In Washington D.C, the number of murders that occur in one year is fifteen times greater than in Northern Ireland, a nation plagued by terrorism. ... The effectiveness of this rigid gun control is demonstrated in a study comparing the rates of firearm violence in Seattle, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia. ... Within three years of the Washington, D.C, law banning the sale of handguns, the murder rate dropped twenty-five percent, and in South Carolina, after handgun laws were tightened in 1975, the murder rate fell twenty-eight percent (Summers 22). ... The White House also reports t...

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His new national security doctrine declares that Washington has the right to take preemptive action against any nation that threatens it or its allies. ... First of all, this would include stopping the sale of fire arms at gun shows without completing the required background checks. ... I have accepted the position of the White House in demanding full weapons disclosure from Iraq, refusing to tolerate non compliance U.N. resolutions. ...

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Urban Renewal- The Southwest, Washington, D.C. ... It is Washington, D.C.'... As a result, this section has many relatively new houses, apartment buildings, and office buildings. ... This is a street-unfriendly population-they wouldn't go up there if there were gold bricks for sale. ... Citizen Participation in Urban Renewal Washington, D.C. ...

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It imposed taxes on the sale or transfer of certain firearms; such as machine guns, sawed-off rifles, and shotguns; required manufactures to put serial numbers of such weapons by the owner; and required sellers of such firearms to be licensed (C214). The 1934 Firearms Act led to the decline of machine guns such as the "Tommy Gun" and other typical gangster weapons, but did not contain any provisions that covered the sale of handguns and did not prohibit anybody from purchasing a gun. ... No Washington D.C. gun legislation prevented a gunman from attempting to murder President Ronald Reagan or ...

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The board authorized the sale of surplus government firearms and ammunition to the NRA. In 1907, the NRA moved its headquarters to Washington, DC. ... Then in 1988 there was the Brady Bill, which made a seven day waiting period mandatory for all handgun purposes, this law passed the House of Representatives in 1991, but part of it was ruled unconstitutional in 1994 (Hatch 3). Most recently there was the ban on assault weapons, which bans the sale and manufacture of what the government considers assault weapons (Hatch 3). ... Some accomplishments of HCI are laws prohibiting the interstate s...

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He promised to have a peaceful solution and sale of territory to the United States.  ... Nevertheless, he remained the most powerful individual in Mexico until 1853, when his sale of millions of acres in what is now southern Arizona and New Mexico to the United States united liberal opposition against him. ... Once the Americans got in the city, the soldiers proceeded with house to house and hand to hand fighting. The Texas Rangers taught the soldiers the trick of throwing lighted grenades into houses which worked as primitive grenades; they blew the Mexicans wounded and bleeding them out of...

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Sent from Tokyo to a Japanese Embassy in Washington, it was encoded in the top-level Japanese "Purple Code", it stated that the Japanese were going to end relations with the United States. ... These men were the military's "top brass" in Washington and the only officers authorized to forward such sensitive intelligence to remote commanders. ... The most stunning was a "joint House-Senate probe" that reiterated the Roberts Commission findings. ... But, a close friend of Knox, the secretary of the Navy, later revealed that Knox, Stark, and Marshall spent most of that night in the White H...

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Power was mostly in the hands of the states and the federal government was one house of congress with representatives from each state. ... In a letter to George Washington in 1786 (Doc 5), John Jay expressed his fear in attempt to convince Washington that change was needed within the government to prevent an uprising. ... Like John Jay, Joseph Jones wrote George Washington a letter with the purpose of convincing Washington that congress needs to have the power to tax the states so that soldiers would be paid (Doc 2). ... The land west of the Appalachian Mountains, north of the Ohio River and e...

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Jefferson used the powers of his presidential office with an authority that Presidents Washington and John Adams would not have been permitted. ... After Republicans won majorities in both the House and the Senate, and the Federalist ticket was defeated for the presidency in 1800, the Federalists in Congress passed the Judiciary Act of 1801. ... Complaining that few died and none resigned, Jefferson removed some Federalists who had been assigned to high offices by George Washington and John Adams. ... The federal government was to be solely funded from duties on imported goods and from the sal...

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On May 17, 1957, King delivered his first major speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial, in the Prayer Pilgrimage to Washington, calling for the voting privileges (Carson 1). ... The March on Washington, on August 28, 1963, was the largest and most famous of civil rights demonstrations. King and 250,000 demonstrators, 60,000 white, marched from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument, where King delivered his world famous, "I Have a Dream,"" speech ( Stephanie 3). ... His house and church had been bombed, he was stabbed in the chest at a book signing, stoned and beaten on several oc...

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A letter from Delegate Joseph Jones to George Washington suggests the immediate pay to the solider by enforcing tariffs and taxation. George Washington blocked this threatened military coup aimed at strengthening the central government and guaranteeing back pay and pensions to officers as the war came to an end. ... The addition of the western lands would strengthen the Congress because the sale of lands would provide a source of national revenue. ... In a letter from John Jay to George Washington June 27, 1786 (Doc. ... In a speech to the South Carolina House of Representatives (Doc. ...

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A letter from Delegate Joseph Jones to George Washington suggests the immediate pay to the solider by enforcing tariffs and taxation. George Washington blocked this threatened military coup aimed at strengthening the central government and guaranteeing back pay and pensions to officers as the war came to an end. ... The addition of the western lands would strengthen the Congress because the sale of lands would provide a source of national revenue. ... In a letter from John Jay to George Washington June 27, 1786 (Doc. ... In a speech to the South Carolina House of Representatives (Doc. ...

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(MICROSOFT (R) ENCARTA 1995) Some of the U.S. cities, such as Washington D.C., Chicago, and New York City, place restrictions on handgun ownership. ... The bill was named after former White House press secretary James Brady, who became a proponet of gun control after being shot and seriously wounded during the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. ... All of the city's 368 firearm related homocides were commited with handguns g. 304 of the city's 309 firearm related homocides were commited with handguns (source Washington D.C. ... Just the murder rate in Wash...

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The house is set up on a one -acre piece of land about six miles north outside of Washington. ... The whole house has warm, pale beige carpeting. ... This is where the kids clothes that they have outgrown are, waiting to be sold in a yard sale. ... All the rooms in our house are good sized which helps out a lot. ... This houses all of his toys, books, movies, and games. ...

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Many people, including farmers, businessmen, and high ups in Washington alike, believe that the lifting of the embargo would be beneficial for business and tourism, as well as the possibility to help steer Cuba as a whole away from the communist government they are currently ruled by, and to have them adopt some sort of democracy (Berrios 3). ... The sale of food and medical supplies to individuals rather than Cuba as a government is permitted, as well as humanitarian aid, special granted visiting rights for certain U.S. citizens (students learning abroad, journalists, artists and sporting g...

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The act of prostitution would take place in a brothel, which is also known as a horror house. ... According to freedom daily, roughly ½ of street prostitutes in Washington and New York have a STD. ... Prostitution is the voluntary sale or rental of a labor service. ...

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The sale wasn't definite, it turns out that the children had no right to sell the land because his oldest child, Juan Cortina, from his second marriage inherited the land of his father's after his death. ... Stillman set aside land for a public park named Washington Park. ... A supplier of his was Thomas William House and a George W. ...

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George Washington was an early hemp farmer and made notes in his diary about the quality of the hemp . There is nothing to indicate that George Washington smoked marijuana but the myth is prevalent among marijuana advocates. ... One strategy would consist of the government exercising strong regulatory powers over all large-scale production and sale of marijuana. ... I didn't take much from my own parents, but when I"d sleep over at another kid's house, I"d get into his parent's bedroom and see what I could take. ... Another teen, Prudencia, describes how she got money for dru...

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These laws were called the Hamurabe Code, which proclaimed the death penalty to be used for most crimes, including minor offenses like the fraudulent sale of beer (Flanders 5). ... In comparison, Washington, D.C. which does not allow capital punishment has a murder rate of 80 per 100,000 versus Delaware's murder rate of 5 per 100,000-sixteen times lower than Washington, D.C. ... The current system only houses our criminals with little or no rehabilitation effects, which may be why so many of the inmates are repeat offenders. ...

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The burglary was committed on June 17, 1972, by five men who were caught in the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate apartment and office complex in Washington, D.C. Their arrest eventually uncovered a White House-sponsored plan of espionage against political opponents and a trail of complicity that led to many of the highest officials in the land, including former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell, White House Counsel John Dean, White House Chief of Staff H. ... Haldeman, White House Special Assistant on Domestic Affairs John Ehrlichman, and President Nixon himself....

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By 1841, he was finally satisfied with his machine, and began offering the reaper for sale. ... McCormick was a proponent of advertising his products in newspapers, and also was a pioneer in the installment sale of his equipment. ... Noah's sisters, Mercy and Jerusha, worked with their mother to keep house and to make food and clothing for the family. ... After the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, she moved to Washington, D.C., where, in her late 60's, she began working with former slaves in the newly created Freedman's Village. She met wi...

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Johnson's personal behavior, drinking problems, and the way he forced industrialists to create certain codes contributed to disaffection with him inside and outside the White House. ... The NRA staff was among Washington's most skilled experts in the emerging art of public relations, But Johnson's obliviousness often threatened to undo their efforts at brightening the NRA's reputation for effectiveness. ... The live chicken codes contained price-fixing, short-weighting, the sale of sick chickens, and the falsification of the signs that signified kosher slaughtering. ... How...

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The sixth state house was built in the same spot the fifth house burned down at and the capitol remained there until 1780. ... United States Presidents that were born in Virginia were George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, and Woodrow Wilson. ... Bills may originate in either house of the General Assembly. ... A delegate (as requested by constituents) prepares legislation permitting localities to prohibit the sale and use of certain fireworks. 2. ... The Committee reports the bill to the House. 9. ...

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House of Representatives. After one year in the house, Jackson was elected to fill out an unexpired term in the U.S. senate. ... Nearing the age of 62, Jackson arrived in Washington D.C. for his inauguration. ... It directed government agents to accept only gold or silver for the sale of land. ... He brought this rugged tough guy attitude to the white house and people appreciated it. ...

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