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51Free Trade Area of the Americas — The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) (Spanish: Área de Libre Comercio de las Américas (ALCA), French: Zone de libre échange des Amériques (ZLÉA), Portuguese: Área de Livre Comércio das Américas (ALCA), Dutch: Vrijhandelszone van de Amerika… …
52Healthcare system reform in the People's Republic of China — The healthcare system reform in the People s Republic of China refers to the healthcare system transition in modern China.The Ministry of Health of the State Council oversees the health services system, which includes a substantial rural… …
53Legacy of the Korean War — The legacy of the Korean War was such that many countries were largely impacted, especially because of the large number of countries that participated in the war. The Korean War was important in the Cold War, since it created the idea that the… …
54United States withdrawal from the United Nations — The United States of America has been a member state of the United Nations since its inception as a supranational entity in 1945. [cite web| url=http://www.un.org/aboutun/history.htm |title=Beginning of the United Nations |publisher=United… …
55Timeline of the 2008 South Ossetia war — The 2008 South Ossetia war started on August 7, 2008 and involves Georgia, Russian Federation, South Ossetia and Abkhazia.Military conflict TimelineThe tensions have been escalating through the year of 2008, but the countdown to the open… …
56Senators of the 39th Canadian Parliament and same-sex marriage — The Civil Marriage Act received royal assent on July 20 2005. During the 2006 federal election campaign, Conservative leader Stephen Harper pledged to re open the issue of same sex marriage should his party form government. Following the… …
57Digital radio in the United Kingdom — A typical DAB digital radio receiver with the Digital Radio Development Bureau DAB digital radio marketing logo In the United Kingdom, the roll out of digital radio is proceeding since test transmissions were started by the BBC in 1990. The UK… …
58future — fu·ture n: a contract traded on an exchange in which a party agrees to buy or sell a quantity of a bulk commodity (as soybeans) at a specified future date and at a set price usu. used in pl. ◇ If the price of the commodity has gone up when the… …
59Economic history of the People's Republic of China — Throughout most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as during much of earlier Chinese history, the economy was barely able to meet the basic needs of the country s huge population the largest in the world. In normal years the economy… …
60Submarines of the People's Liberation Army Navy — Submarines have long been one of the three focuses of the People s Liberation Army Navy (the other two are aircraft and attack boats), and when the decision was made in the late 2006 to concentrate on building other principal surface combatants… …
