( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.

He recalled that in California after a critic had attacked him for `` still trying to sell Bruckner to the Americans '', the public's response at the next concert was a standing ovation.

But before this came about, 214,938 Americans had given their lives in battle for the two concepts of the sovereign rights of men and of states.

S.K. was visiting C.C.B. and, not waiting for breakfast, he was off to the University Club, where he spent hours writing obituaries of living Americans for The Manchester Guardian or The Glasgow Herald.

Finally, colleges and clubs took the line that speakers from England were not wanted any longer, even speakers like S.K., so unlike the novelists and poets who had patronized the Americans for many years.

For it was the millions of buffalo and prairie chicken and the endless seas of grass that symbolized for a whole generation of Americans the abundant supply that was to take many of them westward when the Ohio and Mississippi valleys began to fill.

In that decade the partisan zeal to defend Mr. Hoover, and the party's failure to anticipate or cope with the depression, caused a great majority of Americans to see the Republican party as cold and lacking in any sympathy for the problems of human beings caught up in the distress and suffering brought on by the economic crash.

The highway system is an agency of government, and when it grinds up 40,000 Americans every year the government is destroying its own taxpayers, which is obviously a silly thing for any government to do.

I concur that it is necessary for Americans to have a confrontation of the situation existing in foreign lands.

The Americans, like yourself, take the fact for granted, try to be helpful, but don't ask questions.

They come prepared for family fun because Americans in ever-growing numbers are learning that here is the way to a fine economical vacation that becomes a family experience of lasting importance.

Then, too, European drivers have reputations for being somewhat crazy on the road and some Americans are not particularly keen on getting mixed up with them.

for example Americans rally to Christian values vis-a-vis those of atheistic communism.

I have often searched for a graphic way of impressing our superiority on those Americans who have doubts, and I think Mr. Jameson Campaigne has done it well in his new book American Might And Soviet Myth.

Martin called for patience on the part of Americans.

No matter how many Americans go abroad in summer, probably a hundred times as many gas up the family car, throw suitcases, kids and comic books in the back seat, and head for home.

-- Two Americans and seven Cubans were executed by firing squads today as Castro military tribunals began decreeing the death penalty for captured invasion forces and suspected collaborators.

Foliage pilgrimages, either organized or individual, are becoming an autumn item for more and more Americans each year.

The Department of Agriculture averaged out U.S. food consumption last year at 1,488 lbs. per person, which, allowing for the 17 million Americans that John Kennedy said go to bed hungry every night, means that certain gluttons on the upper end must somehow down 8 lbs. or more a day.

Despite his personal distaste for obesity ( `` disgusting '' ), Dr. Keys has only an incidental interest in how much Americans eat.

What concerns him much more is the relationship of diet to the nation's No. 1 killer: coronary artery disease, which accounts for more than half of all heart fatalities and kills 500,000 Americans a year -- twice the toll from all varieties of cancer, five times the deaths from automobile accidents.

* Americans for Democratic Action, American liberal political advocacy organization

* 1831 – Nat Turner's slave rebellion commences just after midnight in Southampton County, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who are killed in retaliation for the uprising.

However, this ambiguity has been the source of controversy, particularly among Latin Americans, who feel that using the term solely for the United States misappropriates it.

* Americans for Tax Reform – 100 % for 2006

However, the Tax Reform Act of 1986 greatly expanded the AMT to aim at a different set of deductions that most Americans receive.

Except for a brief appearance by Colin Powell, who hurriedly addressed the closing stages of the conference while his airplane taxied on the runway of Johannesburg International, the US government did not send a delegation, earning Bush praise in a letter from conservative organizations such as Americans for Tax Reform, American Enterprise Institute, and Competitive Enterprise Institute.

* Grover Norquist, founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform

* Grover Norquist-founder and president, Americans for Tax Reform

He has also been presented the " Spirit of Enterprise Award " by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, the " Guardian of Small Business Award " by the National Federation of Independent Business, and the " Friend of the Taxpayer Award " by the Americans for Tax Reform.

Washington insider and president of Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist, an old Reed ally, said of the appointments: " What you've got is Reagan and Gingrich.

* Americans for Tax Reform called Blackburn a " taxpayer hero " in 2003.

He signed the " Taxpayer Protection Pledge " of the Americans for Tax Reform, an organization that opposes all tax increases.

* Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform

Several organizations are working for tax reform in the United States including Americans for Tax Reform, Americans For Fair Taxation and KillYourTaxes. com.

* Americans for Tax Reform

* Americans for Tax Reform

Americans for Tax Reform is a 501 ( c )( 4 ) organization with 14 employees, finances of $ 3, 912, 958, and a membership of 60, 000 ( as of 2004 ).

The associated educational wing is the Americans for Tax Reform Foundation, which is classified as a 501c ( 3 ) research and educational organization.

The taxpayer protection pledge was created in 1986 by Americans for Tax Reform as part of the effort to protect the lower marginal tax rates of Reagan ’ s Tax Reform Act of 1986.

Americans for Tax Reform responded by calling the attack ad " blatantly false.

* Americans for Tax Reform

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She also spoke out in opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act, garnering her the praise of Americans for Tax Reform.

On economic issues including voting on the national budget, national spending, and taxes, in 2007, the National Tax Limitation Committee gave Chambliss a 90 % rating, and the group Americans for Tax Reform gave him a 100 % rating.