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Игрок в американский футбол, впоследствии тренер, прославился как наставник команды «Грин-Бэй пэкерс» в 1960-х гг.
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Быт. 3:4.
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Имеется в виду Э. Уоррен, который исполнял обязанности председателя Верховного суда США с 1953 по 1969 г. При Уоррене были вынесены вердикты по таким делам, как, в частности, «Браун против Совета по образованию» (сегрегация). Консерваторы жестко критиковали «суд Уоррена», а Общество Джона Берча требовало импичмента самого Уоррена.
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Федеральный закон (1996) признает брак союзом между мужчиной и женщиной и определяет супругов как лиц разного пола. В 2013 г. Верховный суд частично отменил этот закон.
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Четыре закона федералистов от 1798 г., в частности, наделяли президента правом высылать из страны подозрительных иностранцев и карать за распространение клеветы. Именно последнее поставили в вину нескольким сторонникам Т. Джефферсона; это привело к серии протестов. Когда Джефферсон стал президентом, эти законы были отменены (1801).
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Перевод Б. Грибанова. Цит. по: Сэндберг К. Линкольн. М.: Молодая гвардия, 1961.
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Перевод С. Шифриной. Цит. по: Кинг М. Л. Есть у меня мечта… Избранные труды и выступления. М.: Наука, 1970.
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Ignatius, «An Old-School Trick».
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Gelb, «Necessity, Choice and Common Sense», 58.
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Pape, «First Draft of History», 21.
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Ibid., 27.
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Neil Irwin, «Aughts Were a Lost Decade for U.S. Economy, Workers», Washington Post, Jan. 2, 2010.
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Harold Meyerson, «Why Germany and China Are Winning», Washington Post, July 1, 2010.
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David M. Dickson, «Volcker Blames Recession on Trade Imbalances», Washington Times, Feb. 5, 2009.
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Buchanan, «The Metrics of National Decline».
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Mark Drajem, «China’s Trade Gap with U.S. Climbs to Record, Fueling Yuan Tension», bloomberg.com, Oct. 14, 2010.
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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«Persons Obtaining Legal Permanent Resident Status: Fiscal Years 1820–2009», Department of Homeland Security, dhs.gov; «Persons Obtaining Legal Permanent Resident Status by Gender, Age, Marital Status and Occupation: Fiscal Year 2009», Department of Homeland Security, dhs.gov.
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«New Data Shows China Responsible for 78.5 Percent of U.S. Trade Deficit in Manufactured Goods in 2009; Figure Up from 27.3 Percent in 2001», press statement, American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition, Washington, DC, Aug. 18, 2009.
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Senator Fritz Hollings, «Fifth Column: The Enemy Within the Trade War», huffingtonpost.com, Oct. 16, 2009.
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Charles W. McMillion, «Globalization and America’s Lost Decade», MBG Information Services, March 2010, 1, 40; «Lost Manufacturing Jobs in Decade», MBG Information Services, Jan. 2011, mbginfosvcs.com.
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James R. Hagerty, «U.S. Factories Buck Decline», Wall Street Journal, Jan. 19, 2011.
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Stephen Moore, «We’ve Become a Nation of Takers, Not Makers», Wall Street Journal, Apr. 1, 2011.
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Warren E. Buffett and Carol Loomis, «America’s Growing Trade Deficit Is Selling the Nation Out from Under Us. Here’s a Way to Fix the Problem and We Need to Do It Now», Fortune, Nov. 10, 2003, cnnmoney.com.
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David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, Henry Clay: The Essential American (New York: Random House, 2010), 240.
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Dan Molinski and John Lyons, «China’s $20 Billion Bolsters Chavez», Wall Street Journal, Apr. 18, 2010.
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John Pomfret, «More Political Ads Portray China as Benefiting from Weak U.S. Economy», Washington Post, Oct. 28, 2010.
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Peter Whoriskey, «As Cheaper Chinese Tires Roll In, Obama Faces an Early Trade Test», Washington Post, Sept. 8, 2009.
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Larry Elder, «The Soft Bigotry of President Bush», Jewish World Review, July 4, 2002.
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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Betty Liu and Matthew Leising, «U.S. to Lose $400 Billion on Fannie, Freddie, Wallison Says», bloomberg.com, Dec. 31, 2009.
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John Weicher, «Closing the Gap: The Quiet Success of the Bush Administration’s Push for Minority Homeownership», Weekly Standard, Oct. 11, 2006.
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«The Coming Debt Panic», Washington Post, Dec. 14, 2009.
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David M. Walker, Rosenthal Lecture, Institute of Medicine, Nov. 9, 2009, pgpf.org; Dennis Cauchon, «U.S. Owes $62 Trillion», USA Today, June 7, 2011.
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Ben Pershing, «Democrats Clear Spending Bill in Senate», Washington Post, Dec. 14, 2009.
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Patrick J. Buchanan, «Fat City», townhall.com, Dec. 15, 2009.
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Pershing, «Democrats Clear Spending Bill».
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Jeff Zeleny, «Obama Weighs Quick Undoing of Bush Policy», New York Times, Nov. 9, 2008.
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Andrew G. Biggs and Jason Richwine, «Those Underpaid Government Workers», American Spectator, September 2010, 14.
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Ibid.
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Dennis Cauchon, «For Feds, More Get 6-Figure Salaries», USA Today, Dec. 11, 2009.
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Ibid.
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Dennis Cauchon, «More Fed Workers Pay Tops $150 K: Number Doubled Under Obama», USA Today, Nov. 10, 2010.
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Lena H. Sun, «D.C. Area Tops in Well-being Survey», Washington Post, Nov. 10, 2010.
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Dennis Cauchon, «Federal Pay Tops Private Workers: Compensation Gap Doubled in Decade», USA Today, Aug. 10, 2010.
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Dennis Cauchon, «Obama’s Pay Freeze for Federal Workers Only Limits Raises», USA Today, Dec. 1, 2010.
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Garet Garrett, The People’s Pottage (Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1958), 1.
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Andy Soltis, «Tax Refugees Staging Escape from New York», New York Post, Oct. 27, 2009.
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Stephen Ohlemacher, «Nearly Half of U.S. Households Escape Fed Income Tax», Associated Press, April 7, 2010, finance.yahoo.com.
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Lawrence W. Reed, «A Subtle Destroyer», Mackinac Center for Public Policy, April 8, 2005, mackinac.org.
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