After the long mating and birthing process though, comes a small polar bear ready to mature into a large polar bear like its parents. ... Different from the brown bear as well, its eyes are smaller, but similarly its teeth are large in order to coincide with its carnivorous eating habits. ... The hearing, though, does not play a huge part of the bear's success in the wild, for they have small ears covered with fur inside and out to protect them from the cold temperatures. ... The prime hunting time for the average polar bear takes place during the months of April through July. ... The...

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Our plan is to start off small by slowly introducing Target products into the country. ... And probably, Russia is the place right now."" ... There are seven Ramstore outlets in Moscow alone, all smaller in size and selection. ... Russia is tenth in the world in GDP, however per capita GDP is only $9,300, placing it 78th in the world. ... Russia is not an undeveloped third world nation, and so the framework is already in place. ...

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While other national leaders, including Kaiser Wilhelm II, seemed relieved that Serbia chose a peaceful and apologetic path, the Austrian leadership focused on small discords expressed by the Serbs. ... The maneuvering of the Austrian government during the crisis compels me to place a large portion of the blame on Austria-Hungary for the outbreak of WW I. ... So, I cannot place the blame squarely on the Tsar or Russia, despite their major role in the overall war. ... The other half of the blame I place upon the bloodthirsty shoulders of the Austrian government who, I think, were deter...

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Roman Catholicism was the foundation for European society; it was the one thing that united a vastly different people fragmented into small kingdoms. ... Although these small communities dominated rural areas in Western Europe and were used by roughly 95 percent of the population, there wasn't enough development economically, or technologically in urban areas due to decentralization. ... For women and the poor, they gained a sense of unity by having a purpose and place within society. ...

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The Cheka enforced the revolution and made sure that no counter- revolutionary action could take place "counter-revolutionaries were "to be shot on the spot . ... A Terror more similar to that of Russia took place in China in 1949 after the Communist victory. " "High on the list of priorities" of the new communist government was the punishment of Tchiang and other war criminals (McAleavy 1972 32)" (O"Kane 1991 196) this is similar to the event in Cuba 1959. However summary executions then took place for people accused of infringing the new law after that executions ...

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Usually, the decision takes place in the executive level, and thereafter, the responsible HR personnel is instructed to either enquire or check the already expressed willingness of their employees for an expatriation. ... Because one of the main reasons for early repatriation is caused by a spouse or other family member's inability to adjust, international corporations as well as smaller firms or institutions often have an extensive company policy and coaching system, so that spouses are also considered at an earlier stage in the decision-making process. ... The expat was employed in the ...

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For the first nineteen years of his life, Chekhov himself lived in Russia's remote countryside, the place of his birth, Taganrog. ... Throughout the play, small comments reveal the vastness of the country, as for instance on page 193 where the doctor Astrov criticises: "I've galloped twenty miles at breakneck speed to get here" or, when he proudly talks of his orchard on page 196: "such, you won't find for hundreds of miles around". ... Both land, as well as for example, the country house, in which the play takes place, resemble the feeling of unpleasant dimensions. ...

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Moreover, the reform encouraged private businesses and cooperatives- individuals could now own small businesses and hire workers. ... The collapse of the Berlin Wall was the starting point of the revolutionary changes that would take place in the East Central Europe in 1989. ... The hard-liners, who included many top government officials, staged a coup in August, placing Gorbachev under house arrest, but within three days the reformers had restored Gorbachev to power. ...

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The structure of Russia's economy before reform was mainly state owned, with 85% of the activity being state owned industry or agriculture, with very little private and small scale commercial activity. ... By the end of 1995, foreign investment in Russia since 1991 had totalled an estimated "US$6 billion, a small amount considering the size of the Russian economy. ... The framework for privatisation was in place and the auctioning off of retail stores and other enterprises begun early in the reform, however there was very little real momentum. ...

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With near autonomy, Armenia was ruled by a noble family put in power by the Arabs until small Armenian kingdoms became sovereign. ... Many purges took place during Stalin's regime and Armenian nationalism was stifled until the early 1990s when the Soviet Union fell apart. ... The future looks promising for the small nation of Armenia. ...

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The "Trial of the Sixteen" started in 1936 followed by two more trials that would take place over the next two years. In 1937 a second purge trial would take place that consisted of the prosecution of seventeen leftwing defendants for "conspiracy against the government" (Purge 2). ... Stalin had a small group of individuals who he entrusted with his personal secrets. ... Recently some of these mass graves have been uncovered at the site of a former gulag just outside a small town in northern Russia called Vinista (Triumph 323). ...

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Peter was fascinated by European culture and one of his infatuation were visiting, "German Colony," it was the place not far from Preobrazenskoe, where, were mostly living foreigners from England, Holland, Germany and others. ... According to the Treaty, Sweden relinquished to Russia Livonia, Estonia, Ingria, Carelia, a small part of Finland in the southeast. ...

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Besides the serfs, there was a very small middle class in the towns. ... The Revolution was to be a new starting point that even purely democratic problems, like the land ownership, cannot be solved without the conquest of power by the proletariat; but this in turn places the socialist revolution on the agenda. ...

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Furthermore, given the fact that liberal theory is based on cooperation and collaboration for the sake of the international community, practices of conservatism must be put in place (Baylis et al., 2011, p.102). This means that higher value on order and authority are put in place, and so, 'sacrifices ' are made for the community's benefits. ... At the same time, Chinese officials have tried to accommodate and prioritize the interests of smaller developing Asian states in order for their expansion to progress. ...

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Over the space of a few years in the early eighties, hackers learned how to make free phone calls, bounce their line around to other places to avoid traces, even damage equipment at the other end of the line. ... A computer virus is a very small program that can clone itself at will, over disks and phone lines, and usually causes some devastating impact on the target, such as deleting files, or even damaging the computer. ...

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English Tom Clancy's genius The Cold War and post Cold War eras have brought with them many interesting aspects. New technologies initially meant for mass destruction filter down into the civilian world, making current lives easier. One example of this is the anti-lock braking systems of...

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The country was mainly an agrarian society, placing a very large burden on the success of the serfs in agriculture. ... The Tsar primarily relied on the usage of nobility and smaller governments within the country, creating a situation with 13 different governments for different regions in Russia. ...

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The policy the Obama Administration wants to take is one of helping the interim Ukraine government against the overpowering imposition of Russian troops until a formal election takes place on May 25th. ... The president is in a situation where all that can be done is threaten with more sanctions, which Putin has described as "small potatoes " in his quest to absorb Crimea....

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The globe has been divided into a series of border skirmishes, any one of which places us on the brink of nuclear war. ... The amounts of material are usually small, less than a kilogram. (6) Many smugglers are caught every year. (5) We do not know what is missing, where it might be heading, or the whereabouts of the material that we do have. (7) When the Soviet Union fell lots of nuclear material was left with out protection. (1) In many incidents, the breakdown in the legal and police systems has led to such incidents as visiting American officials to a Russian nuclear plant being asked op...

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Under the czars Russia was a backward country, much of the land was in royal and private estates, and the rest was held and crudely worked in small plots by the peasants. ... Since the 1917 revolution Russia had grown into a well -rounded country in reaching this goal, The Russian Government controls virtually the entire economy now; placing heavy emphasis on development of manufacturing industries and the increase of farm output. ...

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His vision was that the party should be exclusive, comprised only of a small amount of professional revolutionaries. ... They saw the advantage of letting Bolshevik's and other socialists go back to Russia and make trouble for the newly in place provisional government. ... On his arrival at St Petersburg station soviet historians describe the night "He achieved to save the revolution from the specter of a Tsarist restoration.(8) This quote alone can convey that without Lenin arriving and pushing his ideas of socialism and revolution the events, which led to the downfall of the government...

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This paper looks at the evens that took place during Nicholas" rule, which accumulatively lead to his abdication. ... Many members of the intelligentsia (the small minority of the population with higher education) had access to Western ideas of liberalism and socialism, and wished to see radical transformations in Russia...

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As written by the European Bank at the time, "Under the 'shares-for-loans' scheme implemented in 1995, many of the key resource-based companies fell into the hands of a small group of financiers, the so called 'oligarchs.' ... Political corruption and crime rates rose when the change of governments took place. ...

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Animal Farm is an allegory through which George Orwell demonstrates the psychological foundation of revolution, its processes and the irony of displacement of an oppressive regime by the new revolutionary order. This essay will explain the key terms of this statement, and then clarify the statements...

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Democracy means that the minority has to subordinate to the will of the majority, the change of power takes place peacefully, and the opposition is not only has a right to express public disagreement with government policy, but also has to operate strictly within the law (Ibid). ... As Russia was a large country for centuries it was ruled by strong leaders who did not allow it to break up in to small separate independent regions. ...

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