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Burnham's and power
Under his reign, there were nightly power outages known as " blackouts ", and it was during this time that Burnham's thugs robbed and pillage.

Burnham's and Guyana
* Guyana under Forbes Burnham's PNC dictatorship, from 1970 – 1985
After the 1968 elections, Burnham's policies became more leftist as he announced he would lead Guyana to socialism.
Burnham's control over Guyana began to weaken when the Jonestown massacre brought unwanted international attention.

Burnham's and was
James Burnham's theory has been much discussed, but few people have yet considered its ideological implications ;— this is, the kind of world-view, the kind of beliefs, and the social structure that would probably prevail in a State which was at once unconquerable and in a permanent state of ' cold war ' with its neighbours.
A compromise was reached by which members of what had become Burnham's faction received ministerial appointments.
Burnham's wing of the PPP moved to the right, leaving Jagan's wing on the left, where he was regarded with considerable apprehension by Western governments and the colony's conservative business groups.
Burnham's move toward the right was accomplished with the merger of his PPP faction and the United Democratic Party into a new organization, the People's National Congress ( PNC ).
Although the Afro-Guyanese middle class was uneasy with Burnham's leftist leanings, the PNC remained a shield against Indo-Guyanese dominance.
Opposed to Burnham's authoritarianism, the WPA was a multi-ethnic combination of politicians and intellectuals that advocated racial harmony, free elections, and democratic socialism.
Rodney was a well-known leftist, and the circumstances of his death damaged Burnham's image with many leaders and intellectuals in less-developed countries who earlier had been willing to overlook the authoritarian nature of his government.
Burnham's real-life adventures also heavily influenced H. Rider Haggard who created the fictional Allan Quatermain adventurer, a character who later was transformed by George Lucus into Indiana Jones ..
Burnham's plan was commissioned by the Ocean Shore Railroad, which developed El Granada as a seaside resort for visitors from San Francisco.
Though Burnham maintained overall control of the design process, he was not directly connected with the details of the structure as built ; credit should be shared with his designer Frederick P. Dinkelberg, a Pennsylvania-born architect in Burnham's office, who first worked for Burnham in putting together the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, for which Burnham was the chief of construction and master designer.
This was the original site for Burnham's planned government center and capitol building.
James Burnham's theory has been much discussed, but few people have yet considered its ideological implications — that is, the kind of world-view, the kind of beliefs, and the social structure that would probably prevail in a state which was at once unconquerable and in a permanent state of " cold war " with its neighbors.
Rodney's ideas of the various ethnic groups who were all historically disenfranchised by the ruling colonial class, working together, was in conflict with Burnham's maniacal need for control.
Former CSO President Henry Fogel, at whose behest more than 50 percent of Burnham's original interior was lost forever, admitted that the revised acoustics of the auditorium are flawed, and brought in acoustician Russel Johnson to render a second opinion.
He was commissioned to help Chicago celebrate the centennial of Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago and produced a work entitled Plans that was performed at the Grant Park Music Festival in June 2009.
This plan was further elaborated upon in Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago, and in 1911 a plan was selected that included the widening of Michigan Avenue from Randolph Street to the river, replacing the Rush Street bridge with a new bridge at Michigan Avenue and the construction of a double-decked boulevard along Pine Street as far as Ohio Street.
At the heart of the design was the creation of the National Mall and eventually included Burnham's Union Station.
Orwell was familiar with the works of James Burnham having reviewed Burnham's Managerial Revolution prior to writing Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The edge of the pond around Daniel Burnham's burial island was once lined with broken headstones and coping transported from Lincoln Park.
She often addressed political issues, like the socialist policies which was perceived as oppression of the Indian community because of the restriction of flour and dall ( splitpeas ) by Forbes Burnham's of the People's National Congressin reality these policies were hard against all Guyanese.

Burnham's and opposition
Shortly before Burnham's death, he and other members of the PNC had embarked on talks with the opposition People's Progressive Party attempting to achieve a national unity formula to deal with the country's problems.

Burnham's and groups
Clearly, Burnham's stated preference for socialism would not bind those two groups together against Jagan, an avowed Marxist.

Burnham's and were
In the December 1964 election, the PPP won a plurality of votes, but Burnham's party, the People's National Congress, and the conservative United Force were nevertheless invited to form the government.
It seems that Native Americans were quick to improve their techniques upon the discovery of brightly coloured yarns that they did not have access to previous to contact, and often took apart fabrics to reuse the yarn for sashes, and a photo of an example is shown in Burnham's book.
Fifty years after Burnham's discovery, several similar nebulae were discovered which were so small as to be almost star-like in appearance.
The divisions of Newton and Howe were the ones engaged together with Col Hiram Burnham's Light Division.

Burnham's and .
I disagree with Mr. Burnham's position on the Common Market ( Nov. 18 ) as a desirable organization for us to join.
Burnham's Celestial Handbook: An observer's guide to the universe beyond the solar system, vol 2.
* Robert Burnham Jr., Burnham's Celestial Handbook, Vol.
Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago proposed a cultural center, containing a library and two museums, as the centerpiece of the park.
Cheddi Jagan and Burnham failed to win seats, but Burnham's campaign made a favorable impression on many Afro-Guyanese citizens.
Burnham's appeals to race proved highly successful in bridging the schism that divided the Afro-Guyanese along class lines.
Although the WPA did not become an official political party until 1979, it evolved as an alternative to Burnham's PNC and Jagan's PPP.
Shachtman and Burnham's tendency resigned from the International in early 1940, alongside almost 40 % of the SWP's members, many of whom became founder members of the Workers Party.
Northerly Island, owned by the Chicago Park District, is the only lakefront structure to be built based on Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago.
Burnham's other works included overseeing the design for the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago and designing the 1902 Flatiron Building in New York City.
Temple members took pains to stress their loyalty to Burnham's Peoples National Congress Party.

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