: The American style is used by most American newspapers, publishing houses and style guides in the United States and Canada ( including the Modern Language Association's MLA Style Manual, the American Psychological Association's APA Publication Manual, the University of Chicago's The Chicago Manual of Style, the American Institute of Physics's AIP Style Manual, the American Medical Association's AMA Manual of Style, the American Political Science Association's APSA Style Manual, the Associated Press ' The AP Guide to Punctuation and the Canadian Public Works ' The Canadian Style ).

Although these agencies are ' global ' in the sense of their activities, they each retain significant associations with particular nations, namely France ( AFP ), the United States ( AP ) and the United Kingdom ( Reuters ).

In the United States, Virgil and specifically the Aeneid were taught in the fourth year of a Latin sequence, at least until the 1960s ; the current ( 2011 ) Advanced Placement curriculum in Latin continues to assign a central position to the poem: " The AP Latin: Virgil Exam is designed to test the student's ability to read, translate, understand, analyze, and interpret the lines of the Aeneid that appear on the course syllabus in Latin.

Because the then recently reorganized Associated Press refused to sell its services to several of his papers, most of them evening dailies in competition with existing AP franchise holders, in 1907 Scripps merged three smaller syndicates under his ownership or control, the Publishers Press Association, the Scripps-McRae Press Association, and the Scripps News Association, to form United Press Associations, with headquarters in New York City.

Scripps had been a subscriber to an earlier news agency, also named United Press, that existed in the late 1800s, partly in cooperation with management of the original New York-based AP and partly in existential competition with two Chicago-based organizations also using the AP name ( as detailed at Associated Press and in AP's 2007 history, Breaking News: How the Associated Press Has Covered War, Peace, and Everything Else, cited below ).

Scripps ' United Press was considered " a scrappy alternative " news source to the AP.

Walter Cronkite, who started with United Press in Kansas City, gained fame for his coverage of World War II in Europe and turned down Edward R. Murrow's first offer of a CBS job to stay with UP, but who later went on to anchor the CBS Evening News, once said, " I felt every Unipresser got up in the morning saying, ' This is the day I'm going to beat the hell out of AP.

Despite losing a long battle with the Associated Press, called " Rox " by UPI employees, United Press International's legacy was recognized by AP when it made the UPI mantra " get it first but get it right " a cornerstone of a branding campaign launched on ap. org.

In the United States, the TI-89 is allowed by the College Board on all calculator-permitted tests, including the SAT, some SAT Subject Tests and the AP Calculus, Chemistry, and Statistics exams.

As of 2005, the Les Schwab Tire Center chain operates more than 390 stores in California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington, does more than $ 1. 5 billion in sales each year, and, according to the AP, is the number two private tire retailer in the United States.

AP sued INS and the case reached the United States Supreme Court.

The most taken AP exam in 2008 was AP United States History with 346, 641 students, and the least taken was AP Italian Language and Culture with 1, 930 students.

Many high schools in the United States offer AP courses, though the College Board allows any student to take any examination, regardless of participation in its respective course.

The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law, usually called the AP Stylebook, is a style and usage guide used by newspapers and in the news industry in the United States.

* College Board of the United States – permits the use of most graphing or CAS calculators that do not have a QWERTY-style keyboard for parts of its AP and SAT exams, but IB schools do not permit the use of calculators with computer algebra systems on its exams.

* High speed transport, a type of vessel, from its United States hull classification symbol " AP " for transport and " D " for destroyer.

*, a Design 1029 ship launched as Peninsula State ; renamed President Pierce in May 1922, then President Roosevelt in August 1922 ; during World War II served the United States Army as USAT Joseph T. Dickman and the United States Navy as USS Joseph T. Dickman ( AP -/ APA-13 ); scrapped in 1948

* Inauguration of the Athlete of the Year award in the United States by the Associated Press ( AP ).

The AP offers a male and a female athlete of the year award to either a professional or amateur athlete, the awards being voted on annually by a panel of AP sports editors from across the United States.

In one case, in the early 1940s, Don Flowers ' Modest Maidens was so admired by William Randolph Hearst that he lured Flowers away from the Associated Press and to King Features Syndicate by doubling the cartoonist's salary, and renamed the feature Glamor Girls to avoid legal action by the AP.

The Associated Press ' AP Stylebook recommends that the term fundamentalist not be used for any group that does not apply the term to itself.

As either UP or UPI, the agency was among the largest newswire services in the world, competing domestically for about 90 years with the Associated Press and internationally with AP, Reuters and Agence France-Presse.

Other agencies work cooperatively with large media companies, generating their news centrally and sharing local news stories the major news agencies may chose to pick up and redistribute ( i. e. AP, Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) or American Press Agency ( APA )).

In the late 1980s, Tribune Media Services ( TMS ) and the Associated Press operated a cable television channel called AP News Plus that provided NAPLPS-based news screens to cable television subscribers in many U. S. cities.

Among the firms providing technology to TMS and the Associated Press for the AP News Plus channel was Minneapolis-based Electronic Publishers Inc. ( 1985 – 1988 ).

In 1984 Tribune Media Services ( TMS ) and the Associated Press operated a cable television channel called " AP News Plus " that provided NAPLPS-based news screens to cable television subscribers in many U. S. cities.

On May 13, 2008 AP Press reported that Nestle announced plans to reduce the size of the proposed McCloud Bottled Water plant to from the originally-planned proposal.

Rejected by the U. S. Army as a photographer because of poor eyesight, Rosenthal joined the Associated Press ( AP ) and followed the U. S. Marine Corps in the Pacific Theater of Operations during the war.

* Ron Kampeas, " Memo: U. S. Mulled Fake Cuba Pretext ," Associated Press ( AP ), 25 April 2001.

The following are many of the college-readiness indicators that are used: graduation rates, college acceptance rates, the number of International Baccalaureate ( IB ) and Advanced Placement ( AP ) tests taken per student, the average score on IB and AP tests ; student achievement levels ; SAT scores ; and State assessments.

Bay Shore High School offers extensive AP courses, and became an official International Baccalaureate ( IB ) school in December 2008.

In January 1889, the name of the Association was changed to L ' Association Phonétique des Professeurs de Langues Vivantes ( AP ), and, in 1897, to L ' Association Phonétique Internationale ( API )— in English, the International Phonetic Association ( IPA ).

Many course requirements of the core curriculum can be certified through Advanced Placement ( AP ) exams or International Baccalaureate ( IB ) course credits, or placement exams in English and foreign languages offered by the university during orientation.

The school was ranked 102nd in the nation and fifth in New Jersey on the list of " America's Best High Schools 2012 " prepared by The Daily Beast / Newsweek, with rankings based 25 % each on graduation rate, matriculation rate for college and number of Advanced Placement / International Baccalaureate courses taken per student, with 10 % based on average scores on the SAT / ACT, 10 % on AP / IB scores and an additional 5 % based on the number of AP / IB courses available to students.

Central has an International Studies Magnet Program, an EAST Initiative Lab Program, over 30 service, academic, and honors clubs available, award-winning instrumental and concert band and choral programs, over 141 courses offered, including 33 AP and Pre-AP courses and 5 foreign languages.

* 40 years of interracial marriage: Mildred Loving reflects on breaking the color barrier AP article in International Herald Tribune

The High School curriculum is based on the American college-preparatory model and includes both Advanced Placement ( AP ) courses and courses leading to the International Baccalaureate ( IB ) Diploma.

DBQs make up part of the Advanced Placement ( AP ) tests in AP European History, AP US History, AP World History, and AP English Language and Composition as well as the International Baccalaureate Diploma Prgramme examinations for history examinations ( Group 3 ).

* IB Diploma Programme, a pre-university educational program administered by the International Baccalaureate, the main competitor to the College Board's AP Program

Franciscan University of Steubenville participates in the Advanced Placement ( AP ) Program, the College Level Examination Program ( CLEP ), and International Baccalaureate ( IB ) and gives credit by examination in a number of subjects.

Finally, they considered the participation rate and the performance of students in college readiness by examining Advanced Placement ( AP ) and International Baccalaureate test data.

Newark Academy is the only independent school in New Jersey that offers both the Advanced Placement ( AP ) and International Baccalaureate Diploma ( I. B.

* 1989: The Liberal Party, previously part of the Union of the Democratic Centre, merged with the Popular Alliance ( AP ) and the Democratic Popular Party in the People's Party, despite People's Party is a conservative party and not a liberal party ( PP does not belong to the International Liberal or the ELDR ).

International news agencies like Reuters, AFP and AP also have correspondents here.

Newsweek's standings were based upon the number of IB ( International Baccalaureate ) or AP ( Advanced Placement ) tests that the school averaged per graduating senior.

From 1960 through 1966, the All-League team was selected by the AFL players, and from 1967 through 1969 it was selected by a consensus of The Sporting News ( TSN ), the Associated Press ( AP ), United Press International ( UPI ), and the Newspaper Enterprise Association ( NEA ).

* American History: A Survey, originally by Current, Williams & Freidel ( 1961 ), by Brinkley in recent editions — used especially for AP U. S. History and International Baccalaureate History courses