The United States became a major world power in World War II.
It is plugging the multimedia power of its Pentium II processor with demonstrations of 3-D Web sites such as Virtual Arsenal - a tour of the Premier League champions' ground, the forthcoming Legal and General estate agency site which lets visitors tour homes inside and out and the Internet-enabled game Forsaken.
In both the US and in Europe, a new generation is coming to power for whom World War II is not the defining narrative.
The meaning of the holiday changed over time, becoming a David versus Goliath tale among Mexican immigrants in the 1930s and embodying U.S.-Mexico unity during World War II and Chicano Power in the 1960s and 1970s, Hayes-Bautista said.
The U.S. used its power as occupier after World War II to impose a constitution on Japan which forbade possession of a military.
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It also marks the end of the line for one of the last Apple brands still remaining from the interregnum between Jobs I and Jobs II: only the vestigial Power Mac G5 remains from that period.
Not so much because of all the social and technology shifts since then, but because that year is so close to the high-water mark of U.S. predominance as the only great power to come out of World War II more or less intact.
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What made him a power in Russia was the fact that the tsar, Nicholas II, listened to him and usually trusted his judgment.
Goldsmith contrasts the way President Bush has handled the terrorism problem with the way President Roosevelt handled his need for more power in the period leading up to and during World War II.
The United States has benefited as much as any other country from the free exchange of goods, the safety of global sea lanes, the spread of democracy and the great-power stability that have characterized the entire post-World War II era.
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The most dazzling example of the power of negative space comes from the efforts of analysts during World War II to reduce the enormous losses of aircraft and lives of flight crews that were routine during missions from British airfields over the German industrial heartland.
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The Inga I and II dams on the Congo river have generated a fraction of the power they were meant to.
The senior Dillard, 86, passed on the chief executive title to his son William II two years ago, but he still wields a lot of power in the boardroom.
Cokie Roberts, also speaking on Morning Edition, noted that Benedict, as Cardinal Ratzinger, had served as the de facto power behind the throne during the final years of his predecessor Pope John Paul II.
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In 1918, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicated and a council of People's Delegates assumed power.
In 1946, 9-year-old King Simeon II and his family fled Bulgaria and went into exile as Communists seized power and rigged a plebiscite to get rid of the monarchy.
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In spite of a devastating defeat in World War II, Japan had emerged from the rubble to be again acknowledged a world power on par with the strongest nations of the West, and accepted as the world's second-largest economy after the United States.
For example, EcoBot-II, developed in 2004, was fed dead flies and rotten apples in order to create power.
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