Prescription drug list prices in the United States continually rank among the highest in the world. The high cost of prescription drugs became a major topic of discussion in the 21st century, leading up to the U.S. health care reform debate of 2009, and received renewed attention in 2015. One major reason for high prescription drug prices in the United States relative to other …

The United States became the world's leading industrial power at the turn of the 20th century, ... the United States experienced deflation as prices fell, unemployment soared from 3% in 1929 to 25% in 1933, ... 1947. Despite the absence of a global war during this period, there were, ...

The 1946 United States Senate elections were held November 5, ... in a surprise move, lifted the controls on October 14 — just weeks before the election — meat prices shot up to record levels. ... the winners were elected for the term beginning January 3, 1947; ordered by state. All of the elections involved the Class 1 seats. State ...

The cent, the United States one-cent coin (symbol: ¢), often called the "penny", is a unit of currency equaling one one-hundredth of a United States dollar.It has been the lowest face-value physical unit of U.S. currency since the abolition of the half-cent in 1857 (the abstract mill, which has never been minted, equal to a tenth of a cent, continues to see limited use in the fields of ...

The copyright law of the United States grants monopoly protection for "original works of ... Specifically, works fixed 1923–1946 are public after 100 years and works fixed 1947–1956 after 110 years of fixation. Works fixed 1 January 1957 – 14 February 1972 will all become public on 15 February 2067. ... or perhaps been able to charge ...

Also, the drag from private inventories was smaller (-0.7 pp vs -1.91 pp). GDP Growth Rate in the United States averaged 3.18 percent from 1947 until 2022, reaching an all time high of 35.30 percent in the third quarter of 2020 and a record low of -29.90 percent in the second quarter of 2020.

United States foreign policy in the Middle East has its roots in the 19th-century Barbary Wars that occurred shortly after the 1776 establishment of the United States as an independent sovereign state, but became much more expansive in the aftermath of World War II.With the goal of preventing the Soviet Union from gaining influence in the region during the Cold War, …

In the United States, the appearance of license plates is frequently chosen to contain symbols, colors, or slogans associated with the issuing jurisdiction, which are the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and Native American tribes, each of which independently registers motor vehicles.Regular-issue license plates for passenger vehicles …

By the conclusion of the United States's involvement, over 3.1 million Americans had been stationed in Vietnam. ... 1947–1949 — The Viet Minh fight a limited insurgency in remote rural areas of northern Vietnam. ... Opium and marijuana were widely available and sold for low prices by villagers and locals. Vietnamese heroin was more potent ...

The history of agriculture in the United States covers the period from the first English settlers to the present day. In Colonial America, agriculture was the primary livelihood for 90% of the population, and most towns were shipping points for the export of agricultural products. Most farms were geared toward subsistence production for family use. The rapid growth of …

United States v. Microsoft Corporation, 253 F.3d 34 (D.C. Cir. 2001) is a noted American antitrust law case in which the U.S. government accused Microsoft of illegally maintaining its monopoly position in the personal computer (PC) market primarily through the legal and technical restrictions it put on the abilities of PC manufacturers and users to uninstall Internet Explorer …

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For the United States, 1945–1964 was a time of high economic growth and general prosperity.It was also a time of confrontation as the capitalist United States and its allies politically opposed the Soviet Union and other communist states; the Cold War had begun. African Americans united and organized, and a triumph of the civil rights movement ended Jim Crow segregation …

The AK-47, officially known as the Avtomat Kalashnikova (Russian: Автомат Калашникова, lit. 'Kalashnikov's automatic [rifle]'; also known as the Kalashnikov or just AK), is a gas-operated assault rifle that is chambered for the 7.62×39mm cartridge. Developed in the Soviet Union by Russian small-arms designer Mikhail Kalashnikov, it is the originating firearm of the ...