In November 2010, Republican Senator Jim Inhofe ( OK ) called CREW Executive Director Melanie Sloan a " great American " for her organization's work on earmark reform.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington ( CREW ) is a nonprofit 501 ( c )( 3 ) organization that describes itself as " dedicated to promoting ethics and accountability in government and public life by targeting government officials – regardless of party affiliation – who sacrifice the common good to special interests.

In 2010 Politico's Ben Smith described CREW's founding in 2003 as " one of a wave of new groups backed by liberal donors " and called CREW " a vehicle for assaults on largely – but not entirely – Republican targets ".

* The firm was awarded the 2007 CREW Network Impact Award for the category of “ Industry Innovator ” by Commercial Real Estate Women (“ CREW ”).

In 2007, Ms. Magazine quoted longtime Democratic pollster Celinda Lake as saying, " Corruption was a top issue in the midterm elections, and CREW was critical to the Democrats ' success.

Going back in time, F1 Challenge also served as the basis for the freely available ' F1 ' 74 ' 75 Mod ' developed by a modding team called CREW.

Roll Call reported in January 2008 that CREW files most of its complaints against members of Congress, and " all but a handful ... have targeted Republicans ".

It can be CRCW, CREW, or EREW.

According to a study by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, McKeon's campaign committees paid her a total of $ 263, 168 between 2001 and 2006-the highest such payment in the group of Representatives studied by CREW.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington ( CREW ) named Waters to its list of corrupt members of Congress in its 2005, 2006, 2009 and 2011 reports.

In its 2009 report, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington ( CREW ) named Lewis one of the 15 most corrupt members of Congress, saying that his " ethics issues stem primarily from the misuse of his position as chairman of the House Appropriations Committee to steer hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarks to family and friends in direct exchange for contributions to his campaign committee and political action committee.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington ( CREW ) released a report stating that Rep. Baca had paid his daughter $ 27, 000 from campaign funds and donated more than $ 20, 000 to his sons ' political campaigns from his own campaign funds.

In its 2009 report, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington ( CREW ) named Mollohan one of the 15 most corrupt members of Congress, stating that he has " steered hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarks to family, friends, former employees and corporations in exchange for contributions to his campaign and political action committees.

On January 25, 2010, CREW ( Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington ) filed complaints against Rep.

On September 19, 2011, the ethics watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington ( CREW ) released their annual Most Corrupt Members of Congress report.

According to The Washington Post, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington ( CREW ), a watchdog group, asked the Internal Revenue Service in 2005 to revoke CCF's tax-exempt status, alleging that Berman and his company had used CCF to direct over $ 7 million charitable money to himself and his company since 1997, an allegation Berman rejects.

* " CREW Files Complaint Against Social Security Administration -- SSA Paid Fleischman-Hillard $ 1. 8 million ", Media Release, February 23, 2005.

In response, Weldon spokesman Michael Puppio said there is " nothing illegal or improper about any of the actions mentioned " in the CREW report.

The CREW report incorrectly states, " The relationship between Mr. Schaffer and Rep. Weldon is a long one.

CREW issued their analysis of Murphy's alleged ethical lapses, together with various exhibits which CREW asserted supports their naming him to their list of the most corrupt members of Congress.

" One of its most visible projects is " CREW's Most Corrupt ", an annual report of whom CREW determines are Washington's most corrupt politicians.

According to its website, CREW advances its mission using a combination of research, litigation and media outreach.

CREW employs the law as a tool to force officials to act ethically and lawfully and to bring unethical conduct to the public ’ s attention through: litigation, Freedom of Information Act requests, Congressional ethics complaints, Internal Revenue Service complaints, Federal Election Commission complaints, and requests for investigation with government agencies.

CREW has been variously referred to in media as an " independent ", " liberal ", " non-partisan " watchdog group.

CREW publishes several reports concerning political topics and politicians according to its ideology.

On foreign and military policy, Lincoln spoke out against the Mexican – American War, which he attributed to President Polk's desire for " military glory — that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood ".

As early as the 1850s, a time when most political rhetoric focused on the sanctity of the Constitution, Lincoln redirected emphasis to the Declaration of Independence as the foundation of American political values — what he called the " sheet anchor " of republicanism.

The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia — the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).

At the American publisher's insistence, Burgess allowed their editors to cut the redeeming final chapter from the U. S. version, so that the tale would end on a darker note, with Alex succumbing to his violent, reckless nature — an ending which the publisher insisted would be ' more realistic ' and appealing to a U. S. audience.

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The classic example, considered by their American counterparts quite curious, was the maintenance of the internal comma in a British organisation of secret agents called the " Special Operations, Executive " — " S. O., E " — which is not found in histories written after about 1960.

Stokoe used it for his 1965 A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles, the first dictionary with entries in ASL — that is, the first dictionary which one could use to look up a sign without first knowing its conventional gloss in English.

At the time of Kennedy's proposal, only one American had flown in space — less than a month earlier — and NASA had not yet sent an astronaut into orbit.

The city was destroyed partially — and in some parts completely — during the fighting, mostly by American artillery fire and demolitions carried out by the Waffen-SS defenders.

Over the past 400 years the form of the language used in the Americas — especially in the United States — and that used in the United Kingdom have diverged in a few minor ways, leading to the dialects now occasionally referred to as American English and British English.

Nevertheless it remains the case that, although spoken American and British English are generally mutually intelligible, there are enough differences to cause occasional misunderstandings or at times embarrassment — for example some words that are quite innocent in one dialect may be considered vulgar in the other.

* African American Lives, edited by Henry L. Gates, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Oxford University Press, 2004 — more than 600 biographies.

* African American archaeology in Oakland, California — See Part III, Chap 10

The work contexts in which African-Americans sang songs comparable to shanties included: boat-rowing on rivers of the south-eastern U. S. and Caribbean ; the work of stokers or “ firemen ,” who cast wood into the furnaces of steamboats plying great American rivers ; and stevedoring on the U. S. eastern seaboard, the Gulf Coast, and the Caribbean — including " cotton-screwing ": the loading of ships with cotton in ports of the American South.

Edited, with an Afterword, by Sharrar, Avery Hopwood's The Great Bordello, a Story of the Theatre, is a roman à clef that tells the story of Edwin Endsleigh — Hopwood ’ s fictional counterpart — who graduates from the University of Michigan and heads for Broadway to earn his fortune and the security to pursue his one true dream of writing the great American novel.

The feature was launched on Monday, August 13, 1934 in eight North American newspapers — including the New York Mirror — and was an immediate success.

Fans of the strip ranged from novelist John Steinbeck, who called Capp " possibly the best writer in the world today " in 1953, and even earnestly recommended him for the Nobel Prize in literature — to media critic and theorist Marshall McLuhan, who considered Capp " the only robust satirical force in American life.