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Their dialect of Russian ( plus a few words borrowed from Alaska Native languages ) was the primary language spoken in Ninilchik long past the purchase of Russia's interests in Alaska by the U. S. in 1867.
This fact has caused much controversy involving the business interests of Native Regional Corporations and the personal interests of local Native and non-Native residents of Southeastern Alaska.
The Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities validates non-vested interests that would otherwise be void under the common law rule if that interest actually vests within 90 years of its creation ; it has been enacted in 26 states ( Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia ), the District of Columbia, and the U. S. Virgin Islands, and is currently under consideration in New York.
Wyatt later pursued various business interests in Colorado, Idaho, California, Arizona, and Alaska.
The Alaska boundary dispute was resolved by a commission in 1903, at which the British delegate sided with the Americans, stunning Canadians into a realization that the Empire's interests were paramount to Canada's.
In 1903 there was resentment in Canada over the Alaska boundary decision which favoured US interests after a British commissioner sided with them.
In 1867, the Alaska Purchase transferred control of Alaska to the United States and the commercial interests of the Russian American Company were sold to Hutchinson, Kohl & Company of San Francisco, California, who then renamed their company to the Alaska Commercial Company.
He turned to business interests, and served for 12 years as the President of the Alaska Commercial Company, which controlled the fur industry in newly acquired Pribilof Islands.
Depending on the student's remaining requirements, they will have the opportunity to select courses from the Alaska Pacific course catalog relevant to their academic interests.
In 1907, Cunningham had partnered with the Morgan-Guggenheim " Alaska Syndicate " to develop coal interests in Alaska.
United States Northern Command ( USNORTHCOM ) is a Unified Combatant Command of the U. S. military tasked with providing military support for civil authorities in the U. S., and protecting the territory and national interests of the United States within the contiguous United States, Alaska, Canada, Mexico ( and the air, land and sea approaches to these areas ).
In his later career, he represented crown interests in the Bering Sea Arbitration of 1893, and was selected by Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier to represent the Canadian position in a dispute with the United States regarding the boundaries of Alaska.
ICC represents internationally the interests of Inuit in Russia, Alaska, Canada and Greenland.
The string of airports through the lonely tundra and forests of northwest Canada provided an air route to Alaska which was practically invulnerable to attack, and it seemed to be in the best interests of international defense to develop them and open a highway which would at once be a service road for the airports and a means for transporting essential supplies to the Alaskan outposts.
As a legislator and subsequently as Lieutenant Governor, Loren Leman ’ s interests included budget discipline, education accountability, promoting wise use of Alaska ’ s natural resources, and strongly opposing gay rights and abortion.
Born into a wealthy mining family, Guggenheim founded the Yukon Gold Company in Alaska, among other business interests.
James Wickersham, however, grew increasingly concerned over the exploitation of Alaska for personal and corporate interests and took it upon himself to fight for Alaskan self-rule.

interests and Natives
These Criollo and Mestizo republiquetas often allied themselves with the local Indian communities, although it was not always possible to keep the Natives ' loyalty, since their own material and political interests often eclipsed the idea of regional independence.
By 1846 both New Mexico and California had become U. S. territories as a result of the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848, and after 1848 large numbers of Mormon immigrants were settling in Utah, Nevada and California all along the trail, affecting both trade interests and tolerance for the slavery of American Natives.

interests and got
Even though all the persons with ownership rights were losing money with the empty stores, and stores were in great demand, their competing interests got in the way of the effective use of space.
He remembers all three though, since in Musical Marvels, after the montage of his three love interests, he refers to them as " the ones that got away ".
With her husband's family, she got on excellently: she became a mother-figure to her stepdaughter, Mary, who shared Margaret's interests in reading, riding, hunting, and falconry ; her mother-in-law, Isabella of Portugal, said of Margaret that she was " well pleased with the sight of this lovely lady, and pleased with her manners and virtues ".
He says " that they got on well together and had a lot of friends and interests in common ".
He got to remain as counsel at his firm and counsel private clients as long as their interests did not conflict with those of the government, a first for a White House Counsel.
Our interests are aligned and we've got to make this partnership work.
McDermott says that he liked performing with DAAS because it allowed him to bring together a range of his interests — he got to write, perform, sing, create costumes and paint backdrops.
He got his PhD from the University of Amsterdam and his interests include language pedagogy, language policy, and linguistic human rights.
The danger of allowing a station so near the Channel to work on its own ... was felt by the Air Ministry to be grave ... The French Service ( s )... are in complete agreement with the British point of view ... have confessed that the private interests concerned have got the ear of the civil powers France without reference to factors of national security.
She and Mimi used to be friends years ago, but as they got older, their interests diverged, and they started growing apart.
The two got off to a bad start, but found they had interests in common.
Two men, Fitch and Hosmer, got the appointment, and Haskill sold his interests to them, and they published the paper in connection with the State printing.
Lytle continued to work in music off-and-on into the 1960s, but also got involved in other interests, changing his name to Tommy Page and getting into real estate and later opening an interior design business.
One news report said Westin was forced out by Disney CEO Robert Iger, but others reported that he had decided to pursue other interestswith one saying that he " got to announce his departure on his own terms.

interests and him
For there is also the `` face of reality '' in the form of the individual's perceptions of his own abilities and interests, of the objective possibilities open to him, of the familial and other social pressures to which he is exposed.
The doctor, with the air of a man whose professional interests have found scope, drew Alex's attention to those excellences which might otherwise have escaped him: the fine color in comb and wattles, the length and quality of neck and saddle hackles, the firm, wide spread of the toes, and a rare justness in the formation of the ear lappets.
In the above mentioned report of the Notre Dame Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, the basic outlook of the new breed of lay faculty emerges very clearly in the very statement of the problem as the members see it: `` Even with the best of intentions he ( the President of the university ) is loath to delegate such authority and responsibility to a group the membership of which, considered ( as it must be by him ) in individual terms, is inhomogeneous, mortal and of extremely varying temperament, interests and capabilities.
As a riverboat man, Lincoln initially favored those interests, but ultimately represented whoever hired him.
What interests him, he tells Rieux, is how to become a saint, even though he does not believe in God .</ br > Later in the novel, Tarrou tells Rieux, with whom he has become friends, the story of his life.
While Poirot is usually paid handsomely by clients who request his help, he is known to also take on cases that may not pay well simply because the mystery interests him.
Since the mid-1890s Schweitzer had formed the inner resolve that it was needful for him as a Christian to repay to the world something for the happiness which it had given to him, and he determined that he would pursue his younger interests until the age of thirty and then give himself to serving humanity, with Jesus serving as his example.
Johnson's position that the best interests of the Union were served by slavery in some areas made him a practical compromise candidate for president.
Though Brewster duly finished his theological studies and was licensed to preach, his other interests distracted him from the duties of his profession.
Both of Wright's parents were strong-willed individuals with idiosyncratic interests that they passed on to him.
Scheuering argues that his conclusions concur with the economic interests of the companies that pay him, in that the companies want to see a reduction in environmental regulation.
The son of Aelius Nicon, a wealthy architect with scholarly interests, Galen received a comprehensive education that prepared him for a successful career as a physician and philosopher.
As his family disintegrated around him, Parsons developed strong musical interests, particularly after seeing Elvis Presley perform in concert on February 22, 1956, in Waycross.
A later tradition called him Beauclerc for his scholarly interests — he could read Latin and put his learning to effective use — and Lion of Justice for refinements which he brought about in the royal administration, which he rendered the most effective in Europe, rationalizing the itinerant court, and his public espousal of the Anglo-Saxon legal tradition.
Then came an even more shocking confession: according to the CIA document, al-Faruq said two senior al-Qaeda officials, Abu Zubaydah and Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, had ordered him to ' plan large-scale attacks against U. S. interests in Indonesia, Malaysia, ( the ) Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam and Cambodia.
" During the Nazi occupation of France, Cocteau's friend Arno Breker convinced him that Adolf Hitler was a pacifist and patron of the arts with France's best interests in mind.
Washington had differences with Monroe and discharged him as Minister to France, claiming his " inefficiency, disruptive maneuvers, and failure to safeguard the interests of his country.
Although Nehru was disdainful of religion, his theosophical interests had induced him to the study of the Buddhist and Hindu scriptures.
When it is recalled that it was once the task of Owtred to defend the political interests of England against the demands of Avignon, one would more likely see him in agreement with Wycliffe than in opposition.
Tito's leading role in liberating Yugoslavia not only greatly strengthened his position in his party and among the Yugoslav people, but also caused him to be more insistent that Yugoslavia had more room to follow its own interests than other Bloc leaders who had more reasons ( and pressures ) to recognize Soviet efforts in helping them liberate their own countries from Axis control.
In October 1955 Philby was officially cleared by Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan, who told the House of Commons, " I have no reason to conclude that Mr. Philby has at any time betrayed the interests of his country, or to identify him with the so-called ' Third Man ', if indeed there was one.
His notes and drawings display an enormous range of interests and preoccupations, some as mundane as lists of groceries and people who owed him money and some as intriguing as designs for wings and shoes for walking on water.
Liana Bortolon, writing in 1967, said: " Because of the multiplicity of interests that spurred him to pursue every field of knowledge ... Leonardo can be considered, quite rightly, to have been the universal genius par excellence, and with all the disquieting overtones inherent in that term.
Mieszko's interests were then concentrated mainly on areas occupied by the eastern ( near the Oder River ) branches of the Polabian Slavs ; some of them became soon subordinated by him.

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