initially the nonaligned nations being lured or frightened into the Soviet Camp, the United Stated undertook such massive material aid programs as Point Four and Mutual Security plan in order to bag its own share of third world allies. Between 1945 and 1960, for example, total expenditures on economic ... model matters. Major Latin American countries had long gained political independence from colonizers since the early nineteenth century; however, the economic development were yet in predicament. Its long-time raw-ma...

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... accounting research, then this unfamiliarity means that arguments and approaches may be adopted from historical studies. They may do this without asking the questions that historians would ask of the material. The book, "Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting" introduces the idea that currently accepted management and cost accounting methods as used today in Corporate America are "...inadequate ... so on. Each person ends up with a set of goals he or she is accountable for. Each goal is aligned to a higher-level goal. A marketing specialist's goal to develop marketin...

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... , in which a soldier would return victorious with at worst a broken arm. The two pieces are obviously the worst memories of the war, published at a time when the reception for such material was positive i.e. the Locarno honeymoon, while the events in the pieces themselves are biased towards the events that are most poignant in their minds, perhaps exaggerated, but probably not, as ... writing later. Part of the reason for a difference of opinion about how the war was conducted comes from the fact that we today are in possession of a great deal of material that would not be released due t...

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... ", funded by the issue of ideological trends of literature and periodicals in foreign languages, actively used the injection of class, racial, national contradictions. The processes involved are enormous intellectual, human, material and financial resources. The victory in the Cold War, as in "hot" wars, won one of those who had more resources and use them most effectively. Independent methodological interest to ... ...

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... his argument in that he finds himself struck by the persistent view that the decolonisation of the European Empires is assessed in a Whig interpretation of history. From the data and material evidence used in the paper, Austin considers that the description of the decolonisation of the Empires is due to the unstoppable waves of opposition towards them which arguably clouds this ... ...

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... an adjustment. For the most part, the things people gave up years ago were gone forever and could not be restored. Friends, families and relatives were separated, lost and killed. Material possessions like homes, clothes and valuables and the means to acquire them through jobs and business were also either previously sold or simply stripped from them during their time away ... ...

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... the exact position of Poland's border with Germany and the amounts of war reparations that Germany should pay the USSR. The Soviet Union narrowly escaped defeat during WWII - human and material losses were enormous (20 million dead). Many of the agreements led to post-war differences. In Germany the division of Berlin and the disagreements over the reparations payments led to ... ...

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... . Italy and Romania declared war on the USSR the same day. Finland, Hungary, Albania, and other Axis satellites, soon followed. Britain and the United States tried to help, by sending material aid to the USSR. The US program, known as Lend-Lease, ultimately provided the USSR with some $12 billion worth of equipment and food. After the United States entered the ... ...

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... respiratory problems and could be managed at the EMS treatment areas. About 500 persons were transported to nearby hospitals. Another 100 visited hospitals outside Manhattan. The blast and projectiles from material flying around killed six persons. Pakistani Police arrested Ramzi Yousef in an Islamabad hotel in Pakistan on February 7, 1995 after receiving word that he was in Pakistan. He was planning ... ...

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... , one able to conquer the living space absolutely necessary for the continued existence of its Aryan blood. This meant it needed a strong economy capable of producing vast amounts of war material, and so Hitler would use Big Business, not become a pawn of it, to further his goals. By freezing wages Hitler actually reduced the real wages of the average German worker ... ...

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... of their courageous and usually futile battles against circumstances. In The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other stories Hemingway looked back on his African safaris from 1934. Most of the source material for The Old Man and the Sea comes from Hemingway's own experiences fishing off the coast of Cuba. Hemingway spent more than two decades of his life living on the ... ...

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... formidable, and there was no time to waste "particularly after the disastrous interruption of World War II. The Soviet leadership, therefore, was ruthless in marshaling all available human and material resources for the job of modernization. The harsh discipline and economic austerity that were necessary could be imposed only by an unrelenting dictatorship that could control all citizens' activities and ... ...

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... marketplace, an effective international system of law is needed now more than ever. The United Nations is creating new patterns of interaction among people and states, promising unprecedented opportunities for material progress in larger freedom, but also threatening to compound many existing challenges before the international community. In this manner, the U.N. is deepening the economic marginalization of the worlds most vulnerable ... ...

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... do with some external influences and causes. The Spanish Civil war was first written down in 1961 and with the passing years, the book has often been updated with new material and insights. Going into the fundamental details of the book, the theme begins with the military rising that took place in Morocco. During the periods of 1936 to 1939, there ... ...

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... the depression were: The Social Credit theories of Alberta Premier William Aberhart, and democratic Socialism of J.S. Woodsworth as well as the New Democracy movement of W.D. Herridge. 21 R.B. Bennett extended raw material processing and the use of tariffs and trade preferences to protect and encourage employment. In 1939, there was a Prairie Assistance Act, which gave tremendous protection to the small producers as ... ...

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... consuming task. One French historian suggests that " women took on roles such as head of household, supervising education, farm mistress, manager of small businesses, responsibility, going to work and resolving material and administration problems." The Government were indeed reluctant to use women to help the home front, and proceeded to maintain the traditional sex discrimination that existed pre- war. It was ... ...

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... . [...] I was elected by a majority of the people of Guatemala, but I have had to fight under difficult conditions. The truth is that the sovereignty of a people cannot be maintained without the material elements to defend it. [...] I took over the presidency with great faith in the democratic system, in liberty and the possibility of achieving economic independence for Guatemala. I continue to believe that ... ...

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... gives information about a reality in the Turkish side of the war. Morgenthau explains that the Turks could die just to lead the drowning of one enemy troop or any enemy material or weapon. They all wanted the enemy to attack them to sweep them away with by the help of the mood they all have, the hatred against the Christians, but ... ...

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... Axson. Wilson advanced rapidly as a conservative young professor of political science and became president of Princeton in 1902. His growing national reputation led some conservative Democrats to consider him Presidential material. First they persuaded him to run for Governor of New Jersey in 1910. In that campaign he asserted his independence of the conservatives and of the machine that had nominated ... ...

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