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Structural adjustment
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Structural adjustments are the policies implemented by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (the Bretton Woods Institutions) in developing countries. These policy changes are conditions for getting new loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or World Bank, or for obtaining lower interest rates on existing loans. Conditionalities are implemented to ensure that the money lent will be spent in accordance with the overall goals of the loan. The Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) are created with the goal of reducing the borrowing country`s fiscal imbalances. The bank from which a borrowing country receives its loan depends upon the type of necessity. The SAPs are...
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was first awarded in 1918.
Postmaster General of the United Kingdom
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Postmaster General of the United Kingdom is a defunct Cabinet-level ministerial position in HM Government. Aside from maintaining the postal system, the Telegraph Act of 1868 established the Postmaster General`s right to exclusively maintain electric telegraphs. This would subsequently extend to telecommunications and broadcasting.
Vernon Baker
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vernon Joseph Baker (December 17, 1919 – July 13, 2010) was a United States Army officer who received the United States military`s highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in World War II. He was awarded the medal for his actions on April 5–6, 1945 near Viareggio, Italy, when he and his platoon killed 26 enemy soldiers and destroyed six machine gun nests, two observer posts and four dugouts. He was the only living black World War II veteran of the seven belatedly awarded the Medal of Honor when it was bestowed upon him by President Bill Clinton in 1997.
Winthrop Rockefeller
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Winthrop Rockefeller (May 1, 1912 – February 22, 1973) was a politician and philanthropist who served as the first Republican Governor of Arkansas since Reconstruction. He was a third-generation member of the Rockefeller family.
Sekhmet
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In Egyptian mythology, Sekhmet (also spelled Sachmet, Sakmet, Sakhet, Sekmet, Sakhmet and Sekhet; and given the Greek name, Sachmis), was originally the warrior goddess as well as goddess of healing for Upper Egypt. She is depicted as a lioness, the fiercest hunter known to the Egyptians. It was said that her breath created the desert. She was seen as the protector of the pharaohs and led them in warfare.
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Zwischenzug
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The zwischenzug (German: pronounced "intermediate move") is a chess tactic in which a player, instead of playing the expected move (commonly a recapture of the capturer of a piece that the opponent has just captured) first interpolates another move, posing an immediate threat that the opponent must answer, then plays the expected move (Hooper Whyld 1992:460) (Golombek 1977:354). Ideally, the zwischenzug changes the situation to the player`s advantage, such as by gaining material or avoiding what would otherwise be a strong continuation for the opponent.
USS Conyngham (DD-371)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The second USS Conyngham (DD-371) was a Mahan-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was named for Gustavus Conyngham.
USS Cony (DD-508)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Cony (DD/DDE-508), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was a ship of the United States Navy named for Joseph S. Cony (1834–1867), a naval officer during the Civil War.
Street child
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A street child is a child who lives on the streets of a city, deprived of family care and protection. Most children on the streets are between the ages of about 5 and 17 years old.
Winter Line
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Winter Line was a series of German military fortifications in Italy, constructed during World War II by Organisation Todt. The primary Gustav Line ran across Italy from just north of where the Garigliano River flows into the Tyrrhenian Sea in the west, through the Apennine Mountains to the mouth of the Sangro River on the Adriatic coast in the east. The centre of the line, where it crossed the main route north to Rome (Highway 6) which followed the Liri Valley, was anchored around the mountains behind the town of Cassino including Monte Cassino, on which was situated an old abbey that dominated the entrance to the Liri Valley (a main route to Rome), and Monte Cairo which gave the defenders...
Minister of Technology
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Minister of Technology was a position in the government of the United Kingdom, sometimes abbreviated as "MinTech". The Ministry of Technology was established by the incoming government of Harold Wilson in October 1964 as part of Wilson`s ambition to modernise the state for what he perceived to be the needs of the 1960s. The pledge was included in the Labour Party`s 1964 general election manifesto: "A Labour Government will .. up a Ministry of Technology to guide and stimulate a major national effort to bring advanced technology and new processes into industry."
Warren Spahn
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Warren Edward Spahn (April 23, 1921 – November 24, 2003) was an American Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher. He played his entire 21-year baseball career in the National League. He won 20 games each in 13 seasons, including a 23-7 record when he was age 42. Spahn was the 1957 Cy Young Award winner, and was the runner-up three times, all during the period when just one award was given. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973, with 83% of the total vote. (His eligibility was delayed, under the rules of the time, by 2 years of token minor league play.)
USS Conway (DD-507)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Conway (DD/DDE-507), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for William Conway, who distinguished himself during the Civil War.
Scottish Government
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Scottish Government (Scottish Gaelic: Riaghaltas na h-Alba) is the executive arm of the devolved government of Scotland. It was established in 1999 as the Scottish Executive, from the extant Scottish Office, and the term Scottish Executive (or Administration) remains its legal name under the Scotland Act 1998. Following the 2007 Scottish Parliament election, the term Executive was changed to Government by the Scottish National Party administration in 2007. The Scotland Bill (2011) contains a clause which, if the Bill passes into law, will makes this change legal in statute.
Stratigraphy
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Stratigraphy, a branch of geology, studies rock layers and layering (stratification). It is primarily used in the study of sedimentary and layered volcanic rocks. Stratigraphy includes two related subfields: lithologic stratigraphy or lithostratigraphy and, biologic stratigraphy or biostratigraphy.
Ward (LDS Church)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a ward is the larger of two types of local congregations (the smaller being a branch). A ward is presided over by a bishop, the equivalent of a pastor in other religions. As with all church leadership, the bishop is considered lay clergy and as such is not paid. Two counselors serve with the bishop to help with administrative duties of the ward and also preside in the absence of the bishop. A branch is presided over by a branch president who may or may not have one or two counselors, depending on the size of the branch.
Zugzwang
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Zugzwang (German for "compulsion to move", pronounced ) is a term usually used in chess which also applies to various other games. The term finds its formal definition in combinatorial game theory, and it describes a situation where one player is put at a disadvantage because he has to make a move when he would prefer to pass and make no move. The fact that the player must make a move means that his position will be significantly weaker than the hypothetical one in which it was his opponent`s turn to move.
National Express Group
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! National Express Group plc (LSE: NEX) is a British transport group headquartered in Birmingham that operates bus, coach, rail and tram services in the UK, the US and Canada, Spain, Portugal and Morocco and long-distance coach routes across Europe. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
Veolia Transport
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Veolia Transport (formerly Connex) is the international transport services division of the French-based multinational company Veolia Environnement. Veolia Transport trades under the brand names of Veolia Transportation in North America and Israel), Veolia Transport, Veolia Verkehr in Germany and with the former name Connex preserved in Lebanon and Jersey.
USS Conqueror (AMc-70)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Conqueror (AMc-70) was an Accentor-class coastal minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing.
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