It is a mixed party, with Ashkenazi and Sephardic and it is the most important religious party. ... The party presents itself as an ultra orthodox religious party, but above all, as a Sephardic party. ... It is the second religious party in Israel and is the second party together with the Likoud. ... In 1992, the party joins the Torah unit. ... The financial protocols granted to Israel are: the first protocol (1978-81): 30 MECU the second protocol (1981-86): 40 MECU the third protocol (1986-91): 63 MECU the fourth protocol (1991-96): 82 MECU The entry into force of the financial protocols was...

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In the former, voters choose between lists of party candidates within a single national constituency. ... First World countries are more likely to have higher percentages of women in parliamentary positions than both Second and Third World countries due to the characteristics of Second and Third World countries, Third World countries especially. ... Countries with established multi-party democracies are the most likely form of government to yield high percentages of women in parliamentary positions, followed by recently established multi-party democracies, one-party regimes, military/monarch...

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By the mid 1920's Adolf Hitler was the undisputed leader of the Nazi Party. ... Both factors saw some support move from the communist party to the Nazi's and Hitler. Ultimately the murders resulted in one less party to oppose the Nazis. ... Middle class voters soon became disillusioned by the Weimar government, and turned their voting habits around towards Hitler's Nazi Party at the expense of the National Party, the People's Party and the Democrats. ... One of the more successful was the Nazi Party and Adolf Hitler. ...

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Amending the Constitution requires a proposal by a two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress or by a national convention, followed by ratification by three-fourths of the state legislatures or state conventions. ... The president may veto a bill, but a veto can be overridden by a two-thirds vote of both houses. ... They serve six-year terms, which are arranged so that one-third of the Senate is elected every two years. ... Treaties negotiated by the president with other governments must be ratified by a two-thirds vote of the Senate. ... The prime minister chooses the cabinet from MPs in ...

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The capitalist and communist blocks were then to compete politically by fighting proxy wars in the Third World. ... For the Third World, the artificial increase in the price of oil drove them into bankruptcy. ... Being unable to pay their debts, Third World countries were forced to go to the IMF for assistance. ... The debt of the Third World never actually gets reduced. ... With any potential income from the Third World locked up for many years to come, British oil companies started developing oil fields around the world, such as in the North Sea and certain Third World nations such as Mal...

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Romania - a Special Case - Corruption, Deficiencies of the Party System, Authoritarianism - Not quite two years before local elections, one and a half years before parliamen-tary elections and two years before presidential elections, Romania seems to be standing at a crossroads. Thus, the ruling post-communists, the Romanian Social Democrats (PSD) of prime-minister and PSD party leader Adrian Nastase have to decide on how to continue the required political, social and economic transforma-tion process. ... The debates on the amendment of the Constitution which have been going on for sli...

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Inventing options for mutual gains is the third principle discussed. Much of this third principle is brainstorming to effectively create a win-win situation for all involved. ... The third most popular style was displayed in only 9% of the respondents was the Peacekeeper. ... It also requires that each party put themselves in the shoes of the other party to see things from their perspective. ... For well over 50 years the United States have done a great deal of trade with Japan but over two-thirds of these negotiations fail even though both sides are interested in making a successful agreement...

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Thirdly, that the democratic state of the country should remain stable and not fluctuate from one axis to another. ... Lipset and Rokkan's theory of absence of strong social cleavages, which in turn, non post-communist parties have no organisational basis for support. With the creation of so many new parties, it also gives way to extreme fragmentation e.g. ... This made it easier for the non-communist parties in post-communist Poland to have an "organizational basis for it-(Mair 1996,2). ... Furthermore, the addition of commitment to help fund the emergence of new political parties. ...

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On July 14, 1933, a law declared that the "National Socialist German Workers' Party constitutes the only political party in Germany. ... Finally the Nazi party was the only legal political party in Germany. ... Since this act would alter the German constitution, a two-thirds majority was necessary. ... All other political parties were dissolved of. ... The Nazi party had, as Hitler said, become the state. ...

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The European Community (in broad terms) established under this Treaty, created a particularly advantageous climate for economic prosperity of the parties to the Treaty. ... It reflects the sincere desire of both parties to establish a legal base for successful long-term cooperation in terms of continuous political dia...

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Even transactions which are apparently barter transactions, in that the equivalents exchanged are both concrete commodities, may best be analyzed as degenerate monetary transactions, in which the parties estimate the abstract value of their respective products, and finding them equal, or nearly equal, are able to avoid transferring money itself. ... One of the parties to the exchange may have an advantage over the other in possessing better information or facing little competition; an absolute shortage or glut of the commodity being exchanged, and so on. ...

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And thirdly we must come to the conclusion of whether the Front has played a significant roll in French politics and society and look at the parties future prospects. ... However, Le Pen was careful to distance himself traditional right-wing parties, and was also careful to steer the FN away from claims that they were a fascist party. ... Each party was/is stood more for what it was against rather than what it was for. ... The reason why I ask if the FN is a fascist party or not is because I believe it is important to the party's appeal and survival. ... Another impo...

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People enthusiastically voted for the Nazi Party and on 30th January 1933 Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. ... According to Nazism everyone was to serve the state and be loyal to the Nazi Party only. ... However membership of the Nazi Party grew only very slowly as many Germans didn't care about the Nazi cause. ... The Nazi Party gained power for many reasons. ... The main policy of the Nazi Party was thus to prepare Ge...

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Bonds and Guarantees Introduction Bonds and guarantees are relatively complex instrument that attempt to set out the obligations between two parties that are consequential upon the actions or inactions of another party. A bond is usually contained in a document given by a third party in support of the obligations of another party, containing a promise to pay money immediately or on a future date. It thereby provides an assurance to the beneficiary that the contracting party will perform its obligations and security if it does not. ... A guarantee is given by a third party (a guarantor) to prov...

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The purpose of this was to examine the positive and negative effects a third party influence had upon the story. ... Orwell created a civilization oppressed by the Inner Party. ... Each of these totalitarian Superstates is deemed to be so strong that even an alliance of two could not bring down the third. ... The Inner Party put all these restrictions into place to reduce the available opinions of their work. ... Smith worked for The Ministry of Truth, rewriting past news articles to fit with the ideals of the Inner Party. ...

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"During the 1860's was when the abolitionists crusade reached the height of its power and saw the achievement of most of its objectives, and after the war began they were transformed overnight from despised fanatics to influential and respected spokesmen for the radical wing of the Republican Party (McPherson 7)". ... By the year 1850 only a third of the Nation lived there (Harrison 2). ...

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In 1919, the socialists won about a third of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies. ... ") In 1919, Mussolini drafted the original platform of the Fascist party. ... The third was militarism. ... He made the Fascist party an integral part of the Italian constitution. Mussolini assumed the dual position of prime minister and party leader (duce), and he used the party's militia to eliminate his enemies by intimidation and violence. ...

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The Farmers' Alliances agitated for railroad regulation, tax reform, and unlimited coinage of silver and attempted to influence the established political parties. Growth was so rapid, however, that interest in a third party began to increase; in 1891 delegates from farm and labor organizations met in Cincinnati. No decision was made to form a political party, but when the Republican and Democratic parties both straddled the currency question at the 1892 presidential conventions, a convention was held at Omaha, and the Populist party was formed. At this time a third party called the People...

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After the tally of 99 percent of precincts, the Democratic Party stood at 49 percent of public support, the Republican Party at 48 percent, and the Green Party accumulated enough votes to have 3 percent of all votes. No other party received a single percent of all votes. ... According to the latest Reuters/Zogby Research Canada poll , the Liberal Party holds the lead with an approximate 42 percent of public support, followed by the Canadian Alliance, which polled 29 percent, the Progressive Conservative Party holds 12 percent support, the Neo-Democratic Party has 7 percent and finally, the B...

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History of Atari Nolan Bushnell founded Atari on June 27, 1972 when he was inspired by a computer game called Spacewar. Bushnell then developed a prototype of a game called "Pong" and released it in a bar in Sunnyvale, California. The game was an instant success and began Atari's voyage to manuf...

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By the end of 1965 a quarter of a million new black voters had been registered, one third by federal examiners. ... It was during this climb in membership Americans would see a woman, Geraldine Ferraro, run for the Vice-Presidency on a major party ticket. ...

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Hitler received orders to join the German Workers party. ... In 1920 the Nazi party had 193 members, half were laborers. ... Hitler often refused offers he received from other political parties. ... "The Party is Hitler and Hitler's the Party." ... No party, including the National Socialist. ...

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Hitler received orders to join the German Workers party. ... In 1920 the Nazi party had 193 members, half were laborers. ... Hitler often refused offers he received from other political parties. ... "The Party is Hitler and Hitler's the Party." ... No party, including the National Socialist. ...

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There these individuals set out to establish an alternative to the two fixed parties, called the Libertarian party--champion of freedom and personal liberty. Nearly thirty years after its inception in a nation ruled by a praetorian two party system that Libertarian Party has become "America's third largest and fastest growing party." (12:3) What does this say about Americans? ... This proves good news to the Libertarian Party that has seen an astonishing growth of 165% in the past four years (16:1) from 9, 512 members in March of 1994 to a record 25,000 in 1998. The Libertarian pa...

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He was the third child born to Vissarion Dzhugashvili, a poor shoemaker and his wife Yekaterina, who worked as a house cleaner. ... His timing was excellent becasue the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party had just been founded which for the first time created a political party that all Russian Marxists could belong to. ... After the Bolshevik and Mensheviks split was final lenin was able to choose new men to run his parties central commitee. ... In 1922, the Communist Party's Central Committee elected Stalin as its general secretary. ... In December 1929, the party praised Stal...

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