Examples include the German “ Blue Angel ”, European “ Daisy ” Eco label, Global Eco-Label “ GEN mark ”, Nordic, “ White Swan ”, Japanese “ Earth friendly mark ”; USA “ Green Seal ”, Canadian “ Environmental Choice ”, Chinese “ Huan ”, Singapore “ Green Label ” and the French “ NF Environment mark ”.

In the post – Cold War world of the 21st-century, the French Socialist politician Hubert Védrine describes the USA as a hegemonic hyperpower, while the U. S. political scientists John Mearsheimer and Joseph Nye counter that the USA is not a “ true ” hegemony, because it does not have the resources to impose a proper, formal, global rule ; despite its political and military strength, the USA is economically equal to Europe, thus, cannot rule the international stage.

" USA Today called David “ The hottest name in magic right now ”.

From June 1960 until March 1961 he contributed a weekly strip, “ Brimstone Belcher ”, following the exploits of the titular journo ( a fore-runner of Private Eye ’ s Lunchtime O ’ Booze ), from bizarre skulduggery in the British colonies ( where the squaddies holding back the politicised rabble bear a strong resemblance to privates Rushton and Ingrams ), travelogues through the USA, and the hazards of by-electioneering as the independent candidate for the constituency of Gumboot North.

The piers have become the site of present-day “ Flames Across the Susquehanna ” bridge-burning reenactments sponsored by Rivertownes PA USA.

Other popular attractions include the Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo ( as featured in Animal Planet's, “ The Little Zoo that Could ”); Pelican Place at Craft Farms, a shopping mall ; and Waterville USA, a family amusement / waterpark.

Glendale bills itself as “ Arizona ’ s Antique Capital ,” with support for its claim from both Sunset magazine ( 2004 ) and a 1998 article in USA Today.

Many people at this time called Griffith “ Baseball Town USA ” for its popularity in the town.

In recent years there has been an effort to declare Antlers a “ Main Street USA ” site.

On February 11, 1899, Francis filed an application for copyright of his painting “ Dog Looking At and Listening to a Phonograph .” Thinking the Edison-Bell Company located in New Jersey, USA, might find it useful, he presented it to James E. Hough, who promptly said, “ Dogs don ’ t listen to phonographs .” On May 31, 1899, Barraud went to the Maiden Lane offices of The Gramophone Company with the intention of borrowing a brass horn to replace the original black horn on the painting.

* “ National Insignia ”, Embassy of India, Washington D. C., USA

On May 25, 2010 the UPA rebranded itself as USA Ultimate.

The following description is from the official Ultimate rules established by USA Ultimate:

Regulation play, sanctioned in the United States by the USA Ultimate, occurs at the college ( open & women's divisions ), club ( open, women's, mixed ( co-ed ), masters and grandmasters divisions ) and youth ( boys & girls divisions ) levels, with annual championships in all divisions.

USA Ultimate hosts the Men and Women's HS national championships every year in Blaine, Minnesota.

USA Ultimate also hosts a national Junior's club team tournament and sends a representative team to the World Junior Ultimate Championships, held every two years.

At a lower level, USA Ultimate has also sanctioned organized statewide tournaments in 20 states.

Separated into Open ( nearly 450 teams ) and Women's ( around 200 teams ) Divisions, teams compete in the USA Ultimate College Championship series during the spring.

USA Ultimate Club Ultimate consists of Open, Women's, Masters, Youth and Mixed divisions.

* USA Ultimate Championship Series, an American and Canadian tournament series attended by regional teams ; organized by USA Ultimate.

* USA Ultimate

* USA Ultimate ( USAU ) ( formerly Ultimate Players Association ( UPA ))

Issue three, an anthology comic called Tales of the Uncanny, featured USA, Ultimate Special Agent based on Captain America, and Hypernaut, who was based on Iron Man, with elements taken from Silver Surfer, Green Lantern, Arnim Zola ( in appearance ), and Swamp Thing.

Tucows Inc. or Tucows ( originally an acronym for The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software, a name which has long since been dropped ) was formed in Flint, Michigan, USA in 1993.

* Ultimate Poker Babes-( USA, 2005 )

* Men's and Women's Ultimate Frisbee ( USA Ultimate, Division III )

USA Ultimate is a not-for-profit organization that serves as the governing body of the sport of Ultimate ( also known as ultimate frisbee ) in the United States.

" That same year, the Pittsburg Press reported that “ The Maharishi has been criticised by other Eastern yogis for simplifying their ancient art .” The Maharishi appeared as a guest on The Merv Griffin Show in 1975 and again in 1977 and this resulted in " tens of thousands of new practitioners ” around the USA.

The record was released in early 1968, at a time when there was a receptive audience for “ underground music ” which combined musical experimentalism with radical social and / or political lyrics – other examples, in their very different ways, including the Velvet Underground ( who shared a common background in the New York experimental music scene ; according to Moskowitz, Nico at one point tried to join the USA ), Frank Zappa ( whom Byrd considered a niche-marketer " subsumed in a self-referential loop "), Love ’ s Forever Changes, Country Joe and the Fish, and Jefferson Airplane.

The band was fashioned after a USA College football team band, and it is a high energy “ rah-rah ” group.

In the late 1990s, it was recognised by Canadian agricultural authorities as a new “ evolving breed ” and in 2002 a similar separate breed initiative was started in the USA.

On the brink of bankruptcy, a combination of pressure from the USA, the IMF and technocrats from Opus Dei managed to “ convince ” the regime to adopt a free market economy in 1959 in what amounted to a mini coup d ’ etat which removed the old guard in charge of the economy, despite the opposition of Franco.

After beating up and taking the clothes of a “ Campfire Lass ” ( equivalent to Girl Scouts of the USA ), she pretends to be selling cookies in order to gain entry to Arnold's house and steal the tape before he can hear it.

The univisa was originally intended to only be available, initially, to visitors from selected “ source markets ” such as Australia, the Benelux countries, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom and the USA.

He urged Philadelphia record label Cameo / Parkway to record a new version of “ The Twist ” with young, wholesome Chubby Checker, who had displayed his talent for copying other artists on an earlier novelty hit “ The Class .” Released in summer 1960, Checker ’ s rendition of “ The Twist ” became number one on the singles chart in the USA in 1960 and then again in 1962.

“ The culmination of a musical movement ” – USA Today

“ The concert event of the summer ” – USA Today

Laboratory controls indicate that products which declare to include prohormones, prohibited in the USA, in fact contain “ classic ” anabolic steroids of the previous generation.

This made it easier for the retail industry to administer the returnable bottle system, but it also made it possible to launch Jolly Cola as “ The Big Cola ” ( a slogan that not by coincidence resembled Pepsi ’ s success-slogan about the big 12 ounce bottle from the 1930s USA ).

* Microprinting: The redesigned $ 5 bill features microprinting, which is the engraving of tiny text, on the front of the bill in three areas: the words “ FIVE DOLLARS ” can be found repeated inside the left and right borders of the bill ; the words “ E PLURIBUS UNUM ” appear at the top of the shield within the Great Seal ; and the word “ USA ” is repeated in between the columns of the shield.

) Series of mutants, named Ler-x, Col-x, have been obtained and characterized ; mutant lines are generally available through stock centers, of which best known are the Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Center-NASC and the Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center-ABRC in Ohio, USA.

Known as SU for short, Student Union sponsors large-scale campus programs including WILD ( a semesterly concert in the quad ), free copies of the New York Times, USA Today, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch through The Collegiate Readership Program ; it contributes to the Assembly Series, a weekly lecture series produced by the University ; it also funds the campus television station, WUTV and the radio station, KWUR.

It is home to UNLV's Sam Boyd Stadium, which also hosts the USA Sevens leg of the annual IRB Sevens World Series.

Noted professional players who were sponsored by Betfair include John Tabatabai, Sorel Mizzi, Peter Jepsen and World Series of Poker Europe bracelet winner Annette Obrestad Betfair Poker also sponsor the WSOPE festival, which is a European version of the World Series of Poker held in the USA.

The two largest and most well-known tournaments in the USA are the World Poker Tour championship event and the World Series of Poker, both held in Las Vegas.

* The " Joy of the Music "-Television Series with Diane Bish about large pipe organs in USA and in Europe.

* 1990 Little League World Series USA Champion and Runner-up to Taiwan

He later took the Minardi brand into the Champ Car World Series after his purchase of a portion of CTE-HVM Racing which he renamed Minardi Team USA for 2007.

" Tick Tick Boom " was also used in many different advertisements including: the 2007 season of the NFL Network, commercials for the CBS series Jericho, and the USA series Burn Notice, as well as the films Jumper ( 2008 ), MacGruber, and Get Smart, and was also the official theme song for WWE Survivor Series 2007.

: The Sun Valley Tele Series is the longest running telemark series in the USA.

Popular arcade racers are the Virtua Racing series, the Daytona USA series, the Rush, the Ridge Racer series, the Cruis ' n Series, the Midnight Club series, the Burnout series, and Out Run.

" McGraw Hill, Boston, USA, Water Resources and Environmental Engineering Series, 493 pages.

File: WorldSeries1903-640. jpg | The Huntington Avenue Grounds during the 1903 World Series, USA

" First published in Folksong USA, Dylan's " hotel " recording would later be included on The Bootleg Series Vol.

Shows include The Beatle Years with Bob Malik, Beatle Brunch with Joe Johnson, Country Countdown USA, Superstar Concert Series, " Absolutely Live ," Country Gold ( in most markets, also known as Country Gold Saturday Night, but also available on Sunday ), Randy Jackson's Hit List with Randy Jackson and Kesha Monk, 106 and Park Weekend Countdown with Terrence and Rocsi, MTV TRL Weekend Countdown, Off the Record with Mary Turner and later Joe Benson, VH1 Concerts and Specials, Out of Order with Jed the Fish, and the Country Six Pack of holiday music specials.

The Home Depot Center hosted the first three editions ( 2004 – 06 ) of the USA Sevens, an annual competition in the Sevens version of rugby union that is part of the IRB Sevens World Series.

The Vintage Hot-Rod Series ( made in Corona, California ( USA )) feature authentic 1950s and early 1960s designs paired with some hot-rod modifications, including flatter fretboards and larger frets to increase the playability of necks and modern pickups.

In 2006, Major League Gaming was the first televised console gaming league in the United States, with their Halo 2 Pro Series being broadcast by USA Network.

A major focus of USA Ultimate is the Championship Series ; it sanctions certain tournaments that are held throughout the year in three divisions ( Club, College, Youth ) and runs the championship tournaments at the end of the respective seasons.

In March 2007 he was confirmed as the test and reserve driver for Minardi Team USA, former boss Paul Stoddart's recently acquired Champ Car World Series team.