Of course a fixed exchange rate was incompatible with a structural ( i. e., recurrent ) budget deficit, as the government needed to borrow more US Dollars every year to finance its budget deficit ; eventually leading to an unsustainable amount of US dollar debt.

Windcharger appeared sparingly in the US Marvel Comic, but his magnetic powers were a recurrent theme in the early UK-only stories.

* Centennia Historical Atlas required reading at the US Naval Academy for over a decade.

In the US, the ubiquity of the phonics method of teaching reading, which emphasizes the importance of " sounding out " spelling in learning to read, also puts a premium on the prescriptive learning of spelling.

alt = A multilane divided highway approaching an interchange with a sign over the road reading U. S. Route 130 north Trenton with two down arrowsAt this point, US 30 forms a concurrency with US 130 and the two routes head north, passing under the PATCO Speedline before meeting CR 561 at an interchange.

alt = A stamp on a bridge reading State Highway Route 25The entire length of US 130 follows a part of the Ocean Highway, a coastal highway that ran from New Brunswick south to Jacksonville, Florida.

alt = A four lane divided highway at a ramp with a green sign reading Yardville Allentown with an arrow pointing to the upper rightBy 1938, US 130 was extended south along Route 45 and Route 44 to end at US 40 in Pennsville where the connection to Hook Road now hits Route 49.

alt = A set of three signs reading U. S. Route 130 south left, left turn right turn only, and Route 171 north rightIn the 1953 renumbering, US 130 replaced Route 44 and parts of Route 45 and Route 25, as well as the short Route 25M into New Brunswick.

Many non-commercial educational FM stations in the US ( especially public radio stations affiliated with NPR ) broadcast a radio reading service for the blind, which reads articles in local newspapers and sometimes magazines.

Importantly, if one accepts this reading of the book, the alienation experienced by the soldiers on returning to Earthhere caused by the time dilation effectbecomes a clear metaphor for the reception given to US troops returning to America from Vietnam, including the way in which the war ultimately proves useless and its result meaningless.

Stapp starts his speech with this declaration, “ On behalf of the entire membership of the American Servicemen ’ s Union, I ’ d like to avail myself of this opportunity to extend the greatest honor and thanks to the great leader of the 40 million Korean people, Comrade Kim Il-song, ever-victorious, iron-willed, brilliant commander and outstanding leader of the international communist and working-class movements, who has shown such a warm solicitude as to invite me to the congress and make it possible for me to stand on this high rostrum .” In the same speech, Stapp continues to express his indignation against US imperialism and encourages the reading of “ the works of genius of Marshal Kim Il-song, outstanding Marxist-Leninist of present times, books which contain the basic positions, attitudes, strategy, and tactics that should be adopted by revolutionaries in any country or in any part of the world .” In closing, Stapp promised to return to America and “ share with my comrades the great chuche idea that they may be aroused to struggle more vigorously against the U. S. policy of aggression .” Kim Sung Il was regarded by the WWP and its front organizations as the great leader of modern times, and their closest friend and instructor, who was able to guide the WWP in their struggle for solidarity.

* US Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( NRC ) website with search function and electronic public reading room

The LeapPad was LeapFrog's flagship product from 1999 up until it was discontinued in late 2007 ( early-mid 2008 outside the US ), and replaced by the Tag reading system.

The investigation, assisted by Trinity Foundation president Ole Anthony and broadcast on ABC's Primetime Live on November 21, 1991, alleged that Tilton's ministry threw away prayer requests without reading them, keeping only the accompanying money or valuables sent to the ministry by viewers, garnering his ministry an estimated US $ 80 million a year.

After reading about the auction in a newspaper, Greek-born Canadian real estate developer Andreas Apostolopoulos, CEO of Toronto-based Triple Properties Inc., submitted a winning bid of US $ 550, 000.

Congress settled on $ 3, 000 in compensation, and interred what little remained of the victims in a local cemetery with tombstones reading " Unknown, US Navy, 17 July 1944 ".

The Killer Angels has been required reading, at various times, at the US Army Officer Candidate School, The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, the U. S. Army Command and General Staff College, the U. S. Army War College, the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, the U. S. Army Special Forces Detachment Officer Qualification Course, and The Basic School for Marine Officers ( TBS ).

NYU Abu Dhabi recruited an outstandingly strong first freshman class, which was notable for its selectivity ( 189 students were accepted out of 9, 048 applicants worldwide ( an acceptance rate of 2. 1 percent ), with a 79. 4 percent yield ), its geographic diversity ( the class of 150 students will include students from 39 countries on six continents ), and the academic qualifications of its students ( at the classes ’ 75th percentile, the SAT critical reading score was 770 ( ranking it fifth among US universities ) and the math score was 780 ( ranking it sixth ); the median SAT score ( on the 1600 scale ) was 1470 ).

Burroughs ' Barsoom series was popular with American readers, helping inspire their support for the US Space Program, and also scientists who grew up on reading the novels.

The report chronicled gruesome details of the events in 1953: how, by spending a meager sum of $ 1 million, the CIA " stirred up considerable unrest in Iran, giving Iranians a clear choice between instability and supporting the shah "; how it brought " the largest mobs " into the street ; how it " began disseminating ' gray propaganda ' passing out anti-Mossadegh cartoons in the streets and planting unflattering articles in local press "; how the CIA's " Iranian operatives pretending to be Communists threatened Muslim leaders with ' savage punishment if they opposed Mossadegh '"; how the " house of at least one prominent Muslim was bombed by CIA agents posing as Communists "; how the CIA tried to " orchestrate a call for a holy war against Communism "; how on August 19 " a journalist who was one of the agency's most important Iranian agents led a crowd toward Parliament, inciting people to set fire to the offices of a newspaper owned by Dr. Mossadegh's foreign minister "; how American agents swung " security forces to the side of the demonstrators "; how the shah's disbanded " Imperial Guard seized trucks and drove through the street "; how by " 10: 15 there were pro-shah truckloads of military personnel at all main squares "; how the " pro-shah speakers went on the air, broadcasting the coups ' success and reading royal decrees "; how at the US embassy, " CIA officers were elated, and Mr. Roosevelt got General Zahedi out of hiding " and found him a tank that " drove him to the radio station, where he spoke to the nation "; and, finally, how " Dr. Mossadegh and other government officials were rounded up, while officers supporting General Zahedi placed ' unknown supports of TP-Ajax ' in command of all units of Tehran garrison.

She had learned about community organizing from interest in coalitions between unions and community organizations, reading Saul Alinsky and spending time with a variety of community organizations in the US and UK.

A chrome badge reading " Silver Cloud III " in an italic font can be seen on the right bottom side of the trunk of most UK and European delivered examples, whilst US versions were delivered without this badge.

The US national mean scores in 2011 were ; critical reading 497, math 514, writing 489.

By the mid-1990s peace studies curricula in the US had shifted "... from research and teaching about negative peace, the cessation of violence, to positive peace, the conditions that eliminate the causes of violence.

AMSA's action committees and interest groups help expose medical students to information on subjects not generally covered in traditional curricula, and is the only major national medical organization in the US that accepts no sponsorship or funding from any pharmaceutical company.

There is a history of political controversy within organized US Ásatrú, mostly surrounding the question of how to deal with such adherents as place themselves in a context of the far right and white supremacy, notably resulting in the fragmentation of the Asatru Free Assembly in 1986.

There is a controversy regarding whether the US racial gap in IQ scores is converging.

The memoir became cause for controversy, because shortly before Derrida published his piece, it had been discovered by the Belgian literary critic Ortwin de Graef that long before his academic career in the US, de Man had written almost two hundred essays in a pro-Nazi newspaper during the German occupation of Belgium, including several that were explicitly antisemitic.

Upon entering the US Open as the defending champion that year, he caused controversy when, after losing in the quarterfinals to Jim Courier, Sampras said that he was not disappointed and felt relieved that the pressure to defend his title was no longer on him.

MoMA's reopening brought controversy as its admission cost increased from US $ 12 to US $ 20, making it one of the most expensive museums in the city ; however it has free entry on Fridays after 4pm, thanks to sponsorship from Target Stores.

Ludwig von Mises stated despite some controversy at the Mont Pelerin Society that Erhard and Müller-Armack accomplished a great act of liberalism to restore the German economy and called this “ a lesson for the US ”.

In 1969, under pressure after the Shapp controversy, Annenberg sold The Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News, which he bought in 1957, to Knight Newspapers for US $ 55 million.

Though there is still some controversy surrounding this point, to date no-one has offered proof that the episode did NOT air on that date in any US market.

* The 2009 auction ( for US $ 36 million ) of two imperial bronze zodiac sculptures collected by Yves Saint Laurent, looted in 1860 from the Old Summer Palace of Beijing by French and British forces at the close of the Second Opium War caused controversy.

* April 5 – US Interior Secretary James G. Watt causes controversy when he effectively bans the Beach Boys from a return performance at the Fourth of July festivities in Washington, announcing that Wayne Newton would perform instead.

There was controversy when it emerged that US psychologists and psychiatrists were helping interrogators in Guantanamo and other US facilities.

There has been much controversy surrounding the project as some say, at an estimated cost of US $ 160 million, it could set back the country's economy.

Trade with the US is not the only issue which has created controversy.

Walker was also attacked by the Serbian media for his role as a US diplomat in Central America in the 1980s, at a time when the involvement of the US in a number of civil and political conflicts in the region was a subject of major controversy.

The controversy over whether the US had foreknowledge of the Pearl Harbor attack has roiled well into the 21st century.

Its official purpose is the tracking of space junk ; however, due to the site's proximity to Russia, and an alleged connection between the Globus II system and US anti-missile systems, the site has been the basis for heated controversy in diplomatic and intelligence circles.

) The rules formerly required that the American service be removed if a Canadian equivalent is launched ; this caused controversy when the US version of CMT was removed from the lineup when a new Canadian country music channel called the New Country Network launched.

With the US entry into World War I, Wood was recommended by Republicans, in particular Henry Cabot Lodge, to be the U. S. field commander ; however, War Secretary Newton Baker instead appointed John J. Pershing, amid much controversy.

Christoph Meili's disclosure of UBS Nazi-era documents in 1997 caused an international controversy that resulted in a US $ 1. 25 billion settlement with Holocaust survivors seeking " unclaimed property " from World War II.

Most of the Bosnian Army's supply of weapons was air-lifted from the Muslim world, specifically Iran-an issue which became the subject of some controversy and a US congressional investigation in 1996.