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• The World Factbook
  ...ries of the world]]. The official paper copy version is available from the National Technical Information Service and the Government Printing Office. Other com *Antarctic Information Program ([[National Science Foundation]])
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• National Occupational Research Agenda
  ...p://www.cdc.gov/niosh/NORA/ National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA)], National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Retrieved on 2008-08-10.</ref ==The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health==
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• Work–life balance (United States)
  ...rily toward raising the hourly wage. The idea was that by maintaining the current weekly pay while lowering working hours, a fairer rate of pay would result. ...Roosevelt began to support the [[National Industrial Recovery Act]]. Labor leaders were encouraged to support the NIRA instead of the Black-Connery Thirty-Hou
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• Wildfire
  .../wildfire/fire_4.html | title = The Science of Wildland fire | publisher = National Interagency Fire Center | accessdate = 2008-11-21}}</ref> Wildfires are cha ...lementation of the Federal Wildland Fire Policy'', entire text</ref><ref>''National Wildfire Coordinating Group Communicator's Guide For Wildland Fire Manageme
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• List of colleges and universities named after people
  ...alty]], current [[political leader]]s, and respected [[teacher]]s or other leaders associated with the institution. This is a list of [[higher education]] ins | [[National Sun Yat-sen University]], Republic of China (Taiwan)
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• List of places named after people
  ...common practice to name (and often rename) birthplace towns for political leaders or distinguished figures. ...dəliyev (village)]] &ndash; [[Yusif Məmmədəliyev]], President of the [[National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan]]
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• Rosewood massacre
  ...[white supremacy]] and anti-Catholic sentiment and openly criticized the [[National Association for the Advancement of Colored People]] (NAACP) when they compl ...0 blacks and four whites dead and characterized the event as a "race war". National newspapers also put the incident on the front page. The ''[[Washington Post
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• Internet and terrorism
  ...ng of the journalist [[Daniel Pearl]] by the terrorist organisation ‘The National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty’. ...om having a clearly defined hierarchy in the organisations with designated leaders, to having multiple, semi-independent cells with no clear distinct leader i
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• Insurgency
  ...d and factionalized by area, composition, or goals. Strike one against the current definition of insurgency. It is not relevant to the enemies we face today. ...past models of insurgency do not perfectly fit modern insurgency, in that current instances are far more likely to have a multinational or transnational char
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• Definitions of terrorism
  ...various members about the use of violence in the context of conflicts over national liberation and self-determination."<ref>Martyn (2002)</ref> These divergenc ...to the approach of warriors of the [[Cimbri]] tribe in 105BC. The French [[National Convention]] declared in September 1793 that "terror is the order of the da
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• Hostage
  ...as a preventive measure, but merely in retaliation for the death of their leaders E. V. Duval and Gustave Flourens. It was an act of maniacal despair, on the ...ism]]; the use of the word in this sense of [[Kidnapping|abductee]] became current only in the 1970s. The criminal activity is known as [[kidnapping]]. An acu
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• Guerrilla warfare
  ...fantry."<ref name="Horn">Horn, Bernd ''The Canadian way of war:serving the national interest'', Dundurn Press Ltd., 2006, 21.</ref> ==Current and recent guerrilla conflicts==
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• Al-Qaeda
  |leaders = [[Osama bin Laden]] <br /> [[Ayman al-Zawahiri]] ...nited States]], [[Israel]], [[United Nations]], [[United Kingdom]], Afghan National Army, Iraqi Armed Forces, Coalition Forces/Tribes, [[Canada]], [[NATO]], [[
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• Black site
  ...e [[Condoleezza Rice]] stated on December 5 that US had not violated any [[national sovereignty|country's sovereignty]] in the [[rendition (law)|rendition]] of ...n gained during interrogations." The ''Post'' cited "U.S. intelligence and national security officials" in reporting this.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.was
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• Congressional response to the NSA warrantless surveillance program
  On Saturday the President stated that he "authorized the National Security Agency, consistent with U.S. law and the Constitution, to intercep ...on, you may at any time submit it to the Attorney General, the Director of National Intelligence, or the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
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• Cruise missile strikes on Afghanistan and Sudan (August 1998)
  ....png|22px]] [[Harkat-ul-Mujahideen]]<br>[[Image:Flag of Sudan.svg|22px]] [[National Islamic Front]] ...t and past operators, namely the [[Iraq]]i [[nerve gas]] experts and the [[National Islamic Front]] in Sudan.<ref>[http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/a
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• Drone attacks in Pakistan
  ...8/><ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/world/asia/09pstan.html 2 Qaeda Leaders Killed in U.S. Strike in Pakistan], [[The New York Times]], 2009-01-08</ref ...ong War Journal'', October 4, 2009; Kitfield, James, "'Wanted: Dead'", ''[[National Journal]]'', January 9, 2010.</ref>
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• NSA electronic surveillance program
  An '''electronic surveillance program''' was implemented by the [[National Security Agency]] (NSA) of the United States in the wake of the [[September ...nuary 17, 2007, Attorney General [[Alberto Gonzales]] informed U.S. Senate leaders by letter [http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/politics/20060117gonza
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• NSA warrantless surveillance controversy
  ...inistration used these powers to by-pass the FISA court and directed the [[National Security Agency]] to spy directly on al Qaeda by initiating the [[NSA elect [[Image:National Security Agency.svg|right|thumb|180px|[[National Security Agency]] logo]]
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• Operation Enduring Freedom
  ...and [[infrastructure]] within [[Afghanistan]], the capture of [[al-Qaeda]] leaders, and the cessation of terrorist activities in Afghanistan."<ref>{{Cite web #Deliver to the U.S. all of the leaders of al-Qaeda
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