The American Nation A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition)

All of the homes in this new neighborhood of Brentwood, California are for sale, evidence of the collapse of the mortgage market ...

Obama as President 871 $14.5trillion—twenty times more than in 1974. Nearly 10 percent of all American mortgages were delinquent ...

872 Chapter 32 Shocks and Responses: 1992–Present models on which modern trading was based; unfortu- nately, few Wall Street exe ...

Health Care Reform 873 Then word leaked out that hundreds of millions of dollars had been paid in bonuses to executives of Goldm ...

874 Chapter 32 Shocks and Responses: 1992–Present medical profession for failing to weed out incompe- tent doctors. Nearly every ...

Environmental Concerns and Disaster in the Gulf 875 China, the worst air polluter in the world—were exempted from its costly pro ...

876 Chapter 32 Shocks and Responses: 1992–Present drilling pipe and exploded, blasting eleven workers from the platform and engu ...

Afghanistan, Again 877 been driven from power; most of its leaders had been killed or captured or they had fled to Pakistan. Bus ...

878 Chapter 32 Shocks and Responses: 1992–Present U.S. and UN fatalities in Afghanistan, 2001–2010 Kabul Kandahar HELMAND PROVIN ...

The Persistent Past and Imponderable Future 879 lords and crime leaders. Increasingly insurgents bor- rowed techniques that had ...

880 Chapter 32 Shocks and Responses: 1992–Present Key Terms axis of evil A pejorative phrase, coined by President George W. Bush ...

Chapter Summary 881 Read and Review Chapter 32 Bill Clinton and Al Gore on the South Lawn of the White House, 1993,p. 851 Bill C ...

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A1 In Congress, July 4, 1776 The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America, When, in the course of human ev ...

A2 TheDeclaration of Independence of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have remi ...

A3 Preamble We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranqu ...

A4 TheConstitution of the United States of America Number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Atten ...

The Constitution of the United States of America A5 hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not ...

A6 TheConstitution of the United States of America States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the prin- cipal Officer in ...

Article VI All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid agains ...