Program for Evaluating Complementary Medicine — In 1998, the Swiss government began a comprehensive Program for Evaluating Complementary Medicine (PEK : Programm Evaluation Komplementärmedizin = Program for Evaluating Complementary Medicine) to study the role and effectiveness of complementary … Wikipedia
Timeline of North Korea nuclear program — This Chronology of the North Korean Nuclear Program begins in 1989 with the end of the Cold War and the decline of the USSR as the main economic ally of North Korea. The Chronology mainly addresses the conflict between the United States and North … Wikipedia
Nuclear program of Iran — See also: Iran and weapons of mass destruction Nuclear program of Iran … Wikipedia
Community bicycle program — Community bicycle programs (also known as Yellow bicycle programs, White bicycle programs, bike sharing, public bike or free bike) are one element of an international movement to build environmentally friendly transportation.Community programs… … Wikipedia
High-yield investment program — A High Yield Investment Program (HYIP) is a type of Ponzi Scheme, which is an investment scam. At one time, HYIP was used in the financial services sector to refer to an investment program which may have offered a high return on investment. The… … Wikipedia
Constellation program — ▪ space program U.S. manned spaceflight program scheduled as a successor to the space shuttle program. Its earliest flights are planned to carry astronauts (astronaut) to the International Space Station (ISS) beginning in 2015. However, missions … Universalium
automatic investment program — A program in which an investor can invest or withdraw funds automatically. A mutual fund, for example, automatically withdraws a pre determined specified amount from the investor s bank account on a regular basis. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary … Financial and business terms
April Theses — Program developed by Vladimir Ilich Lenin during the Russian Revolution of 1917, calling for Soviet control of state power. In the theses, published in April 1917, Lenin advocated seizing power from the Provisional Government, withdrawing from… … Universalium
international relations — a branch of political science dealing with the relations between nations. [1970 75] * * * Study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies and political… … Universalium
HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Military Affairs — ▪ 2009 Introduction Russia and Georgia fought a short, intense war in 2008, fueling global fears of a new Cold War. On August 7 Georgia launched an aerial bombardment and ground attacks against its breakaway province of South Ossetia.… … Universalium