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  • Despite spending nearly twice as much on healthcare per capita, utilization rates in the United States do not differ significantly from other wealthy OECD countries. Prices, therefore, appear to be the main driver of the cost difference between the United States and other wealthy countries. In fact, prices in the United States tend to be higher regardless of utilization rates.
    How Does the U.S. Healthcare System Compare to Other Countries?
  • Both parties have been less well represented in the Commons than their harvest of votes would indicate, a sign that their support was “inefficient,” or too thinly spread across the ridings.
    Why Trudeau Abandoned Electoral Reform | Literary Review of Canada
  • In Canada, each of the Territories is large in size geographically and each has one MP even though in each case its population size would not make them eligible for the MP. Prince Edward Island has more than expected representation in Parliament (in the Commons as well as the Senate) relative to Ontario, British Columbia, and Alberta, due to the historical reason that PEI was a colony equivalent constitutionally to Upper Canada and Lower Canada prior to Confederation. PEI is small so its relative over-representation is not due to area.
    Political representation
  • The corollary states that the United States could intervene in the internal affairs of Latin American countries if they committed flagrant wrongdoings that "loosened the ties of civilized society".[1]
    Roosevelt Corollary
  • In the analysis by Henry Kissinger, Roosevelt was the first president to develop the guideline that it was the duty of the United States to make its enormous power and potential influence felt globally.
    Theodore Roosevelt
  • To that end, the platform called for: Strict limits and disclosure requirements on political campaign contributions Registration of lobbyists Recording and publication of Congressional committee proceedings In the social sphere, the platform called for: A national health service to include all existing government medical agencies Social insurance, to provide for the elderly, the unemployed, and the disabled Limiting the ability of judges to order injunctions to limit labor strikes A minimum wage law for women An eight-hour workday A federal securities commission Farm relief Workers' compensati…
    Bull Moose Party
  • In 1908, Roosevelt appropriated these indemnities for the Boxer Indemnity Scholarships, which funded tens of thousands of Chinese students to study in the U.S. over the next 40 years.
    Theodore Roosevelt
  • The structures of most federal governments incorporate mechanisms to protect the rights of component states. One method, known as 'intrastate federalism', is to directly represent the governments of component states in federal political institutions. Where a federation has a bicameral legislature the upper house is often used to represent the component states while the lower house represents the people of the nation as a whole. A federal upper house may be based on a special scheme of apportionment, as is the case in the senates of the United States and Australia, where each state is represent…
    Federalism - Wikipedia
  • Almost every country allows some degree of regional self-government, but in federations the right to self-government of the component states is constitutionally entrenched. Component states often also possess their own constitutions which they may amend as they see fit, although in the event of conflict the federal constitution usually takes precedence.
    Federalism - Wikipedia
  • Changing the electoral system requires the agreement of a majority of the currently selected legislators, who were chosen using the incumbent electoral system. Therefore, an interesting question is what incentives make current legislators support a new electoral system, particularly a PR system.
    Proportional representation
  • To create an MMD in a sparsely-settled area, an electoral district would have to cover a large area just to capture the required population to be represented by multiple members. There can be a greater disconnect between the voter, or community, and their representatives. If areas with low population density were using multi-member districts to elect the relatively few high-level members of Parliament in Scotland or of the UK Parliament, constituencies could become so large as to seem to be impractical.
    Single transferable vote - Wikipedia
  • To have quota, you do not need support from across the district necessarily. If a corner of the district has a quota worth of votes and the voters there support a candidate, that candidate will be elected and there is nothing the others elsewhere in the district can do about it. So, at least theoretically, you would not need to campaign across the district.[103]
    Single transferable vote - Wikipedia
  • Some opponents[who?] argue that larger, multi-seat districts would require more campaign funds to reach the voters. Proponents[who?] argue that STV can lower campaign costs because like-minded candidates can share some expenses. Proponents reason that negative advertising is disincentivized in such a system, as its effect is diluted among a larger pool of candidates.
    Single transferable vote - Wikipedia
  • One of the best things about macOS is that it is a Unix-based OS. Unix is an operating system designed to be used by programmers. As a result, one of the most significant benefits of this OS is its integrated terminal. This terminal can handle almost any command-line job you throw from the box. Built from hundreds of specialized utilities, the terminal offers programmers a complete toolbox, enabling them to execute commands, run programs and take full control of the operating system. By comparison, the Windows command prompt has minimal features. Many popular Unix commands are missing. cat, to…
    Three Reasons Mac OS Is Better Than Windows For Developing Software | LinkedIn
  • British prime minister Winston Churchill suggested to the incoming Eisenhower administration that Mosaddegh, despite the latter's open dislike of communism, would become reliant on the pro-Soviet Tudeh Party,[66] resulting in Iran "increasingly turning towards communism" and towards the Soviet sphere at a time of high Cold War fears.
    Mohammad Mosaddegh - Wikipedia
  • In the summer of 1997, several House Republicans attempted to replace Gingrich as Speaker.
    Dick Armey - Wikipedia
  • This can be seen as an example how geography in itself may not be a good enough reason to establish voting results around it and overturn all other particulars of the voting population.
    Proportional representation
  • Once the presiding officer rules on the point of order, if the underlying question is nondebatable, any appeal is decided without debate. A simple majority is needed to sustain a decision of the chair.[1]: 148 As the appeal is nondebatable, there is no supermajority requirement for cloture, as would be necessary for a proposition amending the rules. The presiding officer and the standing rule can therefore be overruled by a simple majority.
    Nuclear option
  • 3d array of LEDs, programmed to display various animations LEDs soldered together, assembled to sit on 3d-printed platform (as seen in pictures and light_cube_animations video). Animations programmed using C++.
    charliewwong/LightCube: 3d array of LEDs, programmed to display various animations