GED social studies list

But behind those vague promises is reluctance by China to move too quickly, and put the country’s vast foreign exchange reserve holdings at risk. Washington Post (Feb 28, 2012)

In effect, however, women owned the country and women governed it; suddenly the matriarchy existed. Cox, Irving E.

"We're not going bring down the patriarchy just by preventing new lap-dancing clubs," she said.

While the effects are temporary, with continued use some patients have fully regained consciousness. Scientific American (Feb 28, 2012)

Mrs Arroyo's predecessor Joseph Estrada's trial for corruption lasted six years.

It was an unprecedented wave of coordinated suicide bombing, sustained gunfire and explosions, much of it directed against the police. New York Times (Feb 25, 2012)

We have said that miscegenation in illegitimate fashion, between negro slaves and Europeans, was forbidden. Johnson, Willis Fletcher

Diplomats said at the time the sanctions would be imposed on officials "involved in repression" after the vote.

“The government is trying to make reforms, but no one is listening.” New York Times (Feb 28, 2012)

Like many Egyptians under Mubarak's authoritarian regime, Ultra members were randomly rounded up and detained, intimidated and harassed by the police. Newsweek (Feb 9, 2012)

No one outside North Korea knows whether the secretive, totalitarian nation possesses an actual warhead. Scientific American (Dec 20, 2011)

Mr. Espinosa wrote later that an opposition activist claimed that Syria was using “Iranian drones,” but had offered no evidence to back up his assertion. New York Times (Feb 24, 2012)

Now, in that catastrophe’s aftermath, the fundamental question looms: How safe is safe enough when you’re talking about nuclear energy?

Third, federal officials don’t wind up looking like dictators telling states how to do their jobs. New York Times (Jan 22, 2012)

Viral infections have periodically wiped out the crop in some regions leading to famine.

Yes, he's a hardliner on taxes, Social Security, abortion, and lots of other issues. Slate (Sep 23, 2011)

Thus Colonial frontier men in solitary wilds have few opportunities of courtship or matrimony. Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)

Those plans hit a major snag after several federal agencies and industry leaders said the signals would interfere with global positioning technology. Washington Post (Feb 28, 2012)

A few younger feminists, though, say that philosophy keeps women in the back seat. New York Times (Jan 9, 2012)

He said he would not “light my hair on fire” to win over skeptical conservatives in the Republican Party. New York Times (Feb 28, 2012)

A lot of liberals are disappointed by Mr. Obama. New York Times (Feb 29, 2012)

Imperialism requires centralisation, and thus it is local government gradually disappears. Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

His ruthless bearing had made him a despot in the imbecile senate. Wingfield, Lewis

“Monarchies have extended families just so that there’s a source of spares,” Doshisha’s Jones said.

The scenes at the ballot boxes are living testimony to their exercising democracy.

The revised laws will take effect 20 days after they are passed by parliament.

“There is now very much more black-white neighborhood integration than 40 years ago,” said Professor Reynolds Farley of the University of Michigan’s Population Studies Center. New York Times (Jan 30, 2012)

The two women briefly greeted each other before Ms. Rosales invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. New York Times (Feb 22, 2012)

Mr. Myers’s North Korea, Mr. Garner wrote, “is guided by a ‘paranoid, race-based nationalism.’ New York Times (Dec 28, 2011)

He had spoken at length about his patriotism and joked that he joined the space program to get closer to Heaven. Scientific American (Feb 20, 2012)

So Willis has been a windsurfing nomad the past three years.

Agriculture accounts for 21 percent of Kenya’s total economic output.

“No industry is more comprehensively overviewed as aviation,” said David Learmount, operations and safety editor at Flight International magazine. New York Times (Feb 28, 2012)

Hackers interested in corporate espionage often target individuals by using phishing scams that trick users into giving up their personal log-in information. Washington Post (Feb 14, 2012)

By disproportionate numbers, these Americans have given up looking for work, making the nation’s recovery appear better than it is. Washington Post (Feb 6, 2012)

Ahab, according to the Hebrews, reigned 22 years, Omri 12. Duncker, Max

The online organization was started in opposition to President Bill Clinton’s impeachment and became an advocate for overhauling health care.

He said subsequent press coverage affected his "political reputation and chance of winning the election".

Yahoo Answers, flickr and Groups are all interesting assets that have seen better days but could still be resurrected.” Forbes (Feb 28, 2012)

He's talking about jobs and spending, not whether colleges turn people into radical atheists or some speech President Kennedy delivered 50 years ago.  Slate (Feb 27, 2012)

Digital sales are expected to end 2011 close to 10 percent higher, prompting Bakula to proclaim the sales performance "a great resurgence."

Ofttimes it is crowded with shipping seeking a haven of refuge. Drake, Samuel Adams

The United States has poured $5 million into the province over the last two years, eradicating poppy farming and trying to make commercial agriculture work. New York Times (Jan 25, 2012)

The lines between legitimate and illegitimate businesses are often fuzzy in Russia. New York Times (Mar 1, 2012)

Fans have tuned in, though not quite in the monster numbers of Johnson's "Attitude Era" heyday. Seattle Times (Mar 24, 2012)

Doing so threatens to alienate not just competitors — an outcome Google can probably live with — but users, too. Forbes (Jan 11, 2012)

Egypt’s military rulers have repeatedly warned that “hidden hands” were behind much of the unrest following the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak last year.

Overjoyed at the auspicious circumstance, he went to the princess. Day, Lal Behari