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period of relative prosperity and lack of conflict in the early Roman Empire: Pax Sinica: Chinese Peace: period of peace in East Asia during times of strong Chinese hegemony: pax tecum: peace be with you (singular) Pax tibi, Marce, Evangelista meus. Hic requiescet corpus tuum. Peace to you, Mark, my Evangelist. Here will rest your body.
For many Americans, federal holidays such as today's Columbus Day commemoration can easily go unnoticed -- unless a trip to the bank, post office or motor vehicle agency is on the day's to-do list.
Failure of imagination is a phrase applied to an undesirable yet seemingly predictable circumstance—predictable particularly in hindsight—that occurs unanticipated. [citation needed] It is distinguishable from a "black swan event", which by definition defies prediction.
To put this plan into action Roosevelt created the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) in May 1933. This program helped farmers by giving them incentives to cut production which increased the income of farmers. [8] The last element that Roosevelt outlined in his speech was his plan for the bank crisis facing America during the Great Depression.
(Reuters) -U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump took the stage on Tuesday night for their first and only scheduled presidential debate before the Nov. 5 election.
One account stated that Clarke's laws were developed after the editor of his works in French started numbering the author's assertions. [2] All three laws appear in Clarke's essay "Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination", first published in Profiles of the Future (1962); [3] however, they were not all published at the same time.
My all-time favorite versions are from the olden days. Judy Garland, of course, [was] always tops with me. And Mel Torme, who wrote a beautiful new verse for it, was really out of this world. And ...
The gaping lack of a medical model in the U.S., one without the baggage of residential treatment, has not gone unnoticed by policy makers. “If buprenorphine is being used and being bought on the street to self-treat addiction, that’s a reflection of a need to have better medically assisted treatment programs out there,” said the CDC’s ...