Adoption was slow at first ; in 2000 the National Federation of the Blind said there were only 3 of these in the USA, one owned by the NFB itself and the other two by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.

In the USA, there have been efforts to pass legislation at the state level encouraging use of free software by state government agencies.

( At the College Park, Maryland, USA, store there is an interactive digital display which tells the history of a tavern which used to exist where the store is currently located.

John Kenneth Galbraith made a classic distinction between " private affluence and public squalor " in the USA, and private squalor and public affluence in ( for example ) Europe, and there is a correlation between individualism and degrees of public-sector intervention and taxation.

Later that summer, as donations sharply declined in the wake of Bakker's resignation and the end of the Bakkers ' popular PTL Club TV show, Falwell raised $ 20 million to help keep the Heritage USA Theme Park solvent, including a well-publicized waterslide plunge there.

Unlike certain other jurisdictions ( notably the USA and much of Europe ), UK money laundering offences are not limited to the proceeds of serious crimes, nor are there any monetary limits, nor is there any necessity for there to be a money laundering design or purpose to an action for it to amount to a money laundering offence.

Earl Browder, head of the Communist Party USA, stated that " there is as much chance of agreement as of Earl Browder being elected president of the Chamber of Commerce.

The brand name Gramophone was not used in the USA after 1901, and the word fell out of use there, though it has survived in its nickname form, Grammy, as the title of the Grammy Awards.

A test Soviet connection to Austria in 1982 existed, in 1982 and 1983 there were series of " world computer conferences " at VNIIPAS initiated by the U. N. where USSR was represented by a team of scientists from many Soviet Republics headed by biochemist Anatoly Klyosov ; the other participating countries were UK, USA, Canada, Sweden, FRG, GDR, Italy, Finland, Philippines, Guatemala, Japan, Thailand, Luxembourg, Denmark, Brazil and New Zealand.

In parts of North America such as Buffalo, USA or Montreal, Canada, there is a required minimum slope of 6 inches in 12 inches, a pitch of 30 degrees.

Due to patent restrictions not all manufacturers offer concave tips everywhere ; in particular there are restrictions in the USA.

In USA there is the Infant Swimming Resource ( ISR ) initiative that provides lessons for infant children, to cope with emergency situation when they have fallen into water.

Since there was no federal regulation in the USA concerning safety and effectiveness of drugs until the 1906 Food and Drugs Act and various medicine salesmen or manufacturers seldom had enough skills in analytical chemistry to analyze the contents of snake oil, it became the archetype of hoax.

" USA Today gave the film three out of four stars and felt that the Dude was " too passive a hero to sustain interest ", but that there was " enough startling brilliance here to suggest that, just like the Dude, those smarty-pants Coens will abide.

Cases in which there is some likelihood that at least a partial inspiration has been located include " The Death Car ," traced by Richard Dorson to Michigan, United States ; " the Solid Cement Cadillac " and the possible origin of " The Hook " in the 1946 series of Lovers ' Lane murders in Texarkana, Texas, USA.

It was not until the sinking of the ferry that there was a widespread reaction in the USA.

The widespread smoking of cigarettes in the Western world is largely a 20th century phenomenon – at the start of the century the per capita annual consumption in the USA was 54 cigarettes ( with less than 0. 5 % of the population smoking more than 100 cigarettes per year ), and consumption there peaked at 4, 259 per capita in 1965.

Other examples are My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss ( modeled after The Apprentice ), My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance, Hell Date ( modeled after Blind Date ), Superstar USA ( modeled after American Idol ), Space Cadets ( which convinced the hoax targets that they were being flown into space ), Punk'd ( involving celebrities in staged crises ), Invasion Iowa ( in which a town was convinced that William Shatner was filming a movie there ), and Reality Hell ( different target and premise every episode ).

The significant linseed producing countries are Canada (~ 34 %) and China (~ 25. 5 %), though there is also production in India (~ 9 %), USA (~ 8 %), Ethiopia (~ 3. 5 %) and throughout Europe.

* Norman Rockwell: Once upon a time there Was the American Dream by Tiziano Thomas Dossena, Bridge Puglia USA, April 2011

As I write, there is an important one-off performance on offer, in the USA, and it remains to be decided whether we will take up this particular challenge.

In many countries, such as the USA, the UK and Australia, most private defined benefit plans are funded, because governments there provide tax incentives to funded plans ( in Australia they are mandatory ).

In some parts of the USA, there are laws forbidding the exposure of female nipples, which have thus to be covered by pasties by the dancer ( though no such taboo applies to the exposure of male nipples ).

The best-preserved examples of the stone and adobe dwellings are in National Parks ( USA ), such as Chaco Canyon or Chaco Culture National Historical Park, Mesa Verde National Park, Aztec Ruins National Monument, Bandelier National Monument, Hovenweep National Monument, and Canyon de Chelly National Monument.

There are two main strains of contemporary Germanic Paganism known as Ásatrú, originating near-simultaneously in Iceland (, 1972 ) and the USA ( Asatru Free Assembly, 1974 ).

There are notable differences of emphasis between Ásatrú as practiced in the USA and in Scandinavia.

Also, owing to its antimicrobial / algaecidal properties that prevent biofouling, in conjunction with its strong structural and corrosion-resistant benefits for marine environments, brass alloy netting cages are currently being deployed in commercial-scale aquaculture operations in Asia, South America, and the USA.

In practice, " extraordinary " circumstance have included disagreeing with Episcopalian views of the episcopate, and as a result, ELCA pastors ordained by other pastors are not permitted to be deployed to Episcopal Churches ( they can, however, serve in Presbyterian Church USA, United Methodist Church, Reformed Church in America, and Moravian Church congregations, as the ELCA is in full communion with these denominations ).

The latter criteria are typically used in Europe and other regions while the DSM criteria are used in the USA and other regions, as well as prevailing in research studies.

Corporate entities are legally considered as persons in USA and in most nations.

Their benefit is in the right to purchase the new stock, which are valuable because the new issues are consistently underpriced to USA mutual bank conversions.

The largest reserves are found in the USA, Russia, China, India and Australia.

Examples of species listed on Appendix III and the countries that listed them are the two-toed sloth ( Choloepus hoffmanni ) by Costa Rica, African civet ( Civettictis civetta ) by Botswana, and the alligator snapping turtle ( Macrochelys temminckii ) by the USA.

The world's top 10 association croquet players as of May 2012 are Reg Bamford ( South Africa ), Robert Fulford ( England ), Robert Fletcher ( Australia ), David Maugham ( England ), Toby Garrison ( New Zealand ), Aaron Westerby ( New Zealand ), Paddy Chapman ( New Zealand ), Jamie Burch ( England ), Greg Bryant ( New Zealand ) and Ben Rothman ( USA ).

Moreover, according to this thesis, a major motivational factor for Gorbachev was his realization that the Soviet Union could not compete economically with the USA However, if economic premises are taken into account, it is not clear why the Soviet leaders did not adopt the Chinese option — economic liberalization with preservation of political system.

While the greatest number of countercult ministries are found in the USA, ministries exist in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, England, Ethiopia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Sweden, and Ukraine.

The films Primary and Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment ( both produced by Robert Drew ), Harlan County, USA ( directed by Barbara Kopple ), Dont Look Back ( D. A. Pennebaker ), Lonely Boy ( Wolf Koenig and Roman Kroitor ) are all frequently deemed cinéma vérité films.

Jazz Impressions of the USA ( 1956, Morello's debut with the group ), Jazz Impressions of Eurasia ( 1958 ), Jazz Impressions of Japan ( 1964 ), and Jazz Impressions of New York ( 1964 ) are less well-known albums, but all are brilliant examples of the quartet's studio work, and they produced Brubeck standards such as " Summer Song ," " Brandenburg Gate ," " Koto Song ," and " Theme From Mr. Broadway.

DTMF tones are sometimes used in caller ID systems to transfer the caller ID information, however in the USA only Bell 202 modulated FSK signaling is used to transfer the data.

In current US legal practice, in rem suits are primarily asset forfeiture cases, based on drug laws, as in USA v. $ 124, 700 ( 2006 ).

Of particular importance here were the USA states of Illinois and New York, under whose laws a large proportion of international financial contracts are made.

Several schools, faculties and universities in the Netherlands and Flanders are named after him, as is Erasmus Hall in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

Nodules from the Carboniferous Mazon Creek fossil beds of Illinois, USA, are among the best documented examples of authigenic mineralisation.

Franchisor rules imposed by the franchising authority are usually very strict in the USA and most other countries need to study them carefully to protect small or start-up franchisee in their own countries.

The remnants of this plate on the Surface of the Earth are the Juan de Fuca Plate and Explorer plate in the Northwestern USA / Southwestern Canada, and the Cocos Plate on the west coast of Mexico.