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"ETHIOPIA: A COUNTRY STUDY
Introduction
This research develops a country study of Ethiopia. Topics covered include: (1) legal system; (2) political system; (3) economic system; (4) cultural values; (5) trade policies and practices; (6) trade bloc affiliation; (7) status of structural economic reform; (8) external debt; (9) international trade potential; and (10) social customs.
Legal system
The basic penal code observed in Ethiopia was implemented in 1930 (Ofcansky 319). This code defined specific offenses and provided specific punishments for those offenses. Acts of omission were not punishable by law. The code distinguished between preparatory acts, attempted crimes, and completed offenses. A criminal.."

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"NEW ZEALAND: A COUNTRY STUDY
Introduction
This research presents a geographic country study of New Zealand. This country study deals with natural and social geographic characteristics and the economic and political geography of New Zealand. The topical areas covered are the geologic development, the land, the climate, the development of flora and fauna, the advent of people and mammals, social development, and economic and political characteristics.

Geologic Development
Between 130 million and 150 million years ago, in late-Jurassic and early-Cretaceous periods, the New Zealand Geosyncline stopped subsiding, at least in part. The great accumulations of sediment, by this time turned into rocks, were heaved up in a .."

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" The capital of Brazil is Brasilia, a city bulldozed from the wilderness in 1957. This city holds a special place not only because it was a planned city but because it has become the focus for various groups that see the region as mystic in nature. Brazil is a gigantic country that offers startling geographic and socioeconomic contrasts. The culture that has developed in this area, constituting the fifth largest nation in the world, is marked by the use of Portuguese as the official language and the mixture of Portuguese and Brazilian cultures makes this area subtly different from its neighbors with their Hispanic heritage. Brazil is also the largest Roman Catholic nation in the world. The nation is also made up of many immigrant groups from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including millions of Italians, Germans, Slavs, Arabs, Japanese, and others, all of.."

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"TOURISM IN CARACAS
Introduction
This research examines tourism in Caracas. The principal focus of this research is on the historical sites in Caracas that attract tourists. The findings of this research are presented in surveys of Venezuela's vital statistics, the location of Caracas and the city's infrastructure, tourism in Venezuela, major historical sites in Caracas (the major discussion in the report), and the promotion of tourism in Venezuela.

Venezuela: Vital Statistics
Venezuela covers a land area of 912,050 square kilometers., of which only 4.4 percent is cultivated (Hunter, 1996, p. 1716). The country's population in 1992 was 20.2 million, with a population growth rate of 2.4 percent annually. The country is highly urbanized, with.."

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"COUNTRY REPORT: PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA
Introduction
The purpose of this research was to perform a country report on the People's Republic of China (PRC). The emphasis in the country report is placed on the status of management and managers, activity levels in business and industry, and economic development. Where appropriate, comparisons are made between the PRC and the United States.

The investigations for this country report were performed and within the context of an analytical model developed by Richard Farmer and B. Richman (48-71). The two major sections of this model are management process and environmental constraints. The components of these two sections of the model are as follows:.."

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" Westerners have only a vague idea of the nature of most Chinese cities. From television and film records, we know that these cities tend to be crowded, that they range from what appears to be exceedingly modern structures and designs to the traditional, often in the same city, and that there is some difference to be noted depending on what part of China a city occupies. We know that most Chinese cities do not come up to the level of Hong Kong, soon to be a Chinese city once more and standing as an economic success story the Chinese would like to emulate, though they would like to do so without allowing the freedoms that made this success possible in the first place. A comparison of two Chinese cities will show the variety and the differences that mark these cities.

Shanghai is a name well-known to the west even though most."

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"AUSTRALIA: A COUNTRY STUDY
Introduction
This research presents a country study of Australia. The findings of this research are presented in the following topical discussions: history, political structure, and role of government; culture; and economic, financial, and industrial structure.

History, Political Structure, and Role of Government
Although British settlement in Australia began in the late-eighteenth century, the various colonies established on the continent were not joined in a federated state until 1901 (Hunter 104). In the 1990s, Australia is an independent nation, and functions as a parliamentary democracy. Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth is the official head of state, and is.."

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"ETHNICITY, GENDER AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
This research paper discusses ethnicity, gender and human rights in the Dominican Republic. The ethnic origins of its peoples have played an important role in shaping its social, political and economic institutions. Racial tensions have uniquely bedeviled relations between the dominant mulatto majority and blacks, especially those of Haitian origin.

Gender conflicts have not been especially significant because of the dominance of machismo culture, but women have a degree of economic power. Human rights have been largely ignored and are emerging as a significant issue as the Republic begins to modernize and to strive for greater political maturity and social justice during the post-Trujillo period."

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"The cooking of Liguria, like that of most of Italy's regional cuisines, reflects the geography, history and economics of the region. Though it is, in large part, a cuisine in which the ingenuity of perennially poor people produced excellent food, some of its primary innovations--such as pesto--no longer seem to hint of poverty. Instead, Ligurian inventiveness has turned the region's limited resources into a distinctive cuisine. La cucina dei genovesi has developed from a means of meeting basic human needs , while alleviating boredom with invention, to a means of delighting everyone from residents to visitors with the sensual pleasures of eating.
Liguria, popularly known in America as the Italian Riviera, is the second-smallest of Italy's administrative regions. Approximately 2,000 square miles in size, it stretches 200 miles..."

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"I General Background

A Delimitation of the Region

The Transverse Ranges constitute one of California's 11 geomorphic provinces. Unlike nearly every other mountain range in North America the Transverse Ranges lie on an east-west axis. The Transverse Ranges Province runs for 325 miles "directly across the structural grain of California" (Oakeshott 279). The province extends from Point Arguello and San Miguel Island eastward to the Pinto and Eagle Mountains which end in the Mojave and Colorado Deserts respectively. The province ranges in width from 10 to 50 miles. The narrowest points are at the western extreme in the Santa Ynez Mountains and at the Cajon Pass which separates the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains. The province's broadest point is the distance from the Santa Monica ..."

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Mexico City is characterized as a megacity and is seen as embodying all of the ills which beset the urban environment in such a degree that it is held up as an example of what will happen if urban growth is not controlled.

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"INTRODUCTION
Mexico City is characterized as a megacity and is seen as embodying all of the ills which beset the urban environment in such a degree that it is held up as an example of what will happen if urban growth is not controlled. Mexico City has particular problems related to the poor economy of Mexico as a whole, leading to excessive rural-urban migration, the creation of shanty-towns around the urban core, high rates of air and water pollution, and problems supplying the needs of the city in terms of water, energy, and other necessities of urban life."

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"A classic landscape in American life is the Northeastern Central City, identified most closely with the density of New York City. This central area is also identified as the Central Business District, and it differs in tone from the Midwestern main street in terms of reputation.

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"A classic landscape in American life is the Northeastern Central City, identified most closely with the density of New York City. This central area is also identified as the Central Business District, and it differs in tone from the Midwestern main street in terms of reputation. The Midwestern main street is identified as representing "a balanced community, populated by property-mined, law-abiding citizens devoted to free enterprise and a certain kind of social morality" (Knox and Marston 459). The Northeastern Central City, on the other hand, is identified with a greater freedom, a certain sense of danger, the perception of high crime (not always deserved), based on unlimited opportunities, and with a mixed population not always in agreement so that urban tensions are high. Such a city has come to be identified with America for many reasons, not the ..."

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"The states of New England dominate the Northeastern region of the United states and show certain general trends as well as individual differences based on economic considerations, population trends, and geography.

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"The states of New England dominate the Northeastern region of the United states and show certain general trends as well as individual differences based on economic considerations, population trends, and geography.


THE REGION
New England consists of the six states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. They cover 66,672 square miles, or two percent of the total area of the United States. New England is about the size of one Midwestern state, and indeed, it has been noted that it probably would be one state had America been settled from west to east. The region has more than 6,000 miles of shoreline, roughly 200 ski areas, and more than 800 campgrounds. The population stands at approximately 13 million people, or about five percent of the..."

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Rohwer (1998) paints a disturbing picture of the Japanese Banking Industry. He states that much has happened in America's S&L crisis in the early 1990s, bad banks need to be shut down or taken over, good banks recapitalized, bad loans written off, and the collateral underlying them (usually real estate) disposed of at fire sale prices (Rohwer, 1998, 22).

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"Introduction
Rohwer (1998) paints a disturbing picture of the Japanese Banking Industry. He states that much has happened in America's S&L crisis in the early 1990s, bad banks need to be shut down or taken over, good banks recapitalized, bad loans written off, and the collateral underlying them (usually real estate) disposed of at fire sale prices (Rohwer, 1998, 22). Today, France is seen as one of the more important markets within the EU, and American companies considering expanding operations to France need to evaluate the political, demographic and business environment within France before making the commitment to market there. This research considers these factors in today's environment.


Politics
France was one of the first European nations to move from a feudal society into a nation-state, and its monarchy lasted for centuries. There was a..."

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"Exclusionary Zoning
This law review article discusses the constitutional law aspects and effects of exclusionary zoning during the period leading up to and including the Supreme Court's decision in Village of Euclid, Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co. 272 U.S. 365 (1926) and subsequently. Although from their inception, an important purpose and effect of the zoning involved in Euclid and other pre-World War II city and suburban zoning ordinances and regulations was economic or de facto segregation along class, ethnic and racial lines, federal and case law decisions were not based on a segregation rationale; rather, they followed an elaborate common law and later welfare state jurisprudence which were rooted in balancing private property rights and the police powers of local government in the federal system. However, while..."

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