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U. S. Households Consumption, A Comprehensive Analysis
(2007-02-07)Consumption is perhaps the most important economic behavior of human beings. To it goes the lion's share of the country's annual product. This study is part of the ongoing efforts to give a reasonable description of how ... -
U.N. Continues to get Positive, though Lower, Ratings With World Public: NGOs get Top Ratings of All Global Actors
(2006-01-24)Despite a relatively poor year for the United Nations, publics in most countries continue to view the U.N. as having a positive influence in the world, according to a new BBC World Service poll of 32 nations. However, ... -
U.S. and Venezuela Lead World in National Pride
(2006-08-31)Presidents Bush and Chávez may represent opposite poles of the hemispheric political spectrum but the people of the United States and Venezuela have something in common: both are brimming with national pride. -
U.S. Budget: The Public's Priorities: U.S. Public Would Significantly Alter Bush Administration’s Budget
(2005-03-07)A new poll finds that the American public would significantly alter the Bush administration’s recently proposed federal budget. Presented a breakdown of the major areas of the proposed discretionary budget and given the ... -
U.S. CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION: Crack cocaine use reduces antiviral therapy use in women with HIV
(2004)Crack cocaine use decreases adherence to antiretroviral treatment among HIV-infected Black women. "Since the appearance of crack cocaine in the 1980s, unprecedented numbers of women have become addicted. A disproportionate ... -
U.S. Civil Rights Policy and Access to Health Care by Minority Americans: Implications for a Changing Health Care System
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U.S. Department of Energy Solar District Cup Collegiate Design Competition, Class of 2021, Team Maryland
(2021-04-16)The Solar District Cup Class of 2021 final deliverable has been submitted and accepted. The judges and Solar District Cup organizers are excited to see the solutions Team Maryland has developed over the past several months. ... -
U.S. Government Documents: Vision Plan 2015-2020
(2015-10-12)The U.S. Government Documents Collection supports and enhances University of Maryland faculty and students' learning, teaching, and research needs through research services, information literacy instruction, and access to ... -
U.S. Governmental and Native Voices in the Nineteenth Century: Rhetoric in the Removal and Allotment of American Indians
(2006-07-14)This study situates institutional and American Indian discourses at the interstices of 19th century ideologies that underscored interactions of the U.S.-Native relationship. Specifically, the project argues that both U.S. ... -
U.S. Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health
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The U.S. Latina Boom: The Formation of a Feminist Literary Movement, 1984-2000
(2017)The time period that spanned the late 1980s through the early 1990s saw an increase in production of U.S. Latina literature by women. Their production was so prolific it generated a Boom—a renaissance of Latina writing ... -
U.S. Military Operations Post-War on Terror
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U.S. Minorities No Strangers to Health Ills
(2011)Though minorities in the United States face an array of challenges, chief among them may be personal health and well-being. African Americans, Hispanic Americans and other minority groups are more likely than whites to ... -
U.S. National Security and Global Health: An Analysis of Global Health Engagement by the U.S. Department of Defense
(2009-04)Despite a broadening consensus that global health care efforts have an impact on national and global security, the U.S. national security community’s efforts to address global health are weak and uncoordinated. The 2006 ... -
U.S. National Security Policy: In Search of a Balance
(2002-01-01)On September 17, 2002, the White House, under cover of a letter from PresidentBush, issued a thirty-page document entitled "The National Security Strategy of the United States." Its "Overview" states: The U.S. national ... -
U.S. NUCLEAR ENERGY COOPERATION AND PARTNER COUNTRY NONPROLIFERATION: CASE STUDIES FROM EAST ASIA
(2022)U.S. policy makers are promoting U.S. civilian nuclear exports as a means of influencing the nonproliferation policies of foreign governments and of achieving U.S. nuclear nonproliferation objectives. This approach to ... -
U.S. Nuclear Policy: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
(American Physical Society, 2003-07)I would like to comment on the direction of U.S. nuclear weapons policy. Although the Bush administration typically is secretive about such matters, quite a bit is known as a result of the leak of the Nuclear Posture Review ... -
U.S. Policy on Health Inequities: the Interplay of Politics and Research
(2006)What is the relationship between scientific research and government action in addressing health inequalities in the United States? What factors increase the impact of scientific research on public policy? To answer these ... -
U.S. Public At Odds With Government Policy on Farm Subsidies: Supports Subsidies to Small Farmers, But Not Large Farming Businesses
(2004-01-15)A new PIPA/Knowledge Networks poll finds that American public attitudes on farm subsidies are sharply at odds with actual U.S. policy. While 77 percent supported providing subsidies to small farms (under 500 acres), only ... -
U.S. Public Believes Bush Administration Stretched Truth on Iraq's WMD and Links to Al-Qaeda: Though 52% Believe Evidence of Close Links to al-Qaeda Have Been Found
(2003-07-01)A new PIPA/Knowledge Networks poll finds a majority of 62 percent saying that “when the U.S. government presented evidence of Iraq having weapons of mass destruction to justify going to war with Iraq” it was either “stretching ...