Rogers, "Some people believe that women soldiers will not be deployed in the event of hostilities that they are only to be part-time soldier. ... Technically, women are barred by law/ policy from what is defined in narrow terms as direct combat. ... Russia was reported as using military women on the front lines. ... Polls and statistics have shown that there is a clear tendency toward liberalization in terms of women's roles. ... "Women in the Military" An Unfinished Revolution Schneider, Dorothy & Carol J. ...

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Eventually the price of the dollar in terms of yen would fall, until on average, the value of goods that the Japanese could buy from the United States in terms of dollars euqled the dollar value of goods that the United states could buy from Japan. ... Hong Kong on the other hand has a population of more than 6 million people jammed into a miniscule area with an alarming population density of more than 255 times the United States, and has no natural resources other than a great harbor and skills of its people. ... "Legalizing drugs would reduce enormously the number of victims of drug use...

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By 1979, however, Saddam Hussein had clawed his way to the top of the ruling junta of Iraq and took advantage of the chaos unleashed by the recent Iranian Revolution to shift the disputed border back in Iraq's favor, with the excuse being that the predominantly Arab population of this region would prefer being part of the predominantly Arab state of Iraq. ... Before the Iranian revolution, the distinction between the countries was less religious than ideological. ... The Iraqi leadership became more of an issue after the Iranian revolution, when Ayatollah Khomeini, who had spent part of h...

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Seward, Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson, purchased Alaska from Russia. ... Their conviction that they were not equals with the United States in the Union was strengthened when the American government directly interfered with a revolution in Chile in 1891 and a trade dispute in Brazil in 1893. ... Bunau-Varilla engineered a revolution and U.S. warships prevented Colombia from stopping Panama's attempt to break away. (In 1921, the U.S. paid an indemnity to Colombia in recognition of the U.S. role in the Panamanian revolution). ... Years later, President Roosevelt said that the ...

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It is a movie about the Russian Revolution and involves love affairs between a character Lara and her mother's lover and then she marries a young man who abandons her and then she meets Doctor Zhivago who is married but is driven to the love affair by the war that they are involved in. ... Ed Norton, in jail, learns that he was wrong to "hate" anybody and comes to terms with his former hatred and comes out of jail as a new person. As much as Ed Norton has turned around his former thoughts, his younger brother has gone that much deeper into the hatred of black people. ...

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Woodrow Wilson President Woodrow Wilson regarded himself as the personal representative of the people. ... In 1935, Adolf Hitler unilaterally abrogated most of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. ... The Treaty of 1814 was concluded between France on the one hand and Britain, Russia, Austria, and Prussia on the other after the first abdication of NApoleon I. ... Below his country, the Mexican Revolution was in full swing. ... Presidents don't win elections by telling the people what they don't want to hear. ...

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