The United Nations is in charge of making the world a safer and more stable place by preventing and stopping conflicts among its nations. ... The cost of basic food increased greatly and the Iraqi dinar collapsed. ... Acting under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, and after reaffirming once more the previous resolutions, the SC established a programme known as the Oil-For-Food Programme. ... Iraq was allowed to sell $2bn of oil every six months to buy food and medicine. ... That is why the process of deciding how fast to go in offering to suspend sanctions in return of Iraqi co-operation was hotl...

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Since the nineteen fifties when the drive-thru was introduced our ways of life have become progressively more convenient", leading to a fundamental change in our nations eating habits. The old fashioned family meal with a balanced nutrition has been replaced with fast food joints like McDonald's and Taco Bell and household staples have become frozen pizza and pre-packaged processed meals. ... You may have seen the public service announcement for people to take the stairs instead of the elevator to help leave there love handles behind or fast food restaurants providing nutritional facts ab...

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Phillips is widely acknowledged as one of the nation's most perceptive thinkers, he turns his attention to the United States' history of great wealth and power, from the American Revolution to what he calls "the Second Gilded Age" at the turn of the twenty-first century. ... The book is filled with intriguing chapters on history and a bold analysis of present-day America. ... Phillips finds a Reagan-era report crediting six of the seven deadly sins for producing the modern economy--and that's not counting all the television and fast-food fortunes that have sloth to thank. ......

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate