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    activity or application of knowledge and skills learned during the lower year in physical education. B. EXTRAMURALS It is a higher level athletic competition done outside the school. Examples of extramural are division or district level‚ unit or congressional level‚ city or provincial meet‚ regional meet‚ national meet or palarong pambansa and international competitions. C. PLAY DAY OR FUN DAY These are recreational activities that are done during free time of students to showcase talents and relax

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    surveillance warrants by various government agencies. FISA required individual warrants from the FISC for every surveillance target with a 72-hour grace period to acquire that warrant in exigent circumstances. The goal of FISA was to provide judicial and congressional oversight of secret government surveillance for intelligence gathering. After the attacks on the World Trace Center in 2001‚ President Bush authorized surveillance without FISA warrants of the communications of non-US citizens considered a threat

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    Senator John Cornyn and U.S. House Representative Ralph Hall both have won each of their re-elections. If these two elected officials accurately represent Texas then hard-hitting conservatives seem to be what wins the hearts of Texans. Texas Congressional District 4 (TX-04) has proven their steadfast loyalty to Republican candidates (Texas Political Almanac‚ 2013) and it does not seem plausible that the Democratic Party will be able to overcome TX-04 or Texas as a state any time soon. Liberal democrats

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    you and enriching his wall street friends‚ corporate lobbyists‚ and union bosses. New York; Regnery Publishing Inc Center for Disease Control and Prevention‚ (2008) The Congressional Budget Office. (2004). The retirement prospects of the baby boomer. Retrieved from http://www.cbo.gov/. Accessed on July 1‚ 2010. The Congressional Budget Office. (2010). The long-term budget outlook. Retrieved from http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=11579&zzz=40884. Accessed on July 1‚ 2010. Dent‚ H. S. (2009). The great

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    Nation’s capital. Originating in the House of Representatives in the first and second Houses of Representatives‚ committees were generated within the House of Representatives to break down all of the legislation decisions into specific categories so that they may be more closely attended to prior to a total House vote. The Senate followed suit shortly after although the first standing committees were not necessary for quite some time in the Senate due to a lighter workload. During the early goings of the

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    country have found it necessary to spend an overabundance of time and effort to correct this type of physical enhancement process. The practice of using steroids has been cited as far back as 1995. All of the major sports leagues and the Olympic committees have had policies of drug testing for over two decades and yet there still are some inconsistencies that Congress wants to address. They claim that it is about public policy towards drugs in sports and say “that millions of Americans care deeply

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    Congress is organized hierarchically and lobbying for Congressional policy involves an interest group’s active attention and participation throughout the entire process that a bill of interest is in the process of becoming law. A bill must make it through its specific committee before it can make the floor debate in the second stage. In the committee stage‚ committee chairs hold substantial power and can kill a bill by refusing to put it into the meeting agenda or advocate for a bill by calling meetings

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    Analyse why some pressure groups are more successful in achieving their aims and objectives than others. Pressure groups are organised groups of people who share a common interest that they wish to protect or a common aim that they wish to promote. They seek to influence public policy by gaining access to decision makers who have power. There are two main types of pressure groups; Interest Group and Cause Group – an interest group aims to protect the interests of its members whilst a Cause group

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    American Government Final Spring 2013 1. Advice and Consent: senate; approves or rejects federal appointments 2. Agenda Setting: they determine what news is worth reporting a. Example: John McCain portrayed by media as ‘too old’ 3. Appropriations: the act of setting apart something for its application to a particular usage‚ to the exclusion of all other uses; typically refers to the legislative designation of money for particular uses‚ in the context of a budget or spending

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    candidate will hold office gerrymandering- drawing the boundaries of legislative districts in bizarre or unusual shapes to favor one party incumbent- The person already holding an elective office independent expenditures- spending by political action committees‚ corporations‚ or labor unions that is done to help a party or candidate but is done independently of them malapportionment- drawing the boundaries of legislative districts so that they are unequal in population open primary- a primary election

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