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...some say that the mayorship carries very little recognition??in fact, the delay in selecting a mayor had “practically zero” impact on the city, according to local political pundit Robert Winters...
...international community of independent nations. The United States, viewing a nation of former slaves as a threat to slavery in the Western hemisphere, refused to grant diplomatic recognition to Haiti until 1862. The French demanded that Haiti pay an unreasonable price for the new nation to receive diplomatic recognition??150 million gold francs to French citizens who lost property and assets during the Haitian Revolution. Needless to say, repaying a debt representing five times Haiti’s export revenue for 1825 drained the government’s coffers, crippling the capacity of the Haitian state to support...
...That outlier status is largely gone now, traded in the late 1990s for the greater benefits of legitimate recognition??what Jaeger calls “a defined place in the institution.” The key to the exchange, Jaeger says, was collaboration and understanding—the same kind of communicative sentiment that he now espouses as the union’s director...
...members in the U.S. Inductees are selected from all practices of engineering, including education, practice, and research. Stone said that he was honored and humbled to be elected, crediting his students and collaborators for their contributions to his success. For Stone, the election also had significance beyond the professional recognition??his father, Henry E. Stone was elected in 1981 and is currently an emeritus NAE member. Stone said that his election was a “pleasant surprise” for his father. “There is an extra special meaning for me,” Stone...
...don’t think the state of our foreign policy indicates much influence at present,” Power said. “I don’t measure influence by power or recognition??I measure influence by the small differences we make in the lives of others...