In 2007, US Congressman Alce Hastings introduced a bill to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the first use of the name " America " with the support of the Congressional Black Caucus, the Organizing Committee and mayors in fifty states to champion the national strategy " Bring Home The Spirit of History in your town ".

On November 30, the two mayors met US Permanent Representative to the UN William Scranton and conveyed the same message.

Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, along with 187 mayors from US towns and cities, have pledged to adopt Kyoto style legal limits on greenhouse gas emissions.

* " US mayors are divided about merits of controlling schools

In 2005 he was named by Time Magazine as being one of the 5 greatest big city mayors in the US.

On June 18, 1981 during a luncheon for the US Conference of Mayors in Washington DC, President Reagan mistook Pierce as one of the mayors on the dais, with the famous Hello, Mr. Mayor, comment.

Oxford, UK and Indianapolis, US, The Fridtjol Nansen Institute & The International African Institute in association with James Currey and Indiana University Press.

Several of ASU's graduate schools also appear among the top of the US News & World Report rankings, including the 30th-ranked W. P. Carey School of Business ( along with its 4th-ranked program in Supply Chain Management and the 15th-ranked program in Information Systems ), the 26th-ranked Sandra Day O ' Connor College of Law, the 43rd-ranked Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering ( including five individual programs ranked in the top 30 ), the 16th-ranked School of Public Affairs, the 26th-ranked Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, the 21st-ranked College of Nursing and Health, and 25th-ranked Healthcare Management.

In the US, the government has initiated legal action against the pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson for allegedly paying kickbacks to Omnicare to promote its antipsychotic Risperidone ( Risperdal ) in nursing homes.

A privately held company, Bunge & Born did not release periodical financial statements, though it reported US $ 2 billion in gross receipts in 1962 ; by then, it had become a leader in commodity futures trading, operating 110 offices worldwide.

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Other associated brands include the US version of Havana Club, Drambuie Scotch whisky liqueur, DiSaronno Amaretto, Eristoff vodka, B & B and Bénédictine liqueurs.

Due to an affliction affecting bats in the northeastern US known as white nose syndrome ( WNS ), the US Fish & Wildlife Service has called for a moratorium effective March 26, 2009 on caving activity in states known to have hibernacula ( MD, NY, VT, NH, MA, CT, NJ, PA, VA, and WV ) affected by WNS, as well as adjoining states.

* Colin Powell: America's Best Leaders from US News & World Report

These are Kelvin ( SI units ) or Rankine scale ( Imperial & US units ).

It did so by buying a small startup company called Amiga Corporation in August 1984, for $ 25 million ($ 12. 8 million in cash & 550, 000 in common shares ) which became a subsidiary of Commodore, called Commodore-Amiga, Inc. Commodore brought this new 32-bit computer design ( initially codenamed " Lorraine ", later dubbed the Amiga 1000 ) to market in the fall of 1985 for US $ 1295.

Further soundings made by the US Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping in 2011 are in agreement with this figure, placing the deepest part of the Challenger Deep at, with a vertical precision of approximately.

, Dungeons & Dragons remained the best-known and best-selling role-playing game, with an estimated 20 million people having played the game and more than US $ 1 billion in book and equipment sales.

* 1975: Never Can Say Goodbye ( MGM )-US Pop # 25, US R & B # 21

* 1975: Experience Gloria Gaynor ( MGM )-US Pop # 64, US R & B # 32

* 1976: I've Got You ( Polydor )-US Pop # 107, US R & B # 40

* 1978: Love Tracks ( Polydor )-US Pop # 4, US R & B # 4

* 1979: I Have a Right ( Polydor )-US Pop # 58, US R & B # 56

In July 2008, the company after a series of change of ownership was eventually acquired by the US private equity firm, NRDC Equity Partners, which also owned American department store chain Lord & Taylor.

* Herman Brood & His Wild Romance ( 1979, Shpritsz re-release for US market, contains an edited version of Saturday Night )

As of June 30, 2011, the largest hedge funds by worldwide assets were Bridgewater Associates ( US $ 58. 9 billion ), Man Group ( US $ 39. 2 billion ), Paulson & Co. ( US $ 35. 1 billion ), Brevan Howard ( US $ 31 billion ), and Och-Ziff ( US $ 29. 4 billion ).

The 2000 case of Bush v. Gore, in which a majority of the Supreme Court, including some appointees of President George H. W. Bush, overruled challenges to the election of the George W. Bush then pending in the Florida Supreme Court, whose members had all been appointed by Democratic governors, is seen by many as reinforcing the need for judicial independence, both with regard to the Florida Supreme Court and the US Supreme Court.

Perpich opposed the Reagan proxy war against Nicaragua in the 1980's and was one of several governors who objected to sending their state national guard units to train in US bases in Honduras, where the US backed Contras were based.

The plurality of US Senators with law degrees, and a significant number of Massachusetts governors, graduated from HLS as well.

McCain himself led a campaign to ban UFC, calling it " human cockfighting ," and sending letters to the governors of all fifty US states asking them to ban the event.

* in Germany there were also four major occupation zones: the British Zone ( after three consecutive Military governors from 22 May 1945, the last stayed on as first of three consecutive High Commissioners 21 September 1949 – 5 May 1955 ), the US Zone ( after five Military governors from 8 May 1945, four High Commissioners 2 September 1949 – 5 May 1955 ), the Soviet Zone ( after a military commander April 1945 – 9 June 1945 who stayed as first of three Military governors 9 June 1945 – 10 October 1949, the last of whom stayed on as only Chairman of the Soviet Control Commission 10 October 1949 – 28 May 1953, two High commissioners 28 May 1953 – 20 September 1955 ) and the French Zone ( after a Military commander from May 1945 and a Military governor from July 1945, a single High commissioner 21 September 1949 – 5 May 1955 ); the Nazi capital, Berlin, enclaved in the Soviet zone, is separately quartered under four military City Commanders ; only the small Dutch zone by the border is destined for annexation in 1949, so it is divided up in two districts, each under a landdrost ( Tudderen, attached to the province of ( Dutch ) Limburg and Elten, attached to Gelderland province ), but returned to Germany after compensation payments and minor border corrections on 11 August 1963

The guests included his friend Elizabeth Taylor ( who acted as a co-host ), Gianni Agnelli, Robert Maxwell, Barbara Walters, Henry Kissinger, half a dozen US state governors, and the CEOs of scores of multinational corporations likely to advertise in his magazine.

Newsweek credited Governor Blanchard with leading " one of the most dramatic economic turnabouts in the recent history of state government ," and national publications such as US News and World Report listed him among the best governors in America, one of the innovators and energizers who made things work in an era of declining federal aid.

This was an historic election, making Grasso the first female to be elected governor of a US state " in her own right " ( all three female governors preceding Grasso had been married to men who were governor of their states ).

James Allen Rhodes ( September 13, 1909 – March 4, 2001 ) was an American Republican politician from Ohio, and one of only five US state governors to serve four four-year terms in office.

The US Federal Reserve System is also partially governed by a board of governors.

In December 2010 the US Department of Transportation redistributed approximately $ 1. 2 billion in HSR funds that had been rejected by governors elect in Wisconsin and Ohio.

It is unknown whether PL has played anywhere near a large enough part in the recent global left-wing Occupy movements to have an impact within that movement under the Party banner ; nor is anything similar clear regarding the 2011 Wisconsin protests or the other similar protests responding to parallel initiatives by other US state governors.

Actual legal changes were made by the US Congress and in the 1980s which moved final decision from their commanders in chief, the state governors, to the federal government.

Other Sprague relatives became soldiers in the US Revolutionary War and two of them became governors of the state of Rhode Island.

He has spoken to multiple state legislatures, met with the governors of several states, and has spoken to over a quarter of a million people across the US and Canada on this topic.

* All areas of the US ( East, Midwest, South, West ) were more likely to support unions than the governors.

:*-In a letter to the governors of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, BNSF Railway ( headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas ) pledges a contribution of US $ 1 million, and offers rail transportation to aid in relief efforts for the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina.

While politics heavily rely on the representation of governors and pretendants as an instrument of power ( the presidents on US banknotes and the stylized portrait of Che Guevara are examples where the power comes from the image of dead persons ), there is a very short — yet essential to the political process — moment of aniconism.