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[citation needed] And in the case of United States of America v. Sage , U.S. Court of Appeals (2nd Cir., 1996), the court upheld the constitutionality of a law allowing federal fines and up to two years imprisonment for a person willfully failing to pay more than $5,000 in child support over a year or more when said child resides in a different ...
Since the 19th century, the United States government has participated and interfered, both overtly and covertly, in the replacement of many foreign governments. In the latter half of the 19th century, the U.S. government initiated actions for regime change mainly in Latin America and the southwest Pacific, including the Spanish–American and Philippine–American wars.
Hezbollah has a military branch known as the Jihad Council, [230] one component of which is Al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya ("The Islamic Resistance"), and is the possible sponsor of a number of lesser-known militant groups, some of which may be little more than fronts for Hezbollah itself, including the Organization of the Oppressed, the ...
Social isolation and the lack of social support has been associated with an increased risk of suicide. [78] Poverty is also a factor, [134] with heightened relative poverty compared to those around a person increasing suicide risk. [135] Over 200,000 farmers in India have died by suicide since 1997, partly due to issues of debt. [136]
From 1982 to 2005 in an effort to spread Wahhabi Islam, over $75 billion was spent, via international organizations [d] and religious attaches at dozens of Saudi embassies, [3] [12] to establish/build 200 Islamic colleges, 210 Islamic centers, 1,500 mosques, and 2,000 schools for Muslim children in Muslim and Non-Muslim majority countries.
[7] [8] It is a publicly traded company and one of the 30 companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. [a] [9] [10] IBM is the largest industrial research organization in the world, with 19 research facilities across a dozen countries, having held the record for most annual U.S. patents generated by a business for 29 consecutive years from ...
Many factors can act as facets of the politicization of science. These can range, for example, from populist anti-intellectualism and perceived threats to religious belief to postmodernist subjectivism, fear for business interests, institutional academic ideological biases or potentially implicit bias amongst scientific researchers.