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May 31, 2011

Advertising industry history

May 31, 2011

American advertising is a huge and powerful industry with expenditures approaching $250 billion in 2001 in the United States alone, with more than $450 billion spent worldwide.

May 31, 2011

American Economic Association (AEA)

May 31, 2011
Organization of professional economists established in 1885.
May 31, 2011

Alliance for Progress

May 31, 2011
Economic program designed to improve relations between the United States and its southern neighbors, thereby combating the spread of communism.
May 31, 2011

Aldrich-Vreeland Act (1908)

May 31, 2011
Act meant to remedy perceived inadequacies of the U.S. banking structure revealed during the bank failures and panics of 1873, 1893, and 1907, which occurred because of the lack of regulatory federal legislation.
May 31, 2011

Alaska

May 31, 2011
Forty-ninth state of the United States, known for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.
May 31, 2011

Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)

May 31, 2011
Welfare program in the United States intended to provide financial assistance to low-income families.
May 31, 2011

Aid to Dependent Children (ADC)

May 31, 2011
Mid- to late-twentieth-century government program that provided financial assistance to poor families with children.
May 30, 2011

Airline industry history

May 30, 2011

The U.S. airline industry is responsible for transporting more than 600 million passengers and 18 million pounds of freight per year, and employs approximately 600,000 people nationwide.

May 30, 2011

Agricultural Programs Adjustment Act of 1984

May 30, 2011
Legislation that froze target price increases provided for in the 1981 act; authorized paid land diversions for upland cotton...
May 30, 2011

Agricultural Policy

May 30, 2011
The federal government had always maintained policies designed to encourage the development of agriculture...
May 30, 2011

Agricultural Government-Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs)

May 30, 2011
Organizations federally chartered, but privately owned and operated, that receive direct...
May 30, 2011

Agricultural Credit Improvement Act of 1992

May 30, 2011
This act required the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to target...
May 30, 2011

Agricultural Credit Act of 1987

May 30, 2011
Legislation that authorized $4 billion in a financial assistance for financially vulnerable institutions of the Farm Credit System (FCS)...
May 30, 2011

Agricultural and Mechanical (A&M;) Colleges

May 30, 2011
Postsecondary institutions established to promote the development of the practical arts and sciences.
May 26, 2011

Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938

May 26, 2011
Legislation signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 16, 1938...
May 26, 2011

Affluence

May 26, 2011
A society in which a large proportion of members possess purchasing power in excess of that required for any necessary level of well-being is categorized as affluent.
May 26, 2011

Affirmative Action

May 26, 2011
Legislative attempt to eliminate economic discrimination by ensuring that blacks and other minorities play “on a level playing field.”
May 26, 2011

Advanced Technology Office (ATO)

May 26, 2011
Office responsible for the integration of new and future technology into military systems.
May 26, 2011

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

May 26, 2011
A disease caused by a retrovirus that mutates so rapidly that the B-lymphocytes and the body’s natural antibodies cannot fight it off.
May 26, 2011

A&M; Records v. Napster Inc. (2001)

May 26, 2011
Court case that challenged federal copyright laws under United States Code Title 17.
December 13, 2010

Automotive industry

December 13, 2010
Gasoline-powered vehicles were invented primarily by Europeans during the late nineteenth century, but they were improved and made into the center of a large-scale industry in the United States.
December 13, 2010

Automation in factories

December 13, 2010
The automation of factories began with the application of mechanical power to replace human and animal muscular effort, particularly in heavy industry.
December 13, 2010

John Jacob Astor

December 13, 2010
One of eleven children of a butcher, Johann Jakob Astor was educated until age fourteen. He later joined an older brother in London, where he sold musical instruments, learned English, and changed his name to John Jacob.
December 11, 2010

Asian trade with the United States

December 11, 2010
Free trade with foreign nations was one of the key principles of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
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