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32 Cards in this Set
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Revenue Sharing |
Bills that granted federal funds to state and local agencies to use |
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Impound |
Refused to release the funds |
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Détente |
Relaxation of tensions |
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Summit |
High level diplomatic meeting |
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Executive privilege |
The principle that white house conservatives should remain confidential to protect national security |
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Special prosecutor |
The government lawyer appointed by the president to handle the Watergate cases |
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Inflation |
Pumping large amounts of money into the economy |
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Embargo |
Prohibit the shipment of |
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Stagflation |
Combination of inflation and a stagnant economy with high unemployment |
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Busing |
A policy of transporting children to schools outside their neighborhoods to achieve greater racial balance |
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Affirmative action |
A new way to solve economic and educational discrimination |
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Smog |
Fog made heavier and darker by smoke and chemical fumes |
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Fossil fuel |
Such as coal, oil, and natural gas |
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Integrated circuit |
A complete electronic circuit on a single chip of silicon |
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Microprocessor |
New chips made computers much faster and smaller |
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Telecommute |
Do their jobs from home via computer |
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Blogs |
Web sites that functions as a kind of public diary or notebook |
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Perjury |
Had lied under oath |
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Ethnic cleansing |
The brutal expression of an ethnic group from a geographic area |
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Migration chains |
The process by which immigrants who have acquired U.S citizenship can send for relatives in their home country to join them |
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Refugees |
Someone leaving his or her country due to a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationally, membership in a particular group, or political opinion |
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Amnesty |
A pardon |
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Globalism |
The world is becoming increasingly interconnected |
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Euro |
A common currency for member nations |
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Global warming |
An increase in average world temps. over time |
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Chad |
The little piece of cardboard punched out of the ballot |
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Strategic defense |
The effort to develop missiles and other devices that could shoot down nuclear missiles |
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Terrorism |
Use of violence by nongovernmental groups against civilians to achieve a political goal |
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State-sponsored terrorism |
U.S providing terrorists with money, weapons, and training |
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Anthrax |
Type of bacteria |
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WMD |
Can kill large numbers of people all at once |
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Earmark |
Specifications added by both republicans and democrats for the expenditure of federal money for particular projects |
