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The New York mind is two parts abstraction and one part misinformation about the rest of the country and in fact the world.
I am interested to know he is getting mail from all over the country about the `` abuse '' he is being subjected to.
He is expected to know about what is going on among the representatives of other agencies who are stationed in his country.
But he takes his bearings from the great guidelines of policy, well-established precedents, the commitments of the United States under international charters and treaties, basic statutes, and well-understood notions of the American people about how we are to conduct ourselves, in policy literature such as country papers and National Security Council papers accumulated in the Department.
I doubt, for example, that, 3 months before the leadership began to talk about what came to be the Marshall plan, any public-opinion expert would have said that the country would have accepted such proposals.
The more people learn about their country, the more they want to learn.
Where schools, fire and police protection, and similar municipal services are of equal quality in city and country, real estate taxes are usually about the same.
As a matter of fact, Albert S. Flint expressed his conviction that `` her physical strength, her mental power, her lively interest in all objects about her and her readiness to serve her fellow beings '' would have led her `` to a distinguished career amongst the noted women of this country ''.
Mr. Reama told the Rotary Club of Providence at its luncheon at the Sheraton-Biltmore Hotel that about half of the people in the country want the `` welfare '' type of government and the other half want a free enterprise system.
There are, for example, approximately 25,000,000 people in this country with no public library service and about 50,000,000 with inadequate service.
`` In many corners of the globe '', he said, `` the major source of impressions about this country are in the movies they meet.
He hit the theme about dying to defend your country, and you were ready to do it right then, without a second thought.
Following a request by the government of Guinea-Bissau, Angola sent there a contingent of about 300 troops meant to help putting an end to the political-military unrest in that country, and to reorganize the local military forces.
For example, Madagascar's central highland plateau has become virtually totally barren ( about ten percent of the country ), as a result of slash-and-burn deforestation, an element of shifting cultivation practiced by many natives.
The Swiss Confederate mobilized its troops — the country follows the doctrine of " armed neutrality " with all males required to have military training — a number that General Eisenhower estimated to be about 850, 000.
Neoclassic artists used classical forms to express their ideas about courage, sacrifice, and love of country.
He left his native country to travel in pursuit of knowledge, and came to Athens about 589 BC, at a time when Solon was occupied with his legislative measures.
A 1998 systematic review of studies assessing its prevalence in 13 countries concluded that about 31 % of cancer patients use some form of complementary and alternative medicine .< ref name = Ernst_Cassileth > Alternative medicine varies from country to country.
" He points to the fact that the Pope claims universal jurisdiction and he therefore argues that " it would be intolerable to have, as the sovereign of a Protestant and free country, one who owes any allegiance to the head of any other state " and contends that if such situation came about " we will have undone centuries of common law.
With about 6 million native speakers in South Africa, or 13. 3 percent of the population, it is the third most spoken mother tongue in the country.
The great extent of country which this race occupied, and the desire of each part of it to trace its origin to some descendant of Aeolus, probably gave rise to the varying accounts about the number of his children.
When Jackson returned briefly to England in 1889 to marry, Housman was not invited to the wedding and knew nothing about it until the couple had left the country.
The Central Bank of the West African States ( BCEAO ) reports that about 41 microfinance institutions ( MFIs ) operate in the country, serving a total of 800, 000 customers.

country and Cambridge
His early poems and some of his prose prolusions speak of wanderings in the city and the neighboring country that may be extended to Cambridge and its surrounding countryside.
In the mid-19th century, Cambridge was the center of a literary revolution when it gave the country a new identity through poetry and literature.
At the western edge of Cambridge, the cemetery is well known as the first garden cemetery, for its distinguished inhabitants, for its superb landscaping ( the oldest planned landscape in the country ), and as a first-rate arboretum.
He told me that, in his opinion, all the calculations that would ever be needed in this country could be done on the three digital computers which were then being built — one in Cambridge, one in Teddington, and one in Manchester.
It is one of the best known schools in the country and seen as an innovator in education ( e. g. see its part in developing the Cambridge Pre-U ).
The term derives from the Latin word ' rus ', countryside, to indicate that a boy has been sent back to his family in the country, and is also traditionally used at Oxford and Cambridge.
The city of Cambridge had plans for it to be " carefully cut up and a piece sent to each state of the country and to the District of Columbia and Alaska ," according to The Harvard Crimson.
The city of Cambridge had plans for it to be " carefully cut up and a piece sent to each state of the country and to the District of Columbia and Alaska ," according to The Harvard Crimson.
At the age of ten, he began school at a Latin school newly opened in Shenstone, Staffordshire, and continued in country free schools until he was admitted to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, at the age of 15, in June 1674.
St Neots is served by the cross country X5 service that runs between Cambridge and Oxford.
Churchill Casino is frequently hired for Cambridge May Balls as well as balls at the University of Oxford and corporate events throughout the country.
The Cambridge Farmers ’ Market has been in operation in the original building on the original site circa 1830 ; making it the third oldest market in the country.
The Cambridge Farmers ’ Market is now ranked as one of the top 10 markets in the country by Best Health Magazine.
Norwich lays claims to being the first municipality to adopt the Public Libraries Act 1850 ( which allowed any municipal borough with a population of 100, 000 or more to introduce a halfpenny rate to establish public libraries — although not to buy books ), but theirs was the eleventh library to open, in 1857, being the eleventh in the country after Winchester, Manchester, Liverpool, Bolton, Kidderminster, Cambridge, Birkenhead and Sheffield.
* Britain establishes six copyright libraries to which copies of all books published in the country must be sent: Bodleian Library ( Oxford ); British Library ( London ); National Library of Scotland ( Edinburgh ); National Library of Wales ( Aberystwyth ); Trinity College, Dublin ; and Cambridge University Library.
Approximately one fifth of the student body goes on to study at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, putting the school at 19th in the country in terms of Oxbridge admissions.
60 of its leavers went to Oxford or Cambridge, which was also the highest proportion achieved by any boys ' school in the country.
He was born in Cumberland, the younger son of a country squire, and was educated at Bury St Edmunds and Trinity College, Cambridge ; where he took a second class in the classical tripos, and was junior optime in mathematics in 1831.
In the nineteenth century the various Trinity boat clubs were very strong and regularly won events in Cambridge, at various regattas around the country, notably the Henley Royal Regatta, and regularly contributed rowers to the Cambridge boat for the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race.
Hitchens's mother, having argued that " if there is going to be an upper class in this country, then Christopher is going to be in it ", sent him off to Mount House School in Tavistock in Devon at the age of eight, followed by the independent Leys School in Cambridge, and then at Balliol College in Oxford, where he was tutored by Steven Lukes and read philosophy, politics, and economics.
She was educated at Girton College, Cambridge, England and continued her studies at Göttingen University in Germany, where in 1895 she became the first woman to receive a doctorate in any field in that country.
Bloom received honorary doctorates from the University of Aberdeen (' for preaching the Word of God and renewing the spiritual life of this country '); from the Moscow Theological Academy for his theological, pastoral and preaching work ; from the University of Cambridge ; and from the Kiev Theological Academy.

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