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In the News (Sun 20 Dec 09)

  
  kentucky
By 1850 Kentucky stood eighth in the United States in population and had a reputation as a modern, forward-looking commonwealth, a place for the ambitious and eager.
State-funded institutions of higher education began with the present-day University of Kentucky in 1865, Kentucky State University (as a segregated school) in 1886, various teacher colleges in 1908 and again in 1922, and the University of Louisville and Northern Kentucky University at the end of the 1960s.
By the first decade of the twenty-first century the commonwealth stood exactly in the middle of the states in population, and its 4,041,769 residents ranked high in the nation in the percentage of people who still lived in the state of their birth.
kentucky.50ustates.net   (3298 words)

  
  Rump state - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A rump state is the remnant of a once-larger government, left with limited powers or authority after a disaster, invasion or military occupation.
What was left of the once large empire was a rump state composed of little more than Antioch, Damascus, and an area roughly equal in size to modern Syria.
Prussia as the successor to the state of the Teutonic Knights, from the Second Treaty of Toruń with Poland-Lithuania in 1466 until its 1618 union with Brandenburg.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rump_state   (2519 words)

  
 Fred Rump - KS-Cyclopedia - 1912
Fred Rump, a member of the board of county commissioners of Harper county, Kansas, is a native of Germany, born December 23, 1849.
Rump is a close student of scientific agricultural methods, and is a progressive, practical farmer.
Rump have been born five children, Almira Gertrude, born January 29, 1877, died July 20, 1879; Mabel May, born May 18, 1878; Charles Fred, born May 24, 1880, died October 20, 1880; Glenn, born July 14, 1883, and died February 18, 1912, and Ralph, born February 5, 1895.
skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1912/r3/rump_fred.html   (509 words)

  
 The Rump Parliament
The Rump did nothing to reduce legal fees or to provide easier access to the courts for ordinary people, although more lenient punishments for debtors were introduced and the use of English in legal proceedings was authorised.
Leaders of the Rump recognised that the key to the survival of the Commonwealth was a strong navy to complement the New Model Army.
The Rump ordered Lambert to discipline the officers responsible for the petition; when it became clear that he supported them, an attempt was made to cashier Lambert and eight other senior officers.
www.british-civil-wars.co.uk /glossary/rump-parliament.htm   (1827 words)

  
 WER: The Rump Council
They held a constitutional convention in May, 1835, drafted a constitution which fixed the boundaries of the new state according to the Ordinance (thereby arousing the hostility of Indiana in addition to Ohio), and at the regular election in November adopted the constitution by the overwhelming majority of 6,299 to 1,359.
Michigan proper was about to reorganize under the state constitution, though some time would inevitably elapse before she could be admitted into the Union and before a law could be passed for organizing the western regions, until then associated with her, as a new territory.
The "Rump Council," as will be seen by reading the proceedings of that body, despite its anomalous political status and precarious financial footing, did not leave to chance the recording of its work.
www.library.wisc.edu /etext/WIReader/WER0441.html   (1577 words)

  
 Making a decision about your pregnancy: 3rd trimester   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The fetus is 13 inches long from crown to rump and generally weighs about 5 to 5½ pounds.
The fetus is 13 ½ inches long from crown to rump and generally weighs between 5 ½ to 6 ½ pounds.
The fetus averages 14 ½ inches from crown to rump and an average of 20 inches in length from head to toe.
www.hss.state.ak.us /dph/wcfh/informedconsent/3rdtri.htm   (319 words)

  
 History to rubble (Metro Times Detroit)
Attorney Donald Rump, representing the historic preservationists pro bono, usually leaves the office at 3 p.m., but today he’ll be staying late, pondering whether the state is really violating the law by tearing down the buildings.
Rump and his clients, including members of the mayor-appointed Pontiac Historic District Commission, are most concerned about the central buildings in the former Clinton Valley Center complex.
State Rep. Hubert Price, D-Pontiac, says he supports the demolition: Homes are being built at a faster rate in Pontiac than at any time in the past decade, and the property should be cleared for a residential neighborhood.
www.metrotimes.com /20/16/Features/newHistory.htm   (1111 words)

  
 Rump - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
the corresponding part of an animal, as in rump steak, a cut of meat
In politics, a remnant of a larger political grouping that continues to exist after the group has formally dissolved or been abolished.
National Party (South Africa) was a Rump party lead by DF Malan that won the 1948 elections against the United Party in South Africa.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rump   (137 words)

  
 WardheerNews dot Com: Mature at Infancy
The issue however, is whether groups within states have the right to exercise external self-determination, because it would inevitably disturb the territorial integrity of the state and in the process deny the right of self-determination to the others in the state who have a right to retain the integrity of their territory.
Continuing, Cassese states: “The legal position.....summarized by the International Court of Justice in its Advisory opinion on Namibia (was that) if the population of a colonial territory is divided up into various ethnic groups or nations, they are not at liberty to choose by themselves their external status.
Having failed to justify the creation of a secessionist state on the grounds of external Self-determination, the Northern Secessionists group, claiming to be the sole representatives of the Northern tribes, “...agreed to explore a solution founded on the principle of internal conflict resolution as a federalism...” during the peace negotiations in Nairobi-Kenya 2004.
wardheernews.com /articles/November/24_Somalis_federalism.html   (1378 words)

  
 Last Two and a Half Centuries
The state had more or less existed for a couple of centuries before that but only after the introduction of Christianity and with it of writing, could events be recorded.
He is to be the monarch of a much weakened state, yet proves much less compliant with the desires of the Russians, instituting many reforms in education, the armed forces, etc.
The United States steps in on the side of the British and French, that and the introduction of tanks and planes leads to the defeat of Germany and Austro-Hungary.
info-poland.buffalo.edu /classroom/PS250.htm   (1678 words)

  
 The Threat Inherent In A Palestinian State   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This plan calls for a number of interim steps toward the imposition of a Palestinian state “containing the maximum contiguous territory.” Israel is to have no control over the borders and airspace of “Palestine,” thus no control over the importation of military hardware from throughout the Arab world.
Permanent borders are to be established after the resolution of such thorny issues as the so-called right of return (the Palestinian demand to flood the rest of Israel with hundreds of thousands of refugees and their descendants), the status of Jerusalem and the fate of 250,000 Jews living in Arafatistan.
A Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza would become a staging area for the conquest of the rest of “Palestine.” In the next war, troops and armored columns from Syria and other Arab combatants would have unimpeded access through Palestine to the rump Israeli state.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=7803   (1598 words)

  
 Ralph Schoenman: The Hidden History of Zionism - Chapter 13: A Strategy for Revolution
Recognition of the Israeli state would invalidate retroactively the right of resistance of the oppressed and would provide cover for the Zionist demand that only Palestinians who had capitulated and sanctioned Israel in the past, accepting its legitimacy, have the right to negotiate with Israel.
In 1968, twenty years after the colonial-settler state of Israel was established, the Palestinian resistance movement formulated its demand for self-determination in the call for the replacement of the Israeli state with an independent, unitary Palestine.
Besides, the very existence of the racist oppressor state of Israel, based on the expulsion and forced exile of part of its citizens, even from one tiny village, is unacceptable to the revolution.
www.radio4houston.org /takingaim/home/hhz/ch13.htm   (4520 words)

  
 Palestinians Don't Deserve a State
This is the face of a future Palestinian state – not the diplomatic delusions of a peaceful and democratic Palestine living in harmony with Israel – but fundamentalism, irredentism and terrorism.
A Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza would become a staging area for the conquest of the rest of “Palestine.”; In the next war, troops and armored columns from Syria and other Arab combatants would have unimpeded access through Palestine to the rump Israeli state.
The idea of a sovereign Jewish state anywhere in the Middle East, is intolerable to devout Moslems and Arab nationalists alike – a sacrilege to the former and a mortal affront to the latter.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/910319/posts   (2318 words)

  
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The governance of the North and East by the ISGA in short is to be independent and separate from the remainder of the original State.
If the ISGA (which also comprises territory) is renamed Tamil Eelam the creation of the new State would be complete - a consummation devoutly desired by the so-called votaries of peace, who are in truth the apostles of appeasement, despite their feeble remonstrances.
Every aspirant to office will claim legitimacy on the strength of their own home-made Constitution heralding a state of anarchy and an emergent dictatorship with the support of the armed forces in what is left of Sri Lanka after the Tiger has had his fill.
www.island.lk /2004/09/30/supply8.htm   (1320 words)

  
 Sikkim :: Access Nepal Travels & Tours Pvt. Ltd.
A state visit to Darjeeling by the new, Sidekong's half brother, Chogyal Thutob Namgyal in 1873 failed to yield such results, and he returned to Tumlong disappointed.
A state council was established in 1955 to allow for constitutional government for the Chogyal, which was sustained until 1973.
Meanwhile trouble was brewing in the state after the Sikkim National Congress demanded fresh elections and greater representation for the Nepalese.
www.accessnepaltravels.com /sikkim   (2755 words)

  
 Middle East Online
Speaking to the Egyptian state daily Al-Ahram, Mussa warned against the temptation of giving the Palestinians statehood that turns out to be based on no more than a rump state.
"I fear that all that is going to be proposed to the Palestinians is the creation of a rump state of a provisional nature which is just ridiculous because by consolidating the status quo a time-bomb is being laid," he said.
The roadmap officially sees the creation of a Palestinian state in 2005, but newly-elected US President George W. Bush is now targetting a Palestinian state by the time his second mandate ends in 2009.
www.middle-east-online.com /english/?id=12279   (398 words)

  
 Rump - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
See, for example, Rump legislature, Rump Parliament and rump state.
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
You can find it there under the keyword Rump (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rump)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rumpandaction=history).
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Rump   (195 words)

  
 Hellenic News of America
With the exception of Turkey, all nations recognize that this invasion was illegal and have refused to recognize the “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus,” a rump state that proclaims itself the government of the occupied area.
Concluding her statement, Senator Snowe called on the US State Department to abandon the “ill-conceived” meeting with Mr Talat, since it was “inconsistent with the United States’ stated policy towards Cyprus, and it serves only to hinder efforts to resolve the division of Cyprus”.
Talat in the State Department’s Harry S. Truman Building will be used by Turkey and the rump state as evidence that the United States is moving toward independent elevation of this self-declared government and the permanent dismemberment of Cyprus.
www.hellenicnews.com /readnews.html?newsid=4335%E2%8C%A9=US   (1462 words)

  
 Bantustan Nights
Yet, both President Bush and former Secretary of State Powell stressed these same issues at earlier roadmap summits: the emerging 22nd Arab state--second, not first, Arab one to be created within the borders of mandatory Palestine as Britain received it on April 25, 1920--was to be no bantustan.
While she was delivering words of wisdom regarding the necessity of creating that 22nd state for Arabs at the Institute of Peace, she totally shot down questions relating to Kurdish fears, anxieties, and aspirations in Iraq.
The contiguity, conveniences, and such of that 22nd Arab state must not come at the expense of the security of the sole, miniscule state of the Jews.
www.michnews.com /cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/182/8887/printer   (1660 words)

  
 Resolution to Kill The Resolution
Interesting, don't you think, that in numerous such State Department briefings over the decades--and in all the discussions and elaborations which ensued--the ties seem to be never made between those settlements and the spirit and intent of 242.
This was reinforced by a call for the creation of "secure and recognized borders" to replace those lines...lines which turned Israel into a 9-mile wide rump state, forever at its neighbors' mercy, an easy target for terror and invasion.
Whether this was due to Nixon himself or the State Department's Arabists (who opposed Israel's rebirth in the first place) reasserting themselves, on December 9, 1969 Secretary of State William Rogers allowed for only "insubstantial alterations" regarding the 1949 armistice lines.
www.jewishxpress.com /honigman/kill.html   (1195 words)

  
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They were some 300 meters in rump Yugoslavia when they allegedly ignored warnings and shot several rounds at the Serbian border guards who returned the fire.
Elsewhere, the Croatian press continues to be taken up with the future of UNPROFOR as well as with a rather esoteric debate on alleged attempts to rewrite the history of the 1971 Croatian Spring, during which Tudjman and two prominent opposition leaders in today's Croatia made their names.
Ukraine's foreign minister Anatolii Zlenko said that sanctions against rump Yugoslavia could be eased with regard to food and medicine, although he stressed that Ukraine upholds UN sanctions against that country.
www.b-info.com /places/Bulgaria/news/94-07/jul29.rfe   (1172 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Yugo nostalgic declares his own state
A man who was outraged at the decision to abolish the state of Yugoslavia earlier this week has declared a new Yugoslavia on his own property.
The territory of the new state covers just three hectares, but Mr Gabric is offering citizenship to all Yugo nostalgics who want to join him.
Replacing the rump state of Yugoslavia with the new union of Serbia and Montenegro, has brought back memories of happier times, when Yugoslavia was a powerful and relatively prosperous place.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/2739211.stm   (324 words)

  
 Apostate Windbag
The Commission has this month confirmed that by no later than 2009 are all member states to eliminate this last reserved area.
Further, again, in the Commission’s own FAQ, it states that while it is likely that more postal operators will offer services in an open postal market, ‘most operators will be found in the area of business originated mail, which represents close to 90 per cent of total mail volumes.
Private consumers are less likely to be able to choose between different postal operators, at least in the short to medium term.’ Elsewhere, in the same document, it states that while the universal service obligation guarantees the affordability of postal services (so it’s gonna be about the same price, but don’t expect any reductions, honey).
apostatewindbag.blogspot.com   (3711 words)

  
 PrintPreview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Arab League chief Amr Musa has played down talk of the creation of a Palestinian state, dismissing the idea that the peace process is on the verge of recovery.
Speaking to the Egyptian state daily Al-Ahram, the diplomat warned against the temptation of giving the Palestinians statehood that turns out to be based on no more than a rump state.
President George Bush is now talking of a Palestinian state by the time his second mandate ends in 2009.
english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/554FAF3A-B267-427A-B9EC-54881BDE0A2E.htm?printguid={C9CA2E3B-C41A-4684-B023-806142B01310}   (248 words)

  
 Von Rump: ZoomInfo Business People Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Von Rump's summary was automatically generated using 16 references found on the Internet.
Prior to his position at Be Here, Von Rump was the CEO of Metreos Corporation, a provider of VoIP software for enterprises and recipient of the Cisco "Innovation through Convergence" (ITC) Best of Show award.
Von Rump became chief marketing officer in September 1998 and was named chief operating officer in February.
www.zoominfo.com /people/rump_von_94164868.aspx   (472 words)

  
 NTI: Country Overviews: Yugoslavia: Chemical Overview
This perception led to the assumption that Yugoslavia, or more precisely the Serbian-dominated rump state that existed after 1992, probably possessed a large and advanced offensive CW capability that might well be used in hostile actions against other states.
Additional concerns were resisting pressures from the Soviet Union and resolving a border dispute with the United States and the new Italian government in the region surrounding the city of Trieste.
This exercise involved more than 900 participants from 12 states and was aimed at testing the capacity of the international community to respond to the terrorist use of chemical weapons.
www.nti.org /e_research/profiles/Yugoslavia/Chemical/index.html   (8524 words)

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