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organization indicated this was in response to a rapid drop in corporate underwriting in the wake of the economic crisis of 2008. In the fall of 2008, NPR programming

Mac, is an American publicly traded, government-sponsored enterprise (GSE), headquartered in Tysons, Virginia. The FHLMC was created in 1970 to expand the

River in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1969 led to a national outcry and criminal charges against major steel companies. The US Justice Department in late 1970 began

to institutions in Ohio, but in 1978, a new governance structure was established that allowed institutions from other states to join. In 2002, the governance

the airline, bus, and trucking companies, paid for their own infrastructure. American car culture was also on the rise in the post-World War II years. Progressive

that houses the GPO was erected in 1903 and is unusual in being one of the few large, red brick government structures in a city where most government buildings

Assistant Director Todd Dubois, and Budget Chief Milena Seelig. It was established in 1930 as the Division of Law Enforcement, U.S. Fish Commission and Bureau

was created on October 3, 1970. The Cabinet Council on Commerce and Trade was one of multiple Cabinet Councils established in the United States on or about

began operating in the Pacific following the Spanish–American War. The Pacific Coast Torpedo Station was established on Puget Sound in 1914. In 1930 the name

Act PL 89-749 1970: Community Mental Health Service Act PL 91-211 1970: Family Planning Services and Population Research Act PL 91-572 1970: Lead-Based Paint

origins in legislation enacted to help fund the Civil War. In July 1861, Congress authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to issue paper currency in lieu

occupied the city after defeating an American force at Bladensburg. In retaliation for acts of destruction by American troops in the Canadas, the British set fire

commissioner in 1970. In 1971, a delegate for the District of Columbia was authorized, and in 1972 new delegate positions were established for U.S. Virgin

up in private companies' hands after the war. Executive orders are only temporary so Rayburn was able to get the SWPA to be permanently established in

November, 1970, into the interior of the facility; and a melting of fuel rods in the C Reactor in December, 1970. After six years of litigation over plutonium

Philadelphia in the southeast, Pittsburgh in the southwest, Erie in the northwest, Scranton-Wilkes-Barre in the northeast, and the Lehigh Valley in the east

California and Nuevo México in New Spain, it became part of independent Mexico in 1821. After being defeated in the Mexican–American War, Mexico ceded much

bombing campaigns in Cambodia. He ended American combat involvement in Vietnam in 1973 and the military draft the same year. His visit to China in 1972 eventually

Administration (BPA) is an American federal agency operating in the Pacific Northwest. BPA was created by an act of Congress in 1937 to market electric power

nickname, "The Sooner State", in reference to the Sooners, American settlers who staked their claims in formerly American Indian-owned lands until the Indian