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- (from the article "Algeria") Once the government is in place, the head of government presents draft legislation, which is debated first in the country's lower house, the National People's Assembly (Majlis al-Sha'bi al-Watani), deputies of which are elected for five-year terms by universal adult ...
- National People's Assembly of Guinea-Bissau
- (from the article "Guinea-Bissau") In March 2004 more than 100 international observers watched as 12 political parties and three coalitions contested 102 seats in the National People's Assembly of Guinea-Bissau, fulfilling a promise-made when armed forces chief Verissimo Correia Seabra led a bloodless coup ...
- National People's Congress
- (from the article "China") In China the notable political events of 2007 were the holding of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 10th National People's Congress in March and the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in October. The former ...
- National People's Party
- (from the article "Europe, history of") ...groups were like-minded enough to form a coalition and powerful enough-for the present-to dominate the new republic. Their rivals on the right were the old conservatives (now called the National People's Party), with 42 seats, and the new People's Party, ...
- National Petroleum Council
- (from the article "Petrobras") ...in 1953 as a government-owned monopoly to prospect, extract, and refine domestic petroleum and to transport that oil and its derivatives. Petrobras is an operating company overseen by the National Petroleum Council (Conselho Nacional do Petroleo), a government agency established ...
- National Phonetic Alphabet
- (from the article "Pinyin romanization") National script reform began in 1913 with the creation of the National Phonetic Alphabet based on Chinese characters. Several attempts were made in the 1920s and '30s to devise and promote a Latin alphabet for the Chinese language, but with ...
- National Physical Laboratory
- (from the article "Turing, Alan M.") In 1945, the war being over, Turing was recruited to the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in London to design and develop an electronic computer. His design for the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) was the first relatively complete specification of an ...
- National Plastic and Carton Company
- (from the article "Jamaame") ...Bananas, the major crop, are exported through Kismaayo (Chisimayu), a port located 35 miles (56 km) to the south. Cotton, peanuts (groundnuts), and corn (maize) are also grown in the area. The National Plastic and Carton Company was established at ...
- national policy
- (from the article "strategy") ...and (3) strategy, or the broad comprehensive harmonizing of operations with political purposes. Sometimes a fourth type is cited, known as grand strategy, which encompasses the coordination of all state policy, including economic and diplomatic tools of statecraft, to pursue ...
- National Political Reforms Conference
- (from the article "Nigeria") ...2005 was critical for Pres. Olusegun Obasanjo's government as it sought to push through its reform program before the national focus turned to the 2007 electoral campaign. From February to July the National Political Reforms Conference deliberated on wide-ranging constitutional ...
- National Portrait Gallery
- museum in London that houses the national collection of portraits of British men and women. It is located adjacent to the National Gallery, north of Trafalgar Square, in Westminster. [2 Related Articles]
- National Portrait Gallery
- American gallery dedicated to portraiture of Americans. It is part of the Smithsonian Institution, located in Washington, D.C. [1 Related Articles]
- National Postal Museum
- philatelic museum and research centre in the City of London. It is located in a section of London's General Post Office, next to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. The museum opened in 1966, largely through the efforts of Reginald M. Phillips, who ...
- National Preparatory School
- (from the article "Orozco, Jose Clemente") ...Obregon was eager to sponsor his work, and, along with his colleagues Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and others, he was commissioned to paint murals (1923-27) on the walls of the National Preparatory School in Mexico City; these artists' efforts ...
- National Press Club
- (from the article "Thomas, Helen") ...woman to hold such a position for a wire service. This was one of a number of firsts for Thomas as a woman reporter, starting in 1959 when she and some female colleagues forced the then all-male National Press Club ...
- National Primitive Baptist Convention, Inc.
- association of independent black Baptist churches in the United States that were joined in a national convention in 1907. The convention developed from black congregations formed after the American Civil War by emancipated slaves who had previously attended Primitive Baptist ...
- National Prisoner of War Memorial Museum
- (from the article "Andersonville") ...including those of prisoners who died at the camp. The National Park Service has conducted archaeological excavations at the site, and a portion of the stockade wall has been reconstructed. The National Prisoner of War Memorial Museum, honouring Americans captured ...
- National Progressive Front
- (from the article "Iraq") ...by enlisting the support of other political parties. Since the March Manifesto had established a basis for settling the Kurdish problem, Kurdish political parties were willing to participate in the National Progressive Front (NPF). The ICP had also shown interest. ...
- National Progressive Front
- (from the article "Syria") ...and charged that the authorities were encouraging voters to support lists of nominally independent Kurdish candidates in an effort to undercut the opposition. In the end the 10 parties of the ruling National Progressive Front won 172 of the 250 ...
- National Progressive Party
- (from the article "Montserrat") The newly formed National Progressive Party took over the government in 1991, but in 1996, in the midst of the volcano crisis, it won only one legislative seat. A weak coalition was then formed, headed by an independent member, Bertrand ...
- National Prohibition Party
- (from the article "Saint John, John") ...reelection in 1880, he was denied a third term in 1882. St. John then extended his campaign for prohibition to the national level and, in 1884, was nominated as the presidential candidate of the National Prohibition Party. It is thought ...
- National Prosecuting Authority
- (from the article "South Africa") In response, Mbeki proposed an internal ANC commission to investigate the charges, but this was rejected by the SACP and COSATU. In the same month, the investigative arm of the National Prosecuting Authority (the "Scorpions") conducted armed raids on Zuma's ...
- National Protection Society
- (from the article "China") ...for the Study of National Strengthening. Though this association was soon closed down, many study societies were created in Hunan, Guangdong, Fujian, Sichuan, and other provinces. In April 1898 the National Protection Society was established in Beijing under the premise ...
- National Public Radio
- the public radio network of the United States. Based in Washington, D.C., NPR offers a broad range of high-quality news and cultural programming to local public radio stations. [3 Related Articles]
- National Public Service Law
- (from the article "public administration") After World War II the Allied occupation authorities directed the passage of a Japanese law guaranteeing that all public officials should be servants of the people rather than of the emperor. The National Public Service Law of 1947 set up ...
- National Quotation Bureau
- (from the article "security") In the United States, the over-the-counter market includes most federal, state, and municipal issues as well as a large variety of corporate stocks and bonds. The National Quotation Bureau, which compiles over-the-counter prices, has furnished quotations on approximately 26,000 over-the-counter ...
- National Radical Camp
- (from the article "Poland") ...Camp of National Unity. The peasant parties (now united); the increasingly chauvinist National Party (as the National Democrats were by then known), with its fascist splinter party, the National Radical Camp; and the socialists all opposed the regime and achieved ...
- National Radical Union
- (from the article "Karamanlis, Konstantinos") Karamanlis formed not only his government but also his own party, the National Radical Union (ERE), which in parliamentary elections in February 1956 obtained 161 seats out of 300. He retained a parliamentary majority in elections held in 1958 and ...
- National Radio and Television Organizations of Africa, Union of
- (from the article "broadcasting") ...includes Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines, as well as Iran, Turkey, Egypt, and most of the non-Communist countries of Asia; its headquarters are in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Union of National Radio and Television Organizations of Africa, which ...
- National Radio Astronomy Observatory
- the national radio observatory of the United States. It is funded by the National Science Foundation and is managed by Associated Universities, Inc., a consortium of nine leading private universities. Its headquarters are in Charlottesville, Va. [5 Related Articles]
- National Radio Quiet Zone
- (from the article "telescope") ...2,004 surface panels that make up the parabolic surface is held in place by computer-controlled actuators that keep the surface accurate to a few tenths of a millimetre. The GBT is located in the National Radio Quiet Zone, which offers ...
- National Rainbow Coalition
- (from the article "Jackson, Jesse") ...Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity), a Chicago-based organization in which he advocated black self-help and achieved a broad audience for his liberal views. In 1984 he established the National Rainbow Coalition, which sought equal rights for African Americans, ...
- National Rainbow Coalition
- (from the article "Kenya") ...would not run again for the presidency, and Uhuru Kenyatta, son of Jomo Kenyatta, was chosen to be KANU's presidential candidate. Kibaki, this time representing a coalition of opposition groups (the National Rainbow Coalition [NARC]), soundly defeated Kenyatta in the ...
- National Rebirth
- (from the article "Armenia") ...amendments. Former prime minister Aram Sarkisyan's Republic Party continued its parliament boycott; seven prominent members of that party defected in early September and later founded a new party, National Rebirth. According to official returns, 65.3% of Armenia's 2.4 million voters ...
- National Reclamation Act
- (from the article "Phoenix") ...water supply. They formed the Salt River Valley Water Users' Association to lobby for the creation of a large-scale project to control the flow of the river and harness its water for irrigation. The National Reclamation Act of 1902 had ...
- National Reconciliation Commission
- (from the article "Ghana") On Feb. 12, 2004, former president Jerry Rawlings gave evidence to the Ghanaian National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) about his alleged role in the 1982 murders of three High Court judges and an army officer. The NRC was founded in 2002 ...
- National Reconnaissance Office
- (from the article "space exploration") Eisenhower also decided to create a separate organization to manage the secret reconnaissance satellite program. This effort resulted in the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), jointly directed by the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency. The very existence of ...
- National Recovery Administration
- U.S. government agency established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to stimulate business recovery through fair-practice codes during the Great Depression. The NRA was an essential element in the National Industrial Recovery Act (June 1933), which authorized the president to institute ... [5 Related Articles]
- National Redemption Council
- (from the article "Ghana") ...prices then obtained by cocoa on the world market, was slow to produce the results expected of it. In January 1972 impatient army officers intervened again, and the government was taken over by a National Redemption Council (NRC) of military ...
- National Reform Association
- (from the article "Evans, George Henry") ...long as there was a "safety valve" (i.e., cheap farmland) to draw off excess workers. Believing that land policies could be changed through political action, Evans organized the National Reform Association. Through its numerous state branches, the organization pressed for ...
- National Reform League
- (from the article "O'Brien, James Bronterre") ...and working on the Northern Star (1838-40). He was one of the most important and influential Chartists at that movement's convention in 1839. In 1850 he was joint founder of the National Reform League, which advocated socialist objectives. In his ...
- National Religious Party
- (from the article "Israel") ...have to get renewed cabinet sanction for any actual removal of settlements and settlers. In the wake of this vote, the National Union Party (with seven seats in the Knesset) and two of the hawkish National Religious Party's six Knesset ...
- National Renewal Alliance
- (from the article "Brazil") ...but few of them gained much influence. In 1965 the military government, which had taken power the previous year, abolished all political parties and replaced them with a single government party, the National Renewal Alliance, and a lone opposition party, ...
- National Reporter System
- (from the article "law report") ...are almost invariably written by the court and are officially published. Late in the 19th century a private publishing concern began unofficial publication of all state and federal reports in the National Reporter System, a practice that continues today.
- National Republican Association
- (from the article "Paraguay") ...presidency. Paraguay's constitution prohibited members of the clergy from holding office. Lugo, a fierce critic of the government, was seen as posing a serious challenge to the corruption-riddled Colorado Party, which had retained power in Paraguay since 1947.BRITANNICA BOOK ...
- National Republican Party
- U.S. political party formed after what had been the Republican (or Jeffersonian Republican) party split in 1825. The Jeffersonian Republicans had been the only national political party following the demise of the Federalists during the War of 1812. During the ... [4 Related Articles]
- National Research Act
- (from the article "Tuskegee syphilis study") ...in the Washington Star. A class-action suit against the federal government was settled out of court for $10 million in 1974. That same year the U.S. Congress passed the National Research Act, requiring institutional review boards to ...
- National Research Council
- (from the article "National Academy of Sciences") In 1916 the academy established the National Research Council to coordinate the activities of various scientists and engineers in universities, industry, and government; the council issues many publications and awards a number of postdoctoral fellowships. In 1950 the Academy and ...
- National Resistance Army
- (from the article "Uganda") ...and exile in 1985 and to the seizure of power by an Acholi general, Tito Okello. This, however, could not prevent a victory for Museveni's force of southern fighters, who now called themselves the National Resistance Army (NRA), and Museveni ...
- National Resistance Council
- (from the article "resistance") ...and in southern France (ruled by the puppet Vichy regime) other resistance groups were formed by former army officers, socialists, labour leaders, intellectuals, and others. In 1943 the clandestine National Council of the Resistance (Conseil National de la Resistance) was ...
- National Resistance Movement
- (from the article "Uganda") ...votes cast-mainly in the centre and west of the country-to Besigye's 37%-mainly in Kampala and the north. In the parliamentary elections the results were similar: the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) triumphed in the centre and west and the FDC ...
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