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 ).

Anthropologists were recruited from England and the USA, setting the foundation for the unique Canadian style of anthropology.

At the time of the design of ATM, 155 Mbit / s Synchronous Digital Hierarchy ( SDH ) with 135 Mbit / s payload was considered a fast optical network link, and many Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy ( PDH ) links in the digital network were considerably slower, ranging from 1. 544 to 45 Mbit / s in the USA, and 2 to 34 Mbit / s in Europe.

The region was a major producer of raw opium ( hence the name Afyon ) until the late 1960s when under international pressure, from the USA in particular, the fields were burnt and production ceased.

Restrictions on homebrewing were lifted in the UK in 1963, Australia followed suit in 1972, and the USA in 1978, though individual states were allowed to pass their own laws limiting production.

The top three producers were China with 1, 800, India with 220, and USA with 63. 5 million tonnes for a combined total of over half the world total by the world's three most populated states.

Programmes of this sort were initially discussed at least as early as the 1920s and were implemented in many countries, but only became widespread in the USA after the threat of nuclear weapons was realised.

The contras were funded by drug trafficking, of which the USA was aware.

These " discotheques " were also patronized by anti-Vichy youth called ' zazou ' who much like the kids in the USA during the 1940s were wearing zoot suits.

Katayama was made Vice President of the Nissan North American subsidiary in 1960, and as long as he was involved in decision making, both as North American Vice President from 1960 to 1965, and then President of Nissan Motor Company – USA from 1965 to 1975, the cars were sold as Datsuns.

Although Ecuador's foreign relations were traditionally centered on the USA, Ecuador's membership in the OPEC in the 1970s and 1980s allowed Ecuadorian leaders to exercise somewhat greater foreign policy autonomy.

* In March 2009, some EDS employees, based in the USA and Puerto Rico, were informed that their salaries would be cut 10 % during the April 2009 pay periods, albeit with no reduction to drop a salary below $ 40, 000 a year.

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.

Soon the hobby spread to other sports as well and by 1988, USA Today estimated that five hundred thousand people were playing.

Patton published his first book (' Patton's 1989 Fantasy Baseball League Price Guide ") in 1989 and his dollar values were included in USA Today Baseball Weekly's fantasy annual throughout the 1990s.

In September 2003, the Public Interest Watch ( PIW ) complained to the Internal Revenue Service, claiming that Greenpeace USA tax returns were inaccurate and in violation of the law.

A study of granite countertops was done ( initiated and paid for by the Marble Institute of America ) in November 2008 by National Health and Engineering Inc of USA, and found that all of the 39 full size granite slabs that were measured for the study showed radiation levels well below the European Union safety standards ( section 4. 1. 1. 1 of the National Health and Engineering study ) and radon emission levels well below the average outdoor radon concentrations in the US.

Portions of the film were shot in Goblin Valley State Park, Utah, USA, and non-humanoid creatures were created by Stan Winston Studio from designs by Jordu Schell.

Until the late 1970s, it was common for hearses in the USA to be combination coaches which also could serve in the ambulance role ; these were common in rural areas.

Years later, animals of this original breeding colony were exported to the USA, where Syrian hamsters became one of the most popular pets and laboratory animals.

The eugenics movement in the USA seized on it as a means to give them credibility in diagnosing mental retardation, and thousands of American women, most of them poor African Americans, were forcibly sterilized based on their scores on IQ tests, often without their consent or knowledge.