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In the United States, the YMCA parent / child programmes under the umbrella programme called Y-Guides, ( originally called YMCA Indian Guides, Princess, Braves and Maidens ) have provided structured opportunities for fellowship, camping, and community-building activities ( including craft-making and community service ) for several generations of parents and kids in kindergarten through third grade.
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In every war of the United States since the Civil War the South was more belligerent than the rest of the country.
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National responsibility for individual welfare is a concept not limited to the United States or even to the Western nations.
( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.
In recent weeks, as a result of a sweeping defense policy reappraisal by the Kennedy Administration, basic United States strategy has been modified -- and large new sums allocated -- to meet the accidental-war danger and to reduce it as quickly as possible.
Its radar screens would register Soviet missiles shortly after they are launched against the United States.
In 1938, at the insistence of Arturo Toscanini, Steinberg left Germany for the United States, by way of Switzerland.
After he had spent the first three years in New York as associate conductor, at Toscanini's invitation, of the NBC Orchestra, he made numerous guest appearances throughout the United States and Latin America.
`` Then I return to the United States for engagements at the Hollywood Bowl and in Philadelphia '', he added.
The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.
`` we the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common Defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America ''.
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The rise of the giant corporations in Western Europe and the United States dates from the period 1880-1900.
He says: `` beside the Protestant philosophy of Progress, as expressed in radical or conservative millenarianism, should be placed the doctrine of the democratic faith which affirmed it to be the duty of the destiny of the United States to assist in the creation of a better world by keeping lighted the beacon of democracy ''.
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And here again we hear the same refrain mentioned above: `` the paramount goal of the United States set long ago was to guard the rights of the individual, ensure his development, enlarge his opportunity ''.
`` I arrived in the United States with the idea of establishing myself there more or less permanently and finding inspiration for new compositions ''.
This is the good kind of sophistication, and with all our problems and crises this kind of sophistication has flowered in the United States during recent years.
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One of the earliest college basketball games in the United States occurred at Geneva College on April 8, 1893 when the Geneva College Covenanters defeated the New Brighton YMCA.
Lake George is the site of a YMCA conference center, the Silver Bay YMCA, founded in 1900 and one of only a few of its type in the United States.
The faculty members for sciences were recruited by the YMCA from the United States and its graduates transferred directly to American schools as juniors upon graduation.
The oldest association in the United Kingdom similar to the YMCA was founded in Scotland in 1824 as Glasgow Young Men's Society for Religious Improvement.
The Archives of the YMCA of the United States are located at the Kautz Family YMCA Archives, a unit of the University of Minnesota Libraries Department of Archives and Special Collections.
The national YMCA federation in the United States expresses its mission:
On 12 July 2010, the YMCA organisation in the United States officially shortened its branding to " the Y " to better reflect the current organisation's activities.
The first YMCA in the United States opened on 29 December 1851, in Boston, Massachusetts.
These core values were adopted formally by the YMCA of the United States in the early 1990s.
Westport is home to Camp Dudley YMCA, the oldest summer camp in continuous operation in the United States, founded in 1885 by Sumner F. Dudley, moved to Westport in 1891.
Van Wert is one of the smallest city in the United States with both a YMCA and a YWCA.
The faculty members for sciences were recruited by the YMCA from the United States and its graduates transferred directly to American schools as juniors upon graduation.
In 1980 – 81 he was a Voluntary Instructor at the YMCA National Centre in Curdridge in the United Kingdom.
YMCA Youth and Government, or Y & G ( also known as YMCA Youth in Government ) is a YMCA civic engagement and service-learning program in the United States that allows high school students to serve in a model government process at the local, state, national, and international levels.
These teams raise money for the YMCA Youth Association's scholarship fund, complete pre-trip service, and finally travel around the state of Kentucky or the entire Southeastern United States for approximately one week during the summer while performing service and engaging in cultural learning experiences.
Tennessee's Youth in Government program is the second largest in the nation, with approximately 3500 participating in Youth In Government conferences and Model United Nations conferences conducted by the YMCA Center for Civic Engagement in Nashville.
Each fall, the YMCA Center for Civic Engagement in Nashville also sponsors a Model United Nations conference.
* Brazos Heights: privately owned housing ( by United Brands and other, mostly shipping companies ) where employees and owners of shipping agencies, lawyers, and the head of the YMCA lived.
An immigration | immigrant makes a United States | U. S. breakfast, aided by instructional materials from the YMCA, 1918.
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In the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada, corporal punishment administered to children by their parent or legal guardian is not legally considered to be assault unless it is deemed to be excessive or unreasonable.
Notice of closure attached to the door of a computer store the day after its parent company declared " bankruptcy " ( strictly, put into administration — see text ) in the United Kingdom.
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Despite its strong Australian showing, and having an American producer ( Peter McIan ), Business as Usual was twice rejected by Columbia's parent company in the United States.
A child under age 18 who is adopted by at least one U. S. citizen parent, and is in the custody of the citizen parent ( s ), is now automatically naturalized once admitted to the United States as an immigrant or when legally adopted in the United States, depending on the visa under which the child was admitted to the U. S.
United Press had no direct wirephoto service until 1952, when it absorbed co-owned Acme Newsphotos, under pressure from parent company Scripps to better compete with AP's news and photo services.
However, the network's parent company owns the Fox News Channel, which was launched in 1996 and is now available through virtually all cable and satellite providers in the United States.
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The commissions resolution was endorsed the UNCHR parent body the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
On 1 July 2008 the MillerCoors company was formed as a joint venture with rival Molson Coors to consolidate the production and distribution of its products in the United States, with each parent company's corporate operations and international operations remaining separate and independent of the joint venture.
The Hermes were based at Manston, from where they operated Silver Arrow all-passenger services to Le Touquet and inclusive tour charters to European destinations until parent company BAS's acquisition by British United Airways ( BUA ) parent Air Holdings in 1962.
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A United Kingdom pediatrician, Roy Meadow believes that many cases diagnosed as SIDS are really the result of child abuse on the part of a parent.
The call letters were changed to WABC-TV on March 1, 1953, after ABC merged its operations with United Paramount Theaters, a firm which was broken off from former parent company Paramount Pictures by decree of the U. S. government.
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In April 1929 Trippe and his associates reached an agreement with United Aircraft and Transport Corporation ( UATC ) to segregate Pan Am operations to south of the Mexico – United States border, in exchange for UATC taking a large shareholder stake ( UATC was the parent company of what are now Boeing, Pratt & Whitney, and United Airlines ).
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