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| | Capital - encyclopedia article about Capital. |
 | | As the focal point of power for the country or region, the capital naturally attracts the politically motivated and those whose skills are needed for efficient administration of government such as lawyers, journalists, and public policy researchers. | | | With the rise of modern empires and the nation-state, the capital city has become a symbol for the state and its government, and imbued with political meaning. | | | In geography and politics, a capital (also called capital city or political capital) of a country or other political entity is a city or town that contains the government. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/capital
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| | Ch2 |
| | The capital, in turn, is not always an accurate reflection or proxy of the politics and beliefs of the nation, its rulers or its citizens. | | | This is especially important in capital cities with powerful roles in the global economy (such as London, Paris and Tokyo, and historically Berlin), where there are two competing forces: the force of globalization that cuts across nations, and the force of the national government preserving the nation. | | | The capital city, despite the globalization and decentralization of economic activity, remains the center of national government affairs. |
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| | Sample Chapter for Hefner, R.W., ed.: Remaking Muslim Politics: Pluralism, Contestation, Democratization. |
| | Described in the language of modern political theory, the resurgence was primarily an affair of civil society, not the state. | | | Owing to, perhaps, an unfamiliarity with the nuances of Muslim politics, as well as regrettably short-term policies, governments in the West have not been as consistent as they should be in their policies toward the Muslim world (Gerges 1999; Hinter 1998). | | | In light of the first concern of Muslim politics, the concern for religious legitimation, we should not be surprised to see that reformers devote what is, from a Western utilitarian perspective, an inordinate amount of time and energy to coming together to read, write, and formulate the terms for a new practice of Muslim politics. |
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http://www.pup.princeton.edu/chapters/s7881.html
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| | Capital Metro TPR Report - Chapter 2 |
| | Capital Metro considered the KPMG recommendations to have been largely implemented, with no further actions needed on those recommendations Capital Metro disagreed with. | | | Likewise, Capital Metro has several documents titled "strategic plans," but these are merely the beginning outlines of a true plan. | | | In fact, after persistent attempts by TPR to get a current status report, Capital Metro could not even locate a copy of the last KPMG report; a copy was furnished to TPR directly by the consultant. |
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| | Capital Punishment |
| | The fact that the Apostle Paul used the image of the sword further supports the idea that capital punishment was to be used by government in the New Testament age as well. | | | Opponents of capital punishment who accuse the government of committing murder by implementing the death penalty fail to see the irony of using Exodus 20 to define murder but ignoring Exodus 21, which specifically teaches that government is to punish the murderer. | | | Capital punishment is to be implemented because of the sanctity of human life. |
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| | Capital (politics) |
| | politics politics linked with american politics aristotle politics arkansas politics florida politics netherlands politics office politics world politics kingdom politics problems capital capital punishment capital structure | | | Convergent Capital Focus: late stage growth companies requiring capital for expansion, management led buy-outs, acquisitions or recapitalizations. | | | Capital Punishment in Canada Essay advocating a referendum on the death penalty. |
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| | RW ONLINE:Globalization: What It Is and What It Isn't |
| | There is both alliance and rivalry among the different units of national capital and within these arrangements, but the material existence of an integrated "home base" lends coherence and competitiveness to a national capital. | | | This is why, despite the circulation of capital goods and labor itself across the globe, there is no equalization of wages and rates of exploitation. | | | National capitalists will seek directly and indirectly to influence policy direction, issues of governance, and so forth within their home national state in a qualitatively different way than they do in other countries (although there are certainly famous cases of companies, like United Fruit or the oil giants, dominating the state in oppressed nations). |
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| | Story of Georgia's Capitols and Capital Cities |
| | The building of the capital at Louisville was delayed because of lack of funds, the death of the contractor, and the rush to obtain and disburse Creek and Cherokee lands. | | | Louisville is the present capital of the state of Georgia, and is situated on the north-east bank of the Ogechee [sic] river, 70 miles from its outlet, and 100 miles from Savannah. | | | It is not precisely known when state officials left Louisville for the new capital, though it is known that in December 1806, the legislature at Louisville passed an act appointing commissioners of the town of Milledgeville. |
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| | Sample Chapter for Self, R.O.: American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland. |
| | The politics that produced segregation and the politics that fought it are the story of this book. | | | Where political projects are mobilized, as well as the sorts of spaces they attempt to control, are highly significant yet frequently overlooked dimensions of struggle and strategy. | | | The urban political terrain is far more than an extension of national party politics, as the homeowner mobilizations of the 1970s so clearly demonstrate. |
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| | Capital - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | With the rise of modern empires and the nation-state, the capital city has become a symbol for the state and its government, and imbued with political meaning. | | | As the focal point of power for the country or region, the capital naturally attracts the politically motivated and those whose skills are needed for efficient administration of government such as lawyers, journalists, and public policy researchers. | | | In South Africa, for example, the administrative capital is Pretoria, the legislative capital is Cape Town, and the judicial capital is Bloemfontein, the outcome of the compromise that created the Union of South Africa in 1910. |
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| | Capital - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | As the focal point of power for the country or region, the capital naturally attracts the politically motivated and those whose skills are needed for efficient administration of government such as lawyers, journalists, and public policy researchers. | | | With the rise of modern empires and the nation-state, the capital city has become a symbol for the state and its government, and imbued with political meaning. | | | In South Africa, for example, the administrative capital is Pretoria, the legislative capital is Cape Town, and the judicial capital is Bloemfontein, the outcome of the compromise that created the Union of South Africa in 1910. |
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| | [ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ] |
| | The deputy governor of Baghdad, Hatim Kamal Abd al-Fattah al-Bayati, was shot and killed by unidentified assassins as he was traveling to work in the Iraqi capital on 1 November, international media reported. | | | The contractor is the second American to be kidnapped in the Iraqi capital in two days. | | | He told reporters in the Turkish capital on 12 October that Kirkuk has a Kurdish "identity," and vowed to fight any force that attempts to intercede in the issue (see "RFE/RL Iraq Report," 15 October 2004). |
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| | phorum - Our World Forum at Asiawind - Refuting Chinese official attitude on revaluating the RMB. |
| | The Chinese government is allowing the FDI to come pouring in and then ask the Chinese people to put their money in foreign countries to counterbalance the needless inflow of FDI. | | | While SARS definitely had an impact on the Chinese economy, it should not be used as a scapegoat for Chinas economic problems. | | | If the Chinese government confess that it understood that the tax rebates are giving undue advantage to the exporters and result in excessive amounts of exported goods, then it must make the connection that excessively low value of yuan is also giving even more advantages to the exporters and caused even more exports of goods. |
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| | TAP: Vol 9, Iss. 40. Constraining Capital, Liberating Politics. Robert Kuttner. |
| | Indeed, many on the left have moved to the center not so much out of choice or even political tactic, but because globalized capitalism seems to leave them little alternative. | | | Copyright © 1998 by The American Prospect, Inc. Preferred Citation: Robert Kuttner, "Constraining Capital, Liberating Politics," The American Prospect vol. | | | For although global capital flows are more or less free and currency values are more or less set by market forces, governments and central bankers do recognize, if only through periodic ad hoc interventions, that the stakes are simply too high to let speculative capital and currency swings determine the fate of the real economy. |
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| | China |
| | Chinese officials said she canceled their planned meeting to protest laudatory comments about the Yasukuni shrine made by Japanese officials. | | | China, which has now outlawed the sect, was thought to consider the apolitical spiritual group threatening because its numbers exceeded the membership of the Chinese Communist Party. | | | The failure of the Great Leap Forward touched off a power struggle within the Chinese Communist Party between Mao and his supporters and a reformist faction including future premier Deng Xiaoping. |
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| | La Paz - Current News & Information |
| | SAN LUIS DE LA PAZ, Mexico - The body of a Mexican-American who became a US Marine and was killed in Iraq returned to his home town on Saturday to be greeted... | | | The men are accused of working with police detective Mark De La Paz, who was cleared last year on federal charges in the fake drugs case but has since been... | | | They are accused of working with police detective Mark De La Paz, who was cleared last year on federal charges in the fake drugs case but has since been fired. |
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| | History of Ancient Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The facts are obscure as to whether Ramesses II defended Egypt against the Sea People because they were invading, or if they were people fleeing to Egypt in the middle of a war. | | | The history of ancient Egypt begins around 3100 BC when Egypt became a unified Egyptian state. | | | It is uncertain who Sonchis was, an Egyptian priest of Thebes, and why Plato wrote about Atlantis as described by this priest. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Egypt |
| | Egypt is bounded on the north by the Mediterranean Sea; on the east by the Gaza Strip, Israel, and the Red Sea; on the south by Sudan; and on the west by Libya. | | | In 1979, under President Anwar al-Sadat, Egypt became the first Arab nation to sign a peace treaty with the Jewish state of Israel. | | | Egypt has been a coherent political entity with a recorded history since about 3200 bc. |
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| | Ministry of Planning & Untl. Cooperation - YEMEN |
| | Sana’a is the political and historic capital of the Republic of Yemen. | | | The capital city of Sana’a occupies a third of the total internal migration followed by Hodieda and Aden with 16% and 14% respectively. | | | Al Hawta is the capital city and is located on the delta of Wadi Tuban, which is famous for the purity of its running water and rich gardens of jasmine trees and roses. |
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| | phorum - Chinese Culture Forum at Asiawind - The historical significance of the Battle of Talas River |
| | As a result of China's defeat by the Arabs, Chinese influence in the Central and Western Asia ceased. | | | In an often too familiar way of major powers involving themselves in the affairs of smaller states, the Chinese backed Ferghana and the Arabs sided with Tashkent. | | | The Chinese historians do not consider it important as it was "outside" China and the European historians tend to focus on the interaction between themselves and the Islamic civilisation rather than between Islam and China. |
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| | OSC: News Release 2000 - Commission Issues Temporary Cease Trading Order Against DJL Capital Corp. and Dennis John Little - CVMO: Communiqué 2000 - |
| | to consider, among other things, whether the Temporary Order should be extended pending the conclusion of the hearing against DJL Capital and Little. | | | On October 13, 1999 the Commission issued a Notice of Hearing and Statement of Allegations against DJL Capital, Little, Dual Capital Management Limited ("Dual Capital") and other respondents. | | | The Temporary Order states that during the period from September, 1997 to September, 1998 DJL Capital accepted subscriptions to units (the "Units") in DJL Capital from investors residing in Ontario and raised funds in the amount of (at least) Cdn. |
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| | Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Egypt was the first Arab state to establish diplomatic relations with the state of Israel, after the signing of the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty at the Camp David Accords. | | | In 1979, Sadat made peace with Israel in exchange for the Sinai, a move that sparked enormous controversy in the Arab world and led to Egypt's expulsion from the Arab League (it was readmitted in 1989). | | | Egypt has a major influence amongst other Arab states, and has historically played an important role as a mediator in resolving disputes between various Arab nations, and in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. |
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| | BHARAT RAKSHAK MONITOR Volume 3(3) |
| | The initial attacks had been badly mauled and disorganised. | | | The Chinese were bent upon exploiting the large Hoa (ethnic Chinese population) in South Vietnam for the purposes of destabilisation. | | | The border dispute was a pretext conveniently exploited by the Chinese to launch a swift and sudden invasion (that caught the Indians totally by surprise), inflict a humiliating local defeat and then stage a magnanimous unilateral withdrawal that was designed to underline the impotence of the victim nation. |
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| | Taiwan Communiqué no. 69 |
| | We presented a number of articles and commentaries which concluded that the exercises constituted a major threat to safety and security in the East Asia region. | | | However, overall the United States has sent mixed signals, which have encouraged the hardliners in Beijing to continue to believe they can continue their confrontational actions against Taiwan without significant repercussions from the American side. | | | Since mid-September, the Chinese authorities have conducted further military maneuvers, with the clear intention to threaten and intimidate the people of Taiwan, and influence the legislative elections. |
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| | Atour north |
| | It had been a human settlement long before it beccame a capital, and it was known to have come under the dominion of Akkad, of the Third Dynasty of Ur, and of the Babylonians in the 31st year of Hammurabi's reign. | | | It was the thrid Assyrian capital after Assur and Nimrud, and its position in the centre of the original Assyrian land betwwen the rivers Tigris and Zab gave it an added administrative and religious importance. | | | The fourth capital of Assyria, built by King Sargon II (712 - 705 B.C.) on a square with a mud-bick wall with 7 gates. |
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| | Europe Canals |
| | The national parks are based on the National Atlas Information Service (NAIS) 1:7.5 million digital maps created by Natural Resources Canada for publishing of the National Atlas of Canada. | | | The highways are from the National Atlas Information Service (NAIS) 1:2 million digital maps created by Natural Resources Canada for publishing of the National Atlas of Canada. | | | The provincial parks are based on the National Atlas Information Service (NAIS) 1:2 million digital maps created by Natural Resources Canada for publishing of the National Atlas of Canada. |
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| | The New Colossus: The New Politics of Capital |
| | Oddly enough, this small-d democratic brand of politics is well suited to the daunting realm of finance capital. | | | Angelides is familiar with the accounting fallacies of capitalism because he's a capitalist himself, a developer and investor who made his fortune in California real estate. | | | What had been remote skirmishes over esoteric financial rules suddenly became a very visible political fight. |
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| | Chinese |
| | Xinhua China to Offer On-Line Excerpts of Chinese and English Language Books For National and Export Markets. | | | Grant to UO will teach students Chinese for business, diplomacy.(Higher Education) (The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)) | | | Chinese comprises a number of variants; those that are mutually unintelligible are considered separate languages by some linguists but are classed among the many dialects of Chinese by others. |
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| | SkyscraperCity Forums - Why isn't LA the capital of California? |
| | Thus, putting the capital in a big city would likely be political suicide, because most people thought of cities as these corrupt, dangerous places where people were the victims of myriad crimes and such. | | | And Chad is right, I believe: Talahassee IS Florida's capital. | | | It goes back to the notion of the capital of a state not just representing the urban interests of the state, but all residents, sort of the same notion that drives the existance of the electoral college. |
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| | CAPITAL CITY |
| | Beaming into Capital City these strange Young Aliens will be popping up when expect them. | | | Capital City is a magical environment of theatres and stages, cafes and clubs, craft villages, tents, water sculptures and technology installations. | | | At Congress, Capital City's Parliament, the most fundamental issues that confront Australia today are explored and discussed by young people who have the chance to listen and cross examine each other and a range of witnesses ranging from environmental gurus to the State Premier. |
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