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  2. Recuperation (politics) - Wikipedia

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    The concept of recuperation was formulated by members of the Situationist International, its first published instance in 1960. [5] The term conveys a negative connotation because recuperation generally bears the intentional consequence (whether perceived or not) of fundamentally altering the meaning behind radical ideas due to their ...

  3. Article Five of the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three ...

  4. Prison Policy Initiative - Wikipedia

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    PPI's multiple reports on the prison and jail phone industry [5] explain why the industry must be regulated by the Federal Communications Commission.The reports explain that prison phone bills are so high because of a unique market failure: prison systems and local jails award monopoly contracts to the phone company that will charge the highest rates and share as much as 84% of the profits ...

  5. Banderite - Wikipedia

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    [5] [6] [7] Because of the brutality utilized by OUN-B members, the colloquial term Banderites quickly earned a negative connotation, particularly among Poles and Jews. [2] By 1942, the expression was well-known and frequently used in western Ukraine to describe the Ukrainian Insurgent Army partisans, OUN-B members or any other Ukrainian ...

  6. Propaganda - Wikipedia

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    [3] [5] Its activity was aimed at "propagating" the Catholic faith in non-Catholic countries. [3] From the 1790s, the term began being used also to refer to propaganda in secular activities. [3] In English, the cognate began taking a pejorative or negative connotation in the mid-19th century, when it was used in the political sphere. [3]

  7. Article Five - Wikipedia

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    Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which commits NATO member states to consider an armed attack against one member state to be one against them all; Article 5 contingency, the 2001 invocation of NATO's collective self-defense provisions; Article Five of the United States Constitution, which provides for amending the Constitution

  8. History of propaganda - Wikipedia

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    Its goal is usually to influence people's attitudes and behaviors, either by promoting a particular ideology or by persuading them to take a specific action. The term propaganda has acquired a strongly negative connotation by association with its most manipulative and jingoistic examples. American cartoon, published in 1898: "Remember the Maine ...

  9. Ruiz v. Estelle - Wikipedia

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    The trial ended in 1979 with the ruling that the conditions of imprisonment within the TDC prison system constituted cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the United States Constitution, [2] with the original report issued in 1980, a 118-page decision by Judge William Justice (Ruiz v.