Results for “American Physical Society”

…e abroad. However, faculty and other watchdogs have warned that they may present risks to intellectual freedom by using American universities as vehicles through which to advance Chinese Communist Party propaganda. Accusations leveled at Cls revolve mainly around the exclusive us...

… in bonuses in 2008 amid a serious financial crisis and a $245 billion government bailout. In 2008, more than 3 million American homes went into foreclosure because of mortgage blunders those same executives helped facilitate. Citigroup proposed to buy a $50-million corporate jet...

…e hunter-gatherers and subsistence farmers of Africa, Asia, and South America, should respond to unfair exchanges. The American anthropologist Joseph Henrich and his colleagues presented a set of bargaining games to adults living in different small-scale societies across the glo...

…xively blamed when under pressure. More recently, the tar- get of attack is a group of prodemocracy foundations, mostly American, that encourage political reform through nonviolent methods. According to the de- nunciations of officials from Russia, China, Venezuela, and other rep...

…ons in neighboring countries like Georgia and Ukraine as Western-backed schemes to replace pro-Russian leaders with pro-American usurpers. In this view, the centuries may change and the Soviet empire may fade into history, but Russia's geopolitical predicament remains constant....

Freedom House chines, with their vast patronage networks, that pre- sided over American cities a half-century ago. Fidesz is apparently seeking to ensure that rival parties will never have access to the funds or influence necessary to unseat the incumbent government. ls Orban a...

… been replaced or are on the run, after your own country has had upheaval and you've had your visit from a well-meaning American diplomat urging you towards a quiet retirement house in Saudi Arabi, the Spanish social philosopher Manuel Castells will name the disease that undid yo...

…s president Xi Jinping visited the United States in September 2015, one of the leaders of San Francisco’s local Chinese American community associations was listed as first among twenty prominent Chinese Americans honored by the Chinese president.?! Chinese Americans and the Chi...

… million as “one of those peculiar facts which must be called free-floating” and concluded with a veiled threat to both American Jews and to Israel: “To put the matter brutally, many American Jewish leaders were capable of ignoring the Asian holocaust in favor of economic and mil...

… from Salvini to Orban in view of the 2019 elections NEW YORK. The invasion of Europe has begun. Steve Bannon, 65, the American far-right guru who was Donald Trump’s right-hand man in the White House — but let go last summer following the racist violence in Charlottesville — is...

…with then member of Knesset Yossi Beilin, secret talks between him and local Palestinian leader Faisal Husseini, at the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem. These talks, which were facilitated by Fafo and the Foreign Ministry of Norway, reached a dead end later that year. The Norw...

…alf decade” of 1998- 2003, to the “golden decade” of 2004-14, and this change hap- pened mainly because of China. South American nations are rich in minerals, energy and food, which China started buying at growing prices and in ever increasing volumes. China is the main purchaser...

…body", "text":"The revised United States-Korea Trade Agreement includes steps to open up the Korean market to increased American exports, most notably for automobiles, and will allow the United States to continue imposing a 25 percent tariff on Korean trucks until 2041.","type":"...

…efficiency standards: "We are about to put up a tombstone that says, 'Here lies America's energy policy'. CAFE protects American jobs. If CAFE is weakened now, come the next energy crunch, American car makers will not be able to meet demand for fuel-efficient cars." Well, the res...

… from Salvini to Orban in view of the 2019 elections NEW YORK. The invasion of Europe has begun. Steve Bannon, 65, the American far-right guru who was Donald Trump’s right-hand man in the White House — but let go last summer following the racist violence in Charlottesville — is...